Assorted assortedness...
Well, it's a Tuesday again. So Lisa is coming over again, and on our Tuesday night art jams, I usually do something challenging and interesting that comes out really well. So does she. We do various mediums but every week both of us have come up with something really cool. Last week it was the Mermaid ACEO, and she drew a mermaid too.
This week, I dug out a pad of canvas paper that I've been dragging around since I lived in Virginia, where an ex-housemate gave it to me because he didn't use it or want it. The stuff is stiff, bright white on the front, looks reasonably durable, and the pad was bigger than I thought -- 12" x 16". So I cut one sheet up into sixteen 3" x 4" pieces to do oil and acrylic ACEOs on (with a 1/4" matting border) and may dig out either the oils or the acrylics tonight to do paintings instead of drawing in colored pencil or pens.
I might do larger paintings on some of the sheets too, since I have them and they're handy and would not be very hard to ship to people.
It's looking up for the lone Mermaid. She has one day and 4 1/2 hours to go before she comes up ... but she has a watcher, someone's paying attention to when that auction closes. And sensibly avoiding putting an early bid to drive the price up, they do that. She also has 54 views, a lot more than my other auctions did. So it all rests on the little mermaid... if she sells, even at minimum bid, I've done better than break even. I've broken even and paid for the supplies that I bought today, a pack of baseball card sleeves to mail ACEOs in. kkitten42 said she had a few sleeves left over from her ex-husband's Magic card collecting days, but I didn't know if she'd have time to find them before I need them. And she has been very busy lately. So anything I can take care of for myself is better than bothering her for it.
With the shipping, I paid about 3 1/2 cents a sleeve, which is negligible. Many of the experienced sellers are suggesting I should also buy some of the hard plastic top loaders -- one of them finally explained the difference to me, which was confusing me. I wasn't sure why something would be 10 cents apiece or a penny apiece depending on who you bought it from and why I'd want to spend a dime for a penny item in batches of ten instead of 100! But if you use both to send these cards out, then it'd be helpful to get them, and use them for trades as well as sales.
Since, with my album coming in and the number of good artists I'm getting to know, I'm likely to put together a pretty good collection of my own just on trades. Especially from artists who are friends, because that starts to get very personal. But the album won't actually ship until some time in December. It's paid for, it won't ship till it comes in at Blick. Neither will the book I got from Amazon, which may not arrive till January.
I'm still waiting for two more books from Amazon Marketplace sellers, both of which have sent them when I checked my email. They just haven't arrived today, and that is curious. One is as of today running late by its own estimates of how long it takes to arrive. The other's right on the edge of it. Weird. I hope they get through okay.
WOOT!!!
She has a bid! She sold! elizas_art bid on her, the founder of Art-Cards.org aka ACEOs Explained. Her art is cool, her site is cool, I just posted a Derwent Inktense review there and am planning more articles -- this rocks. I know her. This just totally rocks, now either she'll actually get Mermaid or someone else will bid. But either way, my eBay fees are covered, I broke even including the mailing sleeves, and I'll be able to get a gallery on the site. That's in my plans for this month, getting a gallery on ArtCards dot org, having looked at the other galleries and been seriously impressed with the quality of other artists represented.
Maybe I'll do another tutorial tonight for her, if I dig out my acrylics box and stack what's on top of it on the bed instead of on the scanner. Or an oil, which would not need me to dig out the acrylics box but also might not be able to be scanned in progress due to not drying, it'd work better with acrylics unless I want to spend days doing the tutorial. Besides, I finally got the free Titanium White from Winsor & Newton, a couple of days before my Blick order came with the tube I broke down and bought, though it does make sense to have a spare tube since white gets used up faster than anything else.
I should do more pen and watercolor pieces on watercolor paper too, considering what sold and what didn't. Most of the experienced sellers are suggesting I should relist, and set up the auction so that it ends on a Monday evening. I may do that, wait for Monday night and relist to try to give it a bit more exposure. They got reasonably decent views, 30 or more each, and maybe they'll move on the second go.
This week, I dug out a pad of canvas paper that I've been dragging around since I lived in Virginia, where an ex-housemate gave it to me because he didn't use it or want it. The stuff is stiff, bright white on the front, looks reasonably durable, and the pad was bigger than I thought -- 12" x 16". So I cut one sheet up into sixteen 3" x 4" pieces to do oil and acrylic ACEOs on (with a 1/4" matting border) and may dig out either the oils or the acrylics tonight to do paintings instead of drawing in colored pencil or pens.
I might do larger paintings on some of the sheets too, since I have them and they're handy and would not be very hard to ship to people.
It's looking up for the lone Mermaid. She has one day and 4 1/2 hours to go before she comes up ... but she has a watcher, someone's paying attention to when that auction closes. And sensibly avoiding putting an early bid to drive the price up, they do that. She also has 54 views, a lot more than my other auctions did. So it all rests on the little mermaid... if she sells, even at minimum bid, I've done better than break even. I've broken even and paid for the supplies that I bought today, a pack of baseball card sleeves to mail ACEOs in. kkitten42 said she had a few sleeves left over from her ex-husband's Magic card collecting days, but I didn't know if she'd have time to find them before I need them. And she has been very busy lately. So anything I can take care of for myself is better than bothering her for it.
With the shipping, I paid about 3 1/2 cents a sleeve, which is negligible. Many of the experienced sellers are suggesting I should also buy some of the hard plastic top loaders -- one of them finally explained the difference to me, which was confusing me. I wasn't sure why something would be 10 cents apiece or a penny apiece depending on who you bought it from and why I'd want to spend a dime for a penny item in batches of ten instead of 100! But if you use both to send these cards out, then it'd be helpful to get them, and use them for trades as well as sales.
Since, with my album coming in and the number of good artists I'm getting to know, I'm likely to put together a pretty good collection of my own just on trades. Especially from artists who are friends, because that starts to get very personal. But the album won't actually ship until some time in December. It's paid for, it won't ship till it comes in at Blick. Neither will the book I got from Amazon, which may not arrive till January.
I'm still waiting for two more books from Amazon Marketplace sellers, both of which have sent them when I checked my email. They just haven't arrived today, and that is curious. One is as of today running late by its own estimates of how long it takes to arrive. The other's right on the edge of it. Weird. I hope they get through okay.
WOOT!!!
She has a bid! She sold! elizas_art bid on her, the founder of Art-Cards.org aka ACEOs Explained. Her art is cool, her site is cool, I just posted a Derwent Inktense review there and am planning more articles -- this rocks. I know her. This just totally rocks, now either she'll actually get Mermaid or someone else will bid. But either way, my eBay fees are covered, I broke even including the mailing sleeves, and I'll be able to get a gallery on the site. That's in my plans for this month, getting a gallery on ArtCards dot org, having looked at the other galleries and been seriously impressed with the quality of other artists represented.
Maybe I'll do another tutorial tonight for her, if I dig out my acrylics box and stack what's on top of it on the bed instead of on the scanner. Or an oil, which would not need me to dig out the acrylics box but also might not be able to be scanned in progress due to not drying, it'd work better with acrylics unless I want to spend days doing the tutorial. Besides, I finally got the free Titanium White from Winsor & Newton, a couple of days before my Blick order came with the tube I broke down and bought, though it does make sense to have a spare tube since white gets used up faster than anything else.
I should do more pen and watercolor pieces on watercolor paper too, considering what sold and what didn't. Most of the experienced sellers are suggesting I should relist, and set up the auction so that it ends on a Monday evening. I may do that, wait for Monday night and relist to try to give it a bit more exposure. They got reasonably decent views, 30 or more each, and maybe they'll move on the second go.