Tomorrow is the second seminar in Tony Rockliff’s series on internet marketing and SEO. The last one on search engine optimization was fantastic and I’m really looking forward to this next one. Next week on July 7 is the last seminar, “Successful Internet Marketing for Artists,” a topic I’m never interested in! The seminars are hosted in my art gallery at 1750 N. Hercules Ave in Clearwater, FL. You can prepay and register online here:
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Here’s a 3D tour of the HDR photography exhibit that the f8 Consortium did in my Clearwater, FL art gallery. You can see most of the pieces that were on display. Click here to browse the virtual gallery.
I’m proud to announce that my friend Tony Rockliff is giving a series of SEO and social media marketing seminars throughout June and July and I’m hosting them at my art studio in Clearwater, FL. Click here to learn more about the seminar on June 23rd about search engine optimization and targeting the right keywords.
Tony’s runs the blog Indietrak with SEO and marketing tips for musicians trying to make it on their own. He has decades of experience as a record producer and marketer and he has been serious about utilizing the internet since 1995 when he created the online community Cybertown that grew to over 1 million members.
He’ll be doing three seminars covering all aspects of SEO and social media marketing. The next two are “Secrets of Making Great Money with Niche Affiliate Marketing” and “Social Media for Artists.”
Call me at 727-726-7411 and I’ll get you signed up! You can prepay through Paypal too.
The Menaul Art Youtube Channel has been updated with a two-part video.
Menaul Art Printing in Clearwater, FL is an art gallery that offers a variety of services from custom abstract artwork to art/photo reproduction for other artists and photo retouching and restoration.
High dynamic range imaging (HDR for short) is a photographic technique that has become all the rage lately. The f8 Consortium, a group of local Tampa and Clearwater photographers (including myself) is opening an exhibit this Saturday, April 24, called “New Visions” (more details). Here is one of the pieces I will be showing, “Wholesale Sponges,” taken at the nearby Tarpon Springs sponge docks:
View high resolution on HDRCreme.com
The “New Visions” exhibit features amazing shots and everyone should check it out!
Alice Alexander is an interior designers who participated in “The Ideas of March,” a showcase of art and interior design hosted in my art gallery in Clearwater, FL. Here she is in front of her display, giving an interview on her work:
I’ll be posting more interviews with other designers soon.
Triptychs are a wonderful format for artwork. They look great over a couch, along the wall behind the dining room table, over a large screen TV or over the headboard of a bed. Gallery wrapped as three panels, the depth of the canvas panels adds a 3D aspect to the artwork (almost like a hanging sculpture) creating a more interesting presentation that invites the eye and intrigues the senses.
Almost any piece of my artwork can be re-worked into a triptych.
One of the original challenges of making triptychs was figuring out how to plan for the proper overlap of the artwork on each of the three canvases so that there there is no break in continuity looking across the three panels. What would appear in-between the panels is wrapped on the inner edges of the two adjacent panels, so one must allow for the proper overlap when creating each panel.
Hanging triptychs so that each panel is in perfect alignment may seem like a daunting task, but it is actually quite easy. There are two methods that I can share with you in a future blog entry.
I saw something cool and wanted to share. Media Decor makes a creative solution for hiding TVs when the screen is off. A custom-built devise can automatically raise and lower art that covers the TV. Their Youtube page just put up a video of them testing a model with my art on it (the piece is a non-triptych version of “Triptych in Brown“.)
How cool is that!
As an ASID Industry Partner, I’ve had the pleasure of working with some of Florida’s top interior designers. Collaborating with these designers has given me an new appreciation for their craft. It’s impressive to see how much thought and planning goes into designing a space and how much skill it takes to do right. More than just picking the curtains and carpet, an interior designer has to have a vision for creating a space that functions for the people in it and also please them aesthetically. Then they have to have practical, real-world know-how to see these visions made into a reality.
With the help of my wife Jerri, we’ve organized “Ideas of March,” an event showcasing ten of the top local ASID interior designers and their use of my artwork in their designs. The exhibit runs until April 10, 2010 and is open to the public. Read more about the Ideas of March here. The St. Petersburg Times also mentioned it in their Home & Garden section as “Inside designers’ minds.”
I’ve been busy getting ready for the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts this weekend but I wanted to share something I worked on recently. In addition to my artwork, I do photo restorations and reprints of old photos. A woman wanted a picture of her mother restored so she could give it out as a gift to family. The original is pretty faded and discolored and suffers from a lot of damage. Here is the before and after:
As you can see, I fixed several big scratches and marks across her face. But more noticeably, I colorized the entire photo. The daughter gave me direction on where to take it and some other photos for reference. The final result is very stunning when you see it printed out. Today I got an e-mail from the client that says “I cannot thank you enough. Your work is unbelievable.”
Please contact me or call 727-726-7411 if you have any photos you want fixed up!