Wednesday, February 04, 2009

My Other Blog

I just wanted to let you all know that I've started another blog on my actual painting website - you can view it here, where I've posted about looking past the obvious to find better painting compositions. I'm still going to keep this blog, and will continue to post here at least 1-2 times per week. I'll probably only update the one on my website every other week or so.

I've never viewed this blog as a marketing tool, but rather as a way to connect with other artists. When I started blogging, I didn't know any other artists, and reading the blogs of others was a great way to get a glimpse into the working lives of people doing what I wanted to do someday. Now that I'm painting for a living, I like to use this blog in the same way, and hope that my thoughts or experiences might be useful for other artists starting out. As such, I like to be fairly honest and transparent about things like goals, and rejection, and my struggles with the painting process. Because of that, I've never promoted this blog on my actual website. I figured I would feel more guarded if I knew I was providing a link for potential collectors, which I know is silly since a google search of my name and "art" brings up this blog directly below my website (and I've had folks who own my work comment on here regularly). It's just a weird mental thing, I guess!

Anyhow, I got to thinking recently that I wanted my website to have more content to hold the interest of potential collectors and bring people back on a regular basis, so I decided to start the blog over there for that reason. The posts will be mostly discussion of the painting process - e.g. what I was thinking when I painted a recent painting, what I was working on etc. My posts here will still be a mix of whatever I feel like rambling about, whether it be goals or musings about being an artist.

Who knows whether either one is worth reading, or whether my ramblings will ever be useful to anyone else, but for what it's worth I thought I'd share anyhow!!

9 comments:

  1. Stacey, congratulations on your painting, Silence, being accepted into the Salon International!! I hope you'll come to the opening- I'd love to meet you!

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  2. I find your ramblings extremely interesting as well as your progress pieces. Very interesting! I'll also check out your new blog. Your work never fails to inspire.

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  3. I agree, I have enjoyed your ramblings. I am a want-to-be some day myself so I think reading your blog helps me see into what things might be like. Except that I'm a guy, I don't have babies and I don't live in the mountains. But even those things are fun reads. Keep up the great work, and site.

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  4. Brilliant move, Stacey! I am thrilled to be following both.

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  5. Stacy, I just wanted to tell you how much I have learned from reading your blog. I created my own blurb book for my museum show,set some clear goals and put a stat counter on my blog. I am so not computer savvy, I just muddle through. You seem to be on top of all these new resources and I am glad to have found your blog. Thanks, Anne Spoon

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  6. your blog is VERY helpful and i appreciate how open you are with the whole process of becoming an artist. i learn from you all the time--keep up the great work!

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  7. Just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to continue working on this blog. It has taught me a ton as a newer artist myself. I appriciate the informational posts and technical stuff you cant learn just by "googling" things... if "googling" isnt a word, it is now.

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  8. Love the comp, the brush strokes, the colors chosen, I sure wish I was up there to take a workshop with you!

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  9. Oops - I just realized I never replied to these comments - sorry!! Thanks so much all of you for letting me know that I'm not just rambling away to outer space - I appreciate knowing that some of this is useful to others.

    Susan - I wish I could make it to the Salon International opening, but the Colorado Governor's show opens the same night and I have to be there =(

    Terri - that means a lot. I haven't done any teaching yet, but I'm thinking about local classes - I'm just always worried that I don't know enough to be of use to others!

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