New Art-Incredible Time lapse Nature film (not mine)& a BAD! Kitty update w/ new art that is mine!
‘Overhead View’
18″ x 24″
oils and mixed media (heavy art papers)
back stapled gallery canvas with finished sides, needs no frame.
Ready to hang
To check out this weeks ART AUCTIONS, just go to eBay.com and type (or copy & paste from here) badkittyartstudio and you will see all the goods!
Here is the quote that helped this work along:
Shadow and Light Source Both
How does a part of the world leave the world?
How does wetness leave water?
Dont’ try to put out fire by throwing on
more fire! Don’t wash a wound with blood.
No matter how fast you run, your shadow
keeps up. Sometimes it’s in front!
Only full overhead sun diminishes your shadow.
But that shadow has been serving you.
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is
your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.
I could explain this, but it will break the
glass cover on your heart, and there’s no
fixing that.
You must have shadow and light source both.
Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe.
When from that tree feathers and wings sprout on you,
be quieter than a dove. Don’t even open your mouth for
even a coo.
Good Day everyone! BAD! Kitty here, I know it’s been a while. I have been very busy though so a quick (maybe not so quick actually, because it’s been awhile) update on what’s what.
The new “eBay clear the studio out” project is going along pretty well. I’ve been running weekly art auctions for three weeks now and it’s starting to look up. I’ve decided to post my progress here for anyone that maybe interested in the day by day stuff that goes into a sales campaign like this. Being that this is most certainly not my first rodeo, I thought it might be good to share information. It’s takes at least 6-8 weeks to test market a sales idea for any product, in fact most big scale companies use the 6-8 month strategy. So, I am at week three, improving my auction placement strategy and appearances, blogging, cross-promoting and advertising. Yes it’s a lot of work. So far I’ve had one sale. Not bad.
I figure to clean out the studio of basically 150 paintings, that have come home from shows, galleries and my own heavy production cycles (I paint A LOT, like 4-5 paintings a month). It will take this entire year of weekly art auctions, and all the promoting I can fit in, to clear them out of the studio. In order to do this I am going to at first lose money. Yup, that’s right, lose money. See its like this…to sell art on eBay, every artist has to pretty much check your ego at the door first. The first auctions are to get seen, find your groove, develop your now- in- the-present voice, and start making sales. They have to be target priced to get seen and build that ever important feedback score. So you have to start with low opening bids (now I am doing whole sale cost) which for me is the wholesale cost of the items to create the art itself. Basically I get no payment for the creation at that price it’s just a break even cost of supplies. That number for me, seems to be around 50.00 -100.00 USD. Yes this is not ideal in marketing your art, duh. The thing is it time that you are paying for. Every artist on eBay that sells art regularly and is popular has been at it for a long time. They got to that place using a bunch of different and good market strategies. This is mine.
I have so much accumulated unsold, homeless art, that I can afford to sell this way to get the party started. Does it devalue my work in the overall market place? Nope. Well I am now unrepresented by any gallery, so I can do what ever I want in that way. (not that I’ve ever done anything any other way than my own, er, I am the BAD! Kitty) To be honest the high-priced, gallery representation gig isn’t my thing. I honestly and truly am over it. I don’t think it’s for me, too complicated.
I am very simple person, with very simple needs and pleasures. I like to create art. I like to write and read and sell art. I don’t really care about all the rest of it. These things make it possible for me to continue to create and live fully. I have o create, I don’t have a choice, it’s almost a compulsion and most certainly a therapy/release thing, a part of who I am. So, if I make enough money in the process to buy new supplies and keep feeding myself new information to process and inspire than great! I have a day job. I don’t make a living off of my artwork anymore, I do however make enough for supplies and study=learning new skills for expression. That works for me. If I don’t give-up and give-in to the grind of eBay or any other marketing strategy then I doomed to running out of money for continuation of my addiction to art supplies. That can’t happen, perish the thought! I will make more money than I need to cover supplies, eventually, I’m good at what I do and I then make profit. Cool Beans I can live with that.
