little styrofoam beans

©bobbi plentovich lewis "baby belly- humpty dumpty" 2015 acrylic on plaster baby belly

          good morning campers......well while watching art marketing videos, i started researching how to ship artwork....that's a big concern of mine because,  say i finally get my artwork up for sale, "i finally get my artwork up for sale".... and say someone actually buys something!!!....."yeah!".......well back it up....first i have to be checking my website everyday to see if someone did buy something or has asked a question about my artwork.....then if they want to buy it......now i have to ship it....how do i ship it??? ......so many questions and i am dragging my feet like crazy...my toes are so scuffed up......well not too bad at the moment.......but it's alittle overwhelming thinking i will have to keep up with this everyday and not procrastinate........i know myself and if i can procrastinate i will........but that's not really the professional way is it........and there's no better way to lose customers than to not realize they have contacted you or bought something they didn't receive, etc......yikes....i put so much pressure on myself....
          so one of the art marketing videos i was watching was talking about why not to become a full time artist...always a good motivator!.......and it ended with something like complacency is death......lovely......but i guess true also......if you are not creating and marketing your work, you're not making a living......and let me tell you that waiting around for the phone to ring, does not work....well unless you want a solicitor to call you....that works...they call all the time....i actually tried to sell my artwork to a solicitor once.....i asked them to ask all the people there, if anyone needed a mural......they haven't called back.....i guess they weren't expecting that.....and i guess they didn't need a mural.....but anyway, i perfected that marketing strategy of waiting for the phone to ring.......it's kind of a lousey strategy.......
        but..... some things i have learned are,  to keep it simple......which works for me.....so just go with 2 or 3 social media places and do them well....so i have instagram.com/bobbismurals/  and facebook.com/bobbismurals/ (by the way in case you wanted to check either or both of those out....hint hint)..........i believe i spend more time on instagram than on facebook.....but there's alot to be said about spreading yourself too thin.......i started out doing this social media and that social media and forgetting that i had those and others.....that doesn't get an audience, which is what i'm after in order to sell my work.....i gather.....i'm not after gazillions of viewers, well i wouldn't turn them down, but,  i'm not even in that ballpark....i'm in the dirt patch down the road......which is kind of a good place....ya know that little shop on the corner that people stop in......and we chat about life and art and sit in bean bag chairs and have tea.....that could be dangerous cause as soon as you sit down in a bean bag chair your tea spills all over you and hopefully it wasn't hot tea......ask my youngest about hot tea spilling on her....it wasn't much but alittle is more than you need.....and aren't bean bag chairs so fun when there is a small hole in one, so whenever you sit down it shoots out little stryrofoam beans.......which are all over your house .... and you never get rid of them...... i believe they multiply when you sweep....or really they crawl up in the bristles of the broom and hang on till the appropriate time to jump off..........but anyway.....someplace low key, comfortable, welcoming and friendly.....kind of like the meg ryan movie about the bookstore.....that's a great shop.......there is a book store in german village in ohio.....it's the grooviest book store, i believe it's like a block long, but it was a house or a couple of houses, so when you go in there are all these little nooks and crannies where you can go and hang out and read....it's great......not sure if they are still in business, but a great store.....
         so while looking to find the right balance between a million views or 3.....it helps to know that along the way there are friends and family to encourage you, viewers that leave positive comments and the fun viewers that leave not so nice comments, solicitors that call constantly and a thousand and one videos on how to ship artwork............but all in all i'm in a subjective field, where everyone has their own opinion of what they think or like in art.....and i just have to be okay with me and my artwork.....and take everything else with a grain of salt.....preferably salt at the beach!.....be groovy!

©bobbi plentovich lewis "little stryofoam beans" 2020 ink on paper 8 1/2"x 11"