How serene this sailboat is as it drifts on a lake past a heavily-wooded hillside at sunset! I like lake living. I call it Solitary Sailboat. A simple painting that shows tranquil ripples on the lake surface. It is easy to become mesmerized when looking at it. It is another one of my watercolor and marker paintings. I love this technique.
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Today's free image is a warm, cozy, color-accented, white mug of steaming coffee. Alter the colors to suit your needs. Enlarge, reduce. It's yours to use as you please. The dimensions are 1495 x 1920 px, PNG file.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AucUJVHYQ3s5jFCUS-qwU2h5A2nA?e=vSyvlY
Then click the download link at the top of the OneDrive page.
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The bonus image is a black and white line drawing of a coffee cup and saucer with coffee steam drifting upwards. The dimensions are 1103 x 1280 px, PNG file.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AucUJVHYQ3s5jFHNoH6_JumWMPcA
Then click the download link at the top of the OneDrive page.
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HAPPY CREATING!
I suggest that you edit the images or add them to your own designs to make them unique to your brand. This is important especially if you are using them in products that you are selling.
After all, free images may be currently used, as is, by any number of sellers. Editing them or adding them to your own designs will help prevent your potential customers from confusing you with another seller.
You want your customers to return to your shop because what you have is unique. Don't lose them to another shop because they mistakenly thought they were buying from you because the products have duplicate designs.
I share images from the Web and from my own studio. While I cannot guarantee that my internet-obtained, free images are copyright free, I only share images that are labeled on the internet in one or more of these forms:
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If you've ever wished you could publish a book but always feel discouraged, it's not beyond you to realize your dream. Self-publishing today is easier than ever. Years ago, I feebly tried pursuing the submitting manuscripts for review. My heart was never in the process of begging agents or publishers to accept my manuscripts.
I discovered self-publishing decades ago simply by brainstorming what I wanted to do that I didn't want anyone else to do for me. I did not want to have my content chopped and edited into something that did not reflect me.
I did not want to be employed through giving over my content into partial ownership with publishing houses. I did not want to be told what to do and how to think about my own publications.
Yes, there's a price to pay for choosing not to pursue publishing houses. If we can write a blockbuster, a bestseller, we could become wealthy through the payouts from a major publishing house. If, however, we are not seeking that, then there is not a price to pay for choosing the self-publishing route. There is a price to pay for not self-publishing.
When I condensed what I wanted to do as a writer, I realized that publishing wasn't the rigid process that I thought it had to be. I understood that publishing was open to me to do it however I wanted to, in a way that suited me. I perceived that I would not break any laws by finding ways to publish and market my own ebooks, paperback books and hardback books.
James Dillehay shares the many positives of publishing your own books in his article,
Self-Publishing vs Submitting Manuscript to a Publisher
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