EMELE PHOTOGRAPHY ON ETSY

Emele is Emily Goodwin. Emily uses the name Emele, a combination of her first and middle names, on her ‘online venues’. Emily was born in Cambridgeshire in the UK. She moved, with her family, to Crete, Greece for 7 years when she was 18. Now she splits her time between the UK to be with her partner with extended vacations to Greece!

FORT TOWER ARCHITECTURE

Emily is a cat lover, bookworm, Sunday afternoon baker, lover of art, design and crafts, and an avid bargain hunter. She loves to learn new things, one of which is knitting. She says she isn’t very good at it yet, but she works away at it. She also works on a cross stitch project that she has been working on for 10 years.

CAT LOVE

Emily is arty, crafty, and creative and she makes her living online. She says a 9 to 5 job is just not for her! Emily blogs, writes articles, designs and creates physical art through her photography. She started her online creative ventures with handmade cards and gifts. When she bought a digital camera so she could photograph the items she had made, in order to upload them for sale on her website, she discovered the joys of photography and realized that she could make money from it, she's never looked back!

YELLOW FLORAL PRINT

The next adventure for Emily is to venture into the world of paintings. She has gathered all the materials and supplies and is waiting for her muse to inspire her to put brush to canvas! (It never happened, the materials are still unused!!!)

BLACK AND WHITE FLOWER

Subject matter for Emily’s photography can be pretty much anything! Emily is self-taught and enjoys taking photos of flowers, especially macro shots; cats and other animals; scenic views and anything else that catches her eye. Her photos often end up as prints or featured on home décor/gift items in her online Print on Demand sites. Emily also shoots photos of tiled floors, rusty padlocks, and other similar types of photos and sells these as micro stock online.

HOTTENTOT FIG MACRO

Emily is a self-taught photographer. She tends to shy away from the technical side of things and tinker on her own. Gradually, using books, websites and tutorials, Emily is learning the ins and outs of her camera, what it can do, and more about photographic techniques and possibilities in general.

SNAIL PRINT

Some business goals Emily has are to place her prints in brick and mortar shops for sale and also to license her photography. As well she plans to introduce cards and calendars to her ETSY shop.

FLOWER INCHIES SHEET

Currently Emily is working on more ‘Nine Square’ photo designs similar to some she now offers in her shops. Eventually she will introduce a new Nine Squares print monthly. She has also developed a line of digital downloads of her floral images which other artists can use in their product designs. Some are currently being offered in her ETSY shop and more will be coming soon!

FLOWER CENTER INCHIES

Emily offers products and designs on several sites. She sells prints through her ETSY shop. In her Cafepress shop, she sells keepsake boxes, clocks, coasters, and journals which feature her photography on them. Her Zazzle store also features products with her photography on them. These products include cards, magnets, mouse pads, prints and more.

CRETE MOUNTAIN VIEW

While working on her various online shops and blogs and marketing on twitter and facebook, Emily meets many, many talented, creative people. Although she wants to collect all of their work, it is not possible, so Emily came up with another way to ‘collect’ their work and support these artists.

PEBBLES PRINT

Since Emily is a web designer and an SEO girl (search engine optimization) she developed a blog where she features the artist’s she supports. She focuses on getting people who are searching online to the blog, and then, hopefully, to purchase some of the artist’s work whether that art be on a poster, print, mug, tshirt or something else!

“CREATIVE ARTIST’S BLOG is a Blog for Artists, Photographers, Designers as well as Art lovers and Shoppers. Find new artists and artwork, Be inspired, Learn & Support the Creativity!”


Visit Emily Goodwin’s Personal Blog

EMELE, Emily Goodwin on ETSY

EMELE, Emily Goodwin on Cafepress

EMELE, Emily Goodwin on Zazzle

EMELE, Emily Goodwin on Redbubble

FOLLOW EMELE ON TWITTER

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Written by Ruth J Jamieson, All Rights Reserved

NEWS FOR SELLERS AND BUYERS ON ETSY

As a SELLER or a BUYER on Etsy, you should check your settings on the site.

Along with the changes to create CIRCLES on the site, your name and buying history are now public information by default settings on your account. A GOOGLE search on your name can reveal all purchase details and the viewer can then find you on facebook or elsewhere.

