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Right now as I type this using my iPhone we are heading to Elgin Illinois.
Brian and I have teamed up to provide a tent, product, and whimsy to the World of Faeries Festival. Funny, we used to joke about running our own business together. It seems as God's plan has done just that!
Honestly this is just something I could not do on my own. I feel like this is right where we, and me, need to be. We are also taking a four day vaca from our daughter (so scary!!).
I'm way beyond my comfort zone, being out from behind my computer screen. Yet we can only truly connect with others face to face, and I do t want to loose that ability out of fear.
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If you're near the Elgin area, I encourage you to leave the computer screen and come say hi. ^_^
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on 5/9/2015
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End of the week, and believe it or not, this is when things get real busy. Our weekends are usually socially full with friends, family, and yard work. So on Friday I try to get one more big push to paint or draw.
Everything else typically gets pushed to Monday. Because of our weekend schedules working on Saturday or Sunday nights becomes quite difficult, so it becomes easier to just not work and give my loved ones my attention.
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Twitter that I create a fairy delivering coffee. I couldn't let it go, being a big coffee person myself, and on a weekly basis wish there was a coffee delivery service here in Des Moines. At that, I just got started and let other projects go to the side. When you feel it, you must go with it. That's how you know it's from the heart. :)
It wasn't raining either, so Norah and I did some errands to Hobby Lobby, Target, then some weeding out back to get some vitamin D. Loved watching her play in the dirt (helping mom weed) and pick dandelions.
I worked on the coffee fairy during her morning nap (2.5 hours) and in the evening (2 hrs). Brian and I finished the night off with an episode of Dr. Who. ^_^
Have a great weekend!
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on 5/5/2015
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Monday officially sets the week in motion, and by Tuesday, I feel like I can best determine what kind of week it's going to be. Granted, things unexpected always happen, but this week Norah has a cold, which means a lot of play and a lot of snuggles. I need to keep my to do list simple and not expect to get everything done.
If she has a cold, I'm not too far from one, so self care (napping when she naps, eating well, etc) is just as important for me too.
Today I'm excited because I get to paint three lovely ladies sipping tea. I was going to do coffee (since I'm a coffee fanatic), but I wouldn't have been able to draw the wee tea flags that I adore so much. ^_^
Tuesdays are a day for creating. I do my best to reserve this day for painting or drawing. Sometimes if I am able, I will paint or draw Monday night to gear me up for Tuesday. Somehow that works for me.
Last night I was able to put 4 hours in (!!!) and got some Christmas art finished, and today is the reward by painting something fresh and new!
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on 1/16/2015
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A sink full of dirty half rinsed dishes; toys and paper scattered waiting for a foot to stomp on them; cluttered dining room table ranging from a stuffed bunny to a lint roller; laundry decorating our couch and our bedroom dresser; and shoes beckoning to be tripped over at the front door.
This is my house, most every day. It makes me feel squished, with no room to move without knocking something over or stepping onto something. I'm clumsy and that always means I will stub my toe, ram my elbow, slam my hand, or bang my knee. It's crazy how many nicks and bruises I get.
Yet, I look to my right and I see sun light beaming in from the windows in my studio.
An immediate "ahhh" relaxes my mind and all is right again.
If this winter has taught me anything, it's that my studio truly is my place of solitude.
I used to tell people it was because I think artists are supposed to say that. It's expected of us to love our studio, a place where the creation happens, a place filled with things that inspire. Mine has been in a constant state of change since I moved away from home to college back in 2000.
When we moved into this house I was so excited to have a space I could settle in and not worry for a long time. I didn't expect it to be so cumbersome.
My studio has poor insulation, so during the hot Iowa summers and freezing Iowa winters, it's very uncomfortable at different times of the day. I've had to continuously change my schedule to fit. I've had to move everything constantly so that Brian could get to the windows for more insulation, or to add carpet scraps, or or or. And I know more is coming.
But this week, with all of the sun, regardless of the temp, my studio has been bright, warm, inviting, and mine. No more moving clutter to work on the dining room table, no more stepping on stuff when I get up to grab something I need, none of that. I feel whole.
I will bundle up, buy another mini heater for my toes, I will put a fan on my face and wear ice cubes, whatever it takes. I love my studio!
The icing on the cake? My daughter being able to spend time in the studio with me. That's what I've envisioned for a long time, my hope, my joy today. She makes the studio brighter with her smile, her giggle, and her curiosity. Bringing out the crayola crayons doesn't hurt either.
