No carnival in Paris

No carnival in Paris

I made a treasury last night after spending some time trawling through the photography section on Etsy, looking to see what was popular, where the gaps in the market were etc.

Turns out what is the most popular is stuff that- while very pretty- isn't my personal style. All the teal-and-pink, TTV style square format images of carnivals, Eiffel towers and faded flowers gets a bit dull after a time, and I'm left wondering who did it first.

I've been also thinking about making card with quotes on them, as - like every artist- I feel most of my images are too boring to hold up by themselves. it also grabs that part of the market that loves simplicity, Lewis Carroll, and of course my good friend Mr.Dickens.

St.Fagan's folk museum, Wales.

the Georgian House, Bristol.

In a few weeks I'll be expanding the little Brown Sparrow shop- at the moment it's barely covering ground with old series photo cards and some paper collages, because something is better than nothing. I'm working on getting some new art up there, and ordering prints, cards and postcards from various place to determine who's going to give me the best quality for the best price.


Shots like this collection of my grandmothers things could work as part of a craft themed set of cards, though some of them are old images and therefore too small to do much with, but re-shooting is always possible.

Fanci tells me some of my photos of supplies are worthy of hanging on the wall:





I like the idea of laying out objects in a pleasing arrangement, since I have so very many tiny and interesting things. These images below are just shots I've taken at some point to show what I'm working with, but I have jars and boxes of tiny things from my assemblage art days.


I'm working on some more images like this today, but what do you chaps think? Quotes or no quotes? Shots of tiny things are good? Any of my images you'd like to hang on the wall?