Twelve Days of Christmas - Day One

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Day One Giveaway - 15 Note Cards

It's the most wonderful time of the year! That's right! It's time for my annual Holiday Giveaway. For twelve straight days I will give away lots of free gifts. The items are great and a few are valued at over $200.00. Every time you participate in the daily "Twelve Days of Christmas" giveaway you are also earning chances to win the last day giveaway (which is the big prize!). So, it helps to participate everyday. 

The first day giveaway is 15 note cards, valued at $45.00. All you have to do to be eligible is leave a comment on this post on my blog, my facebook page or my facebook fan page. The winner will be announced on Day Two!

Check out my upcoming palette knife painting workshops at http://www.saetastudio.com/Leslie_Saeta_fine_Art/Workshops.html.

All Done ...

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"Dave's Barn"

Oil, 8" x 10"

NFS (claimed by my sweetie) 

The final giveaway for the Twelve Days of Christmas, which was a free painting, was won by Jerry Stocks. Jerry came out to the workshop Dreama and I taught in Pasadena. She is also coming to our Atlanta workshop in February. I might just get to hand deliver her painting! Congratulations Jerry!
So ... my Twelve Days of Christmas sharing are complete. This idea was all about sharing ... sharing giveaways with all of you and also hopefully sharing some good ideas about how to use facebook and your blog to promote your art. The "concept" kind of grew on it's own over the twelve days and I have really learned how "sharing" and "like buttons" on Facebook can help expose your art to others. I would estimate that my blog and website gathered about 4000 new hits over the twelve days. Most importantly, I feel as if I have gotten to know a lot of people during the "twelve days" and the entire experience has been a blast! Thanks for putting up with me!
Many of the prizes shipped out before Christmas but I will put the rest in the mail tomorrow. Thanks again, and I don't think I will be able to wait until my birthday to do another promotion like this ... so check back often!

Day Twelve: Twelve Days of Christmas

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"Fit To Be tied"

Oil, 8" x 8" framed.

Available at Segil Gallery

The winner of the Eleventh Day of Christmas giveaway is Carrie Waller. Carrie is the first repeat winner!
Today is the last day of the Twelve Days of Christmas and the giveway is, of course, one of my paintings. The winner can pick one of my 6x6  or 8x8 paintings or I can paint one similar to one that may have already sold. I hope you are all enjoying this holiday season. In order to be eligible for this final giveaway, all you need to do is post a comment on my blog or facebook page. Happy Holidays!

Twelve Days of Christmas - Day Eleven - SOLD

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"Stuck Together"

Oil, 6" x 6" framed.

Available at Debra Huse Gallery
Sold.

The winner of the Tenth Day of Christmas $100 gift certificate is Gretchen Zelek! Congrats!
We are down to the last two days ... hard to believe. The giveaway for the Eleventh Day of Christmas is a ninety (90) minute art marketing consultation with me! This is valued at $200 and will take place via telephone at the winner's earliest convenience. We will talk about anything the winner wants ... website, blogging, facebook, newsletters, paypal buttons, etc. The list could go on forever ...
And all you have to do to be eligible is to visit my website again and share as many LIKE buttons as you can!  I have added at least twenty more LIKE buttons so you may have to find them ... Every time you share, you get a chance to win.

Twelve Days of Christmas - Day Ten - SOLD

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"Must Be A Sunday"

8" x 10" framed.

Sold.

The winner of the Ninth Day of Christmas copy of my new book titled "2010- A Year of Boat Paintings" is Wendie Thompson. Congrats! 

The giveaway for the Tenth Day of Christmas is a $100 gift certificate toward the purchase of one of my paintings. To be eligible for the drawing, just go to this page on my website and leave a comment on my blog or Facebook as to which three paintings are your favorites. I am just looking for feedback!

One more thing ... the final two days of The Twelve Days of Christmas are really great giveaways ...