There is one other place in my entire house that I find peaceful and full of light. The only other place in the house that is always filled with the light rays, and that is our bathroom. It's silly, but when we moved in it was our first project, and it set the tone for the whole house (what we dream). It's full of birds. :)
It's so easy for me to be distracted by all the chores, they pull me away from my work and drain my creativity. Yet, last night, I didn't let it get to me. Here are this week's Daily Sketches and joys, #10, #11, and #12.
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on 1/2/2013
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I welcome 2013 with open arms and submission.
Do you ever sit down to plan and organize your work week but find that you enjoy the organizing more than the doing? That's me in a nutshell. It's taken a decade to realize this, but I'm grateful that I have! And this is why 2013 is going to be different!
First my health. Last year was all about my mental health and figuring out my identity. This year it's about my physical health...and that includes stress levels.
I'm a highly active person, not in the sports or adventurous aspects, but I'm always moving, thinking, and analyzing. Can you relate?
To bring the stress down, I reorganized my studio into "sections". I had this before, but not so broken down. When we move I will break it down even further. I have four sections: Office, Create, Process, and Craft. Office
Your typical office desk, makes me feel like I am somewhere else other than my home. I have created a place for all of my mail, charity, financials, receipts, and project logs, and so much more. It is be cleared off at the end of the day and no more piles of papers! Everyone has a place. I always have piles and piles of papers that build up...nothing more stressful knowing I have to go through them and then never do.
CreateThis is the happy place, where I create my work. I reorganized adding to the amount of mugs, laying out all my art materials instead of hiding them in drawers. I want to be exposed to the options for creating this year. Notice no chair (must get a stool though).
My husband, Brian, started a "movement" if you will at his work about standing at your desk while working. He did major study upon it, and now stands all day. His testimony declares how much more he's motivated and energized to work...especially through those grueling afternoon hours. I have always sat...so didn't think much on it except to pat him on the back.
I got the 2013 Artist's and Graphic Designer's Market book and there it was! An article about standing in the studio to stay healthy. Well there ya go! I decided to make the move and have found the results quick and awesome. I can definitely work longer hours without becoming tired or even creatively numb. My imagination and creative juices run longer.
I'm very excited about this, but if you go this route be sure to invest in a stool for frequent short sits (that's a healthy thing to do too), and a padded mat or insoles for your shoes to help your heels get through the change. I use a small step stool to alternate my feet.
ProcessI needed a place to process my Etsy orders, make promotional items, or even mat and frame work. It's daunting to place a table in the middle of my small studio, but necessary. It hasn't gotten in the way yet!
Part of my office desk problem last year was the use of office work slash processing. It got cluttered very fast, I felt like I was working in a box that was too small, and I was suffocating without knowing it. This has been extremely helpful!
CraftI am a collector of all decorative papers, and with my little side hobbies of jewelery, bird houses, ornaments, etc., I needed a place to store all of it. A small little section of my studio is devoted to this, and I'm happy to say it's a piled up mess, but thankfully it can stay that way. All of the crafts were getting lost in my art materials, and it became frustration overload. Amazing what a small little change can do!
Caffeine and SleepThe amount of caffeine I take in has changed, instead of consuming all the way up to when I go to bed, I cut off no later than 4pm.
Sleep is hard for me to get enough of, but my hope is with the stress levels low and the calm of knowing that the Lord has my life in His hands, I will be able to get the rest needed. Getting to bed before midnight is a change that has started for the best. A goal to get 6 hours minimum.
What do you think of these changes? Have you heard of any of these before?What are you doing differently this year?
too often when thinking about our businesses, we tend to only focus on what hasn’t been achieved yet. At least for me it has always been about what still needs to be done or how far I still need to go before reaching my ultimate goals. Although it is valuable to assess where I am in relation to my goals, thinking this way sometimes leaves me feeling like I have somehow fallen short. So to end the year 2012, I have decided to put together a list of everything I accomplished in my business during 2012. And as I set there writing this list, I realized that I actually have come a long way.
I got into the Hive Gallery in Downtown LA as a resident artist
Had a successful Holiday sales season–quadrupled my sales from last year
Signed a licensing deal with a successful clothing and print company–Lowbrow Art Company
Started selling my jewelry at a new store: Co-op 28 Handmade in Hollywood
created lots of new art
expended my zazzle store product line and am making 1-2 sales a day: Now I offer iphone cases and skins, mugs, t-shirts, calendars, journals, totes and more..
