Want to be Featured on this blog?

Want to be Featured on my blog?

As a university student I believe it to be a fantastic idea to practice my writing skills and by accomplishing this I make sure I post once a day. This also keeps you, the readers, extremely happy and willing to come back to the blog! And hey, maybe you'll love me so much that you will want to buy something from my shop. However as I am a student majoring in visual art, my creativity is used every moment of the day and I sometimes find it hard to come up with something to blog about. Thus, I belive it to be a great idea to get to know some of the other Etsians out there trying to accomplish their goals of making sales!

I am willing to feature any one of any practice on Etsy. Though I love ceramics, not all of you may share my passion for the material. Plus I think it's a good idea that I broaden my knowledge on other creative practices.

SO!!!!!

DO YOU want to have a Feature:

Please email me at kathleen(at)kathleenmcgiveron.com with the title as 'Feature' with the following:

A paragraph (200-500 words) about you as an artist, how you learned your practice, your process you go through when working, any accomplishments, and where you see yourself going with it. Also include 1 image (if you don't include it, I'll most likely just grab a pic of an item I like from your Etsy Shop or Blog) and a link(s) to your Etsy shop, blog, or website.

I do run the majority of features, but it may take a while for the post to go up on the blog if I have a line-up of features or posts already. I will let you know in a reply on the estimated time!

ENTIRE STORE REDUCED

Good day everyone! So I've been producing more lately and need to make room in my studio. Thus for your pleasure I have reduced the entire 71 items for sale in my Etsy Store.

All Pendants now are a flat rate of $5.00
All tiles are $15 dollars (some on sale for 13!) -all tiles come with a hook for you if you wish to epoxy it on the back and hang it on the wall! If not they can be coasters or use can install them into any room as accent tiles.
All candles are $15 dollars

The icing on the cake is my wall pieces! They are now reduced to clear for only $20 dollars. With shipping your total will be a low price of $40 dollars and they will live merrily on your wall forever! You can spice up any home or cabin with them and they are ready to hang on your wall. They are also able to go outdoors through the summer season (just bring inside before winter as they are not sealed on the back. Rain is fine).

2 Completed Jester!

Hey guys so I have some completed works that I'm about to show you. They are both small figurines of Jesters. It is almost mid-night and I just finished typing up and scheduling 2 interviews for my April feature marathon, 31 Days, 31 Artists. I'll be interviewing successful Etsy sellers to discover their secrets to their success of selling hundreds or even thousands of products! It all starts on April 1st so make sure you enter your Email on the subscription on the left hand column and subscribe to my blog. That way you get my posts sent to your email and you won't miss out on this event.

So these Jesters are both one of a kind. They actually took me a while to build because of the tiny detail. However, unlike my Thug that you saw in a couple posts ago, gravity was not so much of an issue. That was extremely exciting because I had to build my thug in segments and in sessions. I would coil the clay up a few inches, then wait a few hours, then coil up a few more, then wait again. I had to keep stopping because the clay would start collapsing or caving in from the softness and weight of it. The more moisture that leaves, the harder the clay becomes and that means more strength for me to build taller!

So check out these pictures and lemme know what you think!

What a Flowery Greeting!

Today's Feature......

FloweryGreetings

"Well my store started this summer when we moved to a small town. My husband had grown up in a small town, but I had always lived in the city. We have a small daughter and liked the idea of raising in her in a small and safe community. I stay home with my daughter and since I didn't know anyone in town, started to get quite bored. I've always loved crafts and card making, so started doing a lot of that to fill my time. I'm very dedicated to trying to be environmentally friendly and love DIY projects, so making plantable paper is just my thing. The materials are all recycled and it is very rewarding to take a piece of paper you made yourself into a beautiful card. The even more beautiful part of the card comes in the form of flowers once it has been planted.

My shop is still fairly new, but I hope to expand it and continue to do what I love. I'm still working to fill the shop with new and unique cards! Click here to visit this shop!"


There's more information on how to get reviewed yourself on the button in the right column of this blog!

The Thug- 50% Complete! Leatherhard!

Hey all! So my Thug was to be presented in my critique today in my Ceramics Class. However, it is apparently moist or something in my studio as he has be drying for a week now and is still leather hard. This frustrates me beyond anything as I never have anything in late. However I refuse to speed up the process because he is relatively large (20 inches high) and with my electric kiln, he would last 20 min before he exploded into a billion pieces (water in clay boiling is a death sentence to art work).

Instead I will present him via my lap top, through this blog post. My Thug, I think, will be gender confused. His shirt is going to have some pattern of femininity on it and I think it will look similar to a Mrs Vickies chip bag as it has the simplified design of lace and bow on it. I also wonder if my want to create all these figurative characters is some subconscious want to discover my own world to exist in. Disney had Disney Land, the Tunes have TuneVille, the Muppetts have Sesame Street, Dr Seus and his Whos' have WhoVille... So where do I exist in all of this?

Anyways, please leave your feedback on my thug!! He's only done being sculpted, he's still in clay form. Love hearing from you all!


Kathleen.

NeedleCraftArtisan

Hi all! I've come up with the idea that in April, I will do a marathon feature called '31 Days, 31 Artists' where for each day of April I will have a 10 question Interview for a new artist each day. The questions will explore how they have become so successful as these artists have either hundreds or thousands of sales!

MAKE SURE! you sign up for my mailing list above so you can get my blog posts mailed to you so that you can read their successes without having to remember to come to my blog.

Today I will feature.... NeedleCraftArtisan

Needles and Jewels

"My name is Jara Crawford and I have been making things for people for as long as I can remember. I started out drawing pictures for people when I was a little kid. I am self-taught at knitting, sewing, plastic canvas, and jewelry making, although my parents and grandparents helped me to learn a lot. I like to work on my art whenever I have time (and sometimes when I don't have time :-) and recently it has become a bigger priority to me. I often just get this drive to work on my art, so I get on the Internet and find something that inspires me or I use one of the patterns that I have already come up with. I am always looking for more ideas of things to make. I would like to someday be able to earn a living doing this, but I am not sure when that will happen. :-)"


Please visit her shop at: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7981954

RTTINYTREASURES

Today's feature is with the unique and original,

RTTINYTREASURES

"Although I have always loved every kind of art, I first began getting serious when I was twenty-five, and took my first art lesson from a famous artist. My artistic process usually starts by seeing something that is beautiful and touches me deeply. A bird, street scene, Tuscany, a pumpkin field... Then the idea is sketched on paper while still fresh in my mind. By then, I am anxious to get to my studio. I use a variety of mediums such as oils, acrylics, watercolors, oil pencil, colored pencil, pastels and on either canvas, or heavy paper suitable for the medium. I would love to begin painting on larger canvases for sale, but more of my "TINY TREASURES" must sell before then. "TINY TREASURES" are 12 inches or less in size and do not cost a lot to own an original."

Kathleen: My thoughts are that these original works are gorgeous. Extremely creative, these works capture the essence and personality of the icons they are featuring. In the image above, this is really present with the birds. I think this classical looking work has a contemporary gothic feel to it. Buy your original work from this shop!

Please visit this shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7645173