Twelve Days of Christmas - Day Nine

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"A Field of Daffodils"

Oil, 11" x 14"

$850 at Gale's Restaurant

The winner of the Eighth Day of Christmas $100 gift certificate from Randy Higbee Art & Frame Company is Dee Doyle. Congrats!
The giveaway for the Ninth Day of Christmas is my new book titled "2010 - A Year of Boat Paintings". All you have to do to qualify for the giveaway is go the book site here and share my book on Facebook (you will see the Facebook logo - just click it!). Then leave me a comment on facebook or my blog so I know you have shared it!

Twelve Days of Christmas - Day Eight

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"Rooster VII"

Oil, 6" x 12" framed.

$500.00

The winner of the Seventh Day of Christmas "Artists Helping Artists" painting apron is Kim VanDerHoek.
The giveaway for the Eight Day of Christmas was graciously donated by Mr. Santa himself, Randy Higbee. Randy owns Art & Frame Co. and the Randy Higbee Gallery. He most recently hosted the world renown "6x6 Squared" painting exhibition that was the talk of the artist community. Randy has donated a $100 gift certificate toward the purchase of frames. This is an awesome gift!

In order to be eligible for this prize, you need to visit my website and find one of the Facebook LIKE buttons. Just click one of them and you are eligible! In fact, every time you click a LIKE button on my website you will win another chance. The LIKE buttons have been located throughout my website so you should be able to find them! But if you can't, look on the Workshop page and the individual pages of the paintings that are for sale!

Twelve Days of Christmas - Day Seven

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"Daydream"

Oil, 8" x 16" on canvas panel

$650.00

This is the first painting I have completed in a while ... too busy with the holidays but it was fun to be back at the easel.
The winner of the "Sixth Day of Christmas" Two Day Palette Knife Workshop is Lynn Watters. Congratulations!
The free giveaway for Day Seven is an "Artists Helping Artists" logo'd painting apron. It's got great pockets for brushes (or palette knives) and it can be yours! All you have to do is suggest a topic for our weekly "Artists Helping Artists" radio show. Is there something you want Dreama and me to talk about that you, as an artist, would like to know more about? Just comment on my blog or facebook and let me know!
Marketing Tip: Have you added Facebook Like buttons to your blog and website? Go to this link http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like and "build your own" Facebook like button.

Twelve Days of Christmas - Day Six

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"Leaving the Winery"

Oil. 8" x 10"

$500.00 framed.

The winner of the Fifth Day of Christmas $25 gift certificate is Roxanne Steed. Congratulations and happy spending!
Sorry I am so late posting today but the party last night was amazing and needless to say ... I am finally feeling relaxed again. We are blessed with so many great friends and is always a joy to open our home and celebrate the holiday season. Most of the food is gone, which is so hard to believe. I promise you we are doing take out tonight if my family can't find enough leftovers!
Today's prize is a good one. It's a gift certificate to attend my Two Day Palette knife workshop next month (valued at $195). The dates are January 14th and 15th and it will be held in South Pasadena.  If you don't live in Southern California you can actually gift this to an artist friend. It cannot be used, however, by someone who is already signed up for my workshop. And it is only valid for the January workshop. For more details go here.
To qualify for today's free giveaway, you just need to sign up for my newsletter. Click here to sign up. If you already receive my monthly newsletter just comment here and let me know and I will include you in the drawing!

Twelve Days of Christmas - Day Five - SOLD

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"Orange Reflections"

Oil, 6" x 6" framed.

Sold.

OK, I am stunned. Yesterday's "contest" generated 301 names for boat paintings. Which means ... of course ... that I will not have to come up with a name for one of my boat paintings for about TWO YEARS! You guys are amazing! It also took me almost two hours to make the list of all of the suggested names as they appeared everywhere ... in my email, on face book (in many different places) and on my blog. Wow.
The winner of the Fourth Day of Christmas palette knives is Susan Hogan Girard. Congratulations!
The prize for Day Four is a $25 gift certificate toward pretty much anything ... gift cards, gift tags, a workshop, painting, etc. And today is easy. I promise. Since I will be working on final preparations for our party (which is tonight ... OMG ...) you just need to comment on my blog or facebook post. That's it!

Twelve Days of Christmas - Day Four

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"Middle Child"

Oil, 6" x *' on canvas panel.

