I know what a QR code is. I have a QR code on my website. However, I did not know how to create a QR code linked to my Square account so that I can sell my art without having to be on site. If you have viewed my Home page, you know that my art is now at Fairlane Coffee. Right now, a client has to text me and I have to drive in to meet the client, which is not good. The rest of my art is sold through Fine Art America, so I do not handle any sales transactions. It was time for me to branch out and learn another aspect of business. I worked on learning the steps and downloaded the QR codes to print yesterday. My biggest concern was this: do these codes really work for a one-time sale? Will the order go through without me there? Will my client be able to get a receipt to show to the staff to prove they bought my art?
Well, I decided that there was only one thing to do and that was set up a test sale. I uploaded the information and asked a family member to make the “purchase.” She graciously consented and with a good deal of trial and error (not a problem with Square, but with us using QR code on a phone), the purchase went through. It was like a huge weight off my shoulders. It works!!! Now all I have to do is go and post those codes at Fairlane. Visit their website at: https://fairlanecoffee.com/ The artist statements in the photo are the ones I will be replacing! January is almost over and February, the month of hearts, chocolate and roses will be hear in a few days. I am starting to upload my rose art to Fine Art America. Starting with Rose Haven, one of my favorite surrealism fantasy landscapes. Just for fun, I would like to offer you a free download that I did several years ago of hearts. Back in the day, I designed digital papers and cards. I no longer design papers or cards, but I do offer them as a free download occasionally. Print the digital download for a unique card or use it as a digital background. For personal use only. File size is 8.5x11.
It is already 6 days into the New Year. I just remembered to update my copyright notice. Then, I went back and deleted part of 2023’s blog posts. After that, I played with banner colors. I love changing colors and art around. That is one of the reasons I love digital art so much. I learned how to make non-destructive changes so that I can try new color combinations out to my heart’s content. Of course, that was not the only reason I learned how to do non-destructive changes. When I first started doing digital art, I would erase something, only to change my mind after the fact. The change was permanent, which meant I could not do what I wanted.
Life is like that. Sometimes we make choices that are wrong for us. Have you ever bought something on impulse and wished you hadn’t? Even if you were able to return your purchase, it was a waste of your time. If 2023 was a year of wrong choices for you, do not be discouraged. This is a new year and a new chance to move forward. Just as I learned how to make non-destructive changes in my art, you can learn to make non-destructive choices in your life this year. If you need some encouragement, go to my Devotional Resources page for a free download and devotional reading. I have been working on my winter art and it has been fun. My Snow and… Series is a little different from my usual fantasy landscape art. I usually stick to creating new landscapes out of familiar scenes and objects. However, my Snow series is not the only exception to my usual style of art My Heaven’s Declare series is space art that I create using college, composite and painting techniques. I love painting a nebula and creating planets made from photos of bark, water, or even rusty metal.
Have you ever done something that required you to step out of the familiar and take a different direction? I have and it can be frustrating. It can also be fun and worth the time it takes to learn something new. My space art is not a simple combination of photos that I put together. It takes a few hours of trial and error (sometimes more error!) to come up with shapes, values and colors that I like. The resulting art is very different from most of the art you see in my Gallery. Here is one of my newest pieces. I have not decided on a title yet. What would you name it? Are you ready for the change of seasons? It is Autumn heading into Winter here with rain and wind. We even lost power yesterday for about 3 hours. Which is a problem if you are a digital artist and need the power on in order to work on art! I am thinking ahead, already working on my Winter art. I have a series called “Snow and…” that was influenced by another digital artist that did distressed white-on-white with very little color. I ran with that idea and created a series of textured white using snow and snowflakes as the theme. I am working on new variations for the holidays this year. Below are a few that are ready to put in my Art Gallery. I loved using the idea of warm drinks like hot chocolate or a peppermint mocha surrounded by snow. I prefer snow in art and not to drive in or shovel off my driveway!
I have been working on my Heavens Declare space art again. For a long time, I lost inspiration, plus I could not do in Affinity Photo what I had been doing in Photoshop. One critical layer stopped me from doing this art. Until now. I found a work around. Create the needed layer in Photoshop and save it as a tiff file. Open in Affinity and use. Easy, isn’t it? Well, it has taken me several months to come up with this solution. A simple Save As was the answer. It would nice if all the answers to life’s problem were that simple. Have you been facing a problem and cannot see any way that you can come up with a solution? Maybe you should do what I did: put it on hold, go and do something else. Then, one day, come back and look at your dilemma again. Maybe a solution will pop into your mind, a clarity of thought that you did not have before.
I create each piece using painting, collage and composite techniques. I do not use Hubble photos or AI, only my imagination. I also create my own star fields and planets. |
Categories
Click on "Comments" to post a comment on my blog.
|