As it is for most retailers, January & February are typically our slowest months as those post holiday credit card bills roll in. With the exception of a moderate number of custom pet portraits as Valentine’s Day gifts for the true pet lovers, and a few people redeeming the gift certificates for our unique art that they received for Christmas, it’s usually pretty quiet. This year however, has been quite a different story and it’s been like Christmas all over again!!
Over this past holiday weekend alone (is President’s Day still considered a holiday?), we processed more than a dozen portraits! They were stacked up all over the studio, it made February look like December – all the snow on the ground helped with that too.
Actually the stacks were even bigger than at Christmas because suddenly everybody wants the more dramatic effect of premium stretching for their portraits. The larger stretcher bars just give our portraits a more substantial look and feel, and that true gallery look.
We’ve done lots of Pop Art Style pets as well as some custom art of people, and there’s still more to go. We’re working on two little terriers from Washington, three labs from New Jersey, six Boxers from Arkansas, and the list goes on!
In addition to the custom portraits of pets, and the pop art portraits of people, we are very busy providing printing services for photographers, both amateur and professional. We’ll tell you more about that later, but for now we just wanted to thank all our new and repeat customers for the first quarter boost in business! And if you want to get in on the action and have a custom Pop Art Portrait of your favorite pet or person, we’re running a Pop Promo right now that can’t be beat. Check it out on our specials page and order quickly because it will only be available for a few more days!
