Building the new site, one image at a time. Ugh!
I prefer my laptop to my phone, and never look at art on the tiny screen, which turns out to have been a mistake - one that I've been making for years.
Last week I looked at my website on a phone and gagged. It looked awful: creaky, manual scroll, cropped titles, absent information: all stuff that didn't show on the laptop screen for which it was clearly optimized. So the past few days have seen me stuck at the kitchen table, populating a new FASO website. Painstaking, boring work, but worth it. I logged 11 live chats with the online help person over the course of 1 day and am sure they groaned aloud in the office when they saw my name pop up AGAIN. But they were unfailingly helpful, which certainly made my day easier.
I'm taking advantage of the fact that they have an integrated blog page to move from Blogger, as well. Isn't it a good thing to put all your eggs in one basket? Actually, I think my blog will have a much greater reach on FASO and that's a nice thought. I'll leave the blog archive here on Blogger, but all new posts will be on my FASO site.
Marketing is the last thing that any painter wants to be doing, and so I haven't really been doing it - at least not with any regularity. Most of my days are spent happily applying paint, exploring new techniques, and turning a blind eye to business stuff. I yearn for an agent.
Anyway, I'm taking myself in hand and spending some much-needed time at the computer. Wish me patience.
In the meantime, have a look at my lovely new site that works as it should, and please subscribe to my blog at the same time.
Happy painting!
