It is very affirming and inspiring to have any of my art featured, so I was especially thrilled to find BOTH of my flower pencil drawings featured together on the front page of this group Quality Art and Photography on Red Bubble! Pencil Dahlia has been featured 4 times in the past two days and Pencil Rose has been featured twice, so I must be doing something right with those color pencils lol!
On Fine Art America I received a comment on my John Lennon painting congratulating me for a contest win. Lol, I don't think I would have even known if not for reading it there!
The contest was called "Musician Art". Here is the link to the leader page where you can view the placements of all the art that was submitted (some wonderful stuff!) My painting tied with two others for the top three placements.
Both RB and FAA have several challenges or contests where you can submit artwork that fits with a particular theme created by the group or host. When any of my art fits the criteria I'll usually enter it. On RB it is easy to keep track of them all because they appear in the default feed, but on FAA, the only way (that I've found so far) is to go to the contest and look at the tab for your own submission. Maybe it was in a feed somewhere and I missed it, I don't know for sure, but I was completely surprised and delighted!
RB has been very active in the past couple of weeks, 'Bono' got another feature on May 29, 'Two Tulips' got it's first May 15, 'Boats In Sunlight' received four more, including a permanent feature page here: The Alphabet Marathon on May 19.
Two of my photos have been featured; 'View From Mayne Island' got it's first on May 22 and 'Poppy Close Up' on May 26 and 27th. It also came in second place in a RB contest redbubble.com/poppies-and-orchids-challenge.
I think that about covers it for now... back to the drawing board!
Showing posts with label artist communities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artist communities. Show all posts
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Another Site to Showcase and Sell Prints
I've just joined The Untapped Source (http://www.theuntappedsource.com/janicedunbar), which is a site designed to be strictly a gallery to showcase and sell art prints.
The other three inspire a lot of involvement in the social aspect of the communities which is fun and rewarding, but also very time consuming. Activity on Fine Art America has been picking up since submitting my art to more groups and I do like the look and feel of FAA. Even as a free member I can see much potential in it and will likely upgrade my account as my productivity increases.
'Boats in Sun Light' has been featured in three FAA groups now and was featured for the first time on Red Bubble today :) (Links to all my profiles if you want to check them out are in the side bar)
Setting prices for artwork on all four sites is done differently, so I guess depending where buyers live, the shipping costs and what type of print is being ordered, the best deals will be determined on an individual basis. I've posted links to each artwork's retail page under their image on the pages in this blog and on my website.
There are still other retailer sites that could be joined, I will investigate them as time permits, but for now I think setting up these four will have to be enough, I still need to scan some of my older artwork to include and I really want to get down to the business of creating!
Cheers! :)
The other three inspire a lot of involvement in the social aspect of the communities which is fun and rewarding, but also very time consuming. Activity on Fine Art America has been picking up since submitting my art to more groups and I do like the look and feel of FAA. Even as a free member I can see much potential in it and will likely upgrade my account as my productivity increases.
'Boats in Sun Light' has been featured in three FAA groups now and was featured for the first time on Red Bubble today :) (Links to all my profiles if you want to check them out are in the side bar)
Setting prices for artwork on all four sites is done differently, so I guess depending where buyers live, the shipping costs and what type of print is being ordered, the best deals will be determined on an individual basis. I've posted links to each artwork's retail page under their image on the pages in this blog and on my website.
There are still other retailer sites that could be joined, I will investigate them as time permits, but for now I think setting up these four will have to be enough, I still need to scan some of my older artwork to include and I really want to get down to the business of creating!
Cheers! :)
Monday, April 18, 2011
Alright then!
It's finally coming together... I've joined three online artist communities in the past week! Each one has different ways of setting up artist profiles, pricing structure and even how to navigate around the galleries as a member. Lots of time has been spent just getting to know the sites and researching other art to see what was standard with pricing, because I really had no idea.
So far the best part has been discovering these great communities of creativity. There is so much support amongst the artists and some truly beautiful and amazing art being produced to feel inspired and motivated by.
After setting up those three profiles and uploading what I had ready, I decided to redo my portfolio to include a link directly to the feature page for each individual artwork I've listed. It was hours of work, but it is so much cooler than just linking to my profile or gallery page and there are fun ways to customize the look of the prints.
The previews are excellent on some, even the greeting cards look very cool. I enjoy changing the frames and matte colors to see how that changes the look and feel of the art, (I probably lost a few hours experimenting with that over the past week at the various sites). In the end I usually prefer the prints on canvas or board anyway - lol.
After uploading my revised website, I thought I'd take a short break and looked at Facebook. It was then that I remembered the 'like' button. I realized I needed a FB artist page if I truly want to keep this whole endeavor synced from the start. (Twitter will have wait though, not much of a tweeter).
So instead of taking a break I created an artist FB page, got the code for the like button, posted it here and on my website, went back to FB, added a few photos, short bio, and then came over here to write about it and no one knows it exists yet, so I guess that's the next step... : )
So far the best part has been discovering these great communities of creativity. There is so much support amongst the artists and some truly beautiful and amazing art being produced to feel inspired and motivated by.
After setting up those three profiles and uploading what I had ready, I decided to redo my portfolio to include a link directly to the feature page for each individual artwork I've listed. It was hours of work, but it is so much cooler than just linking to my profile or gallery page and there are fun ways to customize the look of the prints.
The previews are excellent on some, even the greeting cards look very cool. I enjoy changing the frames and matte colors to see how that changes the look and feel of the art, (I probably lost a few hours experimenting with that over the past week at the various sites). In the end I usually prefer the prints on canvas or board anyway - lol.
After uploading my revised website, I thought I'd take a short break and looked at Facebook. It was then that I remembered the 'like' button. I realized I needed a FB artist page if I truly want to keep this whole endeavor synced from the start. (Twitter will have wait though, not much of a tweeter).
So instead of taking a break I created an artist FB page, got the code for the like button, posted it here and on my website, went back to FB, added a few photos, short bio, and then came over here to write about it and no one knows it exists yet, so I guess that's the next step... : )
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