What a busy day! I didn’t work on my painting today (other than remove a small fly that had committed suicide overnight by trying to fly through the foggy sky over the foggy sea). I was going through my “Pictures to Paint” folder last week and ran across this photo which I had already painted in watercolor. I sold that one as soon as I posted it, and I quite like the image, so I decided to try it in oil. Getting the foggy background and sea done was quite a treat in oil. It seemed the more paint I added the better it looked! Now the rocks are about half completed (I love painting rocks!) and I have added the structure of the taller figure in the foreground. Not sure if I will add the smaller figure or not. So it’s good that I took a break from it today so I can think about what to do next.
I worked on getting my inventory up in Square, so I can more easily sell cards and ACEOs. I hope it’s worth it cause it sure felt like I was back at work again! I managed to export all my creations from ArtMoi, then pruned out the unavailable items, then formatted it all to match the Square “Items” fields, and finally imported all that into Square. I had to figure out how to add optional frames and such for the ACEOs, and how to offer discounts on multiple card purchases. Now all I have to do is figure out the shipping! Oh, and of course figure out how to either integrate all this into my existing Weebly website (which you think would be a lot easier because Weebly was bought by Square 2 years ago…). I am so happy that I am computer literate! I can’t imagine a computer novice trying to navigate through this! No wonder so many people make money off of artists who are trying to learn how to sell their art online!! Yesterday I attended a free online webinar on “How do you know you are ready to sell your art?”. Well, of course it was only a ruse to get you to sign up for a $795 six week art marketing course, the modules of which sounded an awful lot like the book I am reading, which I won from Eric Rhoads’s daily talks. I try to watch all of these lunchtime videos, as they always provide something useful. Today’s artist was using water mixable oils and demonstrating painting reflections in water. I watched it while I was working on my Square inventory. No rest for the entrepreneur!! Hopefully you will soon see the results of my labors!
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