A tee created for my wife.
I made this tee at the request of my wife.
Shoppers buy from a produce stall at “Machaneh Yehuda” market. ( shouk in Hebrew) An open market for vegetables, meat, fish and other products at the heart of downtown Jerusalem *
Ah, fussy clients. Can’t work with ‘em, can’t kill ‘em. An illustration done for Empty magazine.
Do I really need to say this? We can profit from our art on Redbubble. I get the feeling people are not understanding this concept. ...
Do I really need to say this? We can profit from our art on Redbubble. I get the feeling people are not understanding this concept. Redbubble is merely and only our personal art gallery. It’s not a static destination where you stop and stare, but a dynamic gallery of photographs forever showing art that best represents what we’d like the general public to purchase. From Cards through to Framed wall-hangings, our work is available to purchase online. Redbubble provides a slick website that is so easy for choosing frames/laminates/cards/t_shirts/etc, purchasing the product and easy-delivery system. They make it amazingly easy to be a small-business owner. Or at least make a small to moderate amount of play-money on the side. I encourage all Artists to use Redbubble to get started, but don’t let it stop you in your tracks. It staggers me how many people are sitting behind their computers with tapping fingers saying, “OK, Now they can see me, they will come here any moment now to purchase my art!” “No they won’t!! You have to find the customers yourself. Redbubble enables you to purchase your own work … and then on-sell it. / My Redbubble Business In August 2007 I purchased thirty cards via Redbubble. I gave five as gifts to very close friends, simply blank cards without messages, but with a simple note … do what you like with this. / Some people kept them, others used them within minutes to send off as Birthday cards. Most asked where I got them from and can they have more? The remaining cards sold within 24hours of arrival from Redbubble! Then I emailed those people, other friends and family, showing them my RB gallery. I have repeat customers because of this initial free promotion. We order $150 worth of cards and other stuff each fortnight, either in pre-orders or for stock. I have a box of about 120 card-ographs in stock at anytime. My lovely wife keeps a very intricate and statistical ledger of all cards in stock, those sold and those on order. Clients choose from the gallery (telling me which ones they like via email, with the name of the artwork, the style they’d like it presented _card, laminate, etc and how many of each_), we order and receive, then we take it to the customer. About a two-week turn-around time. I’ve also purchased a dozen 12”x8” of the ‘prettier’ of our photographs on each of our galleries, which are easily viewed in an A3-portfolio. These are used to determine the appropriate frame and matte colour when clients choose them. Now that Christmas is gone, I can reveal that White Gums II was picked off my gallery by a work-friend’s mother here in Adelaide, I had it framed locally, and it now sits pride of place in their lounge room! I’m very proud of that!! From the corporate world through to the suburban billiards room, everyone wants a suitable image to hang on the wall. Because I have clients who prefer not to purchase online, I’ve made it my responsibility to acquire the final product and deliver it to their offices and homes. And this system works beautifully. (More about this in the next four weeks…) To parody and plagerise a famous quote: “Give someone a fish and they eat for a day, give them a camera with with a zoom lens, and they can shoot the most beautiful carp every day of the week!“
A display of spices at Carmel market in Tel Aviv Israel. The Carmel Farmers Market (CFM), a growers-only market, isTel Aviv’s biggest and busiest marketplace filled with colorful stalls and shouting vendors selling a variety of goods, from dried fruits and exotic spices to clothing and footwear an exciting and bountiful place to buy fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, cheeses, eggs and plants. Many vendors have their own songs, which tell you all about the price and quality of what is being sold. Sometimes one vendor sings against another in a competitive duet. The market runs into side streets, large and small, one side favoring dry goods, and the other dried beans, fruit, nuts, and spices in all colors and fragrances, sold from sacks. *
Colored pencil drawing
A vendor and a shopper at the Carmel market in Tel Aviv Israel. The Carmel Farmers Market (CFM), a growers-only market, is Tel Aviv’s biggest and busiest marketplace filled with colorful stalls and shouting vendors selling a variety of goods, from dried fruits and exotic spices to clothing and footwear an exciting and bountiful place to buy fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, cheeses, eggs and plants. Many vendors have their own songs, which tell you all about the price and quality of what is being sold. Sometimes one vendor sings against another in a competitive duet. The market runs into side streets, large and small, one side favoring dry goods, and the other dried beans, fruit, nuts, and spices in all colors and fragrances, sold from sacks. *
guadalajara, jalisco, méxico
Skellie has written a great article over at FreeLanceSwitch.com....
