I am excited to announce a dual concept contest for members of both the Selective Coloring Group and the Childhood Group with a really awesome and unique prize.
Mother's Day is quickly approaching us, so it is the perfect time to put your creativity into high gear in honor of Moms all over the world.
Description and rules:
Childhood Group:
Enter your best, most creative Mother's Day photographic art. (Think greeting card style...) It would be wonderful if you created it in selective coloring, being that it will be featured on this site, but that is not neccesary.
Selective Coloring Group:
Enter your best, most creative Mother's Day photographic art in selective coloring: (Think greeting card style...)
Dates: This contest will run from today, Friday April 18, 2008 until Monday, April 28, 2008 9:00 PM EST. I will choose the top 8 finalists from each group and feature them on my website as well. At that time members will vote for their favorite for the nest 3 days. I will update you on directions for voting soon.
Prize: There will be 2 winners selected... One from the Childhood Group and 1 from the Selective Coloring Group. Along with having your picture featured as the new avator for the month of May, each winner will receive their own Red Bubble portable flash miniwebsite to promote yourself with. They will also be featured in the 'Featured Photographers' section of this website.
Each miniwebsite will have 4 pages: A home page, up to a 20 picture gallery with a background song of your choice, and 'About Me' section. For the last page, you will also have your your choice of :
The beauty of your profile widget is that you can copy and paste the html code and place it anywhere and everywhere on the web (that enables you to) or you can direct post to many partnering sites that you are already members of ... You can place one on your website, a social network, in articles, or forums if they allow, etc. And you can email them. (However, I am having a glitch emailing mine...)
* The 2 winners must be abe to provide me with any autobiography information I might need, their chosen song, links, or any information I request, in order to build your miniweb.
Judging:
Judging will be based on the following criteria:
Good luck and enjoy!
* Also, please be sure and sign up for future news and updates on this site on the homepage and sign my guestbook.
Building an online presence is of paramount importance for an artist. It can also be a perplexing challnge for many of us artists as well. After all, we are artists, not marketers or salespeople, right???
Although there are about as many avenues you can take to promoting yourself and building an online presence as there are images in your gallery, these options can be overwhelming. It is difficult to know where to start. Of course you have to start with either having your own website or having a gallery of your own on an art community, art store, or something of that sort, but today I am going to focus on something a little different.
Yes, it is really important to build a repuation within an art community of likeminded people, but you also need to expand yourself to reach a larger audience than just those who have the same goals as yours.
Social networking is an incredible option because you are not direct selling, hard selling, or paying huge amounts of money to advertise. You are also not exchanging links or traffic with people who are only trying to rack up enough points themselves and not really interested in your site or your art.
With social networking, you are building relationships, expressing yourself, having fun, and for us ...displaying our art. And there are many ways to do this. You can post your art on your profile, in your picture section, make slideshows, in your blogs you can post pics and talk about any events, etc., you can join art / photography clubs. You can also send your art as comments.
I have always wanted to join a social network but was a little leery of Myspace because it is a little racey, and my goal is to promote my art. So, I just found a new social networking site that has all the same features as Myspace, but it also pays you. No Kidding! You get paid for every page view you have on yoru profile and your downline's profiles. Plus every action you take, like posting a picture, a video, updating your profile, posting a blog, etc. etc.
Besides the huge perk of getting paid, the other reason I love Yuwie is because the people are so nice and many of them are there to share their knowledge and offer intereesting tips to being successful online as well. I am already addicted!
The vote is in, and the winner for this month's conttest is:
Reflections In The Sand by the fabulous photographer:Poppykitten.
Coming in second is the extremely talented photographer, Ravenor
with his brilliant photo,Twilight:
Congratuklations to both of you. These are both amazing works of art. Please see Poppykitten in Featured Photographers.
And, thank you everybody for your participation. It was really difficult to narrow it down to the final 8. This group brings so much talent to the table.
