August 2009

Summer Vacation Wrap-Up

Summer is almost over for me. This Saturday I return to exhibiting at the COD Street Fair. It has been a wonderful seven week vacation. What I’ve completed of my plans for this summer. 7 days of vacation, visiting friends and family.   Setup a new wet studio, separate of my digital studio.   Combined [...]

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Sketchnotes

THIS IS BLOG WEEK   Did you ever think of taking notes and making those notes into a piece of art? I love to draw, so this really caught my attention. I found his blog and these incredible notes by John Uhri. This is a sample of one of the sketchnotes that he took at the [...]

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3 Favorite Ideas

    Today’s Class on Maintaining a Healthy Artist Blog Lesson 4: 1001 (or fewer) Ideas for Content   These are 20 of my ideas for topics. The other 981 are coming.  I’m really trying to make this blog interesting for both of us. So…this is what I’d like from you. Pick your 3 favorites from [...]

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FUN - My Life Story

  Today I finished writing a summary of my life’s story. It’s about the fun I’ve had, and it’s just a click away.  Read it here. http://jackiejacobson.com/about-me/

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What style should I exhibit?

Here’s my dilemma? What should I show of my artwork at the street fair?   Photorealism?               I’ve had huge success in selling this style for the past 8 years. These pieces are very realistic, and that’s what people love and have been buying. They’re up-close and intimate portraits of flowers that make the viewer stand [...]

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Why I do this Blog

This blog started as a … “everyone does one, I should too” … project. And then about a month ago I realized it was an opportunity for my art career to grow.   My goal is to show my artwork beyond the street fair that I display at weekly. Blogging can reach a new audience, can open my [...]

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Off to Dallas

This is a big day for me. August 20…MY BIRTHDAY.   I’m celebrating with son Steve and family. That means, I’m flying off to Dallas today, returning on Monday. If I can I’ll post tomorrow. If I can’t that means I’m just having too much fun to stop. More soon. OK I promised myself that [...]

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Blog Triage

I really want to build a more active and exciting blog, so I signed up for the 4-week Blog Triage class with Cynthia Morris and Alyson Stanfield. Today’s assignment is to describe the people who I want to visit, read and interact with me on this blog.   OK, here goes… you have a sense of humor you like [...]

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Postcard

SHORT & SIMPLE   This is the postcard I sent to everyone on my mailing list.   CLICK HERE FOR POSTCARD

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PAW STORIES

I’m working on the “I Paint Paws” newsletter, and found these perfect items. Hope they add a smile to your day.  They have to mine. Enjoy   SINGLES AD SINGLE BLACK FEMALE seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I’ m a very good girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods, riding [...]

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A New Marketplace

FINE ART AMERICA A Professional Network for Visual Artists, Photographers,Art Collectors, and Gallery Owners FineArtAmerica.com is a social network and e-commerce marketplace for photographers, visual artists, art galleries, and fine art collectors. Visitors to FineArtAmerica.com can choose from over 200,000 pieces of original artwork including paintings, sculptures, drawings, mixed media, jewelry, and more!  It is Art [...]

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REVISITS

    THE PAINTINGS TODAY  5 Years Later     This week I revisited two pieces that I did 5 years ago. They were among my post popular and favorites. Of course, favorites change as I do more artwork. I thought it would be fun to see how I would approach the same compositions today. My medium is acrylic. I’ve done these [...]

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Photography Help

What Camera do I use? I’m asked constantly, what kind of camera do I use. And I explain, it doesn’t make any difference, because I use my photos as reference for my paintings. But…here it is                   and I use it with a Nikon 70-300 Telephoto lense. I also have [...]

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Pet Portrait Pages

    I’ve done more on my I Paint Paws pages. You can see what I’m offering in commissioned Pet Portraits. I am adding a couple of additional sizes, that will get online very soon. But for now… Checkout the pages starting here…http://jackiejacobson.com/i-paint-paws/   That’s it for today. I’m keeping with my promise to do things [...]

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LESSON LEARNED

I’M HUMAN…   This is a journal entry about me… my drive and my limitations. Last week I received this wonderful email from my niece. She was so kind in these words about me, my art, my passion. I have mentored her, and one day I know she will do her art with the same [...]

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Twitter - Why I Tweet

  I Twitter Daily Tweeting is not something I thought I would ever do. It is an amazing way to meet incredible people. Here’s how it started for me. My friend, a photographer, Twittered. He said I should. So I joined and wrote my 140 characters. Since I followed him, and he followed me, his friends got [...]

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Pear Paintings

Today is simple, and brief. I do paintings daily and I’ll post a few every week. This is the first time I’m posting daily artwork, so I’m including a couple from past weeks. Now, that’s honest. How would you know if I did them yesterday, today or one year ago. But…I like to keep it [...]

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Exhibit to see

Each week I’ll select an exhibit worth seeing. Of course, it is my bias, but…I’ll try to select artists from various genres who I think are worth knowing. Chuck Close has definitely been an influence on my art. It was the grand scale and photorealism that inspired me.   Photorealism is a movement which began [...]

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EMAIL BARRAGE

OK, it’s time for me to talk about all of those Emails that I receive daily. My mailbox is filled with  someone’s negative opinion  their political viewpoint  warnings of absolute danger (that wind up to be untrue)  and lots of despair Bottom line, if I open all those emails…I’ve ruined my day. Two days ago, [...]

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Reset your passwords regularly

I’m sharing this important news from Alyson. You can find the article at http://www.artbizblog.com/2009/07/changepasswords.html but I’ve pasted it here for your ease. I subscribe to Alyson’s blog, and enjoy reading it daily. You will too. But here’s the important news. Reset your passwords regularly My Facebook account was hacked yesterday. Someone got into my account and [...]

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Big Site Change

It’s Done New look, new features, new everything !!! I have combined the website, the blog and the newsletter into this one site. I’m showing off my computer skills and my …   print portfolio  new “I Paint Paws” collection  new artwork  self portrait  and much more. I will be using this site as my daily journal. [...]

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