creating day dreamers one bead at a time, unique art dolls, jewelry and art!
Demure Marie Tote Bag is now available through my Zazzle shop. They are running a special right now with %40 percent off. I just completed this awesome painting today and am very excited to share it with you as a tote bag.
I have other designs there too, so stop by and check out my shop…
Hope you all are having a great summer so far!!!
I just love this magazine, and would be so lucky to win any of them! Here is your chance to win too, so if you love their magazines as much as I do, click on this link and cross your fingers! If you have never had the honor of owning one of their magazines, I promise you would not be disappointed if you win!
Best of luck to everybody!
Stampington Magazine Giveaway!
So exciting to see that the Visit Vacaville has an article on little ole me! It’s really not all about me as you may have seen. If you live in the area or are passing by, take a little side trip to the Vacaville Art Gallery and check out the event. There are so many beautiful art pieces to ooooh and ahhh over.
Our youngest came for support, he is awesome! My parents and sister drove over 300 miles just to be there. My cousin and aunt came from Santa Rosa… lots of my friends and co-workers came to support me. I met lots of people I didn’t know and now have some new friends. Hubby is always there for me……he helped put up all of my artwork. The evening was filled with love and compassion!
Many “THANKS” to all who assisted with putting the whole event together and for those who promoted this event. Although the show is not yet over, the reception was amazing, awesome, fun, exhausting and energizing all at the same time. There was an abundance of food, wine, and music. Special “THANKS” to Barb, the awesome Manager, Elizabeth, the awesome Assistant Manager and to awesome Mike Musial who played beautifully with his guitar in hand. I strongly believe the reception was even more amazing because of them…XOXO to you all. The whole experience is one I will cherish forever.
Vacaville Art Gallery members are special people who share the love of art, no matter what it is! We are all in this world together…its always fun when we see and share the beauty in just about anything!
Click on the link below and scroll down to June 9th to read more about this awesome 3D art, on and off the canvas!
https://www.visitvacaville.com/events/
Outer Limits
Today, I sat and read this great and disturbing article from Lisa Gantz. She is an amazing, inspirational artist and I just love all her work and her tutorials. This article she wrote is about the ups and downs of selling your artwork online. She also writes about her pirated art and how she deals with it. When I first learned that one of the very first products I listed on Creative Market was hacked, I will admit I was….
My “freaked out self” contacted Creative Market to see what happened. I hadn’t even made a sale yet as far as I knew. They told me, unfortunately, the person purchased my product, decided it was ok to share it with all of these freebie sites. They refunded the person and banned him/her from making further purchases. This is something they can not control, which I understand. Then I thought…WHAT THE HECK?….the person got my graphics and I didn’t even make a penny from their thievery! They gave me a link that has this formal legally binding request form to have my file removed from their site. I filled it out to the best of my ability and started sending it out to the websites abuse person. I will admit, it was not that difficult to do for most of the sites…yes, there were maybe 10 sites or more that I had to send this to. Most, and I mean MOST, sites were respectable and took down the file. I had to become a member of the ATT site though in order to send my file..I found this odd, but it worked. About a month later, I did the same research online with my files name and found maybe 2 more that had gotten my file. I repeated the steps and sent out the emails and maybe 1 of them responded and removed the file.
A few of the sites were not that easy to find the website source who actually had my downloadable file. As I was going through all of these sites, I saw tons of other artists designs and wondered to myself if they all knew about them, if they knew their products were being hacked just like mine! Then, today, after coming across Lisa Gantz article, I knew that these artists are all in the same boat. So, should I continue to hunt down my files? Is it worth the time and effort to make sure that they are not just handed out for free? To this day, I have not made a sale on Creative Market, but that is mainly on me I know. I don’t blame them at all. But I now have this fear that if I add a new product, will it just get hacked!
What I don’t understand is why somebody would purchase the product, then go and upload it to all of these freebie sites???? Are they making a commission somehow? I just don’t get it! Perhaps its because they got their money back? The good thing is now I have ALL of these saved documents to all of the places I found and if this happens again, all I need to do is change the file name and send the email off to them. Crazy right??? Perhaps since I only have a couple of my graphic designs on Creative Market right now, it is easy to do this. But once I start adding more and more, and hopefully sell some of them, this will be a bit less freaky and stressful.
The reality is, this is going to happen again, people are people…not all are thieves. I strongly believe most people are honest and respectful. I don’t want to give up on my dreams because of these thieves and their wicked ways just to earn a quick buck! Fear will get me nowhere!!!
Any thoughts on this article I would love to hear them…
Many hugs!
Chrissy
Coming soon, June 9th, there will be a reception just for me… The rest of the show will have many amazing mixed media artists there to show off their work! Come join us in the beauty of mixed media and 3D art!
VACAVILLE ART GALLERY
http://www.vacavilleartgallery.org/
