I plan to also start listing some of these products on eBay, but for now, here are my two shops of products I feel confident about.

I'll expand my offerings later, but here's what I feel good about selling so far. Yay! :)

T-shirt print tests from Printfection arrived today! The CafePress ones will be here next week. Click for larger views...

In other related news, I worked up some nice rectangular magnets in CafePress. Alas, they are out of stock... but the magnet previews look good! If I can get them in time, I'll send these to the magnet-requestors from my previous entry. Ve vill zee.

Here's an open offer to folks watching this journal, as a way to say "thank you" for your support! I'm making open edition signed reproduction art cards, 2.5x3.5 inches. I put them in a plastic protective sleeve so they won't bend in the mail.

All you have to do is reply to this post (screened for privacy) in December with your name, address, and which card you want of the designs below. If you want me to make your protective card sleeve magnetic so you can stick it to your fridge, tell me that too. :)

P.S.: I can't reply to you individually since that would unscreen your post, so here are my replies:
shadrad -- Will mail soon.
grubbyfox -- Noted RE: lack of magnet.
nicci -- Orange magnetic cat. Gotcha.
lirazel -- OK!
aoi_usagi -- Magnet kitty. Will do. Very welcome. :D Wait till you see this printer's quality!
lneuman2 -- Sure thing. :)
ladyblue56 -- OK. I'll wait till we work out exactly what I'm sending you.

(Edited later to add: I changed the search a bit. It might work better now.)

I found myself wanting one of these, so I made one.

Like it? Link back to artjen. Whee P.R...

Oh and... on a related note, here are some LJ icons you can use if you'd like!

Download a copy of the icon you want to your hard drive, then use this form to upload it to your userpics. In the comments field of the upload form, please put "from <lj user=artjen>" and it should create a link back to me.

I've been busy. These are the originals -- I've color-matched them to print reproductions, too. All are 8.5 by 11 and could also be framed to 8 by 10, depending on preference. I haven't listed these on eBay yet, but I plan to at least list the repros over the course of the week.

These have been added to my mixed media art page, and I archived the older canvas and CD-sized work.

Unlike my previous work, I plan to keep these as one of a kind instead of creating an edition of 12. We'll see how that goes...

Click for larger views.

As I mentioned the other day, I've fallen in love with Epson's double-sided heavyweight matte paper for printing on my Epson R260.

See the test on the right -- click for a larger view. The center is an overlaid piece of this new matte media, and the underlayer (outer edge) is the watercolor paper I had been printing on before, Somerset Velvet watercolor paper. Both were printed using this printer, so the inks and resolution are identical.

As you can see, the new stuff is SO choice. I never thought I'd find something I liked better than the watercolor paper, but... yay. :D By the way, I think those vertical lines on the new paper are a scanning or resizing artifact... I don't see them on the print itself.

Printer woes solved! First off, thanks to all my friends that patiently listened to my ranting about my (now headed for eBay) old printer, my flailing search for a new printer candidate, and my general digital art frustration.

I didn't want to blog about it sooner because I was so agitated and upset... ( Here's the summary, if you want the full scoop.Collapse )

The pic shown on the right here is a scan of output from my new Epson R260 printer. The colors are great... really rich teals and greens which I couldn't get out of my old printer. The dots are completely invisible as far as I can tell, resulting in a smooth continuous-tone which is perfect for the color gradients in my work. I can get high-capacity cartridges for this printer, too, which makes the ink that much cheaper per milliliter.

So. My master plan for this branch of my artwork is to try doing one of a kind pieces... 1/1 instead of 1/12, perhaps with some overpainting to further differentiate the originals. I'll see how they sell. I can do the twelve-way color shift in the open-edition reproductions instead, at any size, and I can make ATCs too. And, perhaps I can get some frame shop galleries to pick up my prints in their inventory if eBay doesn't work out.

My latest feedback, from mattwg1:
"Seller's prehensile tail very strong, has mighty beak and colorful underbelly.A+"

I love it. Because let's face it, it really doesn't matter what you write there as long as the rating's positive. :D

In other news, the glass pendant yesterday went for $6.49... not bad for the first week of listing glass, I suppose. Today's seems destined to hit that same range. I'm hoping that if I keep that category stocked, I'll get more cross-selling and suchlike. But, that means I need to list more stuff, starting tonight. :)

More dichroic glass pendants. :) Want one? $15 + $4 shipping. I figured I'd give my journal friends a chance before eBaying them. shadrad, thanks for the free plug!

				Sold on eBay
	Broken. :(
Sold on eBay

As you can see, some are on black (which makes the colors pop more) and some are on clear glass (giving that neat two-tone effect when you hold them up to light).

For reference, they're all about 1/4-inch wide. The longer ones are about 1 1/4 inches tall, and the shorter "three dots" ones are about 3/4 inch tall.

Now I'm just playing around. I wanted her eyes to look a little more mechanical, and added gratuitous cyan sidelighting. Hee.

More experimenting with Illustrator and the tablet, using some custom brush strokes I built. I traced this pic off of reference, as practice and to see whether the strokes could handle her eyes.

... then I went a little nuts coloring, since I always enjoy that part. The first color pic used the thick-lined original sketch. twoflower suggested the lines might be too thick for a color pic (though the B&W looks great). So, I did another one with very thin lines in the hair. I think it worked, mostly. I also really love the texture in the irises.

Someday I'll learn to make dramatic shadows, but meanwhile, here's a neutral glowy look.

Forgot to post these last night. I'm still fooling around with the tablet.

See, if I could draw my monoprints completely on the computer, and if it's quicker than the usual way, then I could use this approach to make one-offs instead of editions of twelve. Print at 8.5x11 and sell them as one-of-a-kind originals.

As you can see, I think this experiment was fairly successful. ^_^ I haven't printed these yet, so I watermarked the zoomed-in views.

In honor of Halloween and because someone emailed me to ask, here's how I made these batwings for my costume...

Click for larger views.

Picked up some swirly black/clear glass with iridescence today, along with some cobalt/clear swirl. Mm, tasty... Made these four glass bowls.

Reserved for jeanie77
	Sent to rubialinda

They fit tealights perfectly and they have such nice fluffy edges. I mean, I like the one from the other day too... but these have the edge-waves I was hoping for!

That iridescence came out looking GREAT. Maybe someday I'll find an irid. cobalt/clear.