Sometimes the best way to get an audience is to put yourself out there. Pop-up markets are a great way to do this as they are generally a low cost of entry, most cities and towns have several community organizations that run them, and, if you find the right one, they are a great way to connect with an audience. Today I’ll be going over some of the things I wish I had known before my first market.
Hey gang. It’s almost Halloween and we thought this week we would give you our five tips for creating Halloween wood burns
What better place to start a series like this than the one thing that scares people the most when starting a business. The legal aspect. We are not lawyers so remember to check with your legal advisor on the rules specific to your business as well as your state / country. These are the steps we took for our business
When I create art for a market I always try to make something unique and different. I am not like everyone else and my art should reflect that. The same goes for my customers. They should be able to come to a market and walk away with something they’ve never seen before and they can’t get elsewhere.
The biggest barrier to being a maker is tools. There are so many tools that can make your life easier but obtaining them can be both cost and space prohibitive. We do all our work in a small garage. Our workspace is shared with gardening tools, camping equipment, bicycles, and automotive tools. Renting a space …
One of the questions I often get is about how I get hand burn pieces using images on the computer. When I tell people it is using a laser printer, I’m not going to lie, I get quite a few puzzled looks. It is not intuitive how you can go from a digital image to …
After several years of doing pyrography, it never fails to surprise me all the things I have learned along the way. Below are five tools (and one bonus tool) that have been indispensable to me as an artist. If you are new to wood-burning, or even if you are a seasoned pro, I hope these help make your life easier.
As an artist, a small business owner trying to launch a new business, a wife, a mother, and being owned by many little furry creatures sometimes it is really hard to take time for yourself.
One of the things that never occurred to me when starting my own business was finding the right audience. I make things that I love and that I am proud of. You think, then, that finding an audience of like-minded individuals who appreciate your art as much as you do will quickly follow. After two years of markets and art shows, I have come to realize that it takes more than just “putting yourself out there”
Even when you are doing the job that you love it can be hard some days. Whether it is putting in late nights to meet a deadline, getting up early to get ready for a show, or having to put off that one thing that you want to do for the dozen other things you …