Two years ago when the market went to hell in a hand basket, I was selling art at a fine market price every week, making money and a living. That has ended. It’s over, and I’ve had to face that and get a good paying day job. OKay, so I did that, we must eat you know art staples don’t taste all that good. So after lots of soul-searching, I’ve decided to try a different tack.
I am re-vamping BAD! Kitty Art Studio. I am lowering costs, cutting overhead, changing my marketing and kick-start a new year. Screw it, what do I have to lose? because this current state of events is soooo not working for me. The web site will get a makeover this week, and prices will be cut, to a cost + labor level. I will continue the liquidation/sell off with the weekly auctions for one year and re-evaluate then. I will post to you all my progress and chart how long it takes to get to center of the eBay lollipop. I will continue without fanfare about the business of creating and moving forward. When times and circumstances change, I will be ready to do so as well. Bend like the reed, or whatever.
That’s it on that front. Whew! Now to reward you for reading all that stuff n’ fluff, art for the eyes and soul. Enjoy this video on full screen, it’s totally worth it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmRaVoqA5Fk&feature=player_embedded
Love to all!
Heather
http://www.badkittyartstudio.com
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New Art- Rocky McCocklespur
‘Rocky McCocklespur’
18″ x 24″
oils on back stapled canvas
finished sides and comes ready to hang out of the box,
needs no frame
Available for purchase on my BAD! Kitty Web Site in the 2010 painting gallery
Here is the quote that helped to inspire the painting:
One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens she paused to ask the man in charge if the rooster copulate more than once each day. “Dozens of times, was the reply.” “Please tell that to the President,” Mrs. Coolidge requested. When the President passed the pens and was told about the roosters, he asked “Same hen every time?” “Oh no, Mr. President, a different one each time.” The President nodded slowly, then said, “Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872 – 1933)
NEW Art Auctions to start the New Year Right!
Hello All! Happy New Year to everyone!!!
I thought it would be fun to start some art auctions to kick off the new year, so check the links and check them out. They are all 7 day listings, have no reserves and the bidding is starting at a measly $50.00 each!
These are the works listed on Ebay:
Lola, #1 from the pin-Up Series
The Ironwood Tree: Bent not Broken
http://myworld.ebay.com/badkittyartstudio
These works are available at Overstock and have 7 day listings, no reserves and $50.00 opening bids:
The Moon Always Rises
I hope everyone has had a good start to the new year. Check out the auctions and take this chance to get some kick ass BAD! Kitty Original Art on the cheap. It won’t last long and probably won’t be repeated too often as I only do auctions a few times every year, and never at these prices!
Love and peace to all. Thanks for being here today!
Heather
http://www.badkittyartstudio.com
Support living artists, buy some original art today
BAD! Kitty @ ArtOneMent – Feature
Submission Guidelines
Include a little introduction to who you are, please 
My Feature: http://www.artonement.org/blog/2009/11/22/heather-brown-truman/
Stop by and check out my feature at this terrific blog! Being an artist, is more than painting a pretty picture, it’s communion of the soul, a record of living. Being a spirit centered artist, it was so nice to be approached by such a fine person as Erin, and a wonderful visionary artist. A real honor!Thanks for being here, have a great day!
Heather
http://www.badkittyartstudio.com
Support living artists – buy some original art today
The holidays are almost here, are you ready?
This has been a Public Service announcement, brought to you by BAD! Kitty Art Studio, Lexington KY.
In the event of a real art emergency, this message will be followed by holiday art sales, you will be directed to the BAD! Kitty Web Site, where you can find soulful, original artworks to heal the spirit, and sooth your worried mind.
As of today 11/16/09 there are 39 shopping days left before Christmas. BAD! Kitty Art Studio offers interest free art-lay-a-way for your shopping pleasure.
This has been a test of the International Art Emergency System. Stay tuned to this channel for further news and information.
Thanks for being here today, I hope your week rocks the house. Happy Monday.
Heather
http://www.badkittyartstudio.com
Support living artists, buy some original art today, because you deserve it.
