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How to draw a snail – picks up pace

October 6, 2015 by Nancy

Snail Mail draws search engine ranking — my experiment is working. If only at a snails pace. How to draw a snail for snail mail is now getting one hit per day. I’m still testing the waters of How to draw with coffee but there’s not much action yet. Now I’m asking myself more questions. Am I just fooling around with search engines or do I really want to go deeper into website design?
Maybe I don’t want to paint anymore. Why do I always feel a need to verify my creativity with a painting? If I can’t paint am I still an Artist? Did all of this “need” start in my childhood? I remember the intensity when my father was clarifying a hot point and would say “Do you understand or do you want me to paint a picture?” — I would silence my screaming answer — “Yes, please paint me a picture” – and obey his request without a word. Did this trigger my first spark of wanting to paint? Maybe I need another creative focal point. Coffee? Website Design? Blogging for Art?Collage/Installation? Writing?

Filed Under: coffee painting, Lingering Logs, Snail Mail, Websites for Artists, WordPress

How to draw a snail for Snail Mail – revisited

September 28, 2015 by Nancy

Snail Mail – Save the Snail – March 2012

Ok, this could be very boring or at least a very unexpected topic for my blog post. I pressure myself to explain even though I know, for a fact, that only an average of 2 or 3 people ever read this blog in the course of any day. I guess I feel an obligation to address these followers because they click-on-me. I know these minimal figures are correct because all visits are charted and I can easily see how many have come to my blog. I can also see what page was visited. What did they Google to find my site? After over two years people are still interested in How to Draw a Snail or how to Save Snail Mail. I still care about the topic but it was never intended to be the focal point of my blogging.

As I jump back into my daytime job of website/blog design for artists I am trying to put more effort into How to get blog followers. Isn’t that what the main point of websites and blogs is suppose to be? Next step – I need to offer something that will make them want come back again, and again. Ideally to sign up for my email subscription.

Now, this is all connected to How to draw a snail for Snail Mail. I posted this information on March 29, 2012 and several times per month I see people continue to link to my page for information on how to draw a snail – even if it’s not for snail mail. Check it out!

Now I realize I should include the instruction sheet.

Ok, now to my point. I’m using this post as a test to see if the title and key words will bring even more unknown visitors to the blog. Not just my two friends that have already signed up.
Another marketing technique I have come across in my recent research is the popularity of How to information to be found on the Internet. Lots of interest in How to books, Tutorials and instructional videos. Now I also realize these Snail related posts have survived in the Google searches for so long because they have “How to” in the title.

Hopefully this will encourage me to put together a How to Paint with Coffee tutorial. You can paint with coffee.

Filed Under: Blog, coffee painting, coffee painting workshop, Lingering Logs, Snail Mail, Websites for Artists

My first Juried Success!

September 8, 2015 by Nancy

Curiosity

My coffee painting, Curiosity, was accepted and will be shown in a Silent Auction Exhibition at Art Works Downtown. A Night at the Casa Azul

The week before it will be included in San Rafael’s 2nd Friday Art Walk. September 11, 2015 • 5-8pm
This is fun and just what I seemed to need to get back into my groove. It’s exciting to still be connected and involved with ArtWorks Downtown. It’s where I had my first opportunity to get my feet wet and has taken me to places I didn’t dream of. Now I am anxious to arrange for my next Coffee Painting Workshop.

Filed Under: coffee painting, coffee painting workshop, Lingering Logs

Coffee Painting entries

August 27, 2015 by Nancy

There’s a new show coming up at ArtWorks Downtown and I’ve decided I must give it a try. It’s kind of full circle because it’s about this time last year that I entered my first competition there and I was rejected. I was happy to realize that I really felt OK with that news and went on to experience many surprises of accomplishment and exposure thanks to ArtWorks Downtown. Perhaps I felt better or different about last year’s entries. This time I am on a sort of slow-slope. I feel like calling the root painting my Self Portrait rather than Get A Grip. I guess either title works right now.

My three Coffee Paintings

Filed Under: coffee painting, Lingering Logs, WordPress

Full Circles & Continuing Directions

June 15, 2015 by Nancy

The second Coffee Painting Workshop was just as satisfying as the first and now I am encouraged to continue down this road. I love seeing how well the students do once they let go of their long held “stops” and just get started. It really doesn’t take long before they are seeing art happen before their very eyes and it’s theirs. This is a good thing! Now I’m going to fine-tune my lesson plan and find more ways to reach out to people that would benefit from taking a workshop.

Now is also the time for me to get back into whatever is going to come out of my website exploration and development. I sure go around and around with this subject.

Filed Under: coffee painting, coffee painting workshop, Lingering Logs, WordPress

The New Wake-Up

May 18, 2015 by Nancy

The workshop—worked.

Coffee cup painted with coffee.

Coffee doesn’t just wake you up from your night’s sleep it can also wake up your sleeping creativity. There’s more than one thing to do with a cup of coffee and it may even be a better buzz.

In order for me to confirm my belief that just about anyone with an interest in my painting has an “artist-within” that just hasn’t had a safe place to test drive. For some reason Coffee Painting has an unexpected power to break down the “I could never do that!” block. I still can’t figure out what is so safe about it but I can clearly see it’s potential to erase inhibiting beliefs of creative inability. The workshop participants didn’t really believe that they could “make art” yet they were willing to show up and give it a shot. I asked each person to bring a shot of espresso and I believed that if they were willing to give it a try they were going to see in a matter of an hour that they could express themselves with painting. It worked for them and that made my belief work for me. Now I am planning my next coffee painting workshop