My $190 Saturday night

     This sold for $60 last night...

     It was a commissioned drawing.

     It was done in the bar.

     Anyway, I ended up selling $190 worth of art.

     Not too bad, eh?

     Plus, I got to have some nice drinks.

     I also sold a lot of napkins.

     One guy tipped me $80.  He really liked my art, and was very supportive.

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     On Sunday, I made $32.

     On Monday, I made $10.

     I am hoping Tuesday night will be good.

     I haven't sold anything in the bar for six days.  This is highly unusual for me.  Luckily, I have some money in the bank, but it is hard to survive when there is no money coming in.

     <a href="http://fineartamerica.com/art/photographs/female/all" style="font: 10pt arial; text-decoration: underline;">female photos</a>

     This is a link for pixels.com.  I am sponsoring their page 'female photos'.

     What happens is I post their link on one of my blogs, then I link back to them where I posted it.

     This allows me to have my art on their 'female photos' page.

     It took me a couple of weeks to figure out how to do this, and to why I would want to do this.

     It also takes some balls to shove your art in people's faces.  My art isn't up to snuff in some people's eyes, and it is hard to get critiqued or judged. 

     However, if I don't put my art out there, no one will know about me.

     It's a choice.  I can try and survive, or die anonymous in a ditch somewhere from homelessness and starvation.

     I would rather survive, and live as well as I can.

     My job is to be an artist, so if I don't do all I can to make that happen, then I am falling short of my goal.

     Not everything I do is good, but most people can find something they like within my portfolio of images.

     Anyway, here is a photo of my latest digital art vintage photo that is rated G, viewable by anyone...

     The web is still a little uptight about nudity, so this is what I can post here and be safe.

     The original photo has these four ladies naked as jaybirds, and the day they were born.

     Anyway, I love to make art every day, that is what I do.

More about pixels.com

     Hello.

     I have sold a total of five ( 5 ) greeting cards off of pixels.com.

     So far, so good.

     The amount of money I generated is about $30.

     I get paid $2.00 for each greeting card I sell.

     That ain't too bad.

     They take care of all of the shipping and handling.

     I don't have to worry about a thing, once I post my pictures up.

     I can make money while I sleep.

     Pixels.com seems to be the #1 art website on Google.

     I don't know why I waited so long to get onto the site.

     I guess I didn't feel it before.

     Once I heard the commercial for pixels.com on 'The Howard Stern Show' a couple of times, I knew it was my destiny to get onto the site, just because of the traffic.

     I had my brother investigate the site before I would even look at it.  I was feeling some trepidation.

     Anyway, he said the site was good, so I had a look.

     Then, I signed up.

     I was a non-member for about a week, but then I discovered you can only post twenty-five pictures.

     I coughed up $30, and became a member, and now I can post an unlimited amount of images.

     So, I've made about thirty cents a day over the course of a month.  That is not very good, but I am just getting started.

     At first, I had trouble getting hits, and then I linked my pixels account to my Twitter account, and the hits started coming in.

     Then my brother and I discovered that most of these hits were server and bot hits around the globe.

     However, some hits are human-generated.

     It is nice when an actual human being looks at my art.

     It is hard to get people to look at art.  Something has to grab them visually.

     Anyhow, I am trying out this sponsorship program that pixels has.

     I'm supposed to post their code somewhere on the web, and then tell them where I posted it, so I'm going to give this a try.

     Here is the link:  <a href="http://pixels.com/art/all/woman/canvas+prints" style="font: 10pt arial; text-decoration: underline;">woman canvas prints</a>

     Okay, that step is done.

     Now, I am going to publish this page, and then link this page in their information box...

     Wish me luck.

Pixels.com

     I'm on Pixels.com now.
     As of this post, I have 328 photos up on the site, with 3634 hits.

     Here is the link to my page.....http://pixels.com/profiles/david-lovins.html

     If it doesn't work for some reason, just go to Pixels.com, and type in 'David Lovins' into their search bar.

     The hits started to come in once I linked pixels.com to Twitter.  I'm sorry to say that most of the hits are server and bot hits.  Actual real people are starting to give me a hit here and there now, though, which is good.

     The more hits I can get, the more the chance is that I will get some sales.

     Anyway, it does look like people sell on pixels.com.  A lot of product is being sold, and I'm trying to get in on that action.

     Of course, this really requires some great art that grabs people's attention, and that is not always easy.