Monte - just be yourself, anyone following you will want to read what you have to share. Quaint little stories behind the inspiration for artwork are always favorites. Sometimes you might just share a link to something you find helpful somewhere else too. Like a link to this blog post.... :-)

Becky - sharing artwork is a form of sharing too. You artists share such beauty with the rest of us. You don't have to be an eloquent wordsmith to share valuable things with the world. Even sharing links to interesting things is valuable (that's basically all Google does!)

We all learn and sing as kids that sharing is caring. We also all are artists until we reach the age 3 or 4, when someone tells us how to draw or paint a tree or the sun...
For many of us, writing about our creations seems like a different ball game from making those creations, as if creativity in one medium is not the same as in another medium. But once we get used to it by practice (like anything else) and by learning some of the tools of the trade, it becomes as beautiful and as rewarding as anything else.
Making the first (and second and third) leap is the key. After that, it becomes much easier.

Thank you for sharing!
:-)
Moshe

I remember 'share and tell' day so well in elementary school. I would get excited about it that morning and bring something I found out on the fields like an arrowhead or a shell at the sea. In my English course in college I wrote a descriptive story about my family's Sunday trips to Bodega Bay. That teacher was so impressed she pulled me aside and said I need to do that more. I think I turned 10 shades of red, but I never forgot her kinds words.

This article is a nice compliment to yesterdays with an easy formula for remembering WIIFM.

That is so on target, Clint. Two of the recipients of my newsletter last month were enchanted with the story I sent with the art. And I really enjoy sharing the history, thoughts and emotions that go into each painting, so it's a win/win situation.

Nancy

Bruce, I am sorry for your loss. What you (artists) posses truly is a gift and you should...it's your responsibility...to share it with the world. Myriam was right about that. Thank you for sharing with us.

Just came to a conclusion after reading Seth Godin's blog along with this post.

"We creative souls have an opportunity to make a living by giving"

What a wonderful way to live and work.

Clint, thank you for writing this post. It is a waste of valuable time when some people write about mundane aspects of their lives on Twitter and Facebook. We appreciate those who share helpful information that makes our art careers more successful. Your newsletter, Fine Art Views, is always chocked full of helpful advice, and it is great that this information is now reinforced via Facebook and Twitter by you and Lori Woodward. Our two daughters have heard us mention FASO so many times that they now tell their artist friends about your company too. All the Best, Tommy Thompson

Here here on "what are you doing today" This blog site provides research and marketing management skills as well as artist profiling that am not able to obtain elsewhere on the net. Believe that your site is primarily made up of artists more than Potential Clients out there; daily return here to share in this rich source of information.
Facebook, twitter, linked in site as well as popular blogs are getting our name out there. Question is do I flood the vehicle with short soundbites and where are the clickbacks going.

Its now possible to "research" online and obtain information about someone who is halfway across the world. Their profession, interests and work is readily available with these marketing tools we use that we make good use of.

Being an artist; often utilize these tools to get an closer look at what one offers in techniques, style and direction. Often it creeps up in the back of my mind as to what the "clients" out there do to research their taste in art. Yes, contemporary, modern, impressionist, abstract, realism and painterly tags come to mind. Ok, once that is entered what makes them go deeper than the first 10-15 pages of artwork that pops up under these tags. Hard to pull traffic to my blog still searching for the right word that will make me come. Would appreciate hearing from those very people out there if they are viewing this site.

Thanks Tommy.

I have been painting some gift art as well and it feels great to give away some pieces from time to time. The art we do when we want to instead of have to comes out the best most of the time.

Wow!!!! I am impressed with all the "writing instruction" I am getting thorugh "Fine Art Views".
FASO is going to make me a much better writer for all the "written words" I need to craft regarding my work. Actually "writing" is "craft" in itself.
As a person I like to talk and speak. I need to translate that all into the written word. I feel I am in good hands here....and...I SHALL learn it!!

In response to today's newsletter, "Share Your Gift, Share Your Art, Share Your Images"
by Clint Watson I want to add an excerpt from a newsletter I posted online on Jan. 6. The name of my newsletter was, "Art Is about Sharing".

"I have a dream, a fantasy, if you will, that someday I'll be rich enough that I do not need to charge for any of my performances; that I will be able to share my music free with anyone." — Pascal Rogé, famous contemporary French pianist

I was more than moved by his generous gesture. I decided then that this spirit of giving is something that lies inherent in all artists. After all, art is for sharing. We artists do not create our work so it can sit by itself without the enjoyment of others. An artist has the vision, or can hear the music, and by creating it into something outside him/herself, the artist is able to share what is theirs already.