Opened my own market stall at Crafted at the Port of LA–even though I closed it after 3 months, it was great experience overall and I got a sense of what it was like having my own permanent shop
Exhibited at a variety of art shows and conventions: Wondercon Anaheim, Designer Con, Batz Day Holiday Show, Pink Parlor Festival, Ink For a Cause, Knotts Berry Farm Christmas Village, HPLovecraft Festival, zombie Fashion Show in Downtown, a more…
Signed up over 300 new fans to my newsletter mailing list
Met lots of new people and built some great relationships
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What is your list? What have you accomplished in 2012?
Freckled Fowl; 14 x 18" o/c...
...From a photo I took at the Box R Ranch of a Hamburg hen, that I turned into a rooster. Couldn't do without that big, red comb and wattle.
The copyright issue has been a hot topic in my online picture book discussion group since everyone learned about the various "search by image" tools. Fellow book illustrator Elizabeth Dulemba posts children's coloring pages to her website, which apparently are stolen routinely. She has a very informative couple of blog posts on the matter. She regularly collects fees from infringers who have used her work for profit or promotion. While doing so is certainly fair, many of us, however illogically, feel slimy and uncomfortable demanding money in such situations. However, it seems to be the only way to enforce copyrights and educate those who should know better. Infringers who get off a mere a demand to remove the images should consider themselves fortunate, regardless of how "nasty" they perceive such requests.
It better be quite a few because as from late February this year Google is getting tough on duplicate content. I will explain.
Recently I submitted my profile to an art website listing (as you do often enough when promoting your work). I pulled one of my paragraphs from my website profile. The site owner contacted me requesting that I re-write my profile so they do not get penalised by Google
I just finished this illustration in acrylic for a Christian children's publication--a nice client who waited several months for me to be available. Only have a couple of weeks left now to do some new work for the little restaurant show I'll hang on Valentine's Day.
Last week another blogger recommended Zatista as a successful venue for selling art online. The site has received editorial coverage in publications like Elle Décor. I checked it out and was disappointed to find that, like a number of similar sites, their user agreement's grant of rights is far too broad and over-reaching for my comfort. It says, "You grant Zatista a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, trademark, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future. Additionally, you grant Zatista the right to use your content for the purpose of marketing, merchandising, and advertising in media including, but not limited to, the Zatista Site and partner sites.”
Despite their aw-shucks explanation or intent ("�you grant us licesnse [sic] so that we do not violate any rights you may have in the content"), does anyone else see this language as legally giving away the store? I see no justification for any such agreement to be "perpetual" or "irrevocable" after the art is removed; and no one's art should be used for marketing purposes without compensation. I fear many fine artists are less knowledgeable about copyright and the value of commercial usage of their work than most illustrators are. Otherwise, I don't understand why artists do not protest en masse and force these web sites to modify their agreements, as happened a few months ago when Facebook tried to claim copyright to everything anyone ever posted there. If anyone (especially an attorney) could weigh in on this, I would appreciate it. 'Cause it would be cool to have a good online venue to sell art other than eBay.
I have just updated my Artist/Illustrator’s Model Release Template and thought I would post a link for download. This is what I use and I believe it is appropriate for artists and illustrators. If you enter a big art show that involves a model and mass media exposure I strongly advise you to get permission from your model/s!What is a Model Release?A Model Release is basically a contract that says
Hooray!My new Children’s Illustration business cards are printed. It is exciting to get printed material back after deliberating over the design. Using some of my illustrations I overlapped them like a collage for back of the card using Photoshop. I used a simple cute illustration of a bird on the front. I wanted the information to be read easily but a more descriptive impression of what I
“Do you know of any free mailing list programs Kayleen? I need to do another mailing list but don't want to keep the files on my computer, I'd rather have them stored online somehow. Any suggestions?”
I have been asked about any free mailing list management systems before and it is a good question. It is easy to get free software and free business tools on the Internet but I would like to point out a few things first.
- Always run your anti-virus and anti-spyware software over these downloads before opening them. Downloading freeware can come as at cost. I have a program called Avast which is brilliant. An IT friend of mine put me onto this software. Avast has a free home edition and a professional edition and it picks up on bad downloads often before it even gets to download into your temporary Internet folder. The PC enemy doesn’t even make it to your machine before its sirens go off and tell you to stop the download. It also cleans up worms easily. As with all things that appear free, sometimes they can cost you dearly in sneaky ways so be careful what you download.
