Watercolor painting of cherries

"Two Sweet" 2.5" x 3.5" SOLD

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Soon the cherry trees will be blooming - ah, spring is getting close.

ACEO cat in watercolor

"Sophia" 3.5" x 2.5"

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A Kansas cold. Or maybe a Texas panhandle cold. Whatever it is, it blew in last Saturday with all the wind and dust storm we had and I've had the sniffles ever since. Thought I would make it thru the winter without so much as an ach-chooo, but alas not so. Stuck in my studio with nothing to do but paint, heh, heh......

Oil Landscape

8" x 10"

Before the Cold

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A new painting I just put up on eBay. This is a place my daughter and I ran across a few years ago while I visited her in Michigan. I hope I get to see her again this summer. I miss her a lot.

Iris - Acrylic on board

Iris Acrylic 10" x 8"

$30.00

I put this piece on my new Etsy store a few days ago. Take a look and see what you think. It's still kind of a work in progress, but I like the ease of setting up a "shop". Everything there is all hand made and they keep a pretty close eye out to make sure that is the case. None of this made by the thousands imported stuff like some other places we all know about.

Took my Mom's teeth to the dentist the other day....well her partial. It needed a little repair. I had to wait. I hate to wait. When I wait I look thru magazines at recipes. I normally am a pretty polite person and leave the magazines intact. However, at some point I have to weigh how long I've been there against how good the recipe is....you've all done this...no need to act so innocent.

Yay! New pomegranite recipes for next year!

Linda Hiller at Etsy

2.5" x 3.5"

Apple and Grapes SOLD

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The above painting was done on Colorfix Sanded pastel paper. However, this is oil. It's the first time I've tried oil on sanded pastel paper and I really like it. It seems to give it a nice texture and for these little cards almost appears to be canvas. It pulls the paint off your brush nicely and is heavy enough not to need any backing. It's acid free, too. My only concern will be how fast it will eat my brushes up.

I'm branching out. Decided to try a few things on Etsy. So far I'm pleased with how easy it has been to set up a store there and list some of my art to sell. And, it appears to get a pretty good amount of traffic. It still need some work, but I'm on my way. If you lovely people out there would like to take a look, my store addy is www.lindahiller.etsy.com Go take a look and give me some ideas about what else I need to do.

Well, I'm off to breakfast.

Cat Claybord Scratch Art

5" x 7" Claybord etching

Frame included

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Okay, now here's where I need your help. My DH has decided this would be a good experiment to see the response of a low start, no reserve on eBay. He's talked me in to putting this up for $0.99 yes, that's right 99 cents. Ninety-nine litttle pennies. Help me out here, please. I'm thinking about opening a store on eBay, and this is supposed to be some kind of test. They say stress can cause memory problems. I'm getting stressed over this and for the life of me I can't remember what this experiment was supposed to prove. Help me puuuleeeze.

Oil Painting

"Fall River"

8" x 10"

I think I will start doing a little more oil painting. This painting was done using a pallet knife on panel. It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it - besides I love the smell. I guess I'm just an oil paint junkie.

Our Studio Group meets tomorrow and I'll be slathering more oil around. Perhaps I'll get enough of an inventory to open an eBay store. Been thinking about it. Each time I think about it, they seem to raise their prices on something. Now that makes me feel real comforted. However, I should only look at a store as an additional form of advertising so all in all it would be pretty inexpensive.

I think in order to become a successful artist a person needs to spend about 80% of the time promoting and 20% of the time painting. Of course networking is the name of the game in today's world. Promoting seems to be the hardest part for a lot of artist. Somehow it seems to me that a lot of artist's personalities do not always have that outgoing business personality. What do you think? Should I get a manager? I could always draft my husband, but he'd want to always do it his way. Decisions, decisions.