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’m pleased to finally share with you all a side project of mine that I’ve been laboring on for the past few weeks. The economy is hitting everyone hard– including us artists. I’ve been pondering this problem for awhile now, and it is really frustrating. Artists want to sell their work. People want to buy artist’s stuff.

Unfortunately, there is sometimes a hold up in that transaction because art is not always as affordable as we’d like. Artists pour hours and hours into art: perfecting those small details, using expensive supplies and utilizing years of practice and honing of their craft to create images. Some even say a tiny piece of the soul latches onto the items that artists create. A lot of people don’t understand that, and thus do not understand why art has to be so expensive.

Obviously that means that most artists cannot drop their prices and still be fairly compensated– but the economy is preventing a lot of people from buying that piece of art that they truly love because they’re strapped for cash. It’s a tough situation that’s located between a rock and a hard place. What can you do?

Well I brainstormed a solution to that problem by creating something I like to call “Snippets.” Snippets are small pieces of art created on a 4″x6″ card. Small means less materials. Small means less time. That means more affordable! Someone could own an original, one of a kind piece of art for something that fits more easily into their expenses!

Snippets are small snapshots of something. It may be a subject matter, it might be a thought or an idea. It’s a small peek into something that the artist may have been thinking about or inspired by at the time. I frequently have urges to do just a little something here and there, and this is the best outlet possible.

Here are the first three in the series, with four and five being finished up just as soon as I’m done posting here! Click the thumbnails for larger images:

Each snippet is original and one-of-a-kind. No prints will be made from these tiny pieces of art. Each is something that I felt I wanted to paint on a whim at that moment. Each one is hand-signed, titled, and numbered with what Snippet it is in the sequence. I’m going to offer them for sale at a reasonable price, and I’m really excited about it!

Think of it as an economic art stimulus! Information on buying coming soon as I set up shop. More Snippets to follow as well. (And no, they won’t all be dogs, either. Expect some interesting new things… in addition to my usual ballerinas, mermaids, and twisted story tale fare.)