$350 framed.

The winner of the Third Day of Christmas 24 notecards is Carrie Waller. Congratulations!

The prize for Day Four is a set of my four favorite palette knives. These are the knives I use to paint about 99% of my paintings and I am thrilled to give one of your own set! I am really excited about what you need to do to be eligible for this prize ... because this will help me a lot! Most of you know I paint a lot of boats so all you need to do is suggest potential names for "boat paintings"and every suggestion earns you a chance to win! You can leave a comment here or on facebook! Below are some of my paintings and titles ... just to get you started ...

 

Many of you have asked to see the menu for our party this weekend and I hope this will help you understand why I have been cooking like a maniac ...

Menu

Spicy grilled shrimp cocktail in shot glasses

Smoked turkey with cranberry/orange muffins

Smoked salmon and dill sauce

Chinese Chicken salad in won ton cups

Assorted veggies with Roasted Red Pepper Dip

BLT tomatoes

Caesar salad on parmesan cheese flat cups

Blue cheese, Walnut and Cranberry Crostini

Butternut squash, ginger and coconut soup

Martini Salad Bar

Skewered chicken with peanut sauce

Skewered flank steak with peanut sauce

Brie cups with pomegranates

Cape Fear crab cakes and dill sauce

Sesame Ahi with sauce & rice in shot glasses

Sweet Hot Thai sliders

Pesto stuffed mushrooms

Four cheese puffs

Tart shells with spinach/artichoke dip and parmesan cheese

Whipped sweet potatoes with brown sugar topping in pastry shells

Crab quesadillas

Desserts

Cranberry, chocolate & toffee oatmeal cookies

Peanut butter fudge

Frosted sugar cookies

Cranberry shortbread

Chocolate Mint Marvels

Twelve Days of Christmas - Day Three

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"Getting Ready"

Oil, 6" x 6" on canvas panel.

$300.00 framed.

Twelve Days of Christmas
Day Three 
I am pleased to announce the winner of the Second Day of Christmas fifty (50) Holiday Gift Tags is Karen Hartley. Congratulations!

The prize for Day Three is four packages of note cards, which includes 24 notecards featuring my paintings. The value of this prize is $72.00. And the winner will be able to pick which notecards they want from here.
To qualify to win the free giveaway, all you need to do is to comment on this blog post! This is really easy ... so just click the link below to comment and send me a message ... you can say anything you want!

Today's Marketing Tip: I honestly believe Facebook is currently the hottest free marketing tool available for artists.  So, using yesterdays's "google search tip" I found twenty (20) really cool Facebook tips. They include: How to Download Facebook Photo Albums, How to Share Flicker Photos to Facebook, How to Schedule Facebook Messages, How to Display Selected Pictures Only on your Facebook Profile Page and How to Post Your Blog Posts to Your Facebook Wall Automatically. Click here to find these great tips.

Twelve Days of Christmas - Day Two

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"Lend a Helping Hand"

Oil, 6" x 6" on canvas panel.

Sold.

Twelve Days of Christmas
Day Two

I am pleased to announce the winner of the First Day of Christmas archival print from Imagekind is Kathy Cousart. I used www.random.org to pick the winner. It works every time!

The prize for Day Two is a set of fifty (50) Holiday Gift Tags. These will ship out tomorrow so you can use them on all of your packages for the holidays!
To qualify to win the free giveaway, all you need to do is to help Dreama and me with this week's "Artists Helping Artist's" radio show. Our topic this week is "Getting Organized". So email me an organizational tip and you can win today's prize! If it pertains to art then great ... if you are not an artist send a tip anyway. We are especially interested in any art sales management systems you might be using to manage your art business. Thanks!!!

Today's Marketing Tip: Do you know the best way to find an answer to a marketing question? Just google it! The most common question I get is "How do I add Facebook Like Buttons to my blogger?". If you google the question, you will get hundreds of answers, including videos. Want to know how to "add Pay Pal Buttons to your blog or website"? Just google the question and tons of "how-to videos" are on the internet showing you how to do it. I know this sounds simple ... but it really works!