Bunny Skate © Paula PertileThis is a newish art style that I'm trying for kids. It may or may not get off the ground, I'm not sure yet. The art is done with acrylics on canvas, which is SO not my usual style. If I had Painter I could probably duplicate this with that, but then I wouldn't be able to sell the originals. (The originals of this and some others are hanging in a local shop.) It could work for kids books or licensing. We'll see.
Yesterday I spent all day listening to Webinars. My head is now crammed full of info on search engine optimization (SEO), site traffic monitoring, online marketing, social networking for business, and more. It was a lot to take in! Lots of pie charts and power point presentations and bar graphs and stuff, but the information was really good.
Its a good thing I decided to jump on the "social networking wagon" because it definitely is the way of the future. Or at least the "now". Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are the big three, so if you're not on those, you're kind of out of it. Like in junior high when you didn't join the right clubs and didn't get invited to stuff. Like that. So join up. Its not hard ~ if I can do it and stumble my way through, so can you. Baby steps. Actually, I'm enjoying them all, I have to say.
This week I'll be really busy, so may not post. I'm trying to finish up some knitting that I'm supposed to have in my etsy shop next week ~ I gave myself a September 1 deadline, and have tweeted it and put it on my shop intro and all, so now I have to do it! I'm buried in cables, but its a good thing. I also have an illustration project, so between the two, its likely I'll not blog (but I'll Tweet!).
I have help with the knitting though, so I'm sure that will make it go much faster...
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Do you think you need another children's style? (I assume this one is quicker? that would be appealing...) I'll be interested in how that goes with you.
Am also interested in how the social networking thing pans out - I've heard the same thing re: twitter/fb/linked in also, but have not seen any indication that linked in makes any difference for free-lancers. FB and twitter are fun and have networking potential, but it seems a pretty fine line between obnoxiously shilling your wares and being too banal.. I don't know. I've enjoyed them on an informal, chatting-as-friends basis. We'll see if it morphs into something different?
(Please do report if you find ways to make them particularly useful?)
That's a good point about selling the originals, but you could print a digital image with pigment inks on canvas or archival paper and sell an edition of 50 instead. Or however many. Anyway, it's a cute style!