This medium-sized tapestry wholesales for under $80.
It used to be that you’d paint something, put a frame around it and sell it either at a street fair or — if you were lucky and had a following — in a gallery.
The thing is, unless it was a co-op gallery, where the artists take turns running the store and each artist has a small area for display, you only got one show about every three years, so the gallery didn’t burn up its territory, meaning that the sales got fewer and fewer over the months, and then finally dried up altogether.
You have to move to a different town until you wear out your welcome there, too, and that’s why artists don’t stay in one place forever unless they do local landscapes. Continue reading →
These paper plates can be mounted in deep frames to look like ceramics.
If you’re a stock clerk or on floor sales or you’re a buyer or an assistant buyer, it’s important — vital, actually — that you should be more or less constantly aware of ALL the currently stored and shelved merchandise, and I mean the ENTIRE line of merchandise.
Of course, in this age of automation and e-gadgets, nobody does that anymore. You simply enter the code or name or description of the thing, and you get a spread-sheet with all the particulars delivered right to your micro-screen on your Precious — I refer to your ever-clutched cellphone — what else could I mean? Continue reading →
You can use my architectural wall tapestry to enhance any space.
It seems as if there’s never enough rope, and that goes double for paper clips and rubber bands, and that’s just the way it’s been for thousands and thousands of your years.
I have about a thousand tapestries up for sale, mostly under $100, and I’ll show some of them at this morning’s zoom meeting, if time and space allow.
Been keeping busy on Zazzle, which I find to be a very artist-friendly neighborhood in which to practice the art of making art into art.
In the old days, all you could hope for was to translate your paintings into prints, and it was impossible to avoid the obvious money-maker — portraits of people and pets.
If you don’t want to paint cute paintings for the rest of your life, learn how to adapt your artwork to product.
There’s the ART — that’s Position #1, and then there’s the PRODUCT, Position #2, that thing upon which the art has been skillfully draped.
It’s only halfway in the production of art if it’s only your original — you need to spread it on some toast and see if it jellies, dig it?
So paste some artwork onto the pages of Redbubble and see what develops. I think you’ll be happily surprised to see how amazingly your artwork can turn out when it’s been draped onto a usable wearable product!
Don’t go crazy with this — just try one single image, and see what happens to it. The things that don’t work, generally don’t show up, automatically.
You can hide the things that didn’t work out — they won’t amount to much, once you get the idea of how to work with images on something other than paper or canvas.
Unpublished photo of Eve and Horace in 1953, when Horace briefly sported a beard.
My Dad, Horace L. Gold, was a famous comic-book writer who wrote the Jor-El Krypton Superman’s Origin story for Siegel and Schuster, and what’s more, he had an office at Action Comics immediately postwar.
He was a published author who specialized in fantasy and some science fiction, but also wrote for the pulps, which he covers neatly in his short autobiography, “Gold on Gold”.
His life was simple — it revolved around his typewriter and his constant cup of tea and a continual chain of cigarette smoke. Continue reading →
Atlantis Game Board folds neatly into closet space, light, easy to open, guaranteed.
click here to see the stuff associated with the game. I haven’t yet made or listed the other parts, such as player pieces, chance cards, tax cards, rental cards and more.
There’s a whole bunch of parts for the Atlantis game ready to go to the game maker, but I’ve never actually gotten all the parts and put one together, so I don’t know how much it comes to in the end, but I’m willing to find out, if someone wants to help fund the prototype game — I have no idea what that will cost, but the table is a couple hundred bucks just as it is, no pieces, no cards.
I do also have other sizes of gameboards available, but this is the most generous for table-top space. Most are much smaller, and therefore harder to play, I would think, but I could be wrong. Continue reading →
Well, I’ve watched enough commercials to know that this thing had to have more of a life to it than just a prime-time glimmer, so I checked it out, and it turns out there was a contest to do the best wentworth jingle, and these are a few of the results:
Hands in ears, scream nonstop at the extremist assholes.
I have no voice. It doesn’t bother me, but it’s quite noticeable.
Whenever I do speak, write, sing, act, paint, draw, sketch or sculpt, there’s no measurable impact on anything or anyone.
I’m not a tweeter, but if I were a tweeter, I could literally tweet my ass off, but nobody will read it, and that’s just fine by me, or it was fine by me until Donald Trump’s name became a household word.
You know, a household word like “slopbucket” or “pig-iron”.
As you read this, keep in mind that this blog was written originally when I first heard the name of Trump, back in 2017, some five years ago. Yep, I saw it coming and called the shots exactly right. Problem is, I can talk, but nobody’s listening. As I said in the beginning, I have no voice. Continue reading →
This is an actual cutout of a virtual sculpture made in the Godd Engine.
Build it in virtual in the Godd™ Engine — it’s not a model, it’s a sculpture, and you don’t need to be a programmer to use the artist-friendly environment of Godd™. Once you have a sculpture built, you can convert it to an actual cut-out acrylic sculpture.
Here’s how with today’s newest technology, you can create and convert sculptures from virtual into actual 3D forms that can be placed on a shelf or anywhere you’d put a sculpture. The gift value is amazing and there are a thousand things you can do with this item in a gallery, club or craft faire situation.
Godd building is easy. You make boxes and stack ’em, or plaster 3D models into forms that you want to build, and I’ll bet you end up asking me how come I didn’t tell you about this sooner.
My answer is, we didn’t have zoom to help teach the methods, and that goes a long way toward making it possible, along with some advancements in product printing.
These 3D cutout acrylic sculptures come in three sizes — small, medium and large — and they fit nicely into any decor.
These physical objects can be signed and numbered by the artist, and can be created in limited as well as open editions.
The cost is as low as $17.50 wholesale and, unless you decide to hand-sign each one of them, you needn’t order them shipped to your house — you don’t ever need to get involved in the handling. Continue reading →
Hey, here’s the very latest off my workbench — the Otis Exhibition. Hope you like it. If you know anyone at or from Otis Art Institute, they will appreciate the many rare photos I have included in this edition, available from gateway books & tapes.
Well, running short, gotta go to breakfast and then to our zoom morning meeting.
Don’t forget, I still have a few empty classified folders left in my zazzle offerings, so take advantage of the 20% off sale — get them today, on zazzle!
