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Tina Jett - Art/Illustration

All right, So we are moving on to Tina. Jet. Tina. Hey. Hello. How are you doing it? Are you? I'm great. Okay. So give it your name and the name of your business. My name is Tina Eject. And coincidentally, my business is also teenage, etc. Easy on you. Yeah. I didn't make it easy. Make it easy on Oh, go with what you're given. So tell us. About what? What should you? Here? I am a self taught artists. So the work I do, it's kind of all over the board. I'm pretty experimental. I do a little bit of painting. A little bit of illustration. I do some paper cut work. Just kind of pretty much whatever I could get my hands on that I wanted explore. And the subject matter is also a combination of things that I like bold colors and patterns. I'd like some nostalgic, uh, nostalgic vibe in some of my things. I also sell vintage on the side. So kind of coincides with that a little bit. Um, I'm a big fan of learning and education, so I have a lot of things. That kind of playoff, my love of random tri...

via So it's, you know, find a topic and I'll just investigated and find a way to visually kind of explore it. I have, you know, cards that explore the alphabet or birds or seasons and things like that. I also do photography, so it's pretty much all over the place. Well, actually, let's define that. Would you call that mixed media? Yes, yes. I mean, not every piece is mixed media. My collection is mixed media, but I'm starting to explore a little more of combining different types together. Maybe it's photography with embroidery. I have a piece like that in a show right now. Um, you know, just trying to see what works and what doesn't want matches up on what I can play around with him. Yeah, I love that process of experimentation. Do a lot of that because you've got to kind of figure it out and kind of work it out, Especially being being self taught. You know, I don't have formal technique is a background. I don't have ah prescribed way of doing things. So a lot of times, there's research online. Like, how do I use a certain material or you know how have other people incorporated it in their work and try to play off of it a little bit and yet come up with my own spin on things. Yeah, I think even if you were fully trained formally as an artist, I mean, there's always new techniques that air that you know, your flooring, and you see another artist's work. And you're like, Oh, I've never used that before. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, that's wonderful. Okay, so, uh, where do you How did you decide or when did you decide? And how did that happen? That you were gonna take your so self artistry and make it into a business? It's I've always been interested in art and creativity since I can remember when I was the kid who built a playground out of Q tips or wow, I think that was a long time where I might still have my mother. It's always been something that I've liked. I've always been very curious, and in terms of exploring either knowledge or creativity, probably think was 2008 or seven. I decided I kind of wanted to explore making things to sell. My father had passed away a couple years prior and I was just had one of those moments where you need to start taking life a little more seriously and doing the things you say you want to dio. But don't ever do so This was one of those things I study art in grade school, but I never pursued it in college, so I kind of slightly slightly regretted that. But I've also enjoyed the process of exploring it on my own and like not having those prescribed, you know, doctrines in my head. So, um, I just just picked up and just said, Let's just go do it. Let's see what I can make where my mind takes me and see what I can crank out So are you. I'm sorry if you said the 30 but are you doing this full time? It's kind of part time between art and illustration, side of things and what I do here. And then I do part time selling vintage goods as well. OK, so that's the part time thing. Kind of equally part time t o shoot part time. Yeah, exactly. I'm working on them as much as a full time job together. Yes. Yeah. And then so tell me about the selling part. What is that? What is that been like for you? It's been for me. It's been a little bit of a struggle, honestly, because I'm still trying to develop a certain style. I think I'm getting there. I'm finding more cohesion and the things that I'm producing. And I'm having feedback where people have told me that they can see, you know, they can recognize my work and see that it's the same person doing things, which is good, because I know I contend to be a little all the air curious person. Yes, yeah, it's a help in a hindrance. It comes up, you know, it gives me great ideas, but it also hurts. You know, when you're trying to, you make everything together and fall under the same umbrella of, you know, my vision. So sales have been good. It's like I said, it's because I do a lot of experimentation and coming up with different things. I I'm still working on trying to leave things out on the market a little bit longer to get feedback, and you know the criticism to know if something's working or not, but also to decide if it's, you know, a type of worker product that I want to keep making or keep doing, too. So, um, like that I'm getting there. It's starting to pick up a little more, but, um, yeah, there's definitely things that I need to tweak and work on. And listening to Terry yesterday while I was at home has helped out tremendously, because I'm already starting to see where I need to kind of turn some corners and really, really myself in. Yeah, again. And And if you're just joining us, the course that she's referring to is the art of selling what you make with terror genteelly, which is also going on at the same time that you're watching this. So in terms of you said that you have the fresh ideas coming in constantly, sometimes too much. Yes, you much. So what have you been doing to try to focus Aside from watching terrorist court, I keep running lists of ideas constantly and usually a couple places, and every once in a while I just have to keep revisiting them. As