Today I am designing some cards to be printed to sell in my Open Studio. Simple reproductions of some of my paintings and one or two other ideas.
Ah ha! You'll have to come and see, browse around and buy them to know what I come up with!
Tuesday 21 July 2009
Friday 17 July 2009
Busy Busy
My Open Studio (just one day a week - Thursdays) is working well as I'm finding a small trickle of friendly people trotting in to have a look. I just love to know they're interested in what I do. A couple of them summed it up yesterday when they said they 'could never be so creative' but if I were to put them behind a counter to deal with customers and money, such as in the bank etc where they'd worked, they'd be fine. Me - NO! I couldn't EVER cope with a job like THAT! Give me a blank page or canvas and paintbrush instead.
As well as stuffing a cat doorstop I've been finishing paintings for an art exhibition at the town hall, completing the entry forms etc, designing a promotional postcard, painting a couple of pictures to make into Christmas Cards, taking six paintings to a photographer in preparation for getting some giclee prints... putting my St Bernard dog painting for sale online at Affordable British Art and making a few printed signs for my workroom so that visitors can read what I forget to tell them.
E.G.:- Checklist for your visit
Have you seen . . .
Drawings in the mag rack
Photos and prints too
Boxy bags made from jeans
T- shirt bags
Odd bags for useful bits
Books
Play Scripts
Published articles in the Portfolio
and pictures on the walls everywhere
Have you tried . . .
Drawing
Painting
Printing with rubbish
French Knitting?
Have you thought of commissioning ...
a picture
or a print
or something made of textiles
or a special unusual item?
Oh and I've been writing letters and sending them with posters and leaflets to various local B & B venues to alert them to my Open Studio. Something for tourists to do in Stonehaven when they're fed up with the beach and other local attractions or driving to far off stately homes.
As well as stuffing a cat doorstop I've been finishing paintings for an art exhibition at the town hall, completing the entry forms etc, designing a promotional postcard, painting a couple of pictures to make into Christmas Cards, taking six paintings to a photographer in preparation for getting some giclee prints... putting my St Bernard dog painting for sale online at Affordable British Art and making a few printed signs for my workroom so that visitors can read what I forget to tell them.
E.G.:- Checklist for your visit
Have you seen . . .
Drawings in the mag rack
Photos and prints too
Boxy bags made from jeans
T- shirt bags
Odd bags for useful bits
Books
Play Scripts
Published articles in the Portfolio
and pictures on the walls everywhere
Have you tried . . .
Drawing
Painting
Printing with rubbish
French Knitting?
Have you thought of commissioning ...
a picture
or a print
or something made of textiles
or a special unusual item?
Oh and I've been writing letters and sending them with posters and leaflets to various local B & B venues to alert them to my Open Studio. Something for tourists to do in Stonehaven when they're fed up with the beach and other local attractions or driving to far off stately homes.
Monday 13 July 2009
Stuffing a Cat
Okay, it doesn't look much like a cat; and I haven't appeared to be doing a lot here for ages but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. This white looking thing is going to be a doorstop made of canvas and it will free up something else (that's currently being used as a doorstop) which I want to use to make a sculpture, because my studio needs something tall and unusual near the window.
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