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Secret Smile

It is the newest widget on easelspace. It has the singular purpose of allowing two people to anonymously discover if there is a mutual interest to meet and become friends.....


The beauty of this idea is that it is completely discrete. A member will not know who is interested in them or their work, and vice-versa, unless or until BOTH members send a smile to each other.




Then, and only then, will the status for the other person change from "Smile sent" to "Yippee"

A big thanks to Kev Moore for the graphics

In response to questions, wishes and needs raised by some of our Easelspace members, we are happy to inform you that Easelspace has opened its own “Fine Art America” Gallery, dedicated to the sales online of Giclee prints and originals.
You can find it here:     Our FAA gallery

 For those of you who don’t know FAA: it is the premier online marketplace for buying, selling, and creating fine art prints, greeting cards, and original works of art. Based on many artists, clients, and our own experience, we must warmly recommend this place to everybody who intends to sell his or her work online, as original or as Giclee prints.

Now - you have 3 options:

• You open your own FAA gallery for free and can exhibit as many paintings as you want, and can be directly contacted by anybody interested. Free accounts can upload an unlimited number of images but may only offer 25 of those images for sale as prints

•  You pay 30 dollars per year to participate in the online printing program. FAA sells Giclee prints directly online in many different sizes and on different mediums, even framed even if the client so wishes, and pay you the price you ask for.

• You join Easelspace FAA Gallery. You don’t need to pay anything, and dont need to do much work. You simply send us the works you want to exhibit there, and we put them online. To cover our costs and work, we will add 15% to the price you ask. If Easelspace FAA gallery sells one of your works, we pay you what you have asked for as soon as FAA has paid us.   Please use the contact form for Enquiries

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Payment Information

Payments are sent on the 15th of each month for all sales that occurred before the 15th of the previous month to us by FineArtAmerica.com, we will send your Payment 3 days after that date.

We will send your payment via money transfer or PayPal. (Money transfer charges will be deducted from money owed, we will share that burden 50/50)

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The extra 15 % goes straight back into Easelspace and will be reinvested in making everything better, more effective, and in the end more successful for you. In fact there is also the possibility to connect some of these options, as some of our members already have done: having their own FAA gallery, but being on the Easelspace FAA gallery too. This has the great advantage of increasing the views of their works, above all when we will be promoting across our network of web sites over the next couple of months  which will give us aprox  75,000 banner and link impressions per month.
If you would like more information about joining our link network please use our contact form
list of network sites
www.easelspace.com
www.easelspace.co.uk
www.easelfaces.com
www.travelscapers.com
www.rankmyart.com
www.bullfightart.com

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Now, if you want to join our new Fine Art America gallery, what you have to do is quite simple:
To send us high resolution files of your paintings. 300 ppi (pixels per inch) is necessary, with as many megabytes as possible. In short: the bigger the file, the bigger the Giclee prints FAA will be able to print and sell.

The bigger the prints, the higher the prices you can command, if you so wish. You can send us the files via email, or if there are many, you can utilize the likes of cutesendit or dropbox. You can also save them on a disc and send us the disc by normal mail. You will need to tell us how much money you want for which size.
To understand that point better, go to FAA, click on one of the artworks from the homepage. On the next page you will then see “Buy a Giclee print“. Click for example, on Stretched canvas print, and you will see a series of prices for prints on canvas according to their size.

Then we will need some details about the artwork, mainly the title and the technique. When we have all that, we will at once upload your works onto the Easelspace FAA gallery. As we said before, we highly recommend you to go on FAA, whichever option you choose. Sooner or later, you will sell prints of your works there, or your originals. FAA, as far as we know, is the most efficient way in the world to sell art online without too much effort.

Personalized Profiles.
Members are able to create their own profiles. You may use basic html to link to your own site /sites. The privacy of a members profile can be easily customized. Members can find each other using multiple search criterea. Profiles have walls, activity feeds and other great features

Easy Messaging
A hallmark of easelspace.com is the ability of members to message one another directly. With our built-in technology, it's possible to contact multiple members simultaneously, as well as sub-groups and individuals. A branded email alert will arrive in the recipient's inbox and invite them to come visit the site.
Messages can be sent to multiple members at the same time
Messages can be sent to members of specific sub-groups, events

Chat
At the base of your networking site, you'll find a chat bar which shows the members online at that moment. It's possible to chat in real time via text. There is a link beneath the members  and my profile tab to a real time communal chat room

Groups
Members can create groups within easelspace.com, members  with similar interests and objectives may want their own space. These sub-groups can be public or invitation-only and members are able to message one another directly.

