Showing posts with label commissioned contemporary art.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commissioned contemporary art.. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Tuesday's Grace Notes



Tuesday's Grace Notes



Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and finding out that it is a train (gotta see the sense of humor), electric pencil sharpeners when they work, my nine year old Panda Puppy Sheltie, painting for the fun of it between commissioned paintings, and my son Steve coming over today to fix me lunch... he is a really good cook!



Celebrate the day!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Featured artist Yvonne C. Lozano


About Yvonne C. Lozano BIOGRAPHY I am originally from New Orleans, LA, but have been living most my life in Jacksonville, FL. As a child I was always interested in learning and exploring the world around me with an emphasis on tapping into the creative & expressive side of my brain. Art has been an ever evolving and never ending learning process in my life. I went to Douglas Anderson School of the Arts where I majored in drawing and painting, which is also where most of my serious art training began. I went on to study at Jacksonville University, graduating in 2001 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts and a concentration in printmaking. I work primarily in acrylics on canvas documenting my childhood memories, but I have recently gotten into doing large-scale murals as well. My work has been seen nationally through the Progressive People’s Biennial Exhibit from 2007-2009; it has made it’s way into corporate art collections such Baptist Hospital South & Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville, FL; I have been selected as a featured artist on such online sources as Fine Art America, Blick Art Materials Facebook Page, & Liquitex Artist Materials Facebook Page; In addition, I have been getting involved in public art projects throughout the city to help expose the community to the benefits of art, such as: exterior murals, collaborative works, and art hunts.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Inventory Reduction 1/2 Off Sale!


Inventory Reduction 1/2 Off Sale!

All available original acrylic paintings on gallery wrapped canvas.


Click on "Recent paintings and prints" on front page.

Temporary sale only.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Artist Marketing Tip


Take chances! Take "off the wall" commissioned assignments in music AND in art. Case in point; here's a newly designed poster from last week.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Artist Marketing Tip #14


Artist Marketing Tip # 14: Always try to keep a few cohesive paintings in your personal gallery. Be ready for that last minute call for " Help! Our scheduled artist needs a replacement" or "We would like to represent you, give you a show..." and you can look professional and give them what the want. Please try to be considerate, professional and do not yank things out of one of your valued venues or galleries and leave bare walls. Treat others the way YOU would want to be treated. As for performing artists... practice your butt off! Be an at the ready "shoe in" and have several song lists at the ready as well!

Celebrate the day!

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Saturdays Grace Notes


Saturday's Grace Notes: That crazy bird that chirps late every night and early every morning.. love it!, "Chasing my tail, catching it, then having to go find it again" "going along for the ride", being open to new ideas and being willing to reconsider old ones, new clothes and planning to do a solo trip with my walker today to Barnes and Noble with a gift card in hand. Life is good!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Artist Marketing Tip #11


Artist Marketing Tip #11


Go on a Internet artist field trip. Check out other artist websites and blogs. Support them with kind comments and learn from them. What are they doing right? What are the doing wrong? Where do they show and/or perform and share their talents?

Wednesday's Grace Notes


Wednesday's Grace Notes: Sunrise! My new 'zen' re-arranged music studio. Feeling stronger. A good nights sleep. Moonlight Sonata. Girl time w/ my daughter Shannon and my daughter in love Jennifer. "unplugging" the T.V. and rotating paintings for the month of January.... man I give my hubby Glenn a work out! "The wind beneath my wings" or at least the SUV and my paintings! Celebrate the day!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Artist Marketing Tip #10


Artist Marketing Tip #10; Let's get back to that Facebook Fanpage. Organize your work in photos files. Treat it like a website. separate files for "Landscapes, Note cards, Jewelry/design, song lists, videos".. what ever pertains to your "craft". Leave the cute family photos and puppy dogs on your profile... and NO Farmville and the like! This will be an ongoing process as you create updates. It is for me, so let's learn together and share YOUR pointers!

Monday, January 10, 2011

Artist Marketing Tip #10


Got a website? It is the new resume, gallery, venue, web presence, social media... gotta have one to be taken seriously. I am shamelessly going to make a plug for a family business. 360jacksonville.com. It is the new Internet/social media 'Yellow Pages' . It places you on the web, promotes you and CAN give you an awesome website w/ more perks than a lonely separate site would. It has the capacity to show a virtual 360 tour of your business, studio, performance, art classes, current shows.. you get the picture. What I like the best of all is that you are not dependent on a "webmaster" but can make your own changes at any time. Every 'deal" is custom made just for what YOU want. No pressure. Here's the link; www.360jacksonville.com/Shopping/Art/AsbellArts.html

Monday's Grace Notes


Monday's Grace Notes; The tree is comin' down! Thunder in January, meeting old Lupus support group friends for lunch, I GET to clean my house, unload the dishwasher and begin a demanding commissioned painting, today I get to learn something that I "already learned how to do" (there goes that short term memory central nervous system dysfunction again), and doin' my nails.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Sunday's Grace Notes


Sunday's Grace Notes; Enjoying the journey along the way, writing new music, the smell of newly opened PlayDo, a new organizer for 2011, living the creative life and YOU taking the time to read this! Celebrate life!

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Artist Marketing Tip #10


When posting you blog "share" with your Twitter account AND Facebook. Post 2x a day (AM and PM) if you have a lot of international connections. If possible post through your Facebook fanpage and it will automatically be posted to your profile. Do this a couple of weeks and Google your name/business and NOW see how your name ranks.

Saturday's Grace Notes


Saturday's Grace Notes; God directly dealing with me and PRIDE... ouch!, Baking a German Chocolate Cake for my hubby's 50th birthday, re-arranging my art studio (long over due), working on my "craft", getting the mail, Susan Boyle's new piano book :), and my own backyard.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Artist Marketing Tip #9


Check out my "tags" at the end of this post. They are not necessarily directly related to my post BUT what I want to be "branded" by and show up on Google searches. It really works!