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The finished, commissioned, pastel art work by Kathy Shell, incorperating the two photos below and placing the family together for Christmas, in the art work.
Earning a Living as an artist. The Website.

Get yourself a professional looking website.

If you are not good at web design consider trying to trade your skills for the skills of a professional web designer, many people will trade skills with an artist, don’t be afraid to ask or stop asking if you get a knock back.  I estimate for every ten times I ask if someone will trade skills with me, I will have one successful exchange that benefits both parties making the trade.

You can get a website for cheap I use a Weebly Pro account. and I  love it, they also have free web sites to get you started and you can upgrade to the pro account when you are ready. Many people have been successful using www.myspace.com, www.facebook.com, and www.youtube.com to promote their work.  I have a Kathy Shell fan page in facebook.

Obtain your one domain name or user name that is easy to remember, yet describes your work.

 Be careful how it will read to others.

My first two experiences with a domain name were not successful. I tried r.k.shell.gallery.com  and I got people wanting to buy sea shells, not works by Kathy Shell. Then I tried kathyshell.com and even spent $500. Having that sign written  on my car, only to overhear people reading out, Kathys Hell, not Kathy Shell and that was why my domain name became the hyphenated, Kathy-shell.net, it is now. It once was kathy-shell.com but I made a mistake of registering the .com version of my name with a company that wanted hundreds of dollars a year for me to use it. Another costly mistake, I made doing exactly what I recommend people not do, having had a fool for a teacher, I self taught myself, most of the web skill I know, hence the amount of mistakes I have made as a web developer.

Having pictures that do not load well for your viewers is another costly error as you will lose repeat viewers, cad drawing.is something worth looking into if you are designing your own web site.

Be sure to copyright your images before posting them on line.


 
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