Comments on: Why aren’t you blogging?

By: Jude Maceren

Jude Maceren — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:14:15 +0000

I blog frequently as often as I can. I meet a lot of people who became my friends and some became my potential clients. I got a lot of views in my blog than my own website. This helped me a lot to promote what I have in my website. I am learning a lot each day and would like to make my blog posts consistent. Sometimes it is difficult to combine painting and blogging not to mention the digital imaging that we have to do. But this is a part of the fun in doing business and selling our art. If you want to take a look of my blog this is it: http://paintingsbyjude.blogspot.com This is a great post! Thanks, Jude Maceren artist My Art Blog: http://paintingsbyjude.blogspot.com

By: Regula Scheifele

Regula Scheifele — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:42:59 +0000

Well – I just started blogging this year. My blog is meant to help me keep my new years resolution to paint one painting a week. So far I – more or less – managed to stick with that resolution. What thing I realise is I need to decide whether to only post my paintings (and risk not blogging if I haven’t finished a painting) or start ‘chatting’ as well, posting even when I have no painting to show. So far I haven’t decided… yet. Btw: my blog is bilingual English/German – and I really enjoy the ‘double posts’!

By: Alex Slingenberg

Alex Slingenberg — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:30:13 +0000

the reason I’m not yet blogging is I find it all very confusing and am not sure where to start or what to say so have put it off until I can learn more about the how and do part of it. i would be interested to learn.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:16:14 +0000

I have difficulty when I try to delve deep inside myself. When I try to answer questions about why I love to draw, paint, create, and what is my passion, and anything that takes me inside me, I go blank. So the thought of writing a blog kinda stifles me. I suppose I have lots of issues that I probably need to address in order to be able to reach inside me and know the real me. Maybe a blog would be a good way to start. I don’t know… any suggestions?

By: Liz Plummer

Liz Plummer — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:33:04 +0000

Until I started a blog I had predominantly used the internet as a ‘viewer’, a lurker on various email lists… Starting the blog was a way of starting to share myself and my art. I love the sense of community, getting to know other people via their blogs and their comments on my blog and it has given me the confidence to build a website and put my art ‘out there’. I found several ways of attracting people to read your blog: belong to a webring or several – fellow members of the webring will often click ’round the ring’ to see who else shares their interest; offer tutorials or useful tips – I posted a photo tutorial a year ago about making a concertina book and it still gets hits because so many people linked to it; if you belong to relevant email lists be sure to join in and refer people to your blog posts if you have written something relating to the current discussion…

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:59:33 +0000

I started blogging in January. I didn’t know it would be so much fun. But it’s dawning on me that it’s completely at cross purposes. I talk about having an online art fair which is temporarily on the back burner. I talk about my personal life. I show finished pieces, unfinished pieces, commission pieces rejected by my client. (I was so embarassed by showing that piece that I removed the post.) The reason I’m blogging is to sell more art. I want more people to go to my website. I want to have fun and show everything BUT my galleries are not going to be thrilled that I’m skipping out to ride my bike when I promised them artwork. My collectors aren’t interested in my son’s break up with his girlfriend. Unfinished artwork is interesting to no one. One thing I’m going to do is have another blog directly on my website. It will be about process, finished pieces, and a small bit about my personal life. But can I really write two blogs?

By: Kerrie B. Wrye

Kerrie B. Wrye — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:44:12 +0000

Hi Alyson, Kerrie Wrye, here_ one of the artists from the smARTist Telesummit, (see samples of my work posted to the website by Googling my name: Kerrie Wrye, & at: http://www.smartist-telesummit.com/artists/, including: http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/forum/user_profile/ matribu; scroll to the bottom of that statement to the link to see other examples of my work! ***The OSUMU reference, on Google, does not show MY work… Setting up a blog was a direct result of participating in the Telesummit, and watching my daughter online! I also have an iChat account now! I like that my online tools are malleable, so, I can revise them constantly. I don’t like how much time I wind up devoting to them almost daily! That is the challenge with all of this technology, getting up and walking away to stay healthy, and then create traditional two-dimensional work in our three dimensional world! Yet, with this technology base I know I am building a personal communication center from which to recreate a portion of my links with the world-at-large! I AM participating in dimentionalizing connection through cyber connection, and my budget is the value of my time; I have spent no cash to have someone else design all these cyber-canvase-galleries FOR me! (And the link directly to my blog is always in my email auto-signature) Kerrie http://kerriebwrye.blogspot.com/ I challenge my destiny, my time I challenge the human eye I will sneer at ridiculous rules and people that is the end of it: I will fill my eyes with pure light, and swim in a sea of unbound feeling I have challenged tradition and my absurd position, and I have gone beyond what age and place allow. _ Al-Taimuriya, from Hilyat al-tiraz (Embroidered Ornaments, 1909) _from my studies of 100 years of Muslim Feminism!

By: Steve Duncan

Steve Duncan — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:39:15 +0000

Hi Alyson, for me the question is how do you get people to find your blog, and more importantly, subscribe to it? You know about my Creative Spin blog (http://thedriveisalive.blogspot.com) My other blog is a community-based blog all about the street where I live in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Commercial Drive.(http://thedriveisalive.blogspot.com) I get great feedback and have no problem finding content (people are emailing me to ask if they can contribute) but building a subscription base is tough. I send out targeted emails to people i know live on the drive, and am constantly mentioning how subscription works. I even am offering a draw for a free Commercial Drive T-shirt for people who sign up. I’d like to monetize my blog, but it would help to show potential advertisers how many people come to it. Is there something I’m missing? S.

By: Carrie Cahill Mulligan

Carrie Cahill Mulligan — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:16:59 +0000

I am surprised to say that I have started two blogs in the past 8 months. This seems particularly surprising because I do not have access to high speed internet where I live. I have to say that using the internet via dial-up is a slow and frustrating task. (It has made me extremely conscientious about saving all graphis as small as possible, but not everyone remembers the plight of the dial-up user when designing graphic rich pages…) I started with a My Space page back in July to just be up and running, then quickly gathered that many workplaces do not allow access to My Space. I took the plunge with a WordPress site in November, and although I love the look of the site I have built so far, I have found it just a bit difficult for my aspiring techie skills. I often feel in over my head. Eventually I would like to be able to trasfer the WordPress site to my own domain name site, but need to upgrade my own savvy first. I have managed to post about once a month so far to each site, and intend to increase the frequency of my posts. I like the idea of posting… its just tough to get myself to actually post… Thanks for all the encouragement on this topic, Alyson.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:33:43 +0000

I’ve been blogging for a few months now. I think I’ll keep at it, but one frustration so far is putting time into creating a well written post, but then not having anyone read it. My blog might get one or 2 hits per day, which isn’t exactly motivating. My blog and a gallery blog that I also do: http://joekaz.blogspot.com/ http://artistsgallery.blogspot.com/