I’ve recently had a few sales on my Fun With Fireflies design at RedBubble.com. It is most popular on T-shirts, but have also sold a mug and other print products using this design. A fun (and cute) reminder of warm glittery July nights!
Sending your friends and family a traditional Christmas or Holiday greeting card is a custom that never goes out of style and people really do appreciate receiving them! Please visit my shop for some festive and personally designed greeting card options: see the Christmas and Holiday Gallery.
Discounts are automatically applied when ordering amounts of 10 cards or 25 cards. Look for the Greeting Card product on the right side of the image page. Click that to customize your card with a message of your own on the inside of the card, and to place an order.
These designs also make great Holidays decor, so check out other product options too. I like the throw pillows for bumping up that comfy holiday look in your home.
Here is a link to my blog post discussing my recent May visit to the Monet exhibit at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, including some pretty photos. Here’s one for a teaser…
I sold a couple of these colorful and pretty iPhone cases this week on Redbubble.com using my artwork called “Bellagio Glass Flowers” – available on other print products too. Thank you to the purchasers! Bellagio Glass Flowers, iPhone case, by Bonnie Follett
My original photo of the glass sculpture installation at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas was the inspiration for this photo painting.
Sending out the real old fashioned actual paper Christmas and Holiday Cards may seem like it’s becoming a lost art, but people really do appreciate it! You can shop my Christmas card options in my Fine Art America Christmas and Holidays collection.
Discounts are automatically applied when ordering 10 cards or 25 cards. Look for the Greeting Card product on the right side of the image page. Click that to customize your card with a message of your own on the inside of the card, and to place an order.
I always like to check out the Fleet Week Air Show in San Francisco, an annual event in the city every October. It’s great for the sights, the sounds and the noise – love those “fly-by’s”!!
Girl at Window with art scam Money Swirl by Bonnie Follett
Dear Artists: I understand you get excited if someone shows an interest in actually purchasing your artwork, but. . . be sure to check them out before you even bother to respond. They may be a potential scammer.
So this is a public service message for artists and to remind any readers about Art Scams out there on those “internets” – usually by email, possibly by telephone, and maybe by now, other means too! Be a little skeptical!
What To Do:
(1) The first thing to do is a google search on their email address, and then on their name, and see if anything pops up on that, or if they even look like a real person based on what results do come up. (If there’s absolutely nothing that comes up on a person or their email, that’s a red flag.) Then do a search on art scams.
(2) Keeping in mind the type of communication you received, see how it compares to the known Art Scams (reflected in your searches or in the articles below). If you recognize the same methods being used, compared to the examples provided, well, it’s a scam.
(3) If what’s going on with you seems like it may be slightly different, scams continually evolve, so do a google search on a phrase or words used (copy and paste from the email) or on what they told you (if by telephone). Maybe it’s a new one.
(4) There’s also a Facebook page (Stop Art Scams) where you can ask questions or report scams for discussion.
(5) Some artists and photographers are tempted to “play along” to see what happens. Don’t be. Don’t waste your time ever responding to them, if its a scam. You have better things to do. They’ll have a weird loop for getting your money (and sometimes your art, for free). If you play their game, you will end up feeling like an idiot. And they will always try to play off your ego and desire for positivity, your wanting to believe it’s a real potential sale.
(6) If you are still tempted to believe it’s a real legitimate potential purchaser, develop a good list of questions for information-gathering from the potential client. Go on the defensive and insist that the purchaser follow “your business procedures” (which you never deviate from) and see how they respond to providing information on just who they are really, and whether they will follow your procedures. If they are legit, they will not have a problem with that. If they are a fake, they will have lots of reasons why they have to do it “their way.” Drop them like a hot potato! – And publish their fake name and email on the internet as a known scammer – I saved at least two other artists from my scammer a few months ago. He was John Owen – johnowen1000010000@gmail.com .
(7) Go spend your time on your usual routine, your art, and your usual social media marketing procedures. Don’t bite on scammers and get reeled in by their funky B.S.
Check out these links if you think something is fishy (or even if you hope it’s “Legit”):
Stop Art Scams (8/24/2018) (sample emails from scammers), at: http://stopartscams.blogspot.com/ (if you’ve received anything like this, it’s a scam! So stop corresponding and wasting your time!)
