Float Plane

Due to lack of sales on Cafepress, I've closed my premium store and opened a free basic store. I've featured my "float plane" painting in this basic store: http://www.cafepress.com/halsartfloat

I will have to open a new shop for each of my paintings. I am setting up a number of shops featuring a number of my aircraft paintings. It's a lot more work to set up but it may be better for potential customers, and perhaps with more stores listed, more people will find my shops. I had a good percentage of sales of people who actually visited my shop. It's just that it was extermely rare to have a visitor to my shop. In fact in the six months the shop was open, I had a total of seven visitors. AAH, hope sprints eternal, maybe a shotgun approach will snare more visitors.

Everyone have a happy new year and may your favorite team win its bowl game. West Virginia Mountaineers won their bowl game, so I'm happy. I just hope the Patriots can get into the playoffs.

Merry Christmas

Gus, with Christmas gift, and I wish everyone a merry Christmas. Gus and I pray that we of this world can find tolerance and acceptance and kindness for all who share this world.

Ice Storm

My home has been without power for several days now and since I have no generator, it's been painfully cold. It's no fun to sit around all day, all bundled up and shivering, with no TV or computer to help pass the time. My part of coastal New Hampshire has its power back but at least 200,000 of my neighbors do not. I pray they get it back soon. I had to clean out my freezer and refrigerator and we went to the supermarket this morning but their freezers were virtually empty. My two on going art shows will be a bust since they have been closed due to lack of power. Now that power is back in my area there is very little traffic. At least I have an excuse now for poor sales for these shows.

I hope all of you can stay warm and cozy for this Christmas season.

Two Shows

I have two art shows opening this weekend. One is in Newmarket, NH at the Ampersand Gallery. I have three paintings and three prints in that show.

The second show is in Exeter, NH in the Town Hall Gallery. I have two paintings there and over twenty different Giclee prints in that show.

The First Image is of a original Pastel painting, titled "Red Dingy" in the Exeter Show. The second image is a giclee print in the Exeter show.

The third image is of "Peggy's Cove" an acrylic painting of a cozy harbor in Nova Scotia and is in the Newmarket show.

Let's hope the art market picks up a bit for the Christmas season.