I have added another section to the Portfolio page called Graphics Work. It’s meant to house some of the graphics work and web design I have done over the years. Originally I had not intended to make those things part of this website, but I have changed my mind. Design is a big part of my art, and I find myself doing graphics frequently in my art career. I added some of my oldest works, and will be adding some of the newer items and photo restorations/manipulations soon.

This blog has been quiet the last few months, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been up to exciting things! Having seen how successful my prints were at the 151 Midtown Art Show last November, I decided it was high time to stick my toes in the water of internet sales.

http://joieart.etsy.com

Etsy.com is a website dedicated to the sale of handmade items. I thought it would be the best platform from which to begin selling my prints. Currently there are four prints for sale, but there will be more as the week winds down. I also only accept Paypal as a payment method– but hopefully that will be remedied soon.

There’s lots more fun news, commissions, and new art that’ll be posted in coming weeks. I’ve got plans formulated that I’m very excited about! Thanks for stopping by again.

I wanted to remind my readers to follow me on Twitter! I post quite a lot of art, Vinny, and website-related material on my feed, including snapshots of what I’m working on at the time! It’s a fun way to see what sort of things I’m up to in between posts here on my blog.

If you have a Twitter account and would like for me to follow you as well, make sure to let me know. I like keeping in touch with all my friends.

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I’ve just given JoieArt.net another facelift in favor of something a bit more professional. I know blog aren’t supposed to change their look this often, but JoieArt is still a relatively new blog and so hopefully it will only have positive effects instead of negative.

This particular theme is more streamlined, professional, and easier to organize. It also forced me to revamp my categories and add tags, but that’s something I should have done to begin with. I’m still tweaking and adding things as I go, but hopefully this can be a theme I can stick with for quite awhile.

This theme was designed by Samk.ca, and is quite lovely.

I’m messing around with the layout for the site this evening, and like what I’ve got so far. It’s a theme called Pink Orchid that I’m modifying to meet my own needs… and so far it’s looking ok. I’ve got a lot of color and layout tweaking I’d like to do, but I’ve run up against one major issue…

What to do for the header image? I’ve pondered it for awhile now, and any input anyone has would be greatly appreciated. I have tried several pieces of my own artwork, but none of them seem to fit the 1020 x 145 pixel size that I need. I’m hoping one of my readers has a brainwave, because my own brain is still fried from the holiday this weekend. Dodging green mortar fireworks was not particularly what I had in mind for “fun,” hehe.

For those of you on RSS Feeds or email, check out the new layout here: JoieArt.net