Starting Your Own Art Blog

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Small scream

Small scream (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

If you are a creative person and make your own art, or just love art in general, you are not alone and this is why it can be a great idea to start an art blog. I am writing this for Art Auctions as I have been putting together a lot of blogging advice lately for another site. I often write completely separately for art though because a lot of advice about the internet is solely aimed at business, not creative pursuits.

This is why blogging on art needs to be done a little differently and should not be confused with blogging for business. This is especially true if you will be blogging about your own art works. Some of you may know my popular site kjwriteleft.com which now sees over 1000 visitors a day, and is only made up of my own writing, poetry and photography.

Here is my secret - I love running it and I don’t ever want to run it like I would a business blog.

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Creating Products with Your Art

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Own work made in the style of Andy Warhol

An Andy Warhol style photo.

If you are a visual artist you will have a lot of images to work with in order to make new products to sell. Creating your art is one thing but becoming a commercial success can be very difficult so we are looking at ways you can convert your visual art pieces into commercial success. This type of venture was pioneered by Andy Warhol because of his previous experience in the professional world as he saw the advantageous of mass produced art.

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New Blogging Advice from KJ Takes a Blog

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Greetings everyone that has been visiting this very fresh and new site! As a big thank you I have been starting to use one of my old blogs again as a way to share a lot of blogging and writing experience. I hope this will be a very helpful blog as it kicks off and I have already published two really informative posts that translate well to an artist.

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Art Auctions Preparing for Launch

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Goethe in the Roman Campagna, 1787

Ok, so we won't be selling this... Goethe in the Roman Campagna, 1787 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I have been working on the site for a number of months now after some delays due to a lack of time. However, the site is starting to come along even though the cosmetics and selling features have not been added on yet. The key concern at the moment is establishing the site and setting it up in a well planned manner (hopefully!).

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Using Social Media to Promote Your Art

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Twitter 6x6 (Photo credit: Steve Woolf)

In a follow up to Creating a Buzz Around Your Art that we published the other week I am going to discuss using social media for promoting your art. Now, if you are an artist who is not online I won’t say you have to be, but if you are reading this then you have an internet connection and are missing out on a large audience. The beautiful thing about the internet is that you can reach a global audience, especially for visual art which can speak all languages.

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Creating a Buzz Around Your Art

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Big Heart of Art - 1000 Visual Mashups

Big Heart of Art - 1000 Visual Mashups (Photo credit: qthomasbower)

Creating a buzz around your art work is no longer as hard as it used to be with the advent of the Internet. Previously, you had to fork out hundreds (or thousands!) of dollars to pay for gallery space and perhaps even a seller. These days galleries still exist but the majority of artists are also online so that means they also sell art online.

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The Amazing and Funny Don Hertzfeldt

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I came across Don Hertzfeldt by accident some time ago and actually forgot about it when it resurfaced in a search by accident. His animations are amazing, quircky and with a great, albeit dark, sense of humour. Check them out below or you can visit his website Bitter Films:

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The Joy of Online Art

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Online art has really taken over the last few years with sites like Deviant Art taking the lead in showing how social art can be on the internet. We have also seen the advent of stock photo sites that have been helping photographers make a little bit of extra money. While many of these are great improvements they also pose a threat to many artists and their own financial viability and make selling art online increasingly difficult. Hopefully, these sites will start to disappear and buying art online will become popular.

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Preparing Your Art for Sale Online

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Selling your art online is a big step to take and differs a lot ot trying to sell it offline. The best thing about trying to sell creative products online is the reach that you have across the globe. People who love to buy art also love to get something unique so if they discover your work and it is what they are looking for then they will be happy to buy.

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