Artist Maria Arango-Diener's sporadic musings on woodcuts, art, and the incredible adventure of life as an artist.
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Friday, November 14, 2008
A personal effort to stimulate the US economy (wink wink)?
Warning: shameless self-promotion follows...
Who says you can't find affordable great quality art to give for the Season?!
I just re-opened my ebay shop, in view of their new friendlier seller terms and lower selling fees. I haven't been doing festivals and hate to see thousands of prints in my drawers collecting dust.
I also tried my hand at an Etsy Shop and even made some sales. Different "animals" the Etsy Shop seems to attract mostly other Etsy users and perhaps some die-hard craft and/or hand-made by the artist lovers. The ebay store attracts anyone from scammer to print dealers to serious collectors, but mostly nice folk looking for bargains.
I figure by the time the art festival circuit recovers from these turbulent times I will have plenty of new works. What to do with all these darned prints is always a big dilemma, but I am just not willing to sit on them forever. I have an idea to put in my will that any of my works that didn't sell while I was alive must be burned upon my death so that art vultures don't make a penny from my art after I'm gone. Really, society should support live artists above all.
So there it goes, ink on paper at bargain prices.
Etsy Shop 1000 Woodcuts at http://1000woodcuts.etsy.com
Ebay Store 1000 Woodcuts at http://stores.ebay.com/1000woodcuts
"I have an idea to put in my will that any of my works that didn't sell while I was alive must be burned upon my death so that art vultures don't make a penny from my art after I'm gone. Really, society should support live artists above all."
ReplyDeleteBrilliant!!! I have a feeling my son would not be able to carry through on this request. May be if I say he can keep one of everything...
You know if all artists did this then the art vultures would start supporting us while alive.