New Web Galleries

• http://artid.com/members/kgarvey125
• http://www.foundmyself.com/
• http://ubokia.com
• https://www.zatista.com/profile  ??? (waiting for acceptance)
• http://www.artistrising.com/
• http://www.artwanted.com/index.cfm
• Joined a lot of new art web galleries and communities.
• Sold 2 paintings on eBay
• Sold one painting to a friend

8:25 am

• Sent in samples to Editions Limited Poster Company
• Rejected by EL
• Posted 6 free images to artid.com
• Posted 5 free images to foundmyself.com
• Thinking about becoming active on FM message boards
• Reading Artist Market 2012
• Updating Blog
• Framed small painting and posted it here and there to show how good they can look framed

10:55

• start posting in this blog again
• made new gallery in Yessy for my tiny paintings
• submitted artwork to Houlihan's restaurant
• posted link to tiny gallery on FB
• IOFD: search more restaurants for art submissions

11:40

• IOTD: 5X7 sheets for binder to store tiny paintings 
• Added two paintings to Yessy
• Added one painting to eBay
• Checked Yessy stats - look very good
• photographed new square painting

1:45 pm

• Decided to keep Yessy because of traffic and how it shows the most popular pieces
• Organized my portfolio case
• Organized a new portfolio case for small paintings
• Took new photos of tiny paintings
• replaced some of the photos on Etsy with better photos
• Listed one new painting on Etsy
• Listed 3 new paintings on Yessy

4:45 PM

• Added an old painting to Etsy and Yessy
• Posted Square Paintings on FB
• IOTD: consider leaf paintings and tree paintings

9:00 pm

• Updated titles on etsy
• tagged untagged items on etsy
• made every item available to be shipped anywhere in the country
• repriced some items
• did square painting and photographed it

1:40 pm

• Updating descriptions on Yessy with more key words
• Updating eBay with more keywords

10:00 am

• Keeping track or the Yessy Account
• Added larger pieces to Etsy
• Painted and added 3 new tiny paintings to Etsy
• IOTD: Do square painting.

9:30 am

• Updated Flickr account - adding pictures and tags
• Stumbled my Flickr account
• Checked on my Yessy account
• Checked on my eBay account

11:56 pm

• Added my Yessy Gallery to Stumble Upon

8:45 pm

• Spent a few hours reading how to sell stuff online
• Decided to list tiny paintings for $20 on eBay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180824550058#ht_499wt_1159

11:45 am

• Created an account for a 14 day trial on Yessy.com
• Found but haven't read empty easel.com

9:15 am

• Added FB link to LinkedIn group.  Everyone in the group agrees to like each other's pages.
• IOTD:  Start new painting using with blue as the main color

10:30 pm

• Added a pin to Pinterest of my Etsy listing
• Pin also tweeted
• Purchased 2 showcase dates for Etsy 2/28/12 and 3/3/12

10:20

• Posted Etsy listing on Google +

10:15 pm

• Etsy listing posted on FB page
• Etsy listing tweeted

10:00 pm

• Made small version of newest paintings
• Posted pic of small painting on FB
• Added small painting to Etsy

4:07 pm

• Finished Painting
• posted painting on FB
• posted painting on blog
• posted painting on website
• IOTD:  7.9" X 7.9" square paper for possible tree paintings

Noon

• IdeaS of the day:  Create more than one idea
• IOTD:  More Small Paintings
• IOTD:  Consider experimenting with tree forms

11:42

• Posting website link in Stumble Upon comments

10:52 am

• Posted on Linked in/Twitter
• Idea of the Day:  Add Idea of the Day to this blog

9:00 am

• Posted my new paintings on FB in my own profile

7:15 pm

• One pin on Pintrest
• Pintrest pin tweeted

5:12 pm

• Updated my website with two new paintings.
• Updated my painting blog
• Posted new paintings on my FB group

10:32 am

• Updated my website's front page
• Added new painting to website

9:50 am

• Shopify $312 a year...not sure it's worth it.  RESEARCH NEEDED
• Added my website to Stumble Upon (so it can be stumbled)

9:10 am

• Posting links to my blog on Stumble Upon
• Reading ways to promote my artwork on line on Stumble Upon
• Checking out Shopify

February 11, 2012

• Posted in Google Plus
• Posted on Linkedin and Twitter
• Was invited to Pinterest and added several paintings to my page with prices
• Edited prices on Etsy (decreased prices)
• Figuring out how Pinterest works
• Someone repinned on of my pins
• Announced on FB that I had lowered my prices.

Creating a New Blog

Today I created a new blog.  This blog is a journal to keep track of what I am doing to promote my work.  So creating the blog was part of that.  I added links to my website, my painting blog and my Etsy Shop.

Kimberly's Stuff

This is a journal of all of the STUFF I do each day to promote my artwork.