I’m not getting much time to blog lately as it’s the final few days before studio clear out and the degree show goes up! I’ve been busy working on the final touches to my assessment work so it’s been difficult to find the time to write.
I have ordered my reflective journal (a combination of my offical uni reflective journal and my posts from this blog) to be printed as a proper book. I’ve also put together a print on demand book of my visual documentation. It’s filled with pictures of my studio and work developing along with writing and annotations about my progress since September. I can’t wait to see the printed versions after spending so long putting them together on the computer, compiling them using my sketchbook and journal. It seems strange to be summing up this final year after 4 years of studying for this moment.
When graduation comes I’ll be left without a studio and without a screen print workshop on hand for free, no need to book just turn up and work hassle free. So I’ve been looking through the a-n site at the graduate help posts as well as taking notes of the many useful tips that Simona Dell’Agli from ArtQuest has been giving us in lectures these last few weeks. Here are some of the posts that I found most useful/interesting:
The Art of Blogging:
Agreeing a contract:
Budgets:
Degrees of Success:
How to get Crowd Funding:
Social media:
Artists and Pinterest:
I’m particularly interested in the social media side as I believe that so much of our lives are online these days. If you want to be known you have to be present on the internet so these are really useful. When Simona Dell’Agli has given us talks she has mentioned the impact of Twitter and blogging. being able to update people with your artwork quickly and easily. It also gets you noticed by a lot of different people who you may not target as your audience. The most recent addition to the social media networking is Pinterest which I have personally been on since sometime back when it first started. As a purely visual networking site is ideal for artists to use to collect inspiration of their own but to also get their images out into the public. You do as always have to be careful about copyright and be aware that people will be pinning images left, right and centre. The article in this month’s a-n magazine is interesting on this subject and definitely worth a look at.
