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Blogging about Blogging Advice! Geesh! By Catherine Ratliff   Rose by Jayden Ratliff Yes, we have a million bloggers giving advice about how to sell your art, where to sell your art, to whom to sell your art, and the mistakes you make when marketing your art.   The information I stumbled across while reading random blogs, as an artist, is extremely helpful.   It’s true that no one person is absolutely correct when speaking on the subject of selling your artwork on a blog. Marketing experience is helpful.   So, I will give props to the experts who have more experience than most people from sitting in a marketing class while obtaining their degrees or just everyday strategizing to sell their work.   I don’t believe that you will get the bulk of your sales via blogging.   However, it can pull some traffic onto your websites. This point is a common statement made on advice blogs. I was perusing through some blogs about how to sell your w...

Just checking in between the different art postings and I would like to feature a few pieces.

Hi, I am back with the finished project. I decided to make her part of the Candy Collection that I have started in Fine Arts America. Shes is #2. Her name is Tootsie Sweets and her hair is blowing in the wind. She is on fire. She is sporting her blue and green shawl with a blue bow. Her lips is voluptious. The original is on 18 x 24 drawing paper and will be mounted shortly. It is not for sale at this moment but the prints are being sold on my site  .

Hi, I used the markers to trace all the lines. I whipped out my oil pastels and stunts. It is certainly time-consuming. Now, I have to decide the color scheme. Coming along.....I do a little each day while watching tv. Don't you know I can multi-task? One more thing I would like to add....I drew her lying on my back in the dark. Whoaaa!!! :)

On a gloomy day, this sky caught my eye.  http://render.fineartamerica.com/displayartwork.html?id=4242577&width=250&height=200&domainid=1

Art is not just about painting or sketching. We all know it is anything that is visually stimulating. I'm a person who enjoys all spectrums of medium. I have a separate folder within my personal site for just jewelry. Searching for different styles of jewelry can be a long and never-ending journey. As far as sites travelled, I can say that I have only been to my background (figure of speech). Well, it's nice to know that it is very colorful in my own background. I am saturated with anticipation to discover other pieces to capture. However, they must jump out at me in such a way that puts me in awe! Okay, so I have my knapsack packed. Arrivederci!! Jewelry Ahoy!

Look at my son's work. For the class assignment, he constructed a dinosaur, uhem.....a Brachiosauros. Well instead if using standard paint, he thought it would be better as a painting/elementary macaroni project. (All smiles). Yes, indeed, I encourage his creativity and originality. Children are like sponges, they watch you hard at work with your very own passions and decide if they like it, too. It is an actually pretty well designed depiction of a Brachiosauros. Kudos to you for being a clever second grader.

Here is one of his paintings. I will post more its true what they say....children are sponges.

Just giving you a brief visual of the artist in a different light. Heading to nite-nite. If I could say, 'what's the most beautiful thing I have seen today?'....that would be my beautiful blue ring. It makes me smile everytime I look at it. Almost as good as the blue waters in St. Thomas or St. Lucia. These are the two places in which I have fallen in love. Oooh, I have to add that Las Vegas had me mesmerized also. So, that is definitely on the list.

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