Creative Endeavors

[mtheresabrown]

Hi all,
Bridgette's site intrigued me. I do quite well with my fine art business (www.mtheresabrown.com) and noticed over te years that very few websites touching on marketing or selling art are actually monitored by qualified hosts
We can all learn more and I'm looking forward to gaining additional information to what I have accumulated.
Theresa

[Bridgette Mongeon]

I hope I can be of help. And although it may not appear that there are a lot of people visiting this forum, please do look around and come back. I am trying to post more articles on this site, that will help individuals in their marketing ad art.

Let me know what I can do.
Bridgette

[mtheresabrown]

Thanks Bridgette,
All my marketing and that of my husband (who is also an artist) began very much in the school of hard knocks .
Having said that, I know that most of the books out there on marketing art (in the format of college tect like Art 101) are written by people who have never "trod the road." Almost all the info about going to Galleries for instance are written as though the author read someone else's book and just copied the information
I would love to see you, Bridgette, come up with a DVD on your marketing-you can't answer all questions here You have seen the Jack White and Bruce Baker DVD's on selling and marketing art?

Everything that we do in he line of marketing is self promotion...eventually it would be nice to travel less and I know you have perfected your marketing in such a way that you are walking...40 feet? Nice! As I said in the other post, what we do works for us but there is always some tidbit out there that may offer another avenue for one's work!
Theresa
www.mtheresabrown.com
www.sfilarsky.com

[Bridgette Mongeon]

Hard knocks. Yes that is the way my husband and I learned. HE is also an artist. http://www.delaflor.com.

I am glad that you have put links to your sites. It has helped to see your work.
I have not seen the Jack White and Bruce Baker DVD's Maybe I should. It is funny that you have said DVD's I am just beginning to put together video's. Another creative endeavor. you can see many of them by checking out the online blog and http://www.creativesculpture.com/blogor by going to my blip tv website. http://www.creativeendeavors.blip.tv. Most of the videos are on creating my artwork, but I want to create some on marketing and am working on one about Target marketing. I wish I could find an illustrator, "cartoon" that would like to do some of these with me. Give it some more fun visuals. Maybe I'll even attempt it when I get my new toy. http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/index.cfm. The cintiq might just make me want to create something fun and unusual.

Many people don't realize that marketing is a full time job in itself. It takes work, but if we want to be able to create and make a living at it, we have to.

One of the differences with my art, than many artists that I know, is that I don't work with galleries. All of my work is through commission. Except my gift line htp://www.godsword.net Galleries take such a huge chunk. and with the online marketing, it opens up a world to us.