Read this article for more information:

Etsy users irked after buyers, purchases exposed to the world
By Jacqui Cheng | Last updated about 17 hours ago

ETSY SELLER CHRISTINE SCHWARTZKOPF IS A PAINTER AND FRACTAL ARTIST

Christine Schwartzkopf was born in Ohio, loves Florida and now lives in Portland, Indiana. She has always been called Christi. Christi lives with her daughter, two grandchildren, eight Chihuahua’s, one cat, one lovebird and a couple of tanks of fish. She says she has had pretty much all kinds of pets over the years and she loves animals with a passion. Someday soon Christi is looking forward to moving back to Florida to soak up some rays and continue creating her beautiful art.

HIDDEN WONDER

As a child Christi watched her mother do all types of crafts and sewing and when Christi was quite young, her mother taught her to do lace tatting and doilies. Christi’s older sister is an artist who paints in oils, and when Christi was about 12 years old she painted her first oil painting with lessons from her sister. At school, Christi frequently got caught drawing in class when she should have been doing school work.

SUNRISE

As a young woman, Christi’s life was busy with work and family. Artistic endeavors shifted to the back burner as she raised her young family. In the mid- 80’s she took some lessons in acrylic painting and developed painting abstracts into a hobby.

EARTH AND SAND

In 1996 Christi made some changes in her life and creating art became her focus again. She did a lot of cartoon artwork for her children, and began painting again too. Ebay gave Christi an outlet to market her paintings and she also discovered the EBSQ community.

LONE TREE

Christi’s art has a very strong presence of nature. Florals, landscapes, creatures both wild and domestic and people are strongly represented in her paintings. She has also created a large body of strong and dynamic abstract works. Many of Christi’s pieces can be seen in her portfolio on EBSQ.

WILD FLOWERS
WINNER OF THE PATRON'S CHOICE AWARD, EBSQ Fractal Exhibit 2011

Through EBSQ connections Christi has sold more of her artwork and also learned how to work in other mediums. She tried watercolor and decided that was not the medium for her. Prism color pencils were another medium Christi learned to use, and she likes to work with these. A number of these pieces have been sold on Ebay and Etsy.

CAGED SPIRIT

In 2010, EBSQ initiated monthly fractal shows. Intrigued, Christi downloaded Apophysis, gave fractal creation a try and fell in love. She has been hooked on fractals ever since, sometimes staying up all night to finish one. She finds them absolutely amazing. Christi says she gets the itch to paint periodically and does, but for the most part she spends her working time creating and working with fractals.

PICK UP STICKS

Currently Christi is creating more fractals and getting up to speed in CS5 to improve post process work and editing of her fractal art. Coming up in the next six months and beyond, Christi will be marketing prints of her fractals and continuing to build her Zazzle shop.

FRAMED COLOR

Christi markets her artwork online at several sites. These include an Artists profile at EBSQ Self Representing Artists, sale of originals in shops on ETSY, Bonanza and Deviant Art, and print on demand products featuring her art on Imagekind and Zazzle. She is currently adding a new shop with originals and prints available for sale, on Artfire.

SOLAR FLARE

Christi Schwartzkopf on ARTFIRE

Christi Schwartzkopf on BONANZA

Christi Schwartzkopf on DEVIANT ART

Christi Schwartzkopf on ETSY

Christi Schwartzkopf on IMAGEKIND

Christi Schwartzkopf on ZAZZLE

Visit Christi on EBSQ

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All images Copyright Christine Schwartzkopf, All Rights Reserved


Written by Ruth J Jamieson, Copyright Ruth J Jamieson

GETTING TO KNOW DONNA RIDGWAY, MONTANA PHOTO DOCUMENTARIAN

Donna Ridgway is a native Montanan and she says that Montana is her favourite place on this earth. Her great grandfather homesteaded on the mountains west of Dupuyer, Montana and six generations later her family still lives amongst their beloved Montana mountains. Donna and her husband Robert are now retired and are pursuing their creative interests. Robert is a cowboy poet and also restores old cars. Donna creates artwork and takes magnificent photographs of the landscape and creatures of Montana.

MINIATURE HORSE BLUE EYE

Donna grew up farming and ranching, so she has a close affinity for the land and the animals that live in Montana. Caring for animals, (especially horses), all her life has given her a deep love for them and they are what inspires most of her work. At one time Donna and her husband drove truck cross country. They had moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. An unexpected chance to move back to Montana arose and Donna found that tears began to stream from her eyes and she found she couldn’t stop crying. That was the moment when she knew how much she loved Montana and what an inspiration the scenery and animals of the state are to her. Montana is her muse.

HORSES IN MONTANA FROST

A 14ft by 70ft trailer home is Donna’s work studio. Currently it is being fitted with new energy efficient windows, new insulation and other upgrades so that Donna will be able to work in the space year round. She says it will be a wonderfully adequate space for an artist when it is all done.

