Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Thursday, October 3, 2019

one was easier

I'm stuck on my website, it looks like a portfolio which is good but I also wanted a store so that people could buy from me but it's not working like I thought.  I keep following the steps to add PayPal to my site but for some reason its not taking it.  So my website is just the portfolio I started with, which is good so I'll have to call them and see what I'm doing wrong.

Putting up a website isn't as easy as they say, and some even say its essential to display your artwork.  I'll just leave the portfolio up and have people contact me if they want to buy.
I did learn something though.  Putting up a red bubble store is easier.  After I figured out how to convert my photos of my artwork from a jpeg to a gif file, it turned out to be easier.  Red Bubble is a site that any artist can put up artwork and they will put it on coffee mugs, t-shirts, pillows, totes, travel mugs and you keep the rights of your work.  You also keep a larger percentage of the sales on Red bubble than any other site I looked into.  Most of the artwork on there is stuff like the characters of the "angry birds" or little doodles like that but I decided to put most of my drawings.  Like I said easier, and another stream of income if anything sells.  I haven't sold anything yet, but it's only been a month.

check out my site to see what you can sell then go ahead and read what they have to offer, I think its totally cool.
cmcisn1966.redbubble.com

Monday, September 16, 2019

I'm stuck

I started to create a website for my artwork and named it corinneartwork1.com, but to convert it into a store is totally different and harder than they advertise.  They advertise to just click and paste the images and whall-la you have a store.  Not.  Although you can just to set up the images but to create a "cart" and to put buttons under each image that say "add to cart" is totally different.  The instructions say to go to the site where you want to receive payments, example; Paypal or square.com and add your email, so you do then what??   So on PayPal, I created a couple of buttons but now what do you do?  How many buttons do you have to create?
I've gone through the How to section but that information isn't really listed.  I searched through all the Q&A on both sites Weebly and PayPal but couldn't find this information, so the only thing is to call them.  Search through everything just to find a phone number.  Too much trouble, can't I just downgrade back to a portfolio and suggest to email me for purchases?.
Not as easy to create a store as they claim.

Monday, July 29, 2019

News

Well, I have glaucoma, I'm 53 and I'm going blind.  On my right eye, I am 3/4's blind because of a scar tissue build-up.  On my left eye, although I can see I have the same scar tissue building up and eventually I will be blind.  I don't know how long it will take, nor do I know if I'll be totally blind or not.

So that was my news in June, although I've been dealing with my right eye for a little over 2 years and knew that I would eventually lose sight in the left, it's just that after my eye doctor's appointments in June they made me realize that it's going to be sooner than eventually.

Well I think it was mostly the fact that they don't know how I got this scar tissue, apparently, it is caused by damage to my eyes, and I have not had any damage to either eye, so they don't know.  Not like they are going to really investigate the cause.  I believe it has to be glaucoma, I know for a fact that my diabetes has not reached my eyes yet so what else would it be?  However, I recently took myself off the road, I have a white curtain that shows up over my left eye when I drive, and usually I can blink and it'll go away but recently it didn't want to go away while I was driving back from the store which caused me to run over a curb. So I drove carefully home and decided that was the last time I would put anybody else in danger.  For the rest of the weeks I have had this white curtain over my eye, I can see but everything is blurry like looking through a sheer white curtain, it clears up after a little while but then returns a little later.

Of course, there is another reason I took myself off the road.  Everything is making me very sleepy.  Even every day over the counter Tylenol makes me sleepy.  I seem to be falling asleep every little while.  So having this partially blind right eye, blurry left eye and can't stay awake, well no more driving.

dawn


I've been experimenting with soft pastel chalk lately,
I've found a few pastel artists on youtube and I've been
trying to learn to get better then what I've been doing
however, I feel like I still draw like a toddler.

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Blood Moon



I also managed to get a shot of the blood moon in the same trees as the previous photo.  Both taken at about 5 a.m. as the moon is setting just before the eclipse is done.

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Photos



I do photography as well, this is the moon actually setting behind some trees.
I tend to do a lot of photos of the moon, I guess you can say I'm obsessed.  However, these do come in handy when I need something new to paint.

This Photo is available on my website for purchase at www.corinneartwork1.com