Here, at my blog sight, visitors can see works in progress, finished works, and other artist’s works and read statements about it. My blog is as much visual as it is textual, with me being a commentator. It is a dynamic tool for me. I can post every day or several times a day if I choose.
CREATE A BLOG.
A blog is a collection of postings of your art images with your written thoughts and generally hosted by a blogging site. It can substitute for a website or support one already developed. I recommend if you have a website you must have a complimenting blog sight. The website is static in nature.
A blog sight can provide status updates for your followers and new visitors. Your posts will appear chronologically. Viewers can sign up for RSS feeds, which will deposit new posts into a blog tracker.
HAVE A PLAN TO CREATE VISITORS TO YOUR SIGHT.
Yes, as everything else involved in your life, blog and websites need to be promoted to reach out to your planned community.
- Join on-line art discussion sights (a great many are available)
- Facebook (create “fan page”)
- Stumble
- Digg
- Google +
- Write art articles for on-line magazines (Helps create expertise.)
- Link back all possible to your blog site
Without visitors being promoted to your sight, they will not come in mass. The growth and promotion will be disappointing at first, but if you are patient and consistent it will graph upward. You can track your visitor growth through a sight such as Google Analytics.
My advice is to be very careful that you keep everything in perspective, however, or otherwise you’ll spend all your time promoting yourself and not doing what you love best…ART.
