Good you went to the exhibition Margaret, keep going to them, its not all about buying but good to see Art in person I find, we have been a to few local exhibits in the last year and its funny how varied they are, especially the people, a couple we have been to, no one smiled at me or spoke at all, and yet we were at others where they were so friendly the artist chatted so much with were pushed for time to get to see all the art !!!
I totally agree with you about the promoting to sell … people I have been in contact with, via different reasons, some connected with art, some connect via my web business, think they can just open a shop or website and sit back and the sales will come !!! I think selling online, especially luxury items which I personally consider Art to be, is extremely challenging and takes a lot of time and effort. Which I know most of us here understand and work hard at, I have said before I find it ebbs and flows but when I up the promoting it flows better lol but with “life” and making sure there is enough time for painting its very much a balancing act …
Anyway with promoting in mind I have joined in the One day Sale thread today, i don’t do it as often as I did but its Poppy day today and I have three of my Poppies on sale …
I appreciate what you all say but you all have to remember that a lot of you WORK with pc’s every day and so a lot of it becomes natural to you. I have had to learn all on my own with no help and at times it is difficult to learn new technology. I assure you I am not stupid.
I promote day in and day out and I put aside at least 2 hours a day to show my work, like other people’s work and list. On the dark side I show my work on 32 teams and on some teams that involves showing pics up to 50 times ! On Folksy I show my listings on a minimum of 5 threads a day as well as trying to join in when I have the time.
I was in my 50’s before I even turned a pc on !..with no help from anyone , I have had to muddle my way through it all.
Stephie, I find the new forum slow to load on my phone too. I can just about manage, but I much prefer using it on the big PC screen. I’m guessing you’ve been to the library?
I’m sure you’ll love Trevor’s picture, his work is always even better in the flesh.
Another tip I only discovered today - if you post on the old forum first, just copy all the code from there and paste it straight into here and you get the picture complete with the listing
Thanks Margaret, you’ve given me some reputation to live up to now…!
I was just thinking, I don’t dislike this weekly thread as much as I thought I would. Since this forum automatically takes you to the first post you haven’t read it’s not as inconvenient as I thought!
Stephie, have you played with your desert paints yet, I’m intruiged to see what you can do with them. Might play with mine later with some clingfilm maybe…
Margaret I hope your Frodsham exhibition was good! Did you buy anything?
I haven’t had change to play with my new paints yet because we’ve been at the library everyday. I’m waiting for the paint that I squirted into the half pans to set sufficiently for them to survive the cycle down a very bumpy hill!
I took a better photo of yesterday’s artbar painting
just popping in to say Hi…had a really busy day and now time to go and get the fish and chips…no time for listing today either…never mind, I will list tomorrow …waving to everyone…
Stephie, I very much enjoyed my trip to Frodsham arts centre. It was all animal paintings and there were some fabulous ones there. I saw some by Sharon Whitely who I met at Birchwood a couple of weeks ago. Everything was a very long way out of my price range though. I do find when art is framed in galleries it’s in a completely different price range. When I think of the bargains to be had on Folksy it amazes me that anyone pays those prices! That’s not to say they’re not worth it of course, I’m just thinking about what I can get for my money here compared to there.