FRITO THIEF SPARROW

When Donna was just a toddler, not even old enough to talk, she would stand up on the front seat of the car between her mom and dad and point to every horse she saw in the fields. She would yell to be taken to the horses. Her parents were not horse lovers and didn’t comply with her gesticulations and requests, but Donna says that she knows from this story that she loved horses from the moment she was born. She also knows that art was part of her soul then as well. As soon as she could draw, she did.

ZEBRA CAROUSEL HORSE

The mediums Donna uses in her work are varied and she switches them according to the mood she is in. She uses colored pencils, pastels, acrylic, oil and watercolors. She has carved shapes into linoleum blocks for printing and she works in polymer clay too. As Donna says, “One medium is as satisfying to me as another.” Donna likes to work wet in wet when painting. She is a prolific artist on a never ending quest to produce the next image, whatever that may be.

MOUNTAIN GOAT ON CLIFF

In 2003, Donna bought a Canon 10D, and the camera instantly became Donna’s medium of choice. She still paints and draws, but it's the camera that fascinates, challenges, and entertains her best. In 2008, Donna added a Nikon D300, with a 70-300 mm Tamron lens to her photography tools and she says the camera has become an extension of herself. In the last few years Donna has begun to do digital art using her photos, creating original works of art. Her main subjects are horses. Montana is her secondary subject matter; she says the state drives her creatively.

FIGHTING STALLIONS ON PRAIRIE

Donna went to a country school growing up, one where the teacher taught three grades at a time. Her teacher in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade was also an artist. While the other children went outside for recess, Donna studied art with the teacher. Later in life she studied with Betty Hudson Savage in Polson, Montana and with Joan Mason in St. Ignatius, Montana. Currently she participates in webinar classes on landscape painting with Johannes Vloothuis. She also studies online tutorials for using Photoshop and her cameras.

PRAIRIE CAMOUFLAGE

Donna is a member of International Equine Artists, Front Range Art Association, World Wide Women Artists, The Montana Etsy Team, and The Whoa Team on Etsy. She has been represented in many juried shows in Montana and nationally and won awards for her work. She is on the list of Montana Outdoor Magazine photographers and has had a cover photo published on the Stable Woman Gazette. Horses in Art magazine has published her articles several times. In April 2005 Donna was an invited exhibitor at The History Museum.

BUSTIN' OUT APPALOOSA

Sometimes Donna teaches informal art lessons for a neighbor or friend who mentions they would like to paint. She is happy to show them some basics so they get together over Donna’s kitchen table and work until the students feel they can carry on by themselves.

LITTLE DOE

In the near future Donna has a few things she wants to accomplish in her art. She would like to paint some of the locations she loves most along the Rocky Mountain Front. In addition, Donna will be creating more digital art as she is in love with her Photoshop Elements 7 program and the images she can create using her photos.

HORSES IN MONTANA SNOW

Donna's original art can be purchased at her studio in Vaughan, Montana and online in her Etsy shop. She sells original paintings, ACEO cards, photographs of Montana and Giclee prints of her photos and paintings. She also offers her art on products in her Zazzle shop, RedBubble gallery and on Finer Works. The Art for Conservation site also has some of Donna’s artwork available for sale.

SPIKE ELK IN MONTANA

Donna’s beautiful work is constantly being featured on Etsy and she loves the community there. She is very excited about making her work available to collectors through Etsy and now that she has a professional page on facebook, more and more people are finding Donna’s exceptional work on Etsy. Donna finds this a great way to share her beloved Montana and horses with people worldwide.

Visit Donna Ridgway on Red Bubble

Visit Donna Ridgway’s shop JACK MORGAN on Etsy

Visit Donna Ridgway on Zazzle

Like The Nature of Montana Photography on Facebook

Visit Donna Ridgway on Art for Conservation

All Images Copyright Donna Ridgway, All Rights Reserved

Written by Ruth J Jamieson, Copyright Ruth J Jamieson 2011

CHERIE BALOWSKI: SMALL TOWN GIRL AND CREATIVE ETSY SELLER

Cherie Balowski is from a small town in south central Michigan, land of the lakes. She was born an artist. Her passion for art, creating crafts and singing started at a very early age. Cherie started making art with crayons, watercolors, pencils and chalk.

GIRL FRIENDS

Cherie says she is a small town girl who loves good guitar music, classic rock, singing and playing her guitar, riding her motorcycle, visiting her son and two grandsons in Arizona and art, ART, ART!!!

I LOVE BUGS

Cherie’s first 'crafty type' projects were sculpting and painting on clay. She also carved rubber stamps, embossed copper plates, learned macramé and made paper mosaics and collages. In high school Cherie started sewing. Then she started painting anything she could get her hands on. Once she discovered the computer, a whole new world of digital art was opened for her.

PAISLEY QUEEN

Cherie is inspired by the beauty that surrounds her.

GARDEN LOVE

Cherie is an artist who works with whatever medium she is in the mood for that day! She enjoys creating art in many forms, from digital art collage sheets, digital clip art and digital scrapbook pages to hand painted gourds, baskets, beaded jewellery, paper mache, felting and everything in between.

FUNKY HATTED WITCH III

Cherie especially loves creating ACEOs...they are Art Cards, Editions & Originals. There is quite a growing number of artists and art collectors who see that these wonderful 'small format' works of art are fabulous collectibles! They are in the standard trading card size of 2.5" x 3.5" (just like baseball cards) and can be purchased in as many art forms as you can imagine. Altered, sketched, 3-D, photographs, digital art, fabric, mechanical, beaded, pencil, ink, acrylic, oil...the list is endless. As long as they are the standard size, they are considered ACEOs.

ST PATRICKS DAY

Besides original ACEO art cards for sale in Cherie’s ETSY shop you will also find a great collection of digital art that you can purchase and then receive through your email system. These fun and unique clip-art sheets are great for digital scrapbooking, journaling, scrabble tile pendants, altered art, ACEOs, greeting cards, stickers, postcards...whatever you can dream up!

MERMAID AND CHILD

Currently Cherie is designing for various POD (Print On Demand) sites such as Zazzle, RedBubble, Greeting Card Universe and more.

PRINTABLE CANNING JAR LABELS

Cherie enjoys meeting fun 'creatives' online at Twitter and FaceBook. You can join her at many of the online art groups that she is proud to be a member of like Mixed Media Workshops and Magical Holiday Artists.

EASTER STICKER SHEET

Cherie’s Arts ‘N Crafts on ETSY

Cheries Arts ‘N Crafts on Soopsee

Cherie’s Art on Bonanza

Cheries Art on Artfire

Cheries Art Card Store

Cheries Art on Printfection

Cheries Art on Zazzle

Cheries Art on Picture Trail

Cheries Art on YouTube

Cheries Art on Ebay

Art by Cherie on Skreened

Cheries Art at Redbubble

Cheries Arts ‘N Crafts Blog

Cherie’s Art on Facebook

Cherie’s Art on Twitter

ALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT CHERIE BALOWSKI, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

WINDI ROSSON PAINTS WHAT HER MUSE FANCIES

Windi is waiting for spring. She is waiting to smell the wild honeysuckle, to see the day lilies bloom, and to pick tons of fresh gardenias from the garden on the 5 acres in Georgia where she and her family live. There in the midst of the woods Windi finds peace, quiet, and inspiration for her richly colored, beautiful artwork.

ABLAZE

Windi is a self taught artist. She paints in acrylics and oils, and works with mixed media and photography. The images Windi paints are pulled from her imagination as she believes that when she does this, the painting takes on a life of its own. She says that a painting can start out as one thing, such as a landscape, and then become something entirely different, such as a figurative abstract. Windi’s inspiration comes from many sources and she likes to say that she paints whatever her muse fancies that day.

THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR WALKING

Right now Windi is painting some smaller paintings for a brick and mortar venue. She is also experimenting with some mixed media works. Once the warmer weather returns, Windi will be getting back to doing some paintings in oils.

LATER IN THE DAY

These days Windi is quite excited about having secured a new venue in her home town. For the past few weeks she has been busy preparing art work for that. As well she shipped art work out recently for a ‘vinyl’ Art Show in Tempe, which takes place later this month. In addition, Windi is currently awaiting results of some juried art shows she entered work into.

FEBRUARY TULIPS

Windi signed up very early to be a part of Etsy on the suggestion of another EBSQ artist. Life and other things got in the way and she did not start really utilizing the site until a few years ago. Once she saw that it was going to be a viable venue, she began to use the site. She says it is one of the easiest sites to use and navigate for both buyers and sellers.

BLOOM ELEMENTS

Original offerings in Windi’s Etsy shop were mixed media pieces and original paintings. Now she offers original paintings, prints, jewelry and in the future she will be offering art supplies. Recently Windi started offering gift certificates in her Etsy store and she is planning on some special promotions via her Facebook fan page in the very near future.

YELLOW BOAT, RED SAILS

Windi says Etsy has allowed her to broaden her customer base and come into contact with people like minded about selling/buying original art. Her clientele varies from people just starting out collecting art, to other artists and non-artists. Recently, she has seen a rise in interest from interior decorators and designers contacting her about her work.

FEED YOUR SIGHT

Advice Windi offers for new Etsy sellers is to make sure to update your stock frequently and take advantage of showcases if possible. Windi says she loves how Etsy has grown and that it has kept its handmade roots. She says this clearly distinguishes Etsy from other eCommerce sites.

GOOD START

In addition to Etsy, Windi markets her artwork on her website, Live Journal, Facebook, Twitter and wherever else she can find a venue. She offers a lot of original paintings and some prints and tries to keep a diverse price range with the originals. Most of Windi’s original paintings are offered in her Etsy store, however they are also available through her website. Anyone can contact her directly for purchase.

Windi also has a second Etsy store, ART SKRAP, which is where she markets her jewelry products.

Reproductions of her art work on consumer products are available in her Zazzle shop.

Fine Art America offers high quality prints of Windi’s artwork.

Many of Windi’s small original paintings are offered through Art-O-Mat machines around the country.

Visit Windi Rosson at WINJIMIR STUDIOS

WINJIMIR on Etsy

ART SKRAP on Etsy

WINJIMIR on Zazzle

WINDI ROSSON on Fine Art America

Join Windi on Facebook

Follow Windi on Twitter

Connect with Windi on LiveJournal

All images Copyright Windi Rosson, All Rights Reserved

Written by Ruth J Jamieson, Copyright Ruth J Jamieson

MEET NEW ETSY SELLER HEATHER LEE

Heather Lee is a lifelong artist following in her artist father’s footsteps. From her home in Fairfax County, Virginia, Heather paints, creates beautiful art quilts, and raises her young children. Although she learned about ETSY a few years ago from a friend, she just began marketing her art on the site recently.

ABSTRACT QUILT

Heather’s art reflects her environment. She misses the mountains of Colorado and feels that influences what she wants to paint. Her new views are of tree tops and forests and this has prompted her to paint a series of tree paintings.

SNOW

Inspired and guided by her father, Heather has always been an artist. She studied Art at college and earned a B.A. in Fine Art. As a professional artist she has experience as a florist, hot glass and stained glass designing and designing custom textiles.

BUDDHA WITH GUITAR

Heather has always been inspired by the beauty in nature and that inspiration has intensified. No matter how traditional or unusual a subject, she enjoys exploring different possibilities and techniques. Her medium of choice, when creating her paintings, is watercolor painting.

HONEY BEE

Watercolor is a very challenging medium and Heather is always working to improve her skill level and explore new ways to use it. Heather loves working in watercolor because she feels it represents a moment in time because it cannot be reworked much, if at all, and the final product contains a lot of spontaneity

GHOST TREES

A new type of painting that Heather has begun to explore recently is original, watercolor Artist Trading Cards. She finds them an exciting option for expression.

ACEO - LITTLE BEE

Heather’s decision to open a shop on ETSY came after she found she enjoyed shopping and browsing on the site. She found a very high quality of work in the ETSY shops she visited and felt like she would be in good company if she has a shop there.

ACEO - ORCHARD

Since opening her shop a little over a month ago, Heather has listed some of her paintings and art quilts. With the goal of offering smaller artworks at various price points, she has since added greeting cards created from her original paintings and hand painted Art Trading Cards. Her goal is to offer something for everyone who enjoys her art or wishes to give it as a gift.

BLUE ROSES

As a new Etsian, Heather says it is too soon to tell what effect having a shop there is having on her Art business. As well as building her ETSY shop, Heather is building an impressive portfolio on artist site EBSQ, and evaluating some other art websites where she may consider opening shops. For now though, her focus is on ETSY.

ACEO - FIREFLY I

Heather finds the community culture on ETSY wonderful, she says the people are kind and helpful and that makes the whole experience a whole lot easier and less lonely. She also loves how buyers and sellers can contribute equally to treasuries, favorites and comments. Her advice to new ETSY sellers? Join a team, network and be patient.

Visit Heather at Sunny Lee Studio on EBSQ

Browse Heather’s shop Sunny Lee Studio on ETSY

Join Sunny Lee Studio on Facebook

ART TRADING CARDS an International Collaborative Cultural Performance

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All Images Copyright Heather Lee, All Rights Reserved

Written by Ruth J Jamieson, Copyright Ruth J Jamieson