i forgot what a JOB it is to scan and post things on etsy. but, man, i hope it will be worth it. there is going to be some good stuff on there. NEW things! (ok, some old, but newly listed) starting tonight. at the usual embarrassing giveaway prices. i *have* to … the stacks … everywhere! i didn’t realize my hands have been *that* busy in the past few months…
it was a good long weekend at home. we took some long walks. watched a movie from the library. ate pretty well (pesto from my garden!). i made a few pictures and read a book and missed the girls (the usual things). but most time was spent at the artTable feeling productive and happy. apparently at the same time wished i would “do something with those dragonflies”, i was transferring them to watercolor paper! great minds! the prints came out really well and i was quite happy with them. the digital prints are fine, too, but i believe i got too carried away with the object-making aspect of mounting them and they seem a bit busy.
i am *very* happy with the tiny mezclado’s though! image transfers of the garages and pointy houses with waxed chinese paper fringe! oooooooooo! i LOVE waxing paper. it has the coolest smooth feel. i have put these new things on etsy.
so, yes indeed, i spent most of the weekend on my tail at the artTable. i was obsessed and extremely productive. now, of course, i am having sort of a downer and wondering about all the things i produced. it is funny. i block myself so well with my dictate of Trying To Make Things To Sell. can’t my fucking art have any value otherwise? can’t i just let myself make what i want sometimes? i love these new little pieces. they are very good. but they are not what i really wanted to make. i don’t mind having to work small right now, and i really love production and serial work. but i still want the work to be obsessive and extravagant in places. i love the contrast of pale and minimal with sporadic encrustations. but i stop. HEY. i can’t put all this work into a piece that i am going to (hopefully) sell on etsy for $20 shipping included!!!!
so there are no folded and waxed paper shred edges, or handsewn clumps of beads and vintage pearl buttons with GOBS of golden thread exploding … nope. not this time. but maybe someday.
regardless, the new things are quite nice. they are sturdy and have a good feel. the threads and shreds blow in the breeze. some are at etsy now and more will appear. (yes, i’ve learned the trick of spreading new listings out so they appear on the front page more often…) i still think about having my own web gallery again and have sort of been working on it, but i think i would rather spend the time in manual encrustation actually.
i didn’t make any new skirts. i did drag myself out of the house with miss jemima one time. it is starting to feel like summer.
going going … g o n e
here is a little notification that the majority of small pieces i have listed on my “store” at E T S Y are expiring in the next 2 - 3 weeks. i am not re-listing them. the etsyExperience has been interesting but i am not *that* excited. especially because the images are such poor quality. i upload fine images, but what i see there does not look the same. i don’t know what they do to them, but i don’t like it at all. and it is so big there, so populated, i realize that very few sales have come directly from etsy, but more from people i already know (and love! thank you!). it is true i am not highly skilled at marketing. i mean, i am even GIVING SOMETHING AWAY this month, and still … not very many sales.
i am going to try to re-establish a small gallery at my own website, using etsy as a storefront with samples, however, so i won’t leave there altogether. but i am not sure when the gallery will happen … don’t worry, it will be announced! i haven’t been making as many small pieces this year, but have been working on books instead. so i don’t know exactly what will *be* in that gallery yet … maybe some images, too? well. we’ll see … onward.
altered photos, tissue, paints, stamps, paper shreds, transferred imagery, beads.
best displayed dangling from a small rusty nail.