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Setting Up an Etsy Store is Easy!

Napa Vineyard - Original California Impressionistic Landscape I recently opened an Etsy store as a new adventure into marketing my work. Etsy is an amazing site that provides a free store to any artist looking for an easy way to set up his or her own shop. I literally had completed establishing my Etsy site within minutes, and after a couple of hours, I had uploaded artworks and listed them for sale with descriptions, shipping information and prices. Etsy is a huge online market dedicated to the sale of hand-made or vintage products. There is no charge for owning or creating a shop. Artists pay a 20 cent fee for each item when it is listed, and this fee allows for the listing to remain active for 4 months. When an item is sold, a 3.5% sales fee is paid to Etsy. This has got to be the best deal in world! My store has been up since early July, and I've been adding items and refining my listings based on research I've conducted. It turns out there are some really successf...

Agency Bay Pine, Acrylic on Masonite, 5x7 inches, July 5, 2010

This is a plein air painting I produced at an Agency Bay beach on Leech Lake, Walker, Minnesota. It was a beautiful Fourth of July weekend, and I couldn't help but get out in the morning to paint. I used lake water to thin the paint and clean my brushes, so there's some of the Minnesota lakes locked in the surface of the image! For purchase inquiries, contact me by leaving a note in the comment field below or by going to my Etsy Gallery through the link on the right side of this blog. Thanks for looking!