Making the leap to full-time artist was a scary, but was a long-anticipated step in my life-long art career.  When the economy started tanking a couple of years ago, I was laid off from both of my part time jobs and took that as a sign to finally “go for it”…do art full time!  I was exhibiting regularly at that point, and getting some freelance work, but given the rough financial times for everyone, sales were hard to come by.

So, I decided to branch out my artwork to include lower-priced, marketable items.  I had already been selling my own line of greeting cards, which was doing well, so I expanded on that, which then lead towards the idea of T-shirts.  I vend at a lot of artistic events, such as art fairs, Wiccan fests, goth clubs, etc. and although people loved my original artwork, often they couldn’t afford an original or had no wall space for reproductions…so, with T-shirts they could WEAR my art!

Using a website like Artybuzz provides a great platform to sell t shirts to a wide audience that may not be reachable, or appropriate to sell to for your normal art sales. So it’s a nice opportunity that presents itself with Artybuzz.com. This has worked out pretty well so far and I would therefore recommend it to others.
I often deal with very specific tastes at the events I do so I keep the subject matter consistent with what people want, which is perfect as it’s the focus of much of my artwork.  But I also found that there are tons of animal lovers out there from all walks of life, so my “Petoons”, (c)L.Curtis, have been big sellers. Feel free to email me at forestwalker333@hotmail.com with any questions.

Well, I want to thank Artybuzz for the opportunity to be a guest blogger here and he will be a guest on my blog (http://laurencurtis.wordpress.com) very soon!
Thanks for reading!
~Lauren Curtis – www.LaurenCurtisArt.com,
Visual Artist, NJ, USA