This past week we had a great many visitors to our sight. For most of the blogs posted, we discussed ways you can promote your art via the internet. If you haven’t already visited the individual pages and missed these tips and hints, here is a run down of the weeks blogs. For your convenience, to immediately go to the page referenced, simply click on the picture next to the description of the blog post.

MONDAY: Helpful Tips to Help promote Your Art~I said that many artists find it difficult to market themselves. However, if you are to reach people outside of your comfort zone of friends, family, and colleagues, you must promote yourself to a wider network.

I gave you eight valuable tips that should help any artist put together a workable plan to market themselves.

TUESDAY: Can You Utilize the Internet to Promote Your Artwork? I wrote that an artist has to have a plan, but there is no doubt that the internet can help get you noticed as an artist and give you a number of places where you can promote and sell your work. I discussed my personal experience using the internet utilizing this blog sight.

I pointed out that there were a great many ways to get more traffic to my sight and I plan to be using most of these in the future.

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY:No blogs posted on these days.

FRIDAY: Some More Tips to Help Promote Your Artwork~I discussed my experience with my blog sight, and how 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.

I discussed that you must have a plan to help visitors find your web or blog sight and gave you nine valuable suggestions to help you.

SATURDAY: Using Dry Brush in Watercolor~ If you wish to create texture and broken color in watercolor, particularly for foliage and grass in a landscape or hair and fur textures in a portrait or animal painting, you need to use a dry brush technique.

If you click on the thumbnail to the right, you can visit my most visited blog post. I have no idea why. It does have some very interesting information on how an artist can help direct the viewers eyes to the center of interest in their work. >>>

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