Drawings 04/16/2010
I have recently pulled away from my routine of acrylic canvas paintings to experiment with sharpie pens and watercolours. I've taken on a slightly less refined sketchy style and am focussing on portraits mainly of famous actors and actresses. I'm a little less focused on detail and more aware of style and more often what didnt work on my attempted drawing because unlike paints where you can keep repainting a problem area, sharpies are forever! I have had a few successes and a multitude of failures which I am hopfully learning from. I am also selling prints on Etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop/rachelledyer and will hopefully be releasing a new collection in the next few weeks. Until then I have a select few pieces for sale as a test run. thats about all I have been working on lately...sorry it isnt very exciting...  Add Comment Gold shoes 03/31/2010
 So I have combined two of my passions; shoes and painting. I used acrylic gold paint and just went for it. when I started the first shoe I was really excited about how it looked...then I realised I had to duplicate it on the left which was a little stressful! I am extremly happy with them and cant wait to debut them this weekend! the irony of stamps 03/25/2010
So, my new aspiring buisness venture is to break into the greeting card buisness. Most card companies (excluding large corporations like Hallmark) use a majority of freelance artists and writers over regular salary employees. This leaves a rather large and profitable market open to anyone interested. This sort of thing requires a lot of leg work as you have to provide copies of your work (which need to be labeled) along with an artist statement and SASE. But after all this work and waiting (1-3 months) for replies, the greeting card companies are willing to pay $50-$300 for ideas. This is my new goal. I have designed about 10 differant cards and am compiling them into packages to send off. I am aiming to send them at the latest by the end of next week but I have encountered a problem... Most card companies are US based, which is fine except that I can't buy US stamps in Canada to put on my SASE! (self addressed stamped envelopes) So I will either get a friend to mail me some stamps (there is some irony there) or I will be making a riddiculous trip across the border for $5 worth of stamps! It's always the simple things that take you the longest! back in the real world 03/18/2010
After spending the last six months at sea performing and dancing almost every night I am back on land. Because all communications (phones and internet) on the ship are via satellite (which is deathly slow and expensive) I have been neglecting my various art websites. But now I'm back and networking once again. After being with www.redbubble.com for over a year I must say I am dissapointed with the sales/revenue side of the site. There are very few artists making any sales at all because most of the traffic is from other broke account holding artists. The site is great for networking but not so great for sales. But I did come across a new site that boasted to have 5 non-artist visitors for every artist on the site as opposed to 1 visitor between 2 artists on Redbubble. How accurate these stats are I dont know but the site was free so I signed up. I am now a proud member of www.fineartamerica.com I'll keep you posted with my progress on this site! thats it for now! Cafe del Sol 10/19/2009
I have recently had "Hannah in Blue" published in an online magazine. Cafe del Sol is a part of Cynic Online Magazines and publishes an assortment of writing and art. www.cafe.cynicmag.com/default.asp?articleid=3029&crpg=1#bkmark3029 Fashion on Edge 05/08/2009
I'm sure many people would agree that Fashion is truly an art form. Fashion On Edge is a fashion blog that follows the latest trends and gives its readers unique and creative ideas of ways to enhance, modify and follow these trends (on a modest budget). The blog is fun and insightful and documents the crazy art of fashion as well as fashion photography. artwithapencil 05/07/2009
I discovered this artist through the redbubble network and immediately fell in love. Their gallery is largly composed of coloured pencil portraits of people and animals. My favorites are the portraits of the Lions. They are almost photograph perfect and full of detail due to the small individual strokes used with the coloured pencils. Original Art Online Review 04/18/2009
One of the best web sites for selling original paintings is www.originalartonline.com it allows the artist to set up their own gallery and gives them full control over the shipping and pricing of their works. The cost for a standard gallery per month is $5.95 which in my opinion is dirt cheap. Redbubble Review 04/13/2009
Art, painting and creation has always been part of my life. I have recently been working towards making it into a career. Through hours of research and way to much time on the internet I have discovered a few websites that do a commendable job of displaying and promoting artists. | Rachelle Dyer
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