Public or private sub-groups can be created by members
Members can share photos, videos and discussions within groups
Mass messages can be sent to members

Promoting Events

easelspace.com can be an excellent platform for organizing and promoting events. Members and sub-groups have the option of making an event public or private. People can then mark their attendance, write on the wall and upload photos.

Blogging
Blogs are a great way of encouraging participation and exchanging ideas. easelspace.com has a  moderated communal blog (known as 'The Magazine').
Members can, however, simply choose to post blog entries to their own profile page, complete with any photos, videos, content from YouTube and so on. Every member gets their own blog Members can embed videos and photos into their blogs Members can embed YouTube videos and photos into their responses

Forums
Members can debate hot topics in specially created forums and post video and photos as part of their replies. Participants are notified of any new responses by email. What's more, groups are able to keep their own forums private.

* Participants can follow discussion topics, receiving email alerts when someone responds

* Groups can have their own private forums within them

* Members can embed YouTube videos and photos into their responses

 

easelspace.com displays original videos and photos that  members upload or embed content from other networks. Members can upload to multiple public or private albums.

Hi Everyone,
For those that use Fine Art America, I notice they have a new service where you can sponsor a page. I just thought I would let everyone know that if you post the link they provide on your easelspace profile wall, it is accepted as a link back and you can get your sponosored page You will need to log out and then find your profile page using the members search and use that as your url. Plus I dont know what happens when your link on the wall gets old and moves on to the wall history.
Just thought i would share what i found :)
Adrian

Am I an art snob for preferring to buy originals rather than prints or reproductions. That's the question I find myself having to answer lately.

If I do have to answer, then I will take it as constructive criticism :)

From my point of few a print can only produce a copy of something, but the original is there in front of me, the composition, the brush strokes, the textures, its individuality, all combined to give me the most important thing, its appeal and VALUE. (I will come back to VALUE)

While I know technology is always improving and some artists can sell original works for $60000 and prints for $8000 or more, I agree there is a strong market for prints but where is the fun?

With the advent of the Internet, there is so much original great art out there at a fraction of these prices. Then there is the fun of finding those hidden gems! Just spending a little time looking through the gallery of www.easelspace.com or www.travelscapers.com it makes me wonder if I am missing something for holding this view of originals over prints. If I am then apologies for my art snobbery. And PLEASE don't tell me that a reproduction will appreciate in value! It won't. Vincent ;)

Artist of the Month

Penny Birch-Williams

This month we travel over to the USA and Penny Birch-Williams

Pennys realistic paintings and love of impressionism really shines through! More of Penny's work can be seen

here

USA - England final?. Not the offical world cup though, but a cyber-version of the World Cup, with Italy now out.




Famecount, who’ve been keeping a careful eye on Facebook whilst the rest of us have been enjoying the football,show England surging up the social media charts despite a less than sensational start to the tournament on the pitch. With Italy out and the world cup fever to hit the USA in their next match.

Once again facebook shows its usefulness in brand promotion.

Every team playing in the World Cup has an official Facebook page, and Famecount has been monitoring how many people ‘like’ these pages over the past few weeks.


On the foodie side of things ..
Chefs Justin Wilson and Paul Prudhomme taught us about the trinity of Cajun cuisine. Very pleasantly, South Africa has its own trinity of cuisine as well and one point of that trinity is Bobotie. Naming the three, Bobotie, Sosaties, and Bredie are the Trinity of South African cuisine. Bobotie is a delicious casserole, sosaties are much like shish kebob, and bredie is a good meat ..check out their winning World  World Cup FIFA 2010 Good Eats - A Gold Mine of Recipes

Hey there fellow artists!
Just want to tell you all about the fabulous journals available from John Purcell Papers
They have 50 sheets of Saunders Waterford 200lb paper in a hardback stitch bound book. They come in a4 anda3 sizes and are fantastic for sketching.
they cost about 14 pounds sterling

