Tonight, I’ve been making SIGNED & DATED hand-embossed brass earrings at $20 a pair, so they can be resold at $39.95. At the moment, I’ll be selling them faster than I can photo them.
If that’s not the case, I’ll simply stop making them. Frankly, I don’t believe there’s any market at this time for anything, especially for ancient style anythings. It’s junk, junk, junk, and plastic rules the waves, not Britannia.
Ruling the waves, that’s just for the moment, just a fad, a passing fancy, a craze that will have its day and then, like all such things, pass quietly into the wind.
In the meantime, I’m making these sheet-brass earrings that are VERY painful to make, but they look terrific, just like the Old Days, back in Babylon and them thar post-Atlantean colonies and tributaries to the Old Atlantis, now gone with the rising tide, the melting glaciers and the warming of the globe, and it’s happening again.
Forget about it. Forget about climate change and political nightmares and violent gangs of insane right-wingers, left-wingers and middle of the road wingers.
Far as I’m concerned, they’re all just more cannon fodder for the organic world, and not much can be done about them.
Why are we here, in such a violent atmosphere?
We’re here to develop and pass upward through the Spheres the blue-line Godd™ Games technology, maps and games, that’s why we’re here, because in this atmosphere, such things as video games develop, while on most planets, they don’t, where there is no need and no interest for violence.
Of course, we make the non-game games, games that don’t have violence, that are cleansing orbs, and repairing, and advancing orbs, not merely destructive games to play while you’re waiting for old age to set in, but I digress.
I’ve been working brass — I did one pair of copper earrings, but copper is soft and far easier to bend, nicer to work, but it’s subject to the Law of Accident, and sooner or later, they’ll bend like a pretzel, and you’ll be stuck with the result.
That’s why I go to brass for this particular line of jewelry, the embossed brass. You’ll notice that they are kind of odd-shaped free-form, and that’s because these earrings are the remains of a once-proud nation of abstract expressionists and modernist jewelers.
They’re all gone, now, leaving me in the dust, but I’m still plugging away at them, making brass earrings, more brass earrings and even more brass earrings.
I don’t believe for a moment that there’s anyone out there anymore with the modernist taste for abstraction and free-form, but I’m doing it anyway, and I’ve priced them at a lousy $20 bucks a pair.
Time was, I could ask $275.00 for such a pair of earrings, but that’s with a prestigious gallery fronting the stuff to people that have mazoola.
Right now, those people are nowhere to be found, at least not around here, they’re not — so I re-tooled my marketplace to accommodate, and my average price now is $39.95 retail, which leaves precious little for the producer of the thing, whatever it is.
That’s okay with me — I’m not in it for the money, never was. For me, it’s a pleasant way to pass time and to distribute Blessings through wearables that affect everyone who comes in contact with the wearer, which would be you or the people to whom you sold the stuff.
Well, that’s enough about the brass — what about the canvas?
Okay, the canvas is unusual, to say the least. I spent a small fortune hunting down tiny little GALLERY-WRAPPED canvases that measure a mere 2″ x 4″ and a BLACK GESSO canvas that measures 3″x3″. Not only are they gallery-wrapped, they’re mounted just like a larger canvas, on actual hardwood STRETCHER BARS!
By the way, YANESH has sold many of these miniature canvases of mine on eBay for a LOT more than you’re gonna pay, but you have to charge the retail price, with any public sale, in order to keep my market prices up!!!
NEVER tell how much or how little YOU paid. Big lesson in retail. Never break that rule.
Okay, so because they’re gallery-wrapped and extra deep, they don’t need frames, and in fact look far better and more contemporary without a frame, although you CAN get frames for these if you really, really want to, as in the case of a very complex and intricate classical style landscape, which might call for a miniature carved wood gilded frame, which might run you a few bucks, if you can find one.
If I still had a framing studio, I could craft one up in minutes with gilded inset moulding, but that’s another story. If you ever want to start a miniature gallery, I could populate it within a week with everything you need, including miniature sculpture, prints, paintings and more.
By the way, I’m selling off FIVE n-scale miniature train layouts for only $100.00 apiece, plus postage. They measure 2’x4′ and fit in a small or tiny house or trailer or apartment very easily, and run on a 9v. battery or you can use a small transformer, but I digress once again…
The aforementioned “teensy-weensie miniature canvases” are actually DOLL HOUSE SCALE and can be used in an expensive and well-furnished dollhouse. Doll scale is larger than dollhouse scale, and very few LISTED artists make original artwork for dollhouses, but I have done it for decades and continue now to this very day to continue my practice.
These come with a hardwood easel for an extra $10.00 bucks, making the whole effect a retail bargain at $100.00, or $99.95, if you’re inclined to give your customers a discount.
So far, I’ve made about half a dozen “Hydrogen Strings” miniature paintings, vertical format, signed on the right-hand edge of the gallery-wrapped canvas.
It’s silly for me to be pumping these out so cheaply, but I left PLENTY of room for you to make a serious profit from the sale of these miniatures.
Just try to find something like it on the market today, and see how much you’d have to pay, IF you can even find things like this — a LISTED American artist with pieces in famous collections, museums and exhibitions, plus a piece in the National Museum.
NOW you can get good money for these things, but don’t tell how much you PAID, just how much you want to BE paid for it.
Don’t let the low price tag from me fool you. I’m playing a much longer game, and it’s not about money or things or stuff or any of that. It’s about sending out vibrations.
So are you ready to TAKE PART in this great experiment? I hope so, and I hope you’ll have some serious FUN at it, as well as serious Work efforts and results.
Now, on eBay, I’ve put in a LOT of things that are not intended to pay for themselves — they’re quite deliberate “give-aways”, and you’re more than welcome to avail yourself of those gifties, like $50 books for a dollar, things like that.
I’ll also be wholesaling my DOVER Paper prints at $20 apiece, so you can easily resell them at 39.95 or MORE, if you frame them for your customer — that’s where the money is, in gallery businesses these days, not in the painting itself. It’s all about the frame. “Did you want frame with that???”, in the same tone as they ask it in the drive-through fast-food joints.
Of course, Soul Portraits are painted to order and, being Altar-Ware, are certainly not intended for resale, same as any ritual item — they get loaded up with vibes, and attune themselves to their user.
One car, one driver.
Well, there’s even more, if I stop and think about it. I’ve put up dozens of NY School WPA artists at $125.00 apiece, but I hit the button that allows someone to make an offer. If I know it’s YOU, I’ll give you my lowest possible price, so COMMUNICATE before buying.
This allows you to remarket the item on eBay without competing with me, by getting it at a wholesale price, and THEN YOU list it for $125.00 and keep the change!
Is there more? You bet there’s more, but I’m going to take a break from creative writing in order to make a few more miniature paintings. Maybe I’ll be able to make one for you.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby