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When you look at most art websites, you see a menu, some introductory mission statement perhaps, maybe an example of the artists work if you’re lucky. Home pages rarely change. There might be new works added to the gallery, but thats usually hidden behind a link. So the overall impression you get from the website [...]

From an Artists perspective, blogs can be used as an inexpensive way of presenting your art online. Each blog post could represent a picture of your latest work, with a little bit of background information. You might say that this is the conservative approach to Art blogging.
Many bloggers, on the other hand, prefer to embellish [...]

Do you hear it? That soft rumbling sound from over the Hill. A marching rhythm. The faint echoe of a horn blowing and the frantic scurrying of wild animals in anticipation of some terrible climactic upheaval. Could it be that the Artisan Blogging Revolution is about to take off in Ireland? Certainly I hope so! [...]

I recently came across Kenji Uranishi’s blog. He has some nice pieces like the ones above. I also like the playful “little people series below” which has spawned a blog of its own

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I’m going to do a short series on Ceramic Artists who have blogs. I really like these hand sculpted porcelain pinecones by Coe and Waito.
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My second interview with an artisan blogger is with Marisa Haedike, the creative and enterprising author of Creative Thursday. Marisa is a prolific artist, who sets herself the considerable challenge of producing one painting a day for her blog Creative Thursday. She has only been blogging since July 2006, but is already an established [...]

Well, I must admit, I haven’t being putting a great effort into my blog since Christmas, mainly because of work and other commitments. I have a little more time on my hands now, so I am going to try and reignite my efforts to promote artisan blogging. I got an email from Sara Cullen recently, [...]

I’ve talked before about the benefits of blogging for artisans and Jewellery maker Jenny Vorwaller who runs the excellent blog True Nature has agreed to do a small interview with me. Jenny’s blog is a very entertaining read. She’s a very fluent writer and describes with great eloquence and enthusiasm her daily experiences in Montevideo [...]