How to Blog for Artists

painting-course.com/the-painting-podcast By looking at the world around you, and organizing what you see, you'll be able to create unique and timely works of art that resonates with others. Many times artists get caught up trying to perfect techniques but forget that painting at the end of the day is a visual language which is communicating something. Paintings are vehicles for ideas, and getting strong ideas requires writing down your own, as well as reading, experimenting, and never turning off your "artist" eye.

In this video I go through how to create a blog around a set of distinct categories that will help transform the world around you, and make sense of it. This is a very powerful form of self education that anyone can do without needing to go to school. This is not a blog which is to be "noticed" or seen by others, it's a place for you to organize your ideas and your paintings. You can even set them to private if you wish. You can view mine at lunarcave.com

The categories that you need to include in your blog are:

Begin by hashtagging each post you make with the following.

#Updates : This is where you put all your works in progress. Take a lot of photos of your work as often as you can. I would often make a quick 2 minute video before leaving the studio. You can see a bunch of these documentation videos here paintingvlog.com/

#Research: This is where you put articles, and mainly text based sources about the subject which you are interested in.

#Artists I look at: This is where you put images from artists which you admire. It's good to see your work beside these works to compare and contrast. If you don't know where to begin, check out instagram.com/paintingcourse and look at the stories there.

Notes: This is where you put any notes, or writings that you do, as well as sections from books you are reading.

Dreams: I have a dream journal. I find them to be a great place for inspirational imagery.

My Paintings: Put images of your finished paintings here.

Source Material: Collect images which can be used in future paintings here. Can be from anywhere, photos you take of the mountains, or photos of images within books.