For a long while I was sort of an art hermit. I made a lot of pieces and they sat on shelves in my studio, workshop, whatever it is. They became fixtures there I saw them everyday and I became comfortable with them. Some of them eventually migrated up into the livingroom, or the kitchen wall, or even the bedroom. They were my art pieces.
About 2 years ago I started putting some of them up on my ETSY shop. I never publicized it very much, and I wasnt much of a social media user (HERMIT!). A few months ago I decided I wanted to put effort in selling pieces. I signed onto Twitter, created a Grimvisions Facebook Page, revamped the Grimvisions.com blog, became active again. This has brought me a lot more traffic, my Blog traffic has gone up over 500%, and my ETSY traffic has gone up 150%, I have sold more pieces than ever before. This is all great news.
But I am also selling some old pieces that I have had up on ETSY for almost 2 years. I had grown attached to them in a way. They had become fixtures in my shop, I had used them as reference pieces at times. They were almost my belongings. Now that I have sold some of them I miss them, other people have them, I wonder what they are doing with them. Do they like them? are they treating them with care?
I reckon this is something many artists go thru at times. I find it isn’t so difficult with commisioned pieces or pieces I make with the intention of selling. But with the pieces I made with no intent, I just made them and put them up on a shelf and they sat there.
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geez…I am just like that! an "art hermit"…not all that anxious to sell my stuff–when I recently sold one of my pieces (surprise, surprise!!!), I felt such a terrible sense of loss! good to know that I'm not the only one with those same thoughts…anyway, enjoy your blog and appreciate your works…thanks
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