How you can improve your daily painting blog!
Are you an artist? Do you have a blog?
If your answer is yes for both questions, then I already know something about you: You’re busy!
It’s hard to balance between making time to make art, and making time to blog isn’t it? Sometimes it feels like you’re rushing the art so you can blog it, or rushing the blog so you can make more art.
Does that sound like you?
I love viewing the art of Daily Painters, on their blogs. But sometimes I wish that they would talk more about a particular piece of art. Some do write a brief description of the artwork, and as a reader I really appreciate that. But a large number of Daily Painters just make a beautiful piece of work, slap on a title like say “cherries” and the only words they in the post are: “Click to bid!”
You can Imagine how thrilled I was to find Elijah’s Art and Critique blog . Every other day, Elijah will pick apart a painting, and give readers a greater understanding of the artwork. Or at least a new angle from which to look at it.
If you would like Elijah to critique your work, you can contact him, via his blog for a free critique, but please note that you might have to wait a while, as request for his critiques are now piled up for at least a month.
A selection of Elijah’s art critiques will be published periodically in Artmakr.
Which brings me back to, how you can improve your daily painting blog. Every time you post an artwork, write a paragraph or two about the work. Readers like it better, and so does google. And if you have any qualms about talking about your art, you can always try to get a critique from a family member, or loved one, and post that.
After all, you don’t need a degree to know how to critique art and as we’ve already established, you’re busy! .
September 2nd, 2007 at 2:51 am
By art, do you mean Art? (I am just wondering if you mean people like me - mixed media, not doing it for living?) And by “writing about the work”, do you mean I should describe how I did it, or would you rather see me critiquing my work? Sorry, don’t mean to sound crabby (but I probably do?), the only thing I understood for sure, is that visual bloggers are too busy to write about their work. Oh yes, I do agree with the busy part - must rush off - please visit me for a reply - love, alice!