Points for Posting Your Work
January 6, 2016 Inspirational Art
Since we are, so many of us, in the mode of changing habits right now, I thought I’d post a quick note on posting your art and some things you may want to weigh in terms of how you restrict or allow access to what you post.
To get your work on a blog or to have it shared on sites like Pinterest, the images need to be available to your viewers beyond simply popping up on a screen. A lot of artists are afraid to allow people to access their images for fear that the image will get stolen. The fact is, if someone wants your image and plans to do something unethical with it, blocking downloads or embedding them in Flash is not going to stop it from happening. Images can often be pulled off a site by simply downloading the page or through screen captures. The only way to keep someone from downloading images of your work is to not publicly post it.
On the other hand, restricting people from sharing and accessing your images through valid and helpful means is likely going to cost you quite a bit in missed opportunities. If you have download or share restrictions on Flickr, Instagram, or your website, few bloggers will have the time to track you down to get the image and your admiring public won’t share it. In other words, if you want all that free word-of-mouth from fans and want bloggers to get your work out in front of thousands of appreciative readers, allow sharing and even downloading of your images. You can keep your images small (a computer monitor needs less than 1/4 the pixels that a print image needs to be well rendered), so your work can’t be printed, or even watermark them. Allow people to help you show the world what you’re doing.
I had two other artists whose work I might have posted this week but didn’t because they restricted access to their images. Another thing that often takes a work off my list of sharable images is not knowing who created it. But you know me, I’ll post it and ask for your help in identifying the artist if I really feel the need. Here is one such piece.
I know it was posted on Etsy three or so years ago in a shop called Posies’n’Pearls. It seems that the shop no longer exists so I am unable to give the artist credit. A Pinterest post lists this piece as having peridot, pearls, crystal, and polymer, but we also see ribbons, found objects, and other beads. It seems a step above the common shabby-chic mix we see a lot of these days with a restrained but lovely palette of sage greens, muted warm tones, and antiqued metallics. If you know who this is, we’ll get that posted here and give this well-shared image and the artist the credit they deserve.
Inspiration Challenge of the Day: Shabby-chic aims to pull at our nostalgic heart-strings. Find something in your house that makes you nostalgic and let it be the inspiration for a sketch, color palette, texture, form, or imagery. You can also just write out the ideas it brings up and post it at your work table for later.
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Since we are, so many of us, in the mode of changing habits right now, I thought I’d post a quick note on posting your art and some things you may want to weigh in terms of how you restrict or allow access to what you post.
To get your work on a blog or to have it shared on sites like Pinterest, the images need to be available to your viewers beyond simply popping up on a screen. A lot of artists are afraid to allow people to access their images for fear that the image will get stolen. The fact is, if someone wants your image and plans to do something unethical with it, blocking downloads or embedding them in Flash is not going to stop it from happening. Images can often be pulled off a site by simply downloading the page or through screen captures. The only way to keep someone from downloading images of your work is to not publicly post it.
On the other hand, restricting people from sharing and accessing your images through valid and helpful means is likely going to cost you quite a bit in missed opportunities. If you have download or share restrictions on Flickr, Instagram, or your website, few bloggers will have the time to track you down to get the image and your admiring public won’t share it. In other words, if you want all that free word-of-mouth from fans and want bloggers to get your work out in front of thousands of appreciative readers, allow sharing and even downloading of your images. You can keep your images small (a computer monitor needs less than 1/4 the pixels that a print image needs to be well rendered), so your work can’t be printed, or even watermark them. Allow people to help you show the world what you’re doing.
I had two other artists whose work I might have posted this week but didn’t because they restricted access to their images. Another thing that often takes a work off my list of sharable images is not knowing who created it. But you know me, I’ll post it and ask for your help in identifying the artist if I really feel the need. Here is one such piece.
I know it was posted on Etsy three or so years ago in a shop called Posies’n’Pearls. It seems that the shop no longer exists so I am unable to give the artist credit. A Pinterest post lists this piece as having peridot, pearls, crystal, and polymer, but we also see ribbons, found objects, and other beads. It seems a step above the common shabby-chic mix we see a lot of these days with a restrained but lovely palette of sage greens, muted warm tones, and antiqued metallics. If you know who this is, we’ll get that posted here and give this well-shared image and the artist the credit they deserve.
Inspiration Challenge of the Day: Shabby-chic aims to pull at our nostalgic heart-strings. Find something in your house that makes you nostalgic and let it be the inspiration for a sketch, color palette, texture, form, or imagery. You can also just write out the ideas it brings up and post it at your work table for later.
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Like this blog? Lend your support with a purchase of The Polymer Arts magazine and visit our partners:
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