I have hopefully managed to add my picture next to this blog, it is showing my progression of my painting of a Bouy in water. It is an interesting project for me because I have to work large and loosely. My background is in tight natural history illustrations for example painting a picture to represent exactly what I see in front of me, so it almost looks like a photo. With this picture I am using silver acrylic, I believe I mentioned this in my last blog. I am really enjoying the challenge of blending the shiny surface of the silver with the flatter colours. I am hoping to create something of the oily look sea water has sometimes.
A tip for you, I have been using a plastic tub which has a lid and kitchen roll that is wetted for longer than I would like to mention until the other week when there was no kitchen roll to be had, not all together happy I had a sudden thought of using a baking sheet, now there are most probably loads of you that already do this but it was a major break through for me.
Now what you do is
1) put the sheet into a tub and poor a little water underneath the sheet
2) add your paint to the top surface of the sheet
3) enjoy your painting without it drying out !-)
The good thing is that you do not have to cover the tub once finished if you do not wish to and your paint stays usable for several days or more as long as you top up the water underneath the sheet. One warning, you will be using paint that is a little runnier than you may be used to.
Although I have not finished my picture like I had hoped, generally through life causing a few hiccups here and there, I have managed to tick a few boxes. I have mangaed to sort out my business face book page, created my account with LinkedIn, joined Google places, joined iDorest directories and started to catch up on my business reading. So not too bad a week.
Next week will be showing this picture finished by the end of the week, the building of a Plan of Attack for the working week and some tips on how to do or not to do.
Have a good weekend and see you next week.
Gilly !-)
Well what can I say, I did not get it right, there I admitted it and the reason being I had not done my home work before jumping in. I had produced a page correctly from my family facebook page, then deleted it as I thought I had done it wrong. However there was another reason and that was I was afraid that my family could be exposed because of the link to the page. This was another element that I found out, ‘Pages’ are open to the public and that is why it can be used as a business page and to do that you have to create a page.
I have now got my business Facebook page for viewing, Visit www.facebook.com/pages/Gilly-Vincent-Design/280326… and view my corrected page and before you ask yes you do have to type the all the numbers out, not really a user friendly side of it !-(
I have to leave it here for now as my Husband needs my computer and I need to get back upstairs to my new water project where I am using Silver acrylic for the first time. I will place a pic shortly of the progress to the painting and you guys can let me know your thoughts, cheers for now !-)
Gilly
It is the start of 2013, and I am busy learning about twitter and facebook plus this side of things bloging!! How does it all work and how does it help get you visitors to your website??? I can say that I have been on twitter.com/gillyvincent, for just over a month and have been on facebook.com/GillyVincent, (like to keep things simple) for a while, however, have only just put myself as a business for just a few days so that my family life can stay seperate. Even though it has only been a short while I have had visitors from both places so its a start !-) Now is the difficult part, how to get people interested in me as an artist and be social???!! It is the big question that all of us ask ourselves, well reading is the place that I am starting with, understanding what to do in the Social Media World. For a start, we can start here as they have videos on both, I have also downloaded a free ebook from [email protected] titled”How to attract customers with twitter.” There is also another free ebook going somewhere I have seen within all my emails websearching that is about Facebook, which I will let you know next time I blog. I am going to leave you here as I need to go away and look at the said items above. I will let you know how I get on in the next day or two. Take care for now.
Gilly !-)
