Facebook Pages are a recent addition to Facebook, and they’re currently the best way for an artist to promote their artwork on Facebook (better than Facebook Groups, which are an earlier addition). If you’ve got a normal Facebook account then setting up an Artist’s Page is very easy: go to this page, make your choices, [...]

Those of you that venture beyond this blog to other parts of this website will probably know I’m currently working on a limited edition series of handmade artists books. In this post I want to show how all the elements of this website will work together to help promote this new artwork, and a possible [...]

I’ve seen a lot of artist’s websites with fierce and furious demands not to “steal” their artwork (by which they mean the small digital reproductions of their artwork), insulting visitors before they’ve even begun to explore a website. I’ve seen those annoying cut-and-paste JavaScripts to attempt to disable the right-click functionality (as well as a [...]

1. Disabling right-clicking JavaScript that disables right-clicking (to prevent people “stealing” your images) is wrong on so many levels. But it’s such a prevalent mistake that I feel the need to tell you why it’s wrong: Small screen-sized digital images of your artwork are your most basic form of marketing, and (thanks to the wonders [...]

The 2006 blog post Five mistakes you’re probably making with your MySpace page (on Andrew Dubber’s blog New Music Strategies) applies equally to visual artists as it does to musicians. The five mistakes (expanded on in much better detail in the blog post itself) are: Using MySpace as your website Using MySpace as your email [...]