Creative Way to Promote Your Business - not your usual Business Card

Tips on how you can create a homemade promotional piece for your photography business. I used this particular piece for my Mixed Media Photography Business:
  
You will need editing software such as Photoshop.  
I recommend using Epson Premium Presentation Paper Matte Double-Sided (8.5x11" sheets) 
Paper cutter
Total of 8 images (L 2.5"x W 2") 4 on each side.
First you copy (copy & paste in PS) on 1 page - four 2" x 10" stripes. Then you repeat with 4 new images on a separate PS file.

Once it's printed you can cut them into 4 stripes.
It's a little tricky at first because you have to figure out which way to face the paper when you print the back so do a test print first. I deckled one end of the paper. 

My Beginning Of The Year Photos, 2010

1. This year started with me celebrating the new year with my old friend of over 30 years, Magnum Photographer Extradordinaire & Olympus Visionary , Eli Reed. He is now in Nigeria working on a video.  In the image below Eli is in my living room with my dog pal Bob. 

2. First Snow Fall 2010 in Riverside Park.

3. This week I had a productive meeting with Life Coach Tracey Steinberg:

     www.LifeCoachTracey.com
      www.DatingHelp911.com 

      http://lifecoachtracey.blogspot.com/

We will be collaborating on an interesting project. She will give women tips on dating and finding Mr. Right and I will be taking their portraits for online dating. 

4. Yesterday I went to Michael's Art Store on Columbus Avenue to have a restored photo (I hand-colored with pastels) framed.  The first frame my client picked up was perfect.  We really got lucky to have the very talented artist and framer Rachel Katzenellenbogen pick the perfect mattes to go along with the frame.

Andy Mars Mixed Media Photography on Display at Westside Camera

For the month of December 2009, I will have my photos displayed in the window of Wolf/Westside Camera on 88th street & Broadway in Manhattan.  All artwork is for sale.  Please stop by if you're in the neighborhood.  

What's happening In June in the life of Andy Mars, Photo Artist

On June 8, 2009, my photo will be displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at a special event with Learning Leaders along with other members of Professional Women Photographers Community Service Committee.

Approximately seven hundred people are expected to attend the special event called ELLs conference (Learning Leaders is partnering with the Office of English Language Learners, Office of Arts and Special Projects).

Update: A young girl in the auditorium asked me to take a photo of Mayor Bloomberg, the speaker, with her camera!

Mayor Bloomberg chatting with school children.

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PWP's CSC exhibit opening on Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 5:00 to 7:00 pm

William and Anita Newman Vertical Campus
Baruch College Conference Center
55 Lexington Avenue (at 24th Street)

This will be a traveling exhibit - other locations TBA. The exhibit is only for one day at the above
address, 5-7pm.
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My Mixed Media Workshop is listed on the Creative Center website

Photo-based Mixed Media

This workshop offers the endless possibilities of combining painting and drawing materials with b&w; photography. You will be able to use your own photos taken with point&shoot cameras and printed on photo watercolor paper, or choose from a stockpile of images provided by the instructor. Various techniques and mediums will be explored including hand coloring with photo paints, pastel pencils, pastel chalk, oil paint and acrylic paint. Learn how to create unique and surprising mixed-media artworks that, while based on reality, lean toward the fantastic!

ANDY MARS is a photographer and teacher who creates one-of-a-kind mixed media artwork. Andy integrates photography with watercolor, acrylics, oil pastels and pencils using a variety of surfaces. She is a member of the Professional Women Photographers and is the co-chair of the Community Service Committee. Her work has been included in many exhibits in galleries and restaurants as well as in the Memorial Arts Museum in Rochester, NY.