I finished up day 7 of the SmArtist Telesummit and I can tell you, brain full now.
One thing made eminently clear to me as that I have to work on marketing myself. So 2010 because the Year of Marketing for me. I have made it my mission to deal with this deep dark hole in my business plan.
Its an scary proposition for an artist. The accountant in me always has some ready accounting, tax, business, human resources factoid to whip out an a moments notice, but art is not easy to talk about. It is a visual medium. So I guess I will be showing a lot more art in my blog in coming days. If I can’t talk about it, at least you can look at it.
Then maybe something will occur to me.
On other fronts, I know I need to chose a style of the moment and develop it into a consistent body of work which makes the schizophrenic artist in me squirm. “What do you mean I can’t do a landscape if I want to?” Of course I can still do a landscape if I want, but I will be promoting something different — probably — I haven’t made up my mind which body of work I am going to focus on yet. I am leaning toward my representational abstracts. I have heard them described as mysterious. It sounds good anyway.
I also have a lot of work to do on the Social Media front. Holy cow, I didn’t know there was so much of that out there. Facebook Fan pages? Who knew? Tweetmeme? Twollow? Tweetdeck? RSS feeds? It is overwhelming. But at least I know if I work it bit by bit, eventually a whole will emerge.
Also somewhere amidst this mental chaos I also have to continue to create.
Whoever said Art is not a real job?!
Got anything to say? Would love to hear it.
Jake
Artist, AKAJake.com Come Experience the Art!
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