On Fire!
April 20th, 2009 Posted in creating, marketing, materials, mediumsThe ideas are flowing now and I can barely keep the blank canvasses in stock. I am working on a series of birds to sell as prints at a few quirky venues during the summer. I am also very close to pouring my next three gallons of urethane rubber on the chosen few for reproduction. It’s a toss up what will make the final cut. Do I focus on my personal fav’s?… or do I shoot for the series that I can market in a new arena? More specifically, the container paintings that I haven’t been producing for awhile. My collection has dwindled down to things in disrepair or recently rediscovered pieces that had been abandoned at my last studio site.
My master plan, at this moment in time, is to make a slip cast mold of one of the flower pieces, with container at the center, to make available at a local ceramics painting parlor. I am not sure what the cost would be to make them, and or what would be a reasonable charge for the consumer, but they carry some pricey items that couldn’t hold a candle to painting your own flower stash piece! And in such a art thirsty town with yuppies a plenty, I couldn’t go wrong. Right?
I think I will now channel the passed on advice of a fellow artist, getting advice from a female mastermind in the arts business in NYC. Her words were something akin to …”Stay the course, make up your mind and commit to it, and if you stay committed, you will eventually be the last one standing, and hence the one to receive the pay-off.”
So, perseverance furthers, I’ve heard that one before. But with three..no, four specific series dividing my time and efforts, I think it is sound advice. That’s the bird series, (which needs another row of 5 on the website to round out the collection ), the plant series, the cityscape’s, and the fish.
Look for more birds coming soon.