M.C. Allison

Category: Art

  • Website Meltdown and Creating an Etsy Shop

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    https://www.etsy.com/shop/MCAllisonArt?ref=dashboard-header On Friday, July 24th, at the end of a two-week vacation, I decided to add a shop page to my website. I had a shop when I first started my blog in early 2023. I deleted that one, which created treacherous pitfalls in creating a new shop page. I use Bluehost, and I’m stuck…

  • Redid 3 Paintings With an Easel

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    So my big sister got me a good-quality used easel. It’s been great. In the past week, I redid three paintings. The top one is a large 30×40, and took me 3 or so sessions. The bottom two are 16x20s, and I redid them more quickly. I think the easel will be a game-changer for…

  • What Art is Teaching Me About Writing

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    For the past few years, I’ve done more art than writing. It’s been great, and I really think it’s therapeutic. After I create something, I feel better. So much so that the feeling is greater than if it were good art. Yes, I try to make each one unique and interesting, but I’m not evaluating…

  • My art for sale

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    I’ve been researching trying to sell my artwork online. The main sites are Etsy, Saatchi, and ArtFinder. I’ve sold some art online through social media and at my 48 8×10’s art show at Order Vision in Rockaway Beach last fall. The art in my apartment is piling up, so I’d like to sell some, and…

  • 12 16×20’s

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    Yesterday I posted 6 16×20’s. I saw the date on the back of a painting, and it stated November, which feels like a while ago. My instinct was right, I did 12 paintings of this size. They were in two batches of 6, and other sizes were also done. I searched my blog, and I…

  • 3 24×24’s

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    Words below paintings. Enjoy. I’m trying different canvas sizes. 30×40 inches seems a little big, and 17×24 seems small. And 8×10 is definitely small. So, I decided on 24×24. After the purchase, I googled that size and learned that square artworks are handled differently from rectangular works. If I had known, I might not have…

  • 2 30×40’s

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    30×40 is large. Next up I’ll try 24×24, which is square, and apparently different than painting rectangular canvases. I’m also sketching with pen in a 2026 diary book. Art, getting in shape, and living a healthier life are my priorities this year. Writing will take a back seat, but I may write short stories or…

  • Fred is Number one!

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  • 3 24×36’s Completed October 2025

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    Canva is a lot of fun. I plan to step up my web content and paint more art.

  • Typed Up the New Version of My Novel. Now what?

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    In 2014, I shared a draft of my novel too early. It had typos. I attempted to write a dystopian erotica novel about skateboarding and ended up grossing out most of my beta readers. The structure alternated between skateboard scenes, sex scenes, skateboard scenes, sex scenes, and on and on for 60,000 words. That is…

  • Read and Absorb This Art Book on Van Gogh

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    Book: Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings by Ingo F Walther. ISBN: 978-3836557153 I bought this book on Van Gogh last May at a museum in Boston. I flipped through it, and then it sat on my bookshelf for a while. When I got psychosis in early August, I did not paint much. In October, I…

  • I May Not Publish Anything Until I Retire, and I’m only 47

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    After some thought, I decided I’m not going to try to publish anything for a while. I always liked the fact that the author Frank McCourt did not publish memoirs until he retired in his 60s, after a career as a teacher in the Bronx. I mentioned this as I think memoirs in general are…