Bloom. 6 x 6 Mixed media. © 2015 Sheila Delgado
I started this with acrylic on watercolor paper. I dripped a bit of blue acrylic, and then added watercolor washes in shades of orange, red and purple. I thought for a second about starting over, because the red dried in a straight line. But I decided to leave it. This only took a few minutes in the end, and I think it is the first really “loose” piece I have done. I could be wrong. But I am patting myself on the back for resisting the urge to “fix” it.
Bloom, Final. 6 x 6 Mixed media. © 2015 Sheila Delgado
Pinterest Captions
I have noticed that many of us are not using Pinterest pin captions to our best advantage. Maybe it is something you are not really thinking about. But you should be.
I thought I was doing OK with this myself, but if you take a look at my Pinterest Blog Board, you will see I have some major work to do. Oi vey!
Oops, well I guess you will have to watch the video first to see how to do it correctly.
Next take a look at my pinterest board for Leslie’s challenge event. Look closely at the image descriptions. (I am a couple of days behind.)
Can you see the problem? Do the captions answer:
- Who?
- What?
- When?
- Where?
- Why?
- And How?
What does IMG_0000_new tell me about the artist, or the artwork? I am not trying to shame anyone. It’s just that in pinning so many each day, it has become very clear to me. Some of us could really use some help. And I am one of the “us”.
My first inclination, is to add the captions myself, but that just isn’t possible.
I did some searching, and I found a few articles that I think will really help. I know you probably don’t have time to read them this month, but you can bookmark them or print them out. The first one includes a short video that is easy to understand. I promise.
Jessica at Chaos & Love – Thank You! I know you can spare two minutes to watch her video and make your blog and boards better!
For those of you using WordPress, here is some information on using your image settings. Note that the caption box for your wordpress image, is not the “caption” for Pinterest. For those of you on other platforms, I am sure it is much the same.
This post by Nicole at Curio Electro is to the point. She breaks it down really well.
I hope those help, maybe you can let me know in the comments. I still have a TON to learn about blogging and SEO, and social media. If you have anything to add I would love to hear from you! And I am sure others will appreciate it as well!
Treat yourself, visit Leslie’s site for a look at the artwork created today.
Also hop on over to Sea Dean’s blog and vote, each vote is a chance to win prizes!
Over 400 amazing pieces of art so far, on my Pinterest board for this event.
STILL need an art fix?
Visit Cindy Williams and read one of her artist interviews!
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Totally interesting. I thought it was spider legs and had to come to the blog to see how it took form.
he he he Thanks Sea. That is one thing I will never paint! hahaha
This is very cool Sheila. And I like how you’ve shown so many stages! I love all the links you share and it takes some time to go through them all. I think facebook, Blogger and G+ changes the titles of the images on me though. When I repost, they’ve got all those ltrs. & nos. – not the original name. 🙁
hmmm, that is interesting. I noticed just now, when I use the Pinterest button on the browser, it changes it too…
Glad you like it Sandy 🙂 LOVED your piece again today 🙂
I think sometimes, well heck, most of the time, I want to fix it too. So glad you resisted the urge
Thanks for saying that CheyAnne 🙂
I love this painting!!! Don’t change it!
And I am trying to muddle along and learn Pinterest and Instagram. Pