FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
My pricing can all be found on my website.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I am constantly learning. It's an on going process. I learn something, then learn it again. Improve it. I've been working in art software since it arrived. With Adobe Creative Cloud they rework it. Add something. I have to learn it. But I am forever finding some new tidbit or technique to learn. Wether it's art, design or photography. My latest focus has been on digital oil painting & manipulation. I want to create master pieces for folks that stand the test of time. Since I did do a lot of traditional art, an have worked in oil. I can do cross breeds between photography, digital graphics and traditional oil painting. Leaving my clients with one of a kind specialty art treasures no just anyone can do. I want my clients to have original, one of kinds.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
I have always done traditional art but when computers started to show graphics is when I got interested. At first I just learned to draw on them, then had to learn code to post them for others to see an use. After my site was found by a local magizine the asking me to work for them. I got very serious an returned to Rock Valley Collage knowing what I wanted to do--- digital graphics. At the time, they didn't have a degree for that. I was advised by the head of the dept to learn everything. Which meant coding. So I did. I hated it. My focus was always on wanting to make pretty pictures. I picked up my first digital camera right after my son was born. It was expensive, awkward and terrible with light. My husband wanted to pull my hair out over it. It was a huge purchase for us. So was the software. Something, he felt a hobby shouldn't cost. It's not a hobby. I've been playing with cameras since I was a kid, I was even on the yearbook in middle school just so I could use expensive cannons cameras instead of cheap instant ones. But I didn't get serious about the business aspect of photography specifically until someone insisted I take photos all night for eight hours straight, refused to pay me for my time then demanded my work for nothing. After having gone through this with art, designs and graphics on the internet. I decided I needed a real world look at how these business really work instead of just creating more art, photography and graphics. I'm not much into the staving artist motto. So I went to work for CPI. (formly sears, picture me studios). They taught me how to sell what I was already doing. I just needed a business model that worked in the real world and online. Since they closed, I have re-opened my own studio. Combined my art, design and photography an gotten to work in one the busiest multi-million dollar malls in America during season. but didn't get serious about it until I was forced to take photos eight hours straight without getting paid for my time or the photos.