Comments on: 27 Thoughts On Blogging For The Artist

By: Flipsem

Flipsem — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:22:58 +0000

Just found this post. It’s brilliant, true and very funny. As a professional artist for 25 years you have to have a sence of humour.

By: Nathan Hangen

Nathan Hangen — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:25:58 +0000

Good points, but to me the author sound full of bitterness and resentment. This doesn’t sound like an inspired artist, which is odd because I enjoy his writing.

By: Sell More Art Online

Sell More Art Online — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:59:18 +0000

Thanks for this problogger. This is really useful for me as a person that coaches artists how to promote themselves online. Point 21 is very key for me, the technology really should work for you, not the other way around.

By: georgette

georgette — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:41:03 +0000

so cool!
I think it’s the best time to be a working artist
I love social media
we love pleasing ourselves and if that does not please our audience, then they are not the audience we want or need.
we are the real thing
I love twitter, and I love that I promote other artists with it too!

By: Kayleen

Kayleen — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:02:38 +0000

I am reading a post from a ‘blogger’ on a ‘blog’ full of affiliated links and ‘Adsense Deluxe’ plug in. I find this post completely contradictory. I do agree that you can be consumed with the marketing side of art and not get enough real work done however the Internet and SEO is a valuable side of promoting your work and creating a wider audience. I use my blog and blog newsletter to connect with other artist and keep me creative and stimulated even in quiet times.

It is all about balance. Sometimes you have to concentrate hard on your marketing and sometimes on your work. But you do need both. I have personally found Adsense a waist of time so far but blogging has created work for myself and other artist friend I have helped with web sites and marketing ideas.

In my personal opinion balancing is the challenge and doing enough of what you enjoy makes for a fore filling life; financially successful or not.

By: FunkyFolky

FunkyFolky — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:04:48 +0000

To all… do you think blogging really promotes your art? Can you attribute any real success to a blog? Thanks for sharing :)

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:42:33 +0000

As an artist myself, I agree with your comments and appreciate the last one especially. I remember it being hard to embrace blogging and marketing at first. All I wanted to do was paint. Soon, I learned what other successful artists preach–half of your time is spent in marketing. Use it effectively. I actually find the time spend blogging and marketing a great diversion when the Muse is being rather silent.

By: Paopi

Paopi — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:04:34 +0000

Wow. Straight to the point ouch! :p Thanks!

By: Mr. Muckle

Mr. Muckle — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:36:55 +0000

Great points all. Thank you.

As a younger artist, I used to jump and shout. Now,
as an older artist – I just shout. It’s the act of doing that gets it done.

By: Mark McGuinness

Mark McGuinness — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:25:00 +0000

Excellent – thanks for a few welcome reminders.

By: Sharon Sarmiento

Sharon Sarmiento — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:46:47 +0000

Hey Robert,

I love this post. It helps put some stuff that I tend to take really seriously sometimes in perspective. So many of these hit home with me big time…like 6-27. Thanks for shaking things up :-)

By: sdenterprise

sdenterprise — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:23:35 +0000

Its good just having a read at what other think on a subject that you have put some thought into yourself!

By: Stormee

Stormee — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:39:51 +0000

Thank you I needed this. Especially no. 25.

By: FunkyFolky

FunkyFolky — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:15:58 +0000

I really needed this tonight. Thanks so much! It was shared among a lot of artists in an Etsy thread who probably ALL benefited from it :)

By: renee

renee — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:37:16 +0000

Whew I thot I was doing something wrong.

By: Christina Perdue

Christina Perdue — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:20:32 +0000

Excellent post, Darren!

By: paulscholes

paulscholes — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:21:51 +0000

Many food for thought, especially the part about Van Gogh…

By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:41:10 +0000

Thank you for this Robert, you are so spot on with this (ahem 18. If you wouldn’t do it without an audience, don’t do it all.) whole this. Thanks for having the guts to write this…

Maybe one other thing for artists who blog, network or be screwed. One artist (with a blog) complained a while ago about artists not bothering to comment on other blogs, never posting a reply to comments, being anti-social and so on. After a number of years with my own art related blog I sadly found this to be pretty true. I’m still not certain why this is. I ended up starting a blog project on another topic, although it can go in the direction of art, and find its already more fun.

By: CBM

CBM — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:12:49 +0000

Robert, wonderful, succinct points and really what I needed to read tonight.

Thanks, Darren, for giving him a platform here, I just made a new discovery and subscribed to his feed.

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:03:20 +0000

Eh, I could get into this huge philosophical discussion about why work is not solely defined as “the monkeylike contortions you undertake in order to earn a paycheck,” and why doing art is work as well, and how all too often the more reliably paying work becomes the fallback position, thereby violating pointer number fourteen above. But I get the general gist: you’ll never get anywhere if you die of starvation.

I think a lot of artists dig in their heels about working full-time or working at a job that makes them want to gouge their own eyeballs out with a spork because it’s not the work they would rather be doing. But art IS work. An artist making art IS working. They’re just not necessarily being paid.