INSPIRE
“Dramatic Yellow Dahlia”
I added the raindrop photo on top of the yellow Dahlia flower. The added texture creates a dramatic look and feel.
“Yellow Dahlia Under Water”
I added the yellow Dahlia flower on top of the raindrop photo for this one. This gives the finished artwork a completely different look and feel.
What I see, in the raindrop photo, is a great photo to use as a texture. I mentioned using your own photos as textures (I refuse to buy textures when I can use my own stuff) in Two fer Tuesday with a Lemon Twist. Here you see the order of which photo is on top makes a difference.
For reference, here are the two original photos before being combined.
Raindrop Textures
Yellow Dahlia Flower
Two Palms and Skeleton Tote Bag
You need this for the beach!
Two Palms and Skeleton Hand Sown Throw Pillow
You need this too! Because it matches the tote bag 🙂
These two wagon wheels are laying just outside the entrance of the Techatticup gold mine in Southern Nevada USA.
It’s an old question: How much do I charge for my artwork? If you think I have the answer, I don’t. I’ve changed my pricing structure so many times my wife is sick of hearing about it. Add to that every online site has a different setup, some keep changing your cost, and you end up with an impossible task to keep your prices the same across the different sites. While you’re trying to figure this out, don’t forget that nagging voice in your head that keeps asking “is my artwork as good as there’s”?
I try to keep my prices inline with artwork on each site that I believe is equal in quality to my own. I also sell on Etsy which allows me to use different suppliers for different products. This helps keep prices the same, but you still have your stuff on all those other sites with different prices.
Some people, especially art majors, will say “if it isn’t expensive, it isn’t art”. I can’t disagree with this because I did raise my prices on one particular site by about four times. I hadn’t sold anything on that site until the day after I raised my prices. Unfortunately, it was the only sale on that site in the past several (too many) months. Some artists will argue lowering your prices cheapens everyone’s artwork. That might be true too, but that’s a subject for somebody else to cover.
Do you hold on to high prices and make a ton of money on the few sales you get or lower prices just to sell stuff and make only a few bucks per sale? Again, I don’t know. I try both from time to time and both seem to work from time to time. I think the bottom line is, selling artwork online can be difficult unless you are willing to put a lot of work into it.
Ok, rambling done. Good luck to all my fellow artists of all mediums at selling your artwork. By the way, don’t forget to try local art shows, farm markets etc. where people can touch and feel what they’re buying. I sell a lot of note cards at the Canton, MI Farmers Market.
~ Daniel Kmiecik
“Collection at Techatticup Gold Mine-Gritty Process”
While I like the “straight” version of “Collection at Techatticup Gold Mine” I thought a grittier version might go well with the collection of bones and antiques. Turns out I like both equally.
Crumbs from a cookie with candy coated chocolate got dumped into the sink along with the egg shell.
These daffodils might be past their prime with respect to growing flowers, but I saw a photo op.
This is the first shot I made for “Past Their Prime?”. The focal length is 16mm. I didn’t have a wide enough background to hold for this wide of an angle.
Obviously I needed a background and it’s way too cold to go outside. I remembered we have these 24×36 pieces of colored construction paper and thought they might make a nice background. I held a piece of paper behind the flowers and took another test shot at 16mm. The paper was not nearly wide enough.
Changing lenses I help up the paper and made a test shot at 70mm. It looked like I could make the background work, but the paper wasn’t long enough to cover the table in front of the flowers. I also noticed every little shake of my hand transferred instantly to the flowers.
This is me holding up the background for my photo “Past Their Prime?”.
“George Eating Maple Seeds In Winter”
This George the Grey squirrel. When we run out of peanuts to feed the birds, which George steals often, George resorts to what nature has left him. Don’t feel to bad for George. He gets his fill of peanuts and everything else we put for the birds.
This little lizard was running around in the backyard of our friends house in Boulder City, Nevada USA. He’s only about 6 inches long and staying close to the ground clutter to keep cool. It was very easy to follow him around laying on my stomach. Using my 70-200mm zoom lens helped me to stay as still as possible and use the zoom to frame the photo.
“Costa’s Hummingbird in Flight”
I’ve never seen so many hummingbirds in my life. Everybody in Southern Nevada has hummingbird feeders hanging outside, even businesses. This is a Costa’s hummingbird I caught in flight while feeding.
onyonet photo studios 