Comments on: In This Economy http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/in-this-economy Art, Animals, and the Creative Experience Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:41:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: MonaMajorowicz http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/in-this-economy#comment-1172 MonaMajorowicz Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:15:09 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/in-this-economy#comment-1172 Angela, I hate to say but it really takes time to develop an art business. (which I know you know) Especially for portraits, words of mouth and testimonials are crucial. It will happen but it may take a few years. It took my business many years (like over a decade) to go from starting out, to becoming something I could actually withdraw money from, to paying the bills with. Hopefully it will go <i>much</i> quicker for you. Thank you for the kind words. Honestly the blog has been a much bigger job than I ever realized from the start. But as I said in my award post, you guys have really benefitted me alot as well. I am thinking about stuff that I never gave much thought to and that in turns helps me and my business. Plus it is always nice to make new artsy friends. :) I do plan on making more posts regarding "how to's" like booth layout and dealing with customers. Stuff like that requires more thought on my part, so had to wait until after my summer crunch. But they are in the works now. Angela, I hate to say but it really takes time to develop an art business. (which I know you know) Especially for portraits, words of mouth and testimonials are crucial. It will happen but it may take a few years. It took my business many years (like over a decade) to go from starting out, to becoming something I could actually withdraw money from, to paying the bills with. Hopefully it will go much quicker for you.

Thank you for the kind words. Honestly the blog has been a much bigger job than I ever realized from the start. But as I said in my award post, you guys have really benefitted me alot as well. I am thinking about stuff that I never gave much thought to and that in turns helps me and my business. Plus it is always nice to make new artsy friends. :)

I do plan on making more posts regarding “how to’s” like booth layout and dealing with customers. Stuff like that requires more thought on my part, so had to wait until after my summer crunch. But they are in the works now.

]]> By: Angela Finney http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/in-this-economy#comment-1163 Angela Finney Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:28:59 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/in-this-economy#comment-1163 Thank you very much Mona for this well thought out, many faceted, encouraging piece. I keep telling myself I have nowhere to go but up at this point. I waited until I retired to to really try this, because I never had the guts to really do it without some kind of secure income -- though there were a couple of junctures where I almost did, and made some successful small steps, I counsciously scared myself away. Even now, I struggle with the "real job" thing as I feel economic pinches. Economically successful artists like you who make themselves accessable to other artists starting out or wondering how others are doing-- are like mana from heaven. Bless you for giving of your experience and knowledge like you do and thank goodness for the internet for making it possible to share so immediately and so easily. Angela Thank you very much Mona for this well thought out, many faceted, encouraging piece. I keep telling myself I have nowhere to go but up at this point. I waited until I retired to to really try this, because I never had the guts to really do it without some kind of secure income — though there were a couple of junctures where I almost did, and made some successful small steps, I counsciously scared myself away. Even now, I struggle with the “real job” thing as I feel economic pinches.

Economically successful artists like you who make themselves accessable to other artists starting out or wondering how others are doing– are like mana from heaven. Bless you for giving of your experience and knowledge like you do and thank goodness for the internet for making it possible to share so immediately and so easily. Angela

]]> By: Undaunted http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/in-this-economy#comment-1145 Undaunted Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:11:01 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/in-this-economy#comment-1145 Thank you Mona :) Thank you Mona :)

]]> By: MonaMajorowicz http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/in-this-economy#comment-1136 MonaMajorowicz Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:30:42 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/in-this-economy#comment-1136 Keep looking for a printer. If it weren't over seas I'd say send it to me. (we do printing for other artists) We use a flatbead scanner (albeit it is specifically a fine art scanner- picks up "every" little detail) and stitch the image together. We print up to 24" by whatever and no one can tell it was stitched, not even with one of those monical thingy's. Anyone who is a pro should be able to do it for you and have them look fabulous. So sorry about no sales. Exploring art is expensive and there's nothing wrong with wanting to recoup some of it. Plus it's a nice boost to the ego to have a sale now and again. Keep trying. :) I believe you can do it! Keep looking for a printer. If it weren’t over seas I’d say send it to me. (we do printing for other artists) We use a flatbead scanner (albeit it is specifically a fine art scanner- picks up “every” little detail) and stitch the image together. We print up to 24″ by whatever and no one can tell it was stitched, not even with one of those monical thingy’s. Anyone who is a pro should be able to do it for you and have them look fabulous.

So sorry about no sales. Exploring art is expensive and there’s nothing wrong with wanting to recoup some of it. Plus it’s a nice boost to the ego to have a sale now and again.

Keep trying. :) I believe you can do it!

]]> By: Undaunted http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/in-this-economy#comment-1135 Undaunted Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:21:14 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/in-this-economy#comment-1135 Thanks for this Mona, it's come just at the right time. We took down our second exhibition today and unfortunately there were no sales. One person even made a comment in my comments book (thanks for that tip too!) that they couldn't buy anything because of the credit crunch. Thankfully I'm not dependant on sales to live, but I could really do with some sales to cover what I have paid out on art supplies. I think I mentioned previously that I was going to get some prints done of my two stencil style paintings - that turned out to be a complete disaster because no one seemed to have a flat bed scanner large enough, and the quality of the scan (when it was done in two parts and put together) was so poor. The man suggested touching the image up in photoshop which seemed to defeat the object in my mind - if you're going to do that then why not just create the image in photoshop in the first place and not bother painting it?! The whole point was that I wanted prints of <i>a painting</i>. Anyway, there is somewhere else I can try so I haven't lost hope. Sorry for waffling on. Thanks for the post. Thanks for this Mona, it’s come just at the right time. We took down our second exhibition today and unfortunately there were no sales. One person even made a comment in my comments book (thanks for that tip too!) that they couldn’t buy anything because of the credit crunch. Thankfully I’m not dependant on sales to live, but I could really do with some sales to cover what I have paid out on art supplies.

I think I mentioned previously that I was going to get some prints done of my two stencil style paintings - that turned out to be a complete disaster because no one seemed to have a flat bed scanner large enough, and the quality of the scan (when it was done in two parts and put together) was so poor. The man suggested touching the image up in photoshop which seemed to defeat the object in my mind - if you’re going to do that then why not just create the image in photoshop in the first place and not bother painting it?! The whole point was that I wanted prints of a painting. Anyway, there is somewhere else I can try so I haven’t lost hope.

Sorry for waffling on. Thanks for the post.

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