My top tweets for the past couple of weeks. Date your artwork, creative Facebook timeline covers, ending your blog posts, Pinterest tips, one artist shares her “Register Your Artwork” website page for people who bought her art.
Tweekly for February 26 2012 Read
Does it hit you over the head? Do you have to spend time with it to understand its greatness? While we’re at it . . . What is great art?
Understanding the mission for various online marketing platforms makes it easier to prioritize your efforts in communicating to your target audience.
How to Prioritize Your Online Marketing Read
Artists must nurture excellent communication skills, be approachable, and learn how to handle the opportunities that arise for obtaining gallery representation and selling to buyers. I called on Scott Ginsberg of “Hello My Name is Scott” fame to talk with me about how we can do a better job of this.
Secrets for Becoming More Approachable: Audio Interview Read
The Internet is an amazing tool, but it can never replace encountering a real work of art. Exhibiting your art allows you to have a dialogue with people about the work. You can’t help but learn and grow from these experiences.
Warning: Exhibiting Your Art is Good for You Read
On a visit to Virginia Folkestad‘s studio, I was taken with the way she documented her career in a visual timeline.
I encourage you to do something similar for your oeuvre.
This will help you visualize your progress and understand how objects and ideas are connected over time.
You will discover common threads that you didn’t previously see, which will help you better tell the story of your work.
Have you tried something like this?
Tongue tied? Return to Pictures to Tell Your Story Read
Excellent articles from my Twitter stream this past week: premature art marketing, Pinterest tips, Facebook visibility, and more.
Twitter Tweekly via @abstanfield Read
In Letters to a Young Artist, Julia Cameron writes: Remember that art is about being interested, not about being interesting. True?
Interested or Interesting Read
Consider posting online previews of your work before an opening, but remember – you don’t have to reveal all of the work in a show at once, nor do you have to reveal it to everyone.
Go Ahead and Spoil the Surprise Read
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