December 2024 Art Update

Everything is on sale at my Etsy shop at the moment, thanks to a site-wide sale ending soon. I dropped three orders off at the post office this morning (herons; seashells; firetowers), so the promotion seems to be working. For me, Etsy is less a money-maker than a sort of public record of building a brand as a “professional artist” – and perhaps more importantly, as an outlet for my stacks of surplus prints and other art projects. So help me declutter and pick up some prints today!

I’m presently taking my first-ever hiatus from my Patreon since I started it in 2016. This is a two-month break for November and December 2024. Patron support is absolutely to credit for my growth as an artist over the past eight years, thanks of course to the modest financial incentive but also to the interrelated effect of regular practice and experimentation. As patrons and portfolio visitors know, portraiture and printmaking are my jam. In recent years, I’ve framed this work as part of various episodic projects for Patreon; sometimes implicitly and sometimes too ambitiously, but in retrospect always constructively. So, I look forward to conceiving new ways to refine my work and of course to sending out more art to patrons in 2025.

In the meantime: later this month Kelly and I will have a small diptych on display in the Tioga Arts Council’s Collaborations exhibit; I have a commissioned print to work on ASAP; and last but not least I hope to draw a few portraits as personal gifts.

Posted on Monday, December 2nd, 2024.