Like I said last entry, I made the big leap to start selling my smaller work on Etsy. Good news, I have 5 pieces in a show at Sopa Fine Art Gallery in Kelowna in April. I have posted this news to Facebook and sent out an email to my subscribers but have not had time to update my blog. I also joined Pinterest so that I could post some work there and collect, for inspiration, work that I like . I was using Tumblr but find it not so great for some reason. We'll see if I like Pinterest better. I still keep up with Tumblr for things like longreads but I might just use it to post work to when it's finished, a way to spread it around. Playing around at all this is sucking out a lot of my day. I need to get Hoot Suite or something for all this social media marketing and connecting with friends, family and art buyers. Do you use it? What do you think?
I also started one larger and 2 small paintings this week. This amazes me as it seems that starting Etsy has gotten me a lot of work as well as some exposure. It does feel more like play than work right now though (guilt inducing play). But, I'm hoping it will settle down once I establish a few people in circles and all that jazz. I did push myself very hard to get started at those paintings though. And now I have to push myself out the door to get groceries and do chores before this whole day is gone, like yesterday, sitting at the computer. Please let there be 2 to 3 hours after chores to paint. Please.
Here is a little image for you:
Right now I'm vowing NOT to join Pinterest. I'm not very good at networking, but I'm beginning to think I miss the awkwardness of trying to connect to people in real life. The ease of clicking 'like' and developing a charismatic network presence is becoming too much work.
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I hear you sister. Too much. Gotta get a handle on it.
ReplyDeleteI've joined Pinterest. I find it user friendly! I keep or will keep my work there - photographs, paintings, and all that I'm interested in and love to look at on other Pinterest sites It keeps me up to date on what's new and interesting out there. I'm always finding little goodies.
ReplyDeleteTake a break now and then.
Love, T
Even though I'm afraid I may enjoy the online life too much it distracts from the isolation of the studio and offers a daily connection that actually helps keep me in the studio. Through the internet I get to see a lot of art and connect with a lot of artists I would never know otherwise. Before it the connections were few and far between. I also find that when I am in the middle of a painting the distraction of checking fb, or the like, gets me away from obsessing over something I should leave for a while. Getting a handle on it is important though. I'm thinking that if I take time for email and other online work at the beginning of the day and then only check in from time to time during studio time that will become the habit and it will take care of itself. I need to schedule it and stick to the schedule.
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