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FaceBook, How to schedule a post on your business page

Published: 08-14-2012 01:30pm
Posted In: How To
First build your post, choose your thumbnail change the text etc.Then click the little clock icon in the lower left corner of the post interfaceThis will start you off with a pull down for year, then proceed to bring up each subsequent pull down as you fill them in with your selections, then just click the button to schedule.BTW the coupon code in this blog post expires/expired August 16th 2012 at 11:59 pm feel free to us it 'til then if you would like, but if you are reading this after that, please note it's no good after that time & date.... » Read More

Speed Painting Video Of "Gumballs"

Published: 07-17-2012 09:20pm
Posted In: Fantastic Other Things
For Gumballs I did another speed painting video. This one is two hours of work on the piece, condensed down to three and a half minutes."Gumballs" is a still life of a handful of brightly colored gumballs in a glass dish. The ACTUAL gumballs used in the staging of the model for this painting are about twenty years old and have been used in several still lifes by me before. They are hard as rocks. BUT they still look shiny and pretty. I guess being made out of sugar will do that to you!The Original is for sale here on ArtFirePrints for this one are on RedBubble (where it got featured in a group almost immediately after I uploaded it there last wee... » Read More

Alice, An ACEO demo

Published: 07-03-2012 11:56am
Posted In: Fantastic Other Things
I did this work under the watchful eye of the new camera, and then I sped it up for fun. So here's an Hour and a half of work in 2 minutes and 20 seconds. The original ACEO painting is for sale here Prints, Cards, Stickers, Tees, Posters, and Phone cases are here... » Read More

A Story of Art Thievery and the difference between a Painting and An Image

Published: 06-06-2012 09:50am
About two weeks ago, I got a weird message thru ArtFire. It was a person saying she had "found" one of my older paintings and wanted to know if I could give her some info on it.She sent me this image of it Yes this is one of my paintings, and this is a stolen painting. Now, this nice lady was not the person who originally stole it. And it was not stolen from me. But I had a hard time explaining to her that I had no legal claim on the work, so , no, she did not need to return it to me.Here's the story as I told it to her"It wasn't stolen from me. The piece you have there is an Acrylic work of mine called "Ken's Cricket Equipment" I'd have to actua... » Read More

How to make a fancy widget for your ArtFire store...

Published: 04-26-2012 11:24am
Posted In: How To
First Make yourself a swanky graphic, Make it so it will impart catchy info and make people want to click it, save it as a jpg,png or gif (even animated gifs will work for this)Once you have saved your image, go to your edit a post page on your blogger or blogspot (I use blogger so the images for the example are for that, on blogspot your screen may vary)Start on the compose tab, and click the "add image" button, which will look like a little picture.Select "Upload", and choose the graphic file you made, and upload it.Your Image will now be in the blog panel on the compose tab. Now is the time to adjust the size, if you think it needs any change... » Read More

How to tell if you are being scammed

Published: 03-03-2012 02:36pm
Posted In: How To
Today was another round of scam e-mail coming at us from parts unknown, (well I could have known the parts if I'd read the headers, but really there's no use in that, they'll just come from somewhere else next time)And, as always, shortly after they go out, there's someone new to the world of online selling who gets their hopes up (understandably) panics (also understandable) or worse: falls for it. Some people go to the forums to ask "What do I do about this?" quoting the e-mail. Which, when in doubt, is probably the best place to go for peer help. The community here on ArtFire is very helpful and friendly, and since we are all over the world,... » Read More

Doing the Threadless

Published: 02-29-2012 04:11pm
Posted In: Fantastic Other Things
Hi Gang, well I finally got around to figuring out how to make a threadless submission.I took me two tries to get it right, the instructions with the submission packet are a little fuzzy if you haven't done it before so my first try wasn't high rez'd enough.Basically the design needs to be Big on the 640X800 preview with a smaller layer merged in of "how it will look on the tee" the submission packet is a little vaguely worded so it took me a session of voting to realize how dumb I was and figure out what to do to fix it, lolNow how this works is if it gets a high enough voting score it's considered for printing, and if it's printed, they buy th... » Read More

My new Fabric Selection (and where to buy it!)

Published: 01-27-2012 04:51pm
Posted In: Fantastic Other Things
Spoonflower Fabric Custom Yardage Designs By Amy-Elyse Neer Spoonflower Prints on a Variety of cotton fabrics,  at the bottom of this page there's a list of, and description for each type of fabric. Kona® Cotton: Premium Quilting Weight:  100% cotton fabric with a soft hand, easy to sew 42" wide printable area (107 cm) 4.5 oz per square yard 60 x 60 threads per inch Appropriate for quilting, appliqué, shirting, dresses, children's clothing, and home decor Estimated shrinkage 2% Machine wash warm or cool using phosphate-free detergent Quilting Weight Cotton:  100% cotton ... » Read More

Progression Of "Piper Piping"

Published: 12-07-2011 04:38pm
Posted In: How To
This video was made from taking shots and scans as I worked on "Piper Piping" for the 12 days of Christmas series.It's start to finish, from taping down the paper to the sketch (including, if you look close enough, the bagpipe I decided against still showing a little after being erased) to the finished product.If you have any questions about part of the video, feel free to comment and I will try to explain what the heck I was doing  :)... » Read More

Progression Of

Published: 11-11-2011 12:55pm
Posted In: How To
"November Maple" ©2011 Amy-Elyse NeerWatercolor on 5.5" x 5.5" cold press 140 lb (300 gsm) watercolor paper.The Original is for sale Here on ArtFire!Prints and Cards starting as low as $2.24 (for a 4" x 6" post card) are for sale here on redbubble.This design is also available as an iPhone case on redbubble, here.Here's how I made this particular work: ... » Read More

From Start to finish on an iPhone4 case design

Published: 11-09-2011 03:19pm
Posted In: How To
Over on my print on Demand Site, redbubble, they recently started offering iPhone4 cases. So I thought it might be fun to do a progression of what goes into the making of a design meant specifically for a phone case.You can purchase this Here for your iPhone4... » Read More

Here is a primer on ACEO, Trading Card Prints, and ATC art

Published: 11-09-2011 01:33pm
Posted In: Encyclopedia of Art-Geekery
From Strathmore "How did the movement start? In 1997, M. Vanci Stirnemann, a Swiss artist, created 1200 cards by hand as part of an exhibit. On the last day, he invited others to create their own cards and trade with him during the closing reception. The movement took off, and today, there are ATC swaps in almost every major city around the world. There are also many online swaps." There ARE different types although they are all the same size, here are the differences; ATC stands for Artist Trading Card These are intended as trades with other artists, they are not for sale. No one is selling ATC's. When something is labeled an ATC it i... » Read More

How to make a drawing board for ACEO

Published: 11-09-2011 01:32pm
Posted In: How To
Today I am going to explain how to make a small drawing board, just the right size for artist trading cards and popping in your purse or drawing kit. What you will need; Plastic Hi-Tack Masking or White Art Tape One sheet of graph paper One sheet of heavy drawing paper or butchers paper Some clear double sided adhesive (like a Tombow adhesive roller) I advise against glue as a substitute but in a pinch a gluestick can work in place of the doublesided) Rubber Band Clip Frog Tape Locally we have a store called Tap Plastics, now you may have one close to you or not, but you can easily find a similar business by going t... » Read More
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