Increasing Vezina Art Blog Readership

Twenty-one months, 175 posts, 240 paintings, and 12,000 views.  These are a few inception-to-date numbers related to this blog.   I can hardly believe the positive response as evidenced by these blog statistics, your comments and emails.    I continue to expand my painting experience and share my paint-out (and paint-in) adventures.   All the while I have been building an ample body of work that support artist shows and imminent gallery representation.  

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Just as important as producing a strong portfolio, is being able to demonstrate to galleries and advertisers that I have a sustained art following.   I can say with confidence that the blog has attracted and maintained a steady group of readers.   Many readers have even shared in the process of art-making, sharing in the successes as well as weighing in on the inevitable dilemmas.

As long as there is interest, my painting chronicles will continue via this blog.  Each painting will likely have a story to go with it - some more interesting than others.   Whenever I sell a painting,  I make sure that the new owner is aware of the blog entry that goes with it.



Back to the subject of this post: Increasing Vezina Art Blog Readership

My specific short term goal is to triple my readership by September 1, 2013.    If you enjoy my blog, please consider helping me by doing the following:

1) Add a link to my blog from your website or blog,

2) Forward any posts you particularly like to one or more friends.  I have no idea who gets an email when I add a new post, so I am never going to email you or them aside from the one way blog feed,

3) Send your recommendations to me on how you think I could further expand my readership.  I welcome and appreciate your ideas.

I value your help and will be giving away 10 original watercolor mini's (4x6 inch) to the first 10 people who let me know that they have helped me with one or more of the three steps above.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED INTEREST AND SUPPORT!!

New Website - Same Blog

Thank you to all my blog readers.   More and more often, I run into people who say they are reading it regularly.   I like writing it and one major reason is that it keeps me bringing paintings to closure.   I have a tendency to keep working on things, so recording the stages of the painting for the blog makes it come to completion faster.  I plan no changes to the blog.

This week I converted my old website to a Fine Art Studio Online (FASO) website.   The FASO user interface is geared toward artists and the optimal display and organization of their artworks.  After a few initial issues with the site, I think things are functioning properly.   During the course of the conversion, I also experienced a temporary problem with my email which should now be working properly.

If you have any extra time and can take a look at the website, I would appreciate getting any comments, especially bugs or mistakes.   It will take a couple of weeks to get all my content posted, but the navigation links are done - I think.

The website URL has not changed.   www.vezinart.com

I'm glad that these administrative tasks are done because the cranberry harvest is in progress and needs to be painted!

Thank you.