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November/December 2008
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Ideas & Tips
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Friend
An unexpected piece of publicity has given
business a boost recently. A customer who
purchased a small painting of her dog was
actually a writer for the Wall Street
Journal
who had been attracted to our website while
doing a piece on digital art. It ran in the
Style & Home section on October 16th.
Here's
the link if you'd like to see how we did:
WSJ
Article
To welcome our new website visitors, (to
encourage them to order more!), and to help our
previous loyal customers get a good discount
on holiday gifts, starting today,
enter the
code WSJ at checkout and get 15% off
your new orders. This
discount is good through Thanksgiving
weekend, ending Sunday, November
30th.
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Loved Oreo, the sofa not so much... |
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A new customer who came to
us by way of the Wall Street Journal article
(which featured pet art) was Larry Noe, who
said of this sheepdog, "Oreo was a family
pet for 13 years and she recently passed
away. This photo was my favorite of her
and I wanted to have a painting as a
remembrance of her for the entire family."
Larry asked if we could lose the sofa and
put Oreo in a different setting. I borrowed a
nice backyard setting and worked on placing
Oreo into the grass in a believable way. After we
were able to accomplish what he wanted, Larry
ordered 5 paintings, enough for the whole family.
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Art for the Ronald McDonald House Legacy Fund |
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How should this special donor recognition
display be showcased? The goal of this
commission was to create art suitable for the
main room of the Ronald McDonald House that
complimented the
yet-to-be-designed display. I suggested a
series of five colorful square paintings
featuring close-ups of children derived from
a bronze sculpture in front of the house.
Our proposed design placed the names in white
lettering on a clear sheet of plexiglas
mounted off the wall below the art. The
letters were more visible because of a
brushed metallic sheet on the wall behind the
plexiglas. The metallic color ties in with
the tones in the paintings.
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Here kitty kitty kitty.... |
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Lou
Dorfman from Texas is an animal
behaviorist who also came to us by way of the
Wall Street Journal piece. The article was on
pet art, and true to the reputation of Texas,
his kitty cats are a little bigger than most.
He uploaded a shot of himself with three
beautiful tigers from the International
Exotic Animal Sanctuary in Boyd, Texas.
He has done many television and radio shows
as a representative of the wildlife
community, speaking as an expert on the
personalities and characteristics of wild
predators.
I saw a chance to improve his original
photograph by removing the cage fencing from
the background and replacing it with a
natural habitat from a photograph my son took
last year while on an African safari. The
result was met with
approval from Lou, he ordered additional
paintings, including two of a different tiger
recently adopted by Nascar champion Tony Stewart.
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Contact Information
phone:
904-288-3365
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