Ravenseyrie rack card, frontside I think one can spend oodles of money on advertising and marketing strategies and for many it is often money well spent.  For myself, however, I have quite limited funds and prefer to use them to purchase paper, paint, ink, brushes, etc. - the best I am able to afford - and I am able to afford quality creative supplies precisely because I am very frugal when it comes to advertising. Ravenseyrie rack card backside The rack card I am presently using I designed myself in 2017 and I think it evokes a sense of the work that I do and the location where my gallery is located.  I self-publish my notecards and prints right here in my studio, typically working in batches of one to eight, depending.  But for the rack cards, which one would be wanting hundreds to thousands of, I uploaded my design so that it could be published and processed by Vistaprint .   I have done the same with my business card and have been ve...

A title image that I designed, but decided not to use. Greetings from Manitoulin Island !   My name is Lynne Gerard.  Using the combined mediums of painting, poetry and calligraphy I offer up the results of my creative endeavours in the small gallery that conjoins my lakeside studio. My Ravenseyrie Studio & Art Gallery has operated out of the Gore Bay Harbour Centre since December of 2006, (a number of years before the municipality received a bundle of grants to completely renovated this old ship of a building).  The building was quite derelict back then - keeping a studio in those rough conditions felt quite bohemian - but the place has absolutely always been the perfect spot for me to create. Over these many years, I have been devoting my focus on maintaining and operating the "brick and mortar" gallery so that it always has ample inventory of my existing products yet also displays my new works.  Because of this dedication, I have refrain...