[Aquanet] cards and paper

[David Becker]

What is this make a Christmas card day? Are you showing people how to paint
a Xmas Card or is everyone painting a Xmas card and then you display them
all in a show?
Are you setting up a tent where anybody can come and pay a fee, sit down and
paint a card...... This is what I do in the spring, a week before mothers
day at my son¹s school. I set up a show tent with tables and I bring all the
supplies and photo reference for kids and adults to paint for a fee. I
charged 5.00 2 years ago when I did it and I had a ton of people sit down to
paint. Many kids sat down to do paintings of flowers for mothers day
presents. This is done on the same day as the church¹s plant sale.  Mothers
loved it because they got wonderful presents from their kids and now those
mothers always ask if I¹m doing the tent again. I didn¹t do it this year and
I will definitely have to raise the price as all the supplies are going up
in price.


As for getting students to stay away from student grade products..... I tell
them student grade products are best used by the professional. I say that
watercolor is tough enough with top quality products, why make it even
harder yet. If they are real sticklers about using those blocks I tell them
to at least get the 300 LB arches blocks or if they use a 140 block to not
buy it so big. 

I buy arches 300lb paper in bulk and sell it in my class for no profit, just
what I pay. I say they can buy this full sheet of arches 300 lb paper for 8
bucks, cut it in half vertically and horizontally and get 8  11² x 15²
painting sheets, that means using both sides of the paper which you can do
on 300lb. This is something one can not do very easily on block 140lb paper,
once you paint on the one side of 140 that¹s pretty much it.... 300lb is
tough enough so it won¹t wrinkle when using both sides.

If they want to get more painting surfaces out of that full sheet they can
cut the sheets again and end up with 16 sheets of 7 1/2² x 11² Using both
sides again. So ask them what is cheaper now..... 16 sheets of professional
7.5 x 11 300lb for 8 bucks or 20 sheets of overly sized(glue that holds the
paper together and resists water) 9 x 12 crappy 140lb at 12 bucks
http://www.artsuppliesonline.com/catalog.cfm?cata_id=10388

I also demo the difference between the 2 kinds of papers to let them see up
close how different it is. The cheap stuff is okay if you know what you are
doing but for a student it is just one more obstacle to over come.

David





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