I have been selling my artworks to friends but never got the chance to exhibit my paintings to public. The only way I get to have my drawings and paintings seen is with my Touchtalent but since I only have a free account, I don't know how I could possibly sell them. Luckily, I stumbled on a comment from Instagram, where an artist were advised to sell his works via Etsy. I immediately checked the site and found that opening an online shop requires very minimal cost to sell my artworks. I haven't received any purchase yet but I get to exhibit my works, and by doing so, I received more orders from friends. First Steps to Starting Up Your Online Art StoreYour Hobby Can be a Good Start for BusinessIn starting my trade show booth Suppliers Etsy online art store, which I called Rose Gob's Artworks, I've gone through a lot of trial and error. I started reading the blogs written by fellow Etsy shop owners and tried to look at how they sell their items. I also ask questions as to how I can possibly make my own shop look attractive to buyers.

The quality of photos I used for my postings matters, according to one blogger, and I thought if I am the buyer, the price matters more. Yet still, since I started it, I have not received any purchase via online.The advantage of opening my online store though is that I get to promote my works to my friends by sharing it on my Facebook (FB) account, and Twitter account. While I'm writing this article, I am hopeful for the promised commissioned work given to me by a new acquaintance, to work for a charcoal portrait or drawing for 16 members of their Coop's board. Also pending at this moment is the delivery of a commissioned work for an oil painting (as shown below). When starting your online shop, we need to actively promote it. Without doing so, how do you expect to drive traffic to your online shop. Invite your friends to view it and if possible, promote it too.Boosting your post on FB may help depending on how wide your reach is. Paying to boost your post would mean extra expense.Having an online shop is also an additional responsibility. Regularly check your inbox to make sure you don't misses any leads or possible customers.

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Synopsis: French art collector Charles Bonnet has a collection that is envied by many. But, he has a secret, his collection consists of forgeries. When he risks getting caught after donating a forged statue to a museum exhibit, his daughter partners with an art thief in an effort to steal the statue before it can be examined. Who's In It?The movie stars Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Hugh Griffith, Eli Wallach and Charles Boyer. ReviewI had planned on watching another classic film last night while my wife was at work. However, after I started that movie, I discovered it wasn't in English and, since I wasn't really in the mood to spend my evening reading subtitles, I looked for an alternative.I had seen this movie was available on Netflix about a week ago and, after reading the description, thought it sounded interesting. As it turns out, it was actually a pretty decent film.The thing I found I liked about this movie was the chemistry between Hepburn and O'Toole.

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Beginning this month at the Tate in London is a retrospective of the work of celebrated Italian photographer Enricho Ravioli, whose accomplishments in the field of takeaway menu boards has elevated the photography of kebabs to the status of an art form. Born in Naples when no one was looking, Enricho was the third of two children. His mother - part Spanish, part German, and occasionally Russian at the weekends - scraped a living by gluing fake plastic ears onto injured donkeys that had been damaged in road traffic incidents. His father was the latest in a long line of Sicilian trouser upholsterers, but supplemented his meagre earnings by sleeping with other men for money. All of which meant that Enricho and his older brother Luigi saw very little of their parents. The only chance they really got to bond with their father was at weekends, when he would enlist the boys' help in doing little jobs around the house - using them mostly to prop open doors, hold up shelves and hammer in nails. Most of the time, however, Enricho and Luigi were left to their own devices.It was around this time that Enricho began to take an interest in photography. His usual subject was Mussolini, their pet beagle, which he would stake out in their back yard and photograph using a number of different lenses and filters. It was through such experimentation that he came to perfect his art, and it soon became apparent that he had a real flair for capturing mood and feeling.When the brothers came of age it seemed obvious what each would do.

Luigi went to study pasta design at the University of Milan, specialising in studies of the relative stress values of tagliatelle and spaghetti. Meanwhile, Enricho set his sights on the catwalks of Europe, hoping to make a name for himself as a fashion photographer. However, competition was fierce and although Enricho was both technically and artistically accomplished, his work lacked that vital 'something' that would make him stand out for the crowd.Nevertheless, he doggedly pursued his aim for eight years, travelling around the continent in the wake of the big fashion extravaganzas, beauty pageants and dog shows. And whenever work became thin on the ground he was able to fall back on the family trade, earning a few coppers here and there upholstering the trousers of the rich, the famous and the influential. And it was while he was re-covering the particularly threadbare gusset of a pair of nylon sports casuals for a London businessman that his big break came - although he didn't recognise it as such at the time.The gentleman in question, an Australian entrepreneur by the name of Kerry Taylor, had just bought a rundown kebab takeaway in Tooting.

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