Skellie has written a great article over at FreeLanceSwitch.com that outlines 12 incredibly crafty ways to become a high-profile freelancer . It’s a great list of interesting ways to find yourself heading up the ladder of success with just a little bit of effort. But the two that took my interest relate to the photographer in me: Photographers 7. Offer to take free photos for a well-known blog or website. Popular blogs and websites tend to use stock photography or images from Flickr, but I’ve little doubt that they’d enjoy a source of custom free photos tailored to each post or category. Even if you only provide them for a week, you can still add the blog to your list of clients. 8. Start a photo-blog with the aim of getting a large following. A popular blog focusing on your photography will add considerable value to your freelancing profile. It shows potential clients that your work is popular with a wide variety of people. Well, that is most definitely a great set of ideas! Anyone already doing either of these ideas? Feel free to leave a message telling us all about your photo-blog. More Reading… / ~ Top 30 Tips for Staying Productive and Sane While Working From Home . / ~ 101 Ideas to Get More Freelance Work and Generate New Client Leads . / ~ 101 Reasons Freelancers Do it Better . / ~ Are you open to ideas from the outside? .
Sightseeing by coach /
Wooly is shown in red because he’s the heart of the house. – ftloccontest1- With four other indoor cats, it’s Wooly that everybody comes to visit. Not us, just Wooly! For example, see the following case studies: We have a wonderful caregiver who at one time had another client. All we knew about the client was that she drove our cheerful, happy caregiver to tears every day she went there. / Worried, we told her it was okay to stop in and hug Wooly for awhile on her way home, and every day after that, when she had that client, she’d come in white and shaking, pick Wooly up and cuddle him quietly for about ten minutes, then kiss “The Wool’s” on his head, and go on home, ready to face whatever the evening and her two children brought. / We have an older widower in our church who drops by often. And though he sits and talks with us about anything and everything, -mostly about his late wife, he always plops Wooly onto his lap and pets Wooly’s soft fur while he goes back over memories he need to talk about. Wooly just purrs and we just listen. After awhile, he stands up and says, “Whelp! I’d better go, my own cats will wonder where I am!” And away he goes, ready to carry on for a week or a few days till he can get back to Wooly. / Our caregiver’s son hit the Terrible fif-Teens, and, standing amongst their 4 cats one day, declared, “I hate cats! They shoud all be just taken out and drowned!” He doesn’t have a dad of any kind, so we turned him loose with my husband Kelly, and Wooly took over the cat issue. Within a week, Wooly had him wrapped around his dewclaw, at first saying, “I guess, if you gotta have a cat, Wooly’s a good enough one.” Now he says, “Cats are oh-kay! I’m a cat-man, just like Kelly. If a Marine like Kelly can be a cat-man, I guess I can, too!” / Our caregiver brought Wooly a girldfriend about a year ago. The other cats more or less accepted her, but spent weeks slapping her on the top of the head to let her know where she stood in the pecking-order. Not Wooly: With wide-open paws he made her feel welcome, loved her immediately, although his vampire side comes out and he bites her neck a lot. However, since its him squeaking when he does it, he must be pretty gentle. / Wooly does two things that keep us hopping, literally: / + He throws things off the various flat spots in the house, so I can’t put up / knick-knacks as a wrecking-crew of one, / + Nobody can go barefoot around here with Wooly on the prowl. / because he gnaws on people’s great toes. Yes, he has a toe fetish! / So that’s our Wooly- the local psychiatrist, people-lover, toe chomper -and- neck gnawer. / Please accept Wooy’s Resume For the Love of Cats as Featured Kitty. / Sincerely, Wooly’s mom.
Cartago, Costa Rica. Informal Flower Seller in on of the streets close to the Municipal Market, selling flowers on a Sunday
We’ve all had them. Awkward customers whose reality is skewed 90 degrees or more from our actual one.
My clients paid for this shirt.
Photosession with Marley and Belinda, March 11th 2009
Cute little Marley on his Tonka truck
I don’t make a habit of posting my client photos on here, but I had a portrait session a few days ago with an adorable 3 month old baby boy, and couldn’t resist sharing a couple of shots… (taken in natural window light)
Business with closed sign on the dingy, fly-specked front window.
by DANIEL ‘NSHIRA’ AKORTIA / Original Acrylic on canvas 24×30 inches / Painted in Ghana, Africa 2009 Custom Canvas Art Gallery / Limited Edition Prints #1-100 / Canvas Prints ~ Framed Prints ~ Posters More about this artist on our Blog ~ www.customcanvasart.blogspot.com ~
This shoe-black man photo taken on the street of Istanbul is not about technical qualities. It is about feelings, emotions and impressions.
A couple of friends passed this link on to me recently. You’ll find it quite amusing if you are a designer, as you’ll no doubt find somet…
A couple of friends passed this link on to me recently. You’ll find it quite amusing if you are a designer, as you’ll no doubt find something in there to relate to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfprIxNfCjk Ps. There’s a bit of swearing in there, so watch with care if you’re at work or have young ones around.
I painted this painting for a disabled client that I once worked with. / when she is sad or frustrated she sings Frere Jacques, then the staff stand around her asking her what is wrong she keeps humming the tune and then we clap and sing the tune with her, before you know it she is clapping and smiling along with us and some times even dances. Frere Jacques featured in first thing group.
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