It's All About Art, Timeline, Plus, and Info Universe Gods

Okay, so I previewed my new Facebook Timeline today. I liked it, published it, and now I'm learning how to tweak it.  It's all good. We have to keep telling ourselves these changes are good for us, as well as the gods of the info universe. Someone gave me Arundati Roy's book The God of Small Things a long time ago and I often think how fortunate I am to not have a thousand gods to appease, especially when tweaking all my internet sites and tools.

Go for it with Timeline--you'll like it! Professional Pages are okay--here's mine Gail Kent Studio Page with Timeline. I wasn't prepared for the extra banner-type photo, but found a temporary one to use for now.

I wanted to get in another post for February so I'm welcoming the extra day. An article I read earlier this week Obama Poster Image Copied relates to an earlier post about copying and thieves who will download your art-- steal your art. This is a tragic case of a gifted artist who used his gift, along with another artist's gift without permission, he got caught, it made the headlines. I strongly believe we have to put this issue out to all the sites we use. Anyone who has the talent to copy, has the talent to create original work. Thief Copied Your Art

Savannah Sunrise

Georgia Marshes

That's all I had on my mind for this post, but I do want to mention that new works were uploaded to my FAA site yesterday, and I have several Spring pieces to photograph for uploading--need yet another new camera.
These two studies are from photos snapped on a drive from the Florida Gulf Coast north along the Atlantic Coasts of Florida and Georgia and up to the North Carolina mountains.




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All the best,

Gail Kent
Gail Kent Studio

Find me or my work at the following addresses:
Gail-Kent.artistwebsites.com 
 Twitter -  Twitter.com/@Gail_Kent,  and Facebook -  www.facebook.com/GailKentStudio
www.etsy.com/people/gailkentstudio
https://sites.google.com/site/gailkentstudios

Friend Me? Risks to Artists Known and Trusted

Today's piece follows-up on my last post on building an online art gallery - more about building a brand, internet presence, a community to market your art with other artists you know and trust and clients who know and trust you. how-to-setup-art-gallery-website

To quote Drew at Skinny Artist, "The internet offers us as some unprecedented opportunities, as well as some unique challenges to selling our creative work online. Since most of our customers will never meet us face to face, they have to base their decision on what we say or do online." how-to-create-and-destroy-your-reputation-as-an-artist  Skinny Artist is chock-full of great advice for beginner and sage alike.

From Fine Art America site

My new website featuring larger studio oil paintings based on field studies and small acrylic paintings will be up this month. As I stated in the steps that I followed in planning my professional brand, this site will be the center of all other online presence. These works will be fresh off the easel and most are only sketched in as I write this post. I put considerable effort into building my brand.

My reputation as an artist is Critical to my art, which until recently, didn't exist online.

 Link to Fine Art America gallery featuring prints of this painting:
 http://gail-kent.artistwebsites.com/featured/harbor-sunset-gail-kent.html



The Importance of Social Media Decisions: Friend me?

To Friend or not to friend, or Like, or Favorite, or allow Following?
As I wrote in my post about Facebook's 69 billion connections ( marketing-to-your-69-billion-facebook friends ), a lot of eyes see everything you say and do online. My Facebook page is a Professional Artist Page and my Twitter account is used as a global news feed for finance, the economy, and art news, with a little humor added for my sanity.

Family and friends and personal interests are wonderful to share with - just not on a business website. Facebook and Twitter are websites - you can Google yourself and find the most interesting things once you've setup these accounts. With a professional artist page, you don't have to deal with making a decision to "friend" or not to friend. You simply have more control.

My websites, including Facebook and Twitter are friendly to all artists and artisans and people who support the arts. If you market a service or product online, social media decisions are best made early in setting-up. Your reputation is at stake.

All the best,

Gail Kent
Gail Kent Studios

Find me or my work at the following addresses:
Gail-Kent.artistwebsites.com 
 Twitter -  Twitter.com/@Gail_Kent,  and Facebook -  www.facebook.com/GailKentStudio
www.etsy.com/people/gailkentstudio
https://sites.google.com/site/gailkentstudios