Tips for buying original art online – from Contemporary Art Blogs
New Art- Watch Tower
Close up view
‘Watch Tower’
20″ x 24″ x 1.5″
Oils
Gallery wrapped canvas, painted sides, ready to hang
Available for purchase at the BAD! Kitty Art Studio Web Site
Here is the quote that goes along with this work:
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”
New Art- Languish
‘Languish’
20″ x 24″Gallery wrapped canvas, painted sides, ready to hang
Available for purchase on my web site
The quote that goes with this work:
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen?
Just a few thoughts…
Have a great day and thanks for being here today.
Heather
http://www.badkittyartstudio.com
Support living artists, buy some art today
Happy Monday, this is your art calling
Iron Wood Tree: Bent not Broken Oils copyright 2009 HMBT
The Ironwood Tree: Bent not Broken
24″ x 18″
oils and mixed media
Finished sides, needs no frame, back stapled canvas
Ready to hang
Here is the quote that inspired the work:the rain, but dance in it. This time we are living through is tough, hard on the ego, hard on the stress, hard on the pocketbook. Times they are tough.
Many of us are trying to find our way back to who we thought we were, I’ve decided to stand true and bend. Lean into this time, ask what I can learn, and continue forward. I paint. I create. I love and live right out loud. I am in harmony with my true self and this storm will pass and I will still be standing,
Bent but not Broken.
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward some are strong at the broken
places.” ~Ernest Hemingway
The Ironwood Tree is all about bending, all about being able to not get out of
In all of the pictures I took of this work, these were the best. The color on my monitor looks about right, but from experience I know that this shade of purple/blue/mauve/pink can vary widely on other monitors… this is a deep
blue shade of purple. Overall the sky colors are a study of red and blue combinations to explore the mood of the color purple, there are even hints of soft orange too. So, I just wanted you all out there to know what the work really looks like no matter how it may appear on your monitors. I hope that helps, please feel free to use the “contact artist” button in the left hand side
bar, top of this page, if you have any questions or would like more pictures of this work.
Daily Art- Mask Man
Mask Man
18″ x 24″
oils
Finished sides, needs no frame
Ready to hang
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Here is the quote that inspired the painting:
Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around
every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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To purchase this work or see more of it CLICK HERE
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Mask Man was an accident. I was going for a completely different type of painting, but as soon as he started to take shape I knew I was going to paint what needed to be created, not what I wanted to create. He is done in rich earth tones and set in a blacker than black background. He glows from the canvas, he invites you to see what is in and on your heart, he inspires self love and inner peace. He knows that if we all could shine our inner lights a little brighter, we can change the world from a rat race to a nirvana, because it all starts inside of each of us. Inner peace is like a virus, it spreads and grows, and someday if we are all unafraid enough, it will change our world, save our spaceship earth and cure the evil of hate, greed and bigotry.
We all have masks that we wear, our social or public masks, our family masks, our business masks. Long ago I decided that I was tired of trying on all those masks just so the world would accept me as I am, with the mask I was born with; what I was born with in my heart and my soul. When I did that my life became so much easier to handle. No longer did I have to worry if I had on the proper mask for any experience, person, or place. I come to the masked ball of life, naked. I am Raw and Radiant, and have no need to pretend to be anything other than myself. Like it or lump it, this is me, and I like myself, as is. My opinion of myself and my character is more important than what anyone else’s opinion of me will ever be.
I created the Mask Man to remind myself, it’s not what is behind the masks that people wear, it’s what’s in their hearts, and what’s hidden behind their eyes that is important. This work is one of my favorites, because it painted (or gave birth) to itself. My body, mind and soul were just the instrument to put it onto the canvas for others to see, feel and learn from. This mask is a happy, loving and compassionate teacher. It offers you friendship, the wealth of a healthy soul, and unconditional love, just as you are.
May your day be filled with compassionate love, for yourself and the world at large. To every living thing, I say, I love you, you belong, you are needed and you are special.
Heather
http://www.badkittyartstudio.com