I often download trial software which is less likely to have a hidden agenda and if happy with the product, I am happy to pay for it; after all, the person who created should be compensated. Sometimes you get freeware that is clean and works pretty well. The reason for freeware is sometimes the developer is trailing the software and trying to build traffic to the web site to sell other products or later sell the new improved original software.
- Google the exe file names to see if I can find any bad reports on the practices of the individual product download before you unpack the exe file. I have found the occasional bad report of spyware on some products that passed my filter before unpacking and have deleted them before I did after reading the warnings.
- Free Download Web Sites:
Two places to go to get free downloads are www.download.com and www.tucows.com. You can go to these places and search around for the free software you need. Check the reviews of the software also as you can waist a lot of time on installing clunky, buggy programs that don’t work as they should or later crash on you when you have put time into them and saved valuable data in the program. As I just stated, the trails are most likely to be a better product.
Now back to the question which was: “Do you know of any free mailing list programs Kayleen? I need to do another mailing list but don't want to keep the files on my computer, I'd rather have them stored online somehow. Any suggestions?”
- Free Mailing List Programs
Yes there is software out there and the most obvious would be to use your hosting account cpanel if you have access to it. You can create lists in there and send auto responders as well. - PHPLists is a free program for mailing list management and can be easily installed on your server however it is for the technically minded. If you like php then go for it. Another drawback is it is light on reports. I have kicked it around as well as a couple other options but wanted something a bit more thorough and easy to use and why I ended up with an Aweber account. This had all the features you needed, the company keep improving the product and there was all the tutorials and information in there to step me through not only setting it up but how to take full advantage of the Aweber mailing list management. It was like having the program, a tutor and mentors all wrapped in one. It also has an active business community which is a bonus. You pick up quite a bit of info through other successful people.
I hope this has answered your question and been helpful. What is most important is actually getting a mailing list set up and managed well.
You and I both know that gaining exposure is imperative to success as an artist. Earning an income from our art is not an easy road. Thinking outside the square I have decided to use my graphic design skills to help us all by putting together a few well designed and helpful On-line book that will increase the audience we all need to increase sales.
I am going to offer all artist contributors to share in the profits as the intention is to get the books (and our art) out everywhere to maximize exposure for everyone and increase our painting sales and commissions.
Why am I sharing this idea with you?
My reasons are:
- I believe that marketing your art in solitude is not as effective as joining forces.
- Putting together a book on my own is a big job if I have to create all the content myself.
- I love painting, but I also love my graphics job and writing. It is kind of an obsession of mine. I love doing this sort of thing and I would like to share what I can with my art friends and community.
- I will also earn extra income and promote my work (equally)
- AND being in a flashy book is VERY VERY COOL!
Submissions: I am looking for a variety of mediums and styles but I want your best work. This book needs to be of value to the purchaser and a compliment to you as a capable artist. In saying that, the book is open to up and coming artists as well as the professional so don’t be afraid to have a go. Like I said send YOUR BEST EXAMPLES and I will endeavour to include as many as I can across the board. The e-book will include a tutorial or demonstration by you and a big promotion on you and your art.
I am calling for book submissions and tutorials for the following:
- Art in traditional mediums
- Illustration
I am very excited about this idea as I am sure you will be too.
If you want to be included in a book go to the submission page here and fill in your contact details so I can send you all the information you need to add your art and promotional details and information on book commissions. I want to get this out ASAP so as soon as there are enough entries I will be putting it together so don’t miss out. Go now to the submission page to add your name and your art in this book.
I look forward to helping you promote your art.
I know this is a long post but it is worth reading.
After the Artists Business course I did in March this year I started looking into the marketing side of artists and in general. The most important point that stood out for me was that you must have “constant contact with your audience”.
In both Alyson Stanfield’s class and in the further research I did, email contact stood out as the dominant
I found this niftly little shoutbox that i have just installed on my forum. It is FREE and the paid version is only $17.95 US per year.
These can be a handy little tool for adding customer service to your site. Now how many artist do that?
Here is the link: http://www.planetminibox.com
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Thank you for sharing, Sara! I like the idea of standing! Will try it. Blessings to support you in your changes! <3