To begin with, an unorganized and messy studio will have a powerful impact on your ability to produce items for the marketplace. If you don’t care what you make or how it turns out orĀ whether it ever gets actually worn, you have no problem working in a junkpile, but if you want to know what resources you have, and you want those resources to be findable, you’ll have to make some decisions about how your workbench will be arranged and what places on the workbench will do what jobs. Continue reading
Scrimshaw Style Original Fine Art Nails by EJ Gold
That’s right, I’m creating handmade STRICTLY one-of-a-kind scrimshaw style artnails for the high-end nail salon market, and believe me, there’s plenty of it to go around. Nail art is more than popular — it rivals tattoos for popularity, and the FEATURE NAIL is the key to the whole thing.
Feature nails can be handpainted and sometimes you can get a fantastic nail by a total unknown artist for a fraction of what you really should pay. Oh, most folks don’t think they should pay for art — after all, isn’t art a form of play?
Many artists starve or maintain a day job just because of that attitude by frozen-faced street zombies under the usual alien domination.
Okay, so how much are they, and where can you get them??? Continue reading