I take them with me when I go teaching or painting on the continent and have done so for many years, with the result that I now have a huge amount of reference for those rainy irish days.

the one tip I would give is just to say
DON'T BE PRECIOUS ABOUT YOUR JOURNAL
they are fabulous but a journal is a place for you to grow and develope
to make mistakes,and learn from them , it's not a showpiece that you have to stress out over
happy painting
Annemarie

Our Philosophy:                                                         

Chad Wooters has a relatively simple formula for Artistic Success which can be seen on his site   www.chadwooters.com

Artistic Success = Peer Recognition + Personal Achievement + Sales

We think that sums up the philosophy of easelspace.com.

Peer Recognition - Through showing your work on here, you can get to meet like minded artists, create groups and share opinions, helping to build peer recognition.

Personal Achievement - We might not agree entirely with Chad on this one, but there can be no greater sense of achievement the day someone pays for your work. Even if you don't currently enjoy many sales, or any sales at all, you have to believe that someday you will. You are a professional. You deserve to be paid for your work. Period.

Sales - easelspace.com allows you to link back almost everywhere to your own website or sites like faa and help drive your sales.

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Search engines really like content and changing content even better. It is YOU, the members of the site, who are the engine that drives the changing content of the site. You can achieve this by regular posting of art work (little and often therefore is more effective than many at once), by commenting on your own postings and those of others, and generally by active participation in groups, discussions and forums.

This behaviour results in a win/ win situation for all of us, the higher we are on the search engines the more users get to see your work."

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Blogs and Articles:

Don't forget we have the blogs. If you have your own blog elsewhere, why not think about copying snippets every so often on to easel and then linking back to your site.

A few members have started doing this already, with some great information and interesting articles. Their websites show they have a real feel and understanding for marketing, but it is hard work and that is where easelspace can help, with all these useful tools in one place.

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Groups :

Members can debate hot topics in specially created forums and post video and photos as part of their replies. Participants are notified of any new responses by email. What's more, groups are able to keep their own forums private. * Participants can follow discussion topics, receiving email alerts when someone responds * Groups can have their own private forums within them * Members can embed YouTube videos and photos into their responses

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Forums:

Members can debate hot topics in specially created forums and post video and photos as part of their replies. Participants are notified of any new responses by email. What's more, groups are able to keep their own forums private. * Participants can follow discussion topics, receiving email alerts when someone responds * Groups can have their own private forums within them * Members can embed YouTube videos and photos into their responses

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Twitter:

We have started building up a following on twittter and will be using that more over the summer to attract more visitors to the site, so any new art work and helpful articles posted on easelspace.com will certainly get a mention. If you are not using twitter we highly reccomend it, give us a follow and we will follow back.   Twitter

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Gallery:

As a courtesy to fellow artists please only upload 10 images a day in the main gallery, this is to ensure everyone gets a fair viewing of their work in the main gallery

I never take a day off because I have to sell my art to survive and in today’s economy it is no easy task to succeed. As a mainly on-line Artist who sells original paintings over the internet weekly. I can truly say it is a wonderful experience for both myself and my clients.

Here are some Advantages to Buying Art On The Internet:

1)Saving Valuable Time 
You Save hours, days or even months of your time by not having to travel to galleries that might have what you are looking for.  Most galleries have professional websites now and you can browse their artworks and contact them on-line before traveling to their place of business.  “As an artist, I have also spent much of my time in the beginning of my career traveling to galleries with my portfolio and  I was hurting myself by doing it because the time lost could have been used for painting. Now Gallery Owners find me over the internet and contact me via email. I have shipped my paintings all over the world and recently to the Las Vegas Art District. For Buyers, Sellers and Gallery Owners, the internet is the key to success!

2) Save Money 
Buying Gas, Food and Drinks for an all day outing can add up to a large sum of cash. You can shop on-line with the greatest of ease and best of all it’s free!

3)  Easily Shop Thousands of Galleries
There are over 20,000 or more websites selling art over the internet so your variety increases and not only locally but on an international level. By buying art on-line, you can find artists all over the world and have the art shipped directly to your door. “I Love meeting new clients from around the globe. I have now sold my artwork to people in All 50 US States, Australia, The United Kingdom, & Canada so far.”

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