Beverley Tosh, a Canadian artist, painted One-Way Passage, a monumental portrait of her mother Dorothy as a young war bride who emigrated from her native Canada to New Zealand. The portrait includes the names of ships on which many war brides had travelled. This painting was the direct catalyst for her continuing research on war brides. These “war brides” are women she has met and corresponded with in Canada and the United States, Britain, Holland, New Zealand and Australia. Each …
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Over the 8 or so years that I have been designing websites for artists, my principal objective has been, not only to create websites that present art in the best light possible, but also to coach clients on how to create strong content. You see that’s the thing with WordPress. While I design a well structured theme, the packaging, what goes inside that package is often not up to me. I help my clients by advising them about formatting their …
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Aylson Stanfield of ArtbizBlog.com wrote a recent article on Pinterest, which covers the crux of the debate over this relatively new image-sharing site. So, while we’re debating “to pin or not to pin,” let’s remember that there are other tools that can capture your images and strip out your name, your copyright . . . the works! Did I just scare you? Good, let me explain… Artists can protect their images online and provide a trail back to their site …
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Have you applied any SEO for your art website? You have probably heard the term and have even been contacted by some SEO company promising to get you to the top slot in search engine results – HA! First off I should tell you what SEO for art websites is, we’ll get back to my “HA!” in a minute. SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization, where one optimizes their art website to make it not only search engine …
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Updated! Demo WordPress Artist Themes The demo site for the “WordPress Artist Themes” has been updated with new themes. All the sites content has been put into the context of the page you are viewing. For instance, on the CV page, I provide a sample CV (mine) and links to valuable articles for formatting and troubleshooting your CV. We have taken this approach on all the sites content pages, providing links to the new WordPress for Artists School (opening soon). This, …
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