Santa Monica Show, Success!

Today was a challenge for the SM show, there was a bought of heavy rain that affected some of the people from coming down. I decided to take the long way (freeways) vs the canyon (faster) cause of the rain (mudslides). I left early, but extra traffic made for mad traffic; was almost an hr late.

For being sparse, it was fun. Three of us had interactive pieces. It was fun and satisfying that people enjoyed the interactive part of mine. I had people try to match the dragon to the plant they were based on. I wish I could make it an app game lol.

 Things to ponder upon for future shows:

Dragons were a hit, even if people were unfamiliar with the spiritual concepts. I should do more of the hanging variety (find a way to make them more durable and easier to sell), there is interest for window hanging. Perhaps go through with the individual dragon prints of the more popular ones. The recipe group caught people's eye, but most seemed to react like it was weird. The idea of a cookbook may be where I go for this one, then find the DnD groups and/or pagan fests. I am definitely going to press into the other elemental dragons, figure out what will be good for cards, and finish my dragon rune divination deck. 

My Sumerian Gug was a huge hit. I am going to do another for the next show, hoping my pan will be in by then. I am thinking of making the Forbidden Knowledge if the fruit are in season. I may be able to have a sign on it saying something akin to "like these? go purchase the recipe print over >>> ." If I go this route I need to make another recipe painting... "Gug." Which could be fun, I could go Levantian themed for that one.

UV paintings are definitely a huge draw, those were the ones that sparked impulse buying. Maybe I should work on building a display box with a small UV fluorescent. The UV flashlight worked for its purpose, but not as eye drawing as it could have been with a dark box and stronger UV constantly going.

Definitely I should expand the UV collections (scorpion, astrological, horror flowers). They may do well in large format or keep with the small, quick sale items.

People don't seem to see a difference between social media and mail list. Instead of building a client list for email, I got people following my social media. I believe the SM will work similarly to the mailing list.