Hey guys! Yesterday was huge for CMC. The Spartan Market was a huge success. I recognized lots of friendly faces, people who have been my return customers since I started. The new acrylic pour paintings were a huge hit also. I sold 5 of the small ones and 1 big one! I also know what I need to change for my medium spray paint planets (I haven't sold one in weeks), more on that later though. Finally, I have a plan for a graduation sale as well as a new art piece!
Wow, I really needed this sale not only for the business but for myself also. yesterday was the first time I've been able to sell in 2-3 weeks, not for lack of trying though. It's easy to lose confidence when the expenses keep piling up, you have a ton on inventory just waiting to be sold, but you just cant go anywhere. To break free from that felt great and I can't wait to come back from thanksgiving to give it another shot!
I think I figured out why I haven't sold a medium spray paint planet recently. Ever since I rolled out my small canvas planets they have sold beautifully but halted all sales on the medium planets, and it makes since why. I sell the smalls at $10 a piece and the mediums at $20, double the price for extra canvas (and maybe an extra planet) so why would you pay double when its basically the same just larger (its also this logic that I think the small paintings have been so popular). My plan is to lower the price to $15 so that it makes more since, I expect to sell less small painting and more mediums with this change.
So I've had this idea rolling around in my head for a few weeks now. I want to combine spray paint and acrylic pour and I think the best way to do this is custom stencil. Last week I ran to Blick for more supplies and snagged some oil board. I am going to cut the board into a stencil and layer it on top of my acrylic pours. I have 2 different ideas for the stencils, the first is for normal use and the other is for the graduation sale. For the first I want to make the a puffy version of the stick figure man (the bathroom icon) chilling on a couch in the center of one of my acrylic pours. The second I found some vector images of people in graduate caps and gowns, I want to make them a stencil and position the year in gold above it. Additionally I am going to see when the parents are visiting so I can sell the speciality graduation piece to them (hopefully).
