Blogging for Artists

One of the simplest ways you can organize your artwork into themes, media or classes for your art blog/portfolio and to advertise yourself as an artist it to make a separate blog for each media or purpose.  If this is the reasoning that we use, you need an initial page to tell everyone about yourself as an artist.  In my case unfortunately I started a general art blog before I thought that far ahead.  But if you plan correctly your initial page can be about you and serve to promote you as an artist and your work in general.  The good news is that Google will allow you to have a great number of blogs for free at this time. So… the first step is to examine your purpose for creating and designing your blog. 

Top Reasons for Creating an Art Blog
•create and generate more interest in your art
•market your work
•contain art related articles and posts
•provide guest art bloggers  a place to provide art related content
•demonstrate your expertise and mastery in your profession with a good portfolio of work
•provide a subtle a way of pointing your visitors to other web pages that you may have
•encourage visitors to subscribe to your email list  
•show and demonstrate who you are as an artist and as a person
•make real connections with other artists
•get paid to speak, teach or demonstrate
•develop a free branding and market place for yourself 
•expanded your gallery representation
•get discovered and get published in artist’s magazines and books
•interact and learn from other art bloggers
•express your views and develop an understanding about art and perhaps your own work
•track your progress as an artist

With this in mind you may want separate pages (blogs) for each of your separate purposes.  So... how do you design a good art blog?

Links to how to design a good blog:

What Makes a Good Art Blog
  Next I went on a search for the top blogging winners and discovered there were no entries for "fine arts"  but found some very interesting ones for crafts, comics, photography and art education.  Here are my findings for winners of blogging contests in the art areas.
These first blogs were winners if the annual Webblog awards- The Bloggies
The last list  is for Art Education Blog Competition//
Art Ed Blog of the Year


Working With Blogger

ADDING PAGES