First LITDigitalart Sales This Year

January came and went without a sale. I have a few websites with my products. Most are digitalart portraits of pets I’ve painted over the last ten years. I also have some photographs primarily of DC and of foreign travel - something we haven’t done for over two years. So it was with great joy when I received notification that a print of Oxford was sold to someone from California on Fine Art America. Shortly after that, Redbubble sent a message that two T-shirts were sold to someone in Florida. They were both of the West Highland Terrier - one on a black T-shirt and the other on a red T-shirt. And just this week a postcard of a black cat with green eyes was sold on Zazzle to someone from Ohio. Just the idea that someone notices my work is so rewarding. And the items are sold to people from all over the country. The funny thing is is that three of my websites had interest this month. Things have changed a lot since I first starting painting again. Etsy was the first place I started primarily for pet portrait request. I also have an Amazon Merch site - but can’t upload any new images because my laptop broke and Merch is not iPad friendly. Now I’m just one of thousands of digital artists. So knowing that always makes me feel even better if and when someone likes my art enough to purchase it. Thanks so much for your support! 

Etsy, Fine Art America, and Zazzle Sales

I've been painting custom pet portraits on my iPad since the first device came out several years ago. I have an Etsy shop for customers to order portraits specifically of their pets from photos they send to me. When the painting is done, I post it to Fine Art America. For whatever reason I have not been able to post to Zazzle and have been too lazy to figure it out. It initially worked fine, but hasn't for quite awhile. I also have other downloadable paintings in my Etsy shop that are travel and place related. Several of the downloads are images of Washington DC and sites we have visited in our travels. When I get a request for a custom order, the communication, set up, sketches and updates just begin until the portrait is completed. When someone orders an image of something I have already painted, I simply get a notice telling me that something in my shop was sold. I don't need to do anything at all - just wait for the commission to be transferred to my account. Over the last couple of weeks I got a notice from Zazzle that someone purchased a water bottle with a yellow lab on it; someone bought a shower curtain with a blackcockapoo from Fine Art America; and a third person bought my favorite Women on the steps of Persepolis downloadable print on Etsy. It's obviously not the money - because it's peanuts. It's the idea that someone likes what I painted by finding it on the internet - out of the millions of options out there - and liking it enough to buy it. I love doing pet portraits but it's fun - and easy - to have the other paintings and items sell too. I never would have thought any of this was possible even ten years ago.