Thursday, March 28, 2013

Grand Salon

Here is a painting that I have not posted on my portfolio. I have thought of doing a Giclee, and individually creating a different scene in each of the rectangles. Each Giclee would be 100% different. I am also creating a postcard to send out on my mailing list as well as an email list. If you want to be added let me know.

I also have a piece that they are using for the catalog. Prehaps I loved it when I sent it in, but now I am not so crazy about it. Yet, I have received some complements. To add to this problem, I am not totally pleased with the image for the catalog. It could be my bad photography. I have also made some changes (for the better) since I took this photo.

On another point: I have been looking at an analysis of hits to my web page. It appears that most people arrive here by searching for "Amalfi Coast" or "Amalfi Coast map". This was a wonderful trip that I took to Italy about 3 years ago.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

My Youtube Connection

I posted a video with a little more resolution on youtube.

See a better version here.

or here:

Present Portfolio

I created a quicktime movie of my portfolio. It runs to 270 mg. I am not certain that I can load that much, but I will compress it, then perhaps make a smaller version if this one doesn't work. I have reduced the size to 87 mg. I will learn the limits of posting video. It is taking more than 30 minutes to load the video. It says "Processing Video" for about 15 minutes now.  Well there appears to have been an error processing my video. I will leave the icon here and try to upload it again.

Well I have gotten two error messages and here are the two videos below. I may remove one or both. Neither works.

I used the custom feature on Quicktime and managed to get a half size show down to 18 mg. I was afraid that if I set it any lower that the quality would suffer. Also I removed all audio. Still I cannot get the movie to load. I created a 4.8 mg small movie also. I will load that now. It appears to have worked.







As I feared the quality is abysmal. I will at show one photo of a piece for comparison. (Silver Tide)



Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Mail Chimp

I went to a workshop for Art at the Source last night. I found a great alternative to help me market myself: Mailchimp. It's free. They do mass emailings without having to worry about getting a reputation for spam. So this is my shameless promotion for today. Want to sponsor me "MAILCHIMP"?