Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Working It Wednesday: Creating a series

As those of you who have been following my blog know, I've been pondering the idea of no longer painting my Nativity sets. I've gone back and forth about it and decided to do both. That's right, both!

I'm going to retire the current Nativity set at the end of this Christmas season. I will then reveal a newly designed Nativity set next year in October for the 2017 Christmas season. I've decided to start a series where every year I recreate the Nativity set with a new design. This will keep my best selling Nativity sets available while also keeping my design unique and fresh. I'm excited to see how it all turns out! Note to shoppers, if you want one of the current Nativity sets you need to go to my Etsy shop and order one now because it disappears forever on Christmas Day!
You can visit my shop here: Etsy Shop

I've read before that artists should try and create a series out of items that have been successful sellers. I've never done it but feel it's a good time for me to start focusing on that. I've got my Nativity set that sells wonderfully but I've also got a few canvases that sell consistently that I may try to turn into series as well. There is a canvas I sold back in April that I've missed like crazy ever since then. It's a bird silhouette with a perfect turquoise background. On Pinterest, it's my most repinned pin. Seriously, it's at like 9,600 pins! That means 9,600 people liked my painting! I'd like to do a series spinoff of that. I honestly think it's my best painting I've ever done. And I never even took a truly decent picture of it! I've done other bird paintings but nothing ever looked quite as good as that one.


And there's a colorful, whimsical tree painting that almost always sells every time I paint it so that's a thought too. You can check out the colorful tree here: Whimsical Tree


While craft fairs are on hiatus until early Spring, this might be a great project for me to work on. So stay tuned for insight into series I'll be creating!

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