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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>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?<BR>
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 son’s 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 church’s plant sale. Mothers loved it because they got wonderful presents from their kids and now those mothers always ask if I’m doing the tent again. I didn’t do it this year and I will definitely have to raise the price as all the supplies are going up in price.<BR>
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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. <BR>
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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 11” x 15” 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 that’s pretty much it.... 300lb is tough enough so it won’t wrinkle when using both sides. <BR>
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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 1/2” x 11” 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 <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.artsuppliesonline.com/catalog.cfm?cata_id=10388">http://www.artsuppliesonline.com/catalog.cfm?cata_id=10388</a><BR>
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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.<BR>
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David<BR>
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