The much loved pet is a very important segment of any artist's market yet one which I have all but ignored. Lately I've been thinking about all of those dog and cat lovers who have browsed my carvings of bears and eagles only to leave empty handed... What have I been thinking?People love their pets so I should selling carvings of pets!
This week I took one step closer to patching this hole in my marketing boat {plan} by carving my first house cat. While it was easier than I'd expected, it did not come completely natural since I'm a dog-person. It's well understood by sculptors that horse-people carve the best horses, fishermen carve the best fish, and so on.
So what if cats don't fly out of my saw? I should be carving them anyway! Carving dogs is second nature to me but I haven't been carving enough of them :( And while I'm yelling at myself,,, how about those WSU Cougars & UW Huskies? I live between these rival colleges yet have not carved either of their mascots.Still, no matter what I carve for inventory, 50% of my sales are bears.
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