For the first time I am putting my artwork up on Imagekind for the enjoyment of others for prints and cards. Many of these images have been in my collection for years and I still love them. It is time to clean out the drawers though and create space for new work, so these pieces are also for sale.  Enjoy and let me know what you think. These are a history of my progress as an artist. http://catherinefoster.imagekind.com

Sometimes it takes help from  our friends to find success! Coaches and Mentors have made the difference for me! Kristin and David have made a huge difference in my life experience as an artist.

Kristin and David recently learned a Quick Energy Tool for Lasting Financial Change from our mentor, and it's So Powerful We Want to Teach You.

Kristin and David Moreili are hosting a brief 45-min call this Tues. (Mar. 9th) at 5pm Pacific, so you can learn it too (F*R*E*E - our gift to you!).

We’re busy and you probably are too, that's why we’re going to Jam-Pack the content into that amount of time.

Here’s just a few things you’ll get:

1.             Learn The Quickest Financial Flow Tool Ever   **New & Super Helpful**

2.             Avoid The #1 Financial Swamp Most People Fall Into.  **New Tool**   
(And Learn how to get cleaned-up if you already fell in.)

3.             Discover How To Get Financial Dreams to be Tangible  **Raw & Real**

Just go here and sign up to Everything is Energy to receive the emails about this special call. I am proud to be a member of the Prosperity Tribe and an affiliate too! Here is my link to sign up: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=968716

Hope you join us,

David and Kristin

P.S.  You’ll have options at the end to go deeper, but this call is truly about tangible things you can do now to catapult your income.

All Artists deserve to be very successful! http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=968716

m,  Jason Horejs is our honored guest on Art and Soul Radio this Monday 4pm Pacific time. Come learn from the gallery owner of Xanadu Gallery Scottsdale AZ and author of this informative book to help artists understand the relationships of artist and galleries.  Jasons' book "Starving to Successful" is an easy read, down to earth and helpful book for the artist that wants to expand into more galleries and/or increase gallery exposure.


In addition on Art and Soul Radio, we also have Ariane Goodwin this Monday Nov. 30th 2009 to share news about this years presenters on smARTist Telesummit.   Jason Horejs will be one of the presenters this year in the smARTist Telesummit.

Art and Soul Radio is honored to bring you experts to help you unleash your creativity. Each Monday at 4pm Pacific Time on http://www.blogtalkradio.com/art-and-soul-radio Co hosts Catherine Foster and Sheryl Allen bring fun, laughter and insights on how you can be more creative.


To hear the first two months of archived shows, please go to: http://www.artandsoulsite.com. For current shows to listen to, download and subscribe to please go to:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/art-and-soul-radio.
Your support means so much to us. Know that any of the links you click above and you purchase from our affiliate links you are helping to financially support the following:

Catherine and Fred Foster of Catherine Foster Art Studio
Art and Soul Radio with Catherine Foster and Sheryl Allen
Holland Arts- our son in law Alex Holland and our daughter Janelle
Young Art Student interns that I hire to help in the studio from NW College of Arts in Poulsbo WA
Red Nose Society- Art and Soul Radio fun fundraiser to support scholarships for young teens in art and writing.
Seniors Making Art- a Dale Chuhily foundation
Treehouse for Kids
The Power of Hope
And the Peace Prevails Project- Catherine Fosters personal art project for peace.

"Starving to Successful" by Jason Horejs owner of Xanadu Gallery.

I am so very honored to be in Arts Alive in La Conner WA. I am one of 18 artists in WA picked for the invitational show.  Please come and say hello to me tonight! The whole town is celebrating Art!
 http://www.laconnerchamber.com/artsalive.cfm

Can't make it up this weekend? The show will be there Friday, Sat. and Sunday!



Also I am in another show in La Conner too on Ravens. You can see my embossed copper ravens in Earthenworks Gallery.  This show is up all month long! Stop in and say hello to my artwork! My artwork loves to be loved!

I look forward to meeting you. Please pass this information on to people you know in the NW.

Have a great day.  I am excited about tonight! Wohooo.
Catherine

Art and Soul Radio

Are you wondering why you're struggling to make a living doing your artwork? We are excited to announce next week's guest--Alyson Stanfield, a business coach for artists and author of I'd Rather Be in the Studio! Alyson will be talking... about the 4 Steps to Selling Your Artwork and much more...her insights apply to all creatives, not just artists.

On Monday Oct. 26th, Alyson Stanfield will be on the radio show with me, Catherine Foster and co host Sheryl Allen online on contact radio.

If you have not read Alysons' book, get it and call in with questions. If you truly want to be a thriving artist, Alysons book is soooo full of great advise.

We are honored to have her on the show on Monday at 4pm Pacific Time. http://www.contacttalkradio.com/hosts/artandsoulsite.html

If you have not listened to the show yet, please do for we have had wonderful guests on talking about the creative process. You can listen and subscribe to itunes for the archives by going to:
http://www.artandsoulsite.com/ at the bottom of the page click on archived shows.

As an artist, do you have a different creative process? What is your creative process? Do you want to have exposure on a radio show for artists and creative people that you could use to put on your webpage, blog or newsletter to help promote you?

I am a professional artist and love to help other artists thrive. There is nothing like making a living doing what you love. Come learn from the best!

Please help support our effort to educate the public about art and artists by joining us on the facebook fan page at: http://www.facebook.com/artandsoulradio?ref=ts
and the twitter page at: http://twitter.com/artandsoulradio

Sincerely Yours, Catherine Foster
www.catherinefoster.com
www.artandsoulsite.com

What a joy to have Dr. Gloria Burgess as our first guest on the Art and Soul Radio show. Sheryl and I were a little nervous and yes we are not the typical radio show hosts, but we strongly feel that Art and Soul Radio will help a lot of artists, creatives and people who want to be more creative.

Gloria's Book, "Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside"  is so worth getting and reading more than once.  Listen to Gloria talk on the show about her book. She is a complete treasure in this world.

http://contacttalkradio.soundwaves2000.com:8080/ctr/catherinefoster091409.mp3

Have a great creative day!

Catherine

Art and Soul Radio is a new radio show for artists and other creatives.  Tune in Mondays at 4 pm on www.contacttalkradio.com or 106.9 FM HD3 to join us. Guests and topics include artists, authors, coaches, art materials & techniques, color, the business of art, success stories, and lifestyle choices. If you are an artist or gallery who would like to be interviewed and featured on Art and Soul Radio Twitter and Facebook pages, blog or e-zine please contact Catherine.

Monday Sept. 14th at 4PM Pacific Time listen to internationally respected Gloria Burgess- author, speaker, educator , poet, creativity expert. Her latest book "Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside-Live Your Legacy Now". Sheryl and I got to meet Gloria yesterday. My heart was filled with joy as we all talked about the creative process and the importance of being creative in our world today.

Further details:  Go to www.artandsoulsite.com for more information and follow us on Twitter, Facebook and our blog: http://twitter.com/artsoulradio
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-and-Soul-Radio/146361175151?ref=ts
http://artandsoulsite.com/blog/

 

Part One:

It takes more than having a beautiful website to make it in the art world. Too many artists do not put a lot of effort into promoting themselves. If you do not lead people to your website, you end up in never never land.

I have only sold one piece of artwork from my website. Just one. Which says to me it is not a place to sell from but a place to show whom, what and why. There have been a couple of times that I have gotten into galleries through my website though.

So how do you promote yourself as an artist? Recently I took a class from smArtisttelesummitt where three of the speakers talked about social networking. Facebook, twitter, linkedin, Myspace, Myartspace and numerous other sites. These are not just for teenagers.

Artists you are messing out if you are not on any of these sites or all of them. Start getting your artwork up on these sites. These are people who never go into a gallery and maybe never will, but will love what you do.

Everyone is a sales person. EVERYONE! You sell your kids on what you want them to do; you sell yourself with everyone you meet; you sell yourself if you are a boss and on and on. When you realize this, the word “Sales” takes on a different meaning. It is all about learning how to sell ourselves as artists and today the Internet is IT!

So how do you do it? I find Twitter to be awesome. It is like a mini blog. Since being on twitter I have many advocates for my artwork. Go here for the how to use twitter http://help.twitter.com/portal.   Please check out my site and join me at: http://www.twitter.com/cath4art I put up tips for how to be more creative and share ideas about the creative process. My real passion is the creative process and I am fascinated to hear about process artists go through to create.

Once set up you can search artists, galleries and museums and potential clients and add them to your followers.  Yes even museums are using twitter, face book and LinkedIn.

Then what do you do? There are so many twitter sites and more all the time to help you do a simple and better job of communicating with others.  I hear you saying,” I don’t have time to do this stuff, right?”  Yes you can make time to promote yourself. How are people going to feel your excitement about being an artist if you do not connect with them in some way?

 Tip #1- beware the sites that say they can get you thousands of followers in a short time. Twitter has rules that you need to comply with. Please read the 2,000 rule http://snipr.com/m9qfz

Tip #2- Set your site up to have am image of one of your favorite artworks in the background.

Tip #3- Don’t worry, you can go in and delete the porn stars and sites that offend you.

Tip #4- you can advertise openings, new artworks etc. You can even direct people to pictures of your artwork. www.ustream.tv/recorded/1489435

Tip #5 what kind of people do you want to attract? Do searches for the kind of people that can afford your artwork and appreciate it.

Tip#6- Follow people who follow you. It is common etiquette. In the twitter world, You will be deleted from the people who know to do twitter if you: do not follow; people who never put up a picture of themselves; people who do not allow a direct message; people who talk bad about other people; people promoting their bodies for sex etc.

Tip #7 Every Friday there is something called  #Follow Friday or shortened #FF. You can refer people you believe in and want to help support. Lots of fun.  You get a lot of exposure too.

I am always looking for tips on how to make this simple for us to give us more time in the studio. I like “tweetdeck”. I can view all messages, direct messages, and replies  I like tweetlater for you can go in and set up many messages and have them go out at different times. Saves a lot of time!
I keep learning more all the time. You can go to my blog for part 2 and 3 coming soon. http://www.catherinefoster.com/blog.

Let’s connect
Twitter- http://www.twitter.com/cath4art
Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Catherine-Foster-Art-Studio/79799161779?ref=ts
You Tube- http://www.youtube.com/cath4art
Linkedin- http://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinefoster
Artists2Artists: http://www.artists2artists.net/profile/CatherineFoster
Podcast where you can learn and also post your own classes: http://www.podclass.com/cath4art/

MARI SMITH  is considered the queen of Twitter and Face book as far as knowing how to do all of this: You can get her free tips and more here: http://bit.ly/m2lCc

                           


                             SOUL ART ENERGY PATTERN HEALINGS
       
                     SESSIONS AVAILABLE WITH AND WITHOUT ARTWORK
                                               BY CATHERINE FOSTER
              -REIKI MASTER TEACHER AND INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN ARTIST.                                               WWW.CATHERINE-FOSTER.COM      catherinefoster@mac.com

For the Story of how I started doing “Soul Art Energy Pattern Healings”:
http://wishupeace.blogspot.com/2009/05/story-behind-soul-art-energy-pattern.html

Testimonials on Soul Paintings:
http://catherine-foster.com/blog/11443/Testimonials:-Soul-Art-Energy-Patterns-signatures
For the story about " Merging the Artist and Healer"



To book your introductory session:

PACKAGE A - INTRODUCTORY PRICE: $75
*one hour healing session (value $120)
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PACKAGE B-  INTRODUCTORY PRICE: $200
INCLUDES:
1.one hour session (value $120) includes clearing blocks, a sketch of your     soul signature  sent by email to you.
2. Unmatted     ready to frame 16’x20” approx. size (value $400)
3. Paid shipping of finished painting  (value $25.00)

Total Value $545.00 for only $200
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PACKAGE C- INTRODUCTORY PRICE: $400
INCLUDES:
1.*one hour session ( value $120) includes clearing blocks etc. and me     doing a sketch of what I intuitively see.

2.Finished painting 12”x16” matted 16”x20” ready for you to frame (value $500)
           (Option to have a larger painting created:
        18”x24” unmatted ready to frame: ( Value  $1200- with this special             will be $700)
           24”x36” unmatted ready to frame: (Value  $3600- with this special             will be $3000)

 3.Shipping WILL BE INCLUDED! in this special.

4.Extra Tune up session (valued at: $60)

Total Value $680 - $3780 depending on size of the finished painting.

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*ADDITIONAL TUNE UPS AVAILABLE AT $60 FOR ½ HOUR – ONLY
AVAILABLE AFTER THERE HAS BEEN AT LEAST ONE SESSION OF A ONE HOUR SESSION.

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HOW TO SET UP YOUR APPT: call Catherine 360-598-4540 and/or email catherinefoster@mac.com to make an appt. Payment is through Pay Pal. Directions, go to: https://www.paypal.com/   Click on  “Send Money” use my email: catherinefoster@mac.com to send the amount above for either Package A,B, or C.Put a note with your name, address, email etc. with the payment please.

I look forward to serving you. It is a joy to do this work combining my art and healing skills.
        Thank you, Catherine Foster