Brief Introduction

In honor of my cat's memory, I opened a special store on Zazzle.com, selected three rescued cats, and began to (digitally) paint them. My artist royalties (usually between 10 & 20% of the purchase price) will be donated to the shelters housing these animals. Know a great shelter or rescue? Nominate them here.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Coming Soon to Shelter Painter!

This is an exciting time for Shelter Painter! Two, possibly three artists are interested in donating art to our project store, and a couple artists are also interested in actually producing paintings specifically for SP. We are so grateful for this show of support! I am currently working on painting #8 for shelter #8, and hope to have this finished sometime this weekend or possibly next week.

I'd like to take a moment to share a few other new developments here at SP. :) 

  1. I'm working on adding new link buttons to the website and may be writing some HTML code to go with these in an effort to make linking to us easy breezy. These will be added periodically, as often as I have a chance to work on them.
  2. A password protected shelter resource center is also in the works for our website. I'm hoping to develop templates for business cards and postcards that shelters and rescues could use, complete with our paintings and our website information. I'll probably set up a survey for suggestions, so if you're interested in helping to shape this new portion of the project watch for the survey link! I'll post it here, on Facebook, and on Twitter (and shelters will receive links through email).
  3. When Shelter Painter reaches 12 shelters, we may go into a "retro" stage. What I mean by this is, instead of searching out new shelters to paint, we might return to shelters already in the project and paint a second piece for them one at a time. We'll probably go in reverse order, from the newest back to the oldest - the thinking here being that newly added shelters have less time to sell products than those who were in the project near the beginning. Any thoughts about this?

    This also means that if you have a favorite shelter you'd like to see us work with, the time to nominate them is NOW! :) There are only 4 spots left before we reach shelter #12, so send nominations to shelter (dot) painter @ gmail (dot) com as soon as you can. 
That's all for now! Thank you again to all the artists, visitors, and customers who have supported the project so far :) 
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