Over the past 1 1/2 years, I have messed around with paint to see what I can do. Painting is something I really enjoy. I love the break from life that I get when I have a brush in my hand.
I had an idea for paintings I could do for my future kid's room. I want to have a jungle room for my kids so I decided to do a set of three paintings of cartoon jungle animals. I loved it! It was fun and easy to do. I realized that I could do just about any animal or theme. Since then, I have made animal paintings for my nieces, nephews, and my mom.
I would love to sell them. It would be fun to have them custom ordered with what animals and colors people wanted. For now, I made an ocean set and I'm trying to sell them on Craigslist.
Jungle Set for my kids:
Animals for my nieces and nephews:
Farm set for my mom:
So there you have it! My recent joy in life. I'll see what I can do. It's either this or open a chocolate shop ;)
Some ideas for sets:
Outer space-rocket, planet, stars
sports-baseball and bat, football, soccer ball
dog-doghouse, bone, dog
forest-squirrel, raccoon, owl
swamp-turtle, frog, bee
1 comment:
Hi Rachel,
I'm Omai's wife, Nickie, and he told me about your paintings. I think they're awesome!! You're very talented. Omai said you could use a little help in marketing these. Here are some thoughts...
Forget craigslist.com. You need to be able to show off your stuff so I would suggest etsy.com. It's a site specifically for selling hand-crafted items. They have it set up where people pay directly online so getting paid isn't a hastle. You can post pictures, a desription, prices, etc. You can also see what other people are charging for similar items so you have an idea of prices.
You should also consider boutiques with the holidays approaching. There's one coming up that's really awesome called Oh Sweet Sadie http://ohsweetsadie.blogspot.com/. I don't know the price of a booth or if it's too late to enter, but at least you could check it out.
There are a ton of other boutiques in the next couple months. I'll do some research to see what I can find about ones in the area.
I would also recommend having a blog specifically devoted to your paintings. It's a way to advertise and share your latest and greatest.
Facebook is another great tool to market your stuff. Give your "company" a name, start a group on facebook and offer deals, specials, discounts... however you want to spin it to get people noticing you.
Another great thing is to offer giveaways on other blogs. There are some really popular ones that usually are about crafting something or another and occasionally they offer giveaways. During the giveaways, links are posted to your site so you get people visiting. And you also offer a discount of some sort for people who mention the blog you've advertised on. I don't know if that makes sense, but check out theidearoom.net. She lives in Utah (somewhere) and she would be a great place to have a giveaway once you've developed things a bit more (like your etsy shop and blog).
That might be a lot more information than you wanted from a stranger, but hopefully it helps a little.
And I think I might be calling you to babysit my little Bailey. What do you charge?
Nickie
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