Art Business
A Little Tour for You: Painting to Print to Shop
Have you wondered why it takes a while for my finished paintings to become available in my shop? There’s just a few details to attend to: Scanning Proofing Printing Packaging Styling Photo-shoot-ing (hee hee) Measuring Documenting Description-ing Pricing Listing And the most important detail: letting you know it’s available! So, just…
Read MoreBehind the Scenes: A Little About What Goes into Putting Together an Open Studio Party
Would you like a little peek behind the scenes as I put my Open Studio Party together for this year? Above, you can see me delivering my painting, “Year of the Rooster” to the Verge Center for the Arts. The Verge puts together the Sac Open Studios Tour every year in September for…
Read MoreYou’re Invited to Not 1, But THREE Shows!
I’ve got three shows at once! You’re probably saying, “Wha-a-at?!” It wasn’t really supposed to happen this way, they just ended up overlapping each other. But not to worry, because their receptions are all on different dates. I’ll tell you all about it below. Please join me…
Read MoreThe Best Links for How To Write an Artist Statement
Has it happened to you yet? You’ve got your artwork prepared and finished, you’ve met the deadline date for applying and when you go to submit your piece for consideration to an exhibit, the show juror requests an Artist’s Statement from you. What?! If you’re like me, you haven’t got one that doesn’t…
Read MoreArtist 2 Artist: First Meetup
If you’re an artist in the greater Sacramento/Roseville area, please come to the next Artist 2 Artist Meetup August 21st, 2018. Here you can see Deidre Trudeau, Charlene Martin and I (Melani Grube) striking a pose at the first gathering of this new artists’ group that happened on July 17th. MaryTess Mayall from the…
Read MoreA Big Secret That Will Help You Create a Website You’ll Love
Want to build a website you’ll love? With all the details and possibilities, where do you start? I asked myself, “What am I all about? How will this site reflect what I’m about?” At first, the technology and practicalities of building the site loomed large and in the way of the design. But I…
Read MoreFive Things You Need to Do After a Conference: WordCamp Sacramento 2017
Are you “conferenced”? I mean, have you ever been “conferenced”? What I really mean is: have you attended one or many conferences, for business or personal interest? And has it been like an information and sensory tidal wave for you? How do you process all that? I just attended WordCamp Sacramento 2017: Peace, Love…
Read MoreCoding for the Creative Soul
Maybe it was a collision of the stars in the sky that day that caused this chance meeting, but there I was, on December 3rd, flailing about, trying to get a grip on coding my website when … but wait, why was I, an artist/illustrator, focusing on learning to code HTML and CSS? Well, first…
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