| Allison Walker Payne said
at 1:06pm on April 22nd, 2008 |
I'm just wondering how many hours y'all paint a day or if it varies? Do you have more then one piece going at a time? Do you have on the tv or music? Do you work your art around a "real job"? Are you on other sites similar to this? Color me curious...whatever color you want. :0) |
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| Mark Hamrick said
at 3:27pm on April 22nd, 2008 |
I color you magenta! |
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| Allison Walker Payne said
at 3:29pm on April 22nd, 2008 |
I love that color. Hope your pastels are going well! I'm off to stare at the new work. Doggies and buggies and water oh my. |
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| MOMOKO said
at 7:03pm on April 22nd, 2008 |
As far as my Internet business is concerned, this is the only site I am active on. I am on yessy.com but I leave everything "not for sale" there because I cannot maintain two sites right now. I am very new to selling art on-line (less than three months), and until I feel I know what to do, I will use just this site. |
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| Allison Walker Payne said
at 7:51pm on April 22nd, 2008 |
I tried Yessy a few years back and seemed to get alot of traffic but no sales. I've been a bit more successful here, and am hoping that people are more familiar with the world of online sales. |
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| Sherry Arthur said
at 3:45pm on April 23rd, 2008 |
I do more sales in person than anything.
I usually paint about 8 hrs a day a couple times a week. I usually don't have but one piece at a time but lately I have been busy. I had 5 to work on. I finished 3 and now am doing 2 at once. I usually alternate them every other day or so. Both are commissions.
I listen to my mp3 player while I work or books on cd. I love horror novels and suspense.
I only work as an artist. I am on other sites as well and I maintain my own website too. Does that help your color me curiousity? Have a great day. |
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| Siu O said
at 5:35am on April 24th, 2008 |
I start to draw when I have an interesting idea. Sometimes, I work several hours a day and sometimes no work at all.
Sometimes I want to draw something but during the working precess, I discover something else and that "something else" is really unexpected and much better than what I plan before. "Thinking melon", "3 men have a cold", "floating fantasy" ... are that kind of work. At the very beginning, I plan to draw some plant. I wonder if other artists have this kind of experience before. |
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| Allison Walker Payne said
at 7:04pm on April 24th, 2008 |
Siu O, that does happen to me - often I'll start out one way and then take an unexpected left turn. Usually its much better then my original concept. I love your work and your titles.
Sherry, thanks for your post! I wish I could paint for eight hours at a time. I need breaks often - maybe because I'm painting in a cramped space and just get sore muscles. I'm hoping to paint longer and faster, if that's possible. I love your landscapes - especially the lighthouse. (My husband's also a member of the Cherokee Nation.) I wonder when you sell in person, where you are - networking? Do people come to your studio? Commissions are terrific, but they make me nervous. Thanks again. |
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| MOMOKO said
at 7:22pm on April 24th, 2008 |
Commissions make me very, very nervous too!
Except for my LineScaping art. I've done enough of Line-Scaping pieces in all sorts of sizes (up to 15 feet wide 6 feet high) that I know how they would look and confident that buyers will be happy.
But commissions for everything else have been mentally hard on me, constantly worrying like, "what if the buyer doesn't like this?" |
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| Siu O said
at 4:53am on April 25th, 2008 |
Allison,
Thanks for your sharing.
I am waiting for my new computer monitor now, therefore, I cannot work on my picture now because computer is one of the tools for my drawing. The old monitor has distorted about 80% horizontally.
And that's way I have scribbled here quite often these days. There's nothing I can do but wait, wait, wait ... |
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