Theresa is a very good artist and does fantastic pencil drawings. She has decided to start up a small business drawing portraits from photographs. She has setup a Facebook page and is trying to get her name out there to get commissions. She has linked the Facebook page to her own and through regular updates is trying to raise her profile among friends and family. Her new business is called RelationPix and the company page is http://www.facebook.com/relationpix.
Theresa has piggybacked a friend of hers who runs a bridal accessory business. I have done quite a lot of printing for Mel for free and put graphics on her car so she is returning the favour. Theresa has a portrait and contact details up in Mel’s shop and is also on Mel’s distribution list of clients now.
Theresa is doing the drawing during the day when Joel is having a nap, or in the evenings before dinner. As she is doing more portraits she is getting quicker and better and her confidence is increasing most importantly. The kids and I have bought her a lightbox to work on as well which will hopefully help. Hopefully things will take off and she will get some commissions soon. She has had some good interest from people on Facebook already. Ideally if she could get 3-4 portraits per month to do then she would be busy without being snowed under, and would also get some good pin money. At the moment she is concentrating on wedding and children portraits, but I think she could branch out to anything else really. My parents have asked her to do one of their dog for example.
Another great side of this is that Meg and some of the other kids have seen Theresa drawing and have been inspired to put pencil to paper as well. I think that has been another nice result of this for Theresa as she is very inspiring, but doesn’t recognise it always.
I am very proud of Theresa for doing this and it’s lovely to see her motivated and putting energy into something new. I know she has it tough with the routine of the children sometimes and I think this is providing a welcome distraction. It would also be nice for her to be able to get some cash to do stuff that she wants. I think the independence that would bring would give her another boost mentally as well.
Our car before graphics
The graphics printed, cut and ready to be applied
As part of the marketing drive we’ve decided to put some graphics on our car. Since that is what I do it kind of makes sense. And with the amount of driving we do plenty of people should see the details. Hopefully some leads might come from it. I have printed the graphics onto a reflective material so they’ll be very bright during the Winter too. I just have to make sure that the car stays cleaner now. This will be stage one of the car graphics and we might do something grander down the line like wrapping part of the car with examples of her portraits. This will also give Theresa something else to post about on Facebook.
Graphics being laid up on the car
The car now complete
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