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How to Survive a Craft Sale

How to Survive a Craft Sale

Join Ché Orridge as she shares invaluable insights from her craft sale journey with her mom Delores. Discover practical tips on early planning, booth setup, adapting to trends, and managing finances for successful craft sales. Learn from their experiences to navigate the craft sale world with confidence and creativity.
Can I Make Money With My Art if I Only Use Procreate?

Can I Make Money With My Art if I Only Use Procreate?

I recently sent out an email asking the membership the same questions I asked recently here in the community. I am trying to plan content, as...
How to Make Money with Your Art

How to Make Money with Your Art

Over the years, I’ve managed to make design work a good chunk of my income. If you’re wondering how to become a designer, I will endeavour to teac...
Mood Boards and Why They are Important

Mood Boards and Why They are Important

I have always relied on mood boards when starting into a design phase for a product or pattern. Mood boards are a great reference point for startin...
Deloresart School of Art Opening Soon

Deloresart School of Art Opening Soon

Hey there, As you may or may not know, I have been working on a School of Art for several months. I have always loved to teach (I spent 30 years te...
Looking for an Art Licensing agent? My story… - deloresartcanada

Looking for an Art Licensing agent? My story…

I am often asked whether an artist should look for and work with an art licensing agent, and the follow-up question is usually “how do I find one?”...
Is it truly possible to “earn while you sleep”? - deloresartcanada

Is it truly possible to “earn while you sleep”?

In the class Easy Print-on-Demand for Artists, I wanted to be sure to tell you why I think it’s something you need to see. I know you have all hear...
Inspiring Artists Rex Ray and the Marimekko group - deloresartcanada

Inspiring Artists Rex Ray and the Marimekko group

Amazing, abstract and handcrafted, with a retrofuturistic feel, Rex Ray’s work is always identifiable, whether as fine art seen on museum or galler...
The Adventure Continues (the Surface Pattern Design quest, that is!) - deloresartcanada

The Adventure Continues (the Surface Pattern Design quest, that is!)

Today I’m back on the jag of my love of pattern design. I discovered this very special niche inside the art and design world while teaching in my h...
Carry Your Tools - How to Take Natural Media on the Road - deloresartcanada

Carry Your Tools - How to Take Natural Media on the Road

Traveling provides a great source of inspiration for art, and some of my best art is captured when I immerse myself in a new environment. Even if I...
Camping and Patterns - deloresartcanada

Camping and Patterns

This last weekend I was possessed to use my water-colours in creating patterns so I could practice making good patterns that I could repeat and use in my surface pattern design for art licensing. 
What Is Intuitive Painting? - deloresartcanada

What Is Intuitive Painting?

Have you ever started a painting without a plan? Have you ever just put paintbrush to canvas without "knowing" what you were trying to paint? Well, this is called intuitive painting.