Marketing Our Art During the Financial Meltdown, Part 3; Two New Paintings and a Drawing

Who’s Your Buyer and how do you get your work in front of them? We’re pretty much all going to have to be lean and mean in promoting our art. It’s called “targeted marketing”. Which means knowing who your buyer is.
When I went through the process of creating my marketing plan with a counselor from [...]

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Mongolia Monday- Camel Drawings

Here’s a few bactrian camel drawings I did in about an hour this morning. They were done on vellum bristol with a Wolff’s carbon pencil. The head drawing is a little more finished. The full body study was really just to capture the pose and lay in the shadow areas. You can see how I [...]

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EBay Listings- 1-24-09; Sunset, Dry Lagoon SOLD

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Marketing Our Art During the Financial Meltdown, Part 2; A Work In Progress And…. Cute Cat Alert!

CONTINUING FROM LAST FRIDAY-
Strength in Numbers! If you think about it, one could say that the ability to be alone and self-motivate are prerequisites for being a working artist. In a sense, painting is a “solitary vice”. So, it may take some conscious effort, in planning the marketing of your work, to consider the multiplier [...]

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This Just In- America 2.0

Dear World:
We, the United States of America , your top quality supplier of the ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for our 2001-2008 interruption in service. The technical fault that led to this eight-year service outage has been located, and the software responsible was replaced November 4th. Early tests of the newly [...]

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YES WE CAN!

With hope in my heart, I’ll be watching the Inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama tomorrow morning (Pacific time). The  Dark Ages are over. It’s a new day. Finally, we can together, as “one nation, indivisible”, move forward into the 21st century.
Andrew Sullivan, among other journalistic endeavors, writes a wonderful blog for The Atlantic Monthly. Here [...]

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Mongolia Monday- Then and Now

I’m not sure that this photo, taken by Roy Chapman Andrews, is from Gandan Monastery, but the prayer wheel is certainly close in size and design to the one I saw there.
Here is the one I saw.
People had written on it with a variety of pens, probably prayers.

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Ebay Results Today – 2 Sales!

“Palm Trees” sold for the minimum bid of $20 and is off to Pennsylvania.
“What’s Up?”- the Jack Russell Terrier giclee sold for $20.15 (minimum bid $20) and will go all the way 20 minutes south to Eureka!
“Warm Pavement” and “Sunny Summer Day” been re-listed.
Two new paintings have been listed:
Listing is here
Listing is here

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Marketing Our Art During A Financial Meltdown, Part 1; EBay; And This Just In: Andrew Wyeth Has Passed Away

Alex jumped up on the sofa next to me last night and flopped down. I grabbed my sketchbook and had about three minutes to do this sketch. He’s doing great. The other three are pretty much through the cat version of the five stages of grief. In their case it seems to be: Shock, Outrage, [...]

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Mongolia Monday- Excerpt From My 2006 Trip Journal

I keep a journal on all my “interesting” trips, along with a sketchbook, and thought that I would occasionally share some entries. In 2006, I read The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux on the first part of the trip and was inspired to try my hand at recording something more descriptive, rather than just [...]

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