Zazzle Black Lab T-shirt, Cat Canvas & Goofy Dog Card - Sold!

I’ve been painting digitalart since the iPad came out in 2010. My first shop on the internet was on Etsy where I primarily do custom order pet portraits. Once the images are completed, I use them to populate my other website shops - Pixels/Fine Art America, Redbubble, Amazon Merch and Zazzle. I also have my own website that links all of them together called LIT Digitalart And Such. On top of that, I spend a lot of time showcasing them all on Instagram, my Facebook business page, Tumblr and Twitter. It’s a full time job! And then of course I do this blog every day! Yesterday I got a notice from Zazzle that I sold a stretched canvas print of my barn cat to someone in Kansas - one of the first images I drew. I also sold a greeting card to someone in New Jersey with my goofy dog portrait. A couple of weeks ago a black lab T shirt was sold to someone from Minnesota in the most interesting color combination. I definitely could not make a living on these tiny commissions, but am thrilled every time a sale is made. That means someone out there liked something I painted enough to want to purchase it for themself or for someone they care about. It’s nice to get custom portrait orders, but it’s more fun to get noticed just for something I painted. I always liked drawing. Who would have guessed it would take this course? 

https://www.zazzle.com/litdigitalart

Masouleh Iran Stretched Canvas Photo on Fine Art America

I do a lot of digital art - primarily custom pet portraits. It always is exciting when someone has enough confidence in you, or likes the artwork that has already been created, to commission a special painting or portrait. But I also love to take photographs. Whenever we travel, or whenever I go outside in the neighborhood, or look out on our tiny patio, I can find something that I think looks nice. So I put both my digital art and photographs on Fine Art America. And for folks who order digital art paintings and can't or don't know how to print a digital image, I upload the image and send the link to them so they can create a product of their liking - a framed work of art, a t shirt, a pillow - so many options! Most recently, I received an email notice that someone in Fairfax Virginia bought a good sized stretch canvas of a photograph I took in Masouleh, Iran. You never know what will interest other people, but I'm always pleased when someone likes the work I do. The nice thing about these transactions is that I don't need to do anything because I've already uploaded the image and it's ready to be created in to a stretched canvas or otherwise. When I get the notice, I always share it on Twitter and put something on my Facebook page. I always have my iPhone/camera in my hand and am looking forward to sharing even more. And if someone else likes it - so much the better!