Letter To An Artist

I larn lots of artists bespeak for advice on promoting their fine art in addition to too bespeak whether it's possible to endure featured on my blog. Too many to endure fair to all - thence I bring a fix of rules near who gets featured on this blog.

Below yous tin read the sort of alphabetic quality which oft gets sent to artists bespeak for advice.

Churchill's Chair at Chartwell
coloured pencils on Arches HP, 9" x 12"
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

Hi [artist's name]

Thank yous for your sort words near my blog.

You asked whether it's possible to endure featured on my blog. I mainly feature:

• either artists who blog. Do yous bring an fine art blog?

• or participate inward the annual exhibitions of national fine art societies

• or are selected for juried in addition to prestigious fine art competitions.

Would whatever of those descriptions agree you?

Otherwise I'm afraid I larn approached all the fourth dimension in addition to I bring to describe the trouble somewhere - if simply to bring some fourth dimension to write my blog!

My principal recommendations would endure to

• get much bigger images of your artwork online. Those thumbnails are non showing your fine art to best effect. You don't bring to create real large images - but reasonable size pics eg 600 pixels @72 dpi aren't a risk. Plus yous could produce the strange large one.

• don't run Flash - because lots of people browse the Internet using their iPads in addition to iPads don't produce Flash.

• get yourself on Facebook in addition to and thence create a Facebook Page for your professional person presence. You'd endure amazed at how of import this straightaway is for driving traffic to a website or blog.

• Images piece of employment real good for attracting attending - but they produce demand to endure a decent size.

• Crop a fleck out of a icon in addition to exhibit it large.

• COMMUNICATE alongside people. Art does non speak for itself. People desire to purchase fine art off artists they know something about. Let people bring a short fleck of access to you.

• Use a weblog or Facebook to beak near your fine art in addition to what you're doing.

• Treat a weblog and/or Facebook similar an chance to bring a permanent somebody thought online.

Hope this helps

Katherine Tyrrell 
Artist in addition to author Katherine Tyrrell draws in addition to writes near fine art for artists in addition to fine art lovers Making H5N1 Mark is #3 inward the exceed 25 fine art blogs inward the Britain over 2,200,000 visitors, over 4,500,000 pageviews - in addition to counting......Follow Making H5N1 Mark on Facebook in addition to Twitter

Note near the drawing: 

We've been visiting Chartwell on a regular footing all twelvemonth in addition to I've been sketching there. I wanted to produce a drawing(s) of i or to a greater extent than aspects.  This is a start elbow grease at the short isle inward the lake where Churchill sat to read in addition to paint.  I've been short around alongside this drawing for a few days in addition to can't create upward one's heed whether or non it's finished and/or how it mightiness endure improved.  So it's going upward on the weblog thence I tin encounter amend what needs doing.  Feel costless to crit.  I'll order yous a hint - I'm non solely happy alongside it in addition to demand to encounter how to improve it inward some other version. [PS I'm currently preoccupied alongside a projection in addition to "who's made a score this week" volition endure along afterwards - perhaps much later(!) - today.]

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