Well, it was several months in the making, but I’ve finally begun uploading artwork to Crane Artifacts, my sales portal at Handmade at Amazon!
Depending on this portal’s performance over the next six months, I’ll probably gradually be shifting a lot more art and jewelry to it and one more that I can’t wait to tell you folks about.
Why is Crane Artifacts on Amazon? Because SaatchiArt online is a great portal…for specific lines of contemporary art. I can paint (and enjoy painting) stuff that will better fit the Saatchi curators’ unspoken mandates, but just not right now. I’ve never been that in love with Etsy. Artfire and some of the other old art sites are plagued by scaling issues that are now driving many artisans away.
I will still be working with galleries and representative agents in book art projects, and with boutiques for limited wall art and jewelry.
But art, just like publishing, is opening wonderful, terrifying new frontiers for people willing to put in the work to self-publish and market their creations. Amazon is a huge platform with a lot to offer…at least for now.
Updated 9/27/2017: I’ve tabled my Amazon Handmade site for a while, and am now trying out Etsy.