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Selling Digital Art Prints Online
There are numerous videos and blog posts stating that selling art online is the easy way to have a side hustle. But in my experience, it is just not true. The people that are succeeding in the are people that are actually devoting 8 hours a day to creating new prints...
My New Paintings
new paintings currently in progress and a sneak peak of some new works.
Bigger is Not Always Better – Size Matters
When I paint in acrylics I Love to do really big paintings that get my whole body into it (like the 1.5m x 1m painting I did for my brother). But I recently gifted a painting to someone and unfortunately, it was just too big for their house - well didn't I feel stupid...
Why I Still Paint Images of New Zealand Even Though I’m Overseas
I have lived overseas for more than 20 years and yet I still paint pictures of New Zealand - the reason well that's what I grew up with. It's what inspires me, I still can picture where I lived and grew up so clearly that the pictures are still vivid in my mind....
Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining – Inspiration Notebook is Launched
I am super please to announce that my inspirational notebook – Every cloud has a silver lining has been released on Amazon.
100 designs by Christmas – Side Hustles
AS I am looking at creating multiple streams of income, one of the approaches is to create designs that can be printed on demand (POD) which can be applied to a variety of products like mugs, t-shirts, stickers, and hoodies. So far I have created 13 designs which I...
Never Stop Learning & Researching
As I have said in my introduction - I absolutely love painting clouds. To me, they are magical and engrossing. I guess I am the kid that used to lie in the grass and watch the clouds roll by and see what strange creatures I could make out. Cloud research for future...
Creativity Sucks!
I have so many ideas running around my head on a daily basis it is exhausting. I have painting ideas, t-shirt design ideas, book design ideas, the list really does go on and on. I think what is really needed here is some structure otherwise I will be running around in...
What a week! Amazon book up for sale.
I guess it is always the way when you set out clear plans of attack, my "day" job got so busy that I was unable to do any of the things on my to-do list. Does anyone else have the same thing happen to them? I feel so deflated! All the targets that I set for the week...
Watch me try to build an online business
Hi I am Jesse Huxleigh and I want to use my skills as a designer, illustrator, painter and digital artist to see if I can build an online business selling my paintings as print on demand products. This will be warts and all - full disclosure of the process. I will...