I make a certain product or work with a certain medium, I kind of look back at it and see if my ideas air still as hot as they were when I wrote them down the first time. And a lot of Mark I'm still like some make me feel like I'm not pushing myself enough. So I always tried to you, as they say, Plus one it. So what does that mean? That's kind of, you know, you could come up with an idea and it's great. But then when you look at it, maybe it still looks like something that's already been done, or there's just nothing that really kind of gives it that extra kick that makes somebody really want to buy it or associated with you as an artist. So trying to find, you know, this, that little spin and tweak I can put on things. So I mean, it's It's just a matter of just kind of always revisiting and wiggling things down so that I'm getting closer and closer to the types of mediums I want to work in, which is kind of helping me either, um, expand on an idea and find new ways to explore it that I maybe didn't think of when I first thought of it. You know, maybe I thought this would be a great is a painting, but now I think it'll be great as a mixed media piece instead. So cool. Cool. So tell me about your customers. Tell me about the ideal one. Share the stories if you have any, um, probably know that sometimes. Say your customer is not like you, but I think they kind of like me. Just, you know, person that loves color. I'm kind of a mix of. I love bold colors, but I also love to temperate with natural things and base colors, natural things like, you know, tree branches or would and just kind of bring in that pop. So people that maybe don't like overwhelming color but just like to give a little punch here and there to kind of except their personality a little bit more. Um, I have a very I think, macro vision of the world where I kind of zoom in a lot of things. So my photography, sometimes it zoomed in on an element of something Or, you know, I'll explore one segment of a bigger idea. Um, people that like toe learn things that, like useless trivia like idea. I'm constantly looking things up on the Internet. Like when we have a question pop up. We're in the driving in the car like the wonder what that's like. I'm like, always doing that. Yeah, Just exploring life and travel and just getting out there and just really, you know, kind of like the moment I had, you know that when my father passed away and I had that moment to just really get out and want to do things more and learn things more, I think, to someone who is kind of at that point in their lives when they wanted just absorb everything and then find a way to express it. Absolutely. So describe the the art that you have here more. Sure, I've got a couple original art pieces here, and I probably can't see them just kind of flanked on either end. But in general, I've got a lot of prints. Um, this is kind of a new concept I had with photography. I found that my photography maybe wasn't necessarily selling well, just kind of is a straight up prints. I was trying to think of another way to revisit it. And I love Instagram. It's my favorite of all social media, so because I'm a visual person, so I tried Teoh make them kind of look like the snapshots. I actually scale them to the same size of some Polaroids and then put either, you know, a caption or my own kind of phrasing that coordinated with the picture itself. Down here, I've got a couple card sets. Butter, my biscuit. I spent some time living in the South. That's where my husband's from. So I lived there. Teoh moved all around the South s Oh, this is kind of a throwback. Teoh. When I was there, I've got Christmas cards, a painting that I did last year. These are sent out to friends and family last year, and they're now available this year for everyone. Um, I've got some art pins. This is something new that I was exploring kind of as a way to come up with new ideas, maybe for bigger projects or bigger paintings. So I'm starting out with just smaller ideas on art pins. The's prints here are different alphabet letters, so I've got a is for Arch B is for bread, and you could probably get the idea where I'm going with that again. This is kind of my random trivia coming into play where I would have to come up with a good word for each letter and then, you know, Explorer, different aspects of that topic. Um, hopefully something maybe that I could make into, like, a a small seen or booklet or something where I can explore each letter even further. I've got other prints here. The ones on the left are, um, illustrations that I did, I got I was from a group in the east, so I've got birds of the Eastern United States. I've got, um, some seasonal work playing off my love of Harry Potter. Any hair I love, I did like each kind of houses a different season and kind of played off of that. I've got these were actually from a project a side project that I did called adventure scouts, which was kind of like scout badge earning for adults. Would you use your camera so you would have to go out and each badge had a task and you have to take a picture of herself performing that task and then you earned a badge and you could get a certificated the end with all your badges on it. Um, I've got some prints of some of my paintings here, Some different things that I have explored. I love retro mid century. I love surreal Is home again. Kind of everywhere will abstract, um, little shadow to carnivals in the vintage theme there. Um And then it's just Justin sale items here. And then I've got just another painting on the side as well. I just love your expression. Thank you for bringing into the world. Yeah. So, Tina, how did we find you online? Where do we find your online? Can we buy these things online from you? You make you absolutely by these online. My website is my name, tina jet dot com. Um, I try to keep that with all my social media. So Instagram is at Tina. Jet Twitter. Is Tina underscored Jet? That one was taken. I've got facebook. Is Tina jet creative? I'm on Pinterest under Tina Jet. I'm on liquor. Just probably look me up. That's kind of a confusing, but I'm out there. Definitely. You definitely are. Oh, cool. Because you're getting to know you