No Notice Art Fair

Last weekend, I was in a (almost) no notice art fair. The art fair was in the Lafayette Shopping Mall in Portsmouth, NH. I had applied for the fair last May but never received a response. Two days before the fair, I received an email reminding me of the show with a printout of the artists and I was on the list. A few emails later I started getting ready for the show.

Something went awry and I and a couple of friends didn't receive notice of acceptance. One friend only found out when someone had seen a poster announcing the show and told him his name was on it.

Anyway it was a good show, the hosts were quite helpful and nice. It was their first show and I hope they'll have it again next year.

I sold my last Mustang giclee print, I will have to get more made. This print has been a best seller for me on Zazzle.com and Cafepress.com. So far everyone who has purchased the image has had it put on black tee shirts, black caps, and black jackets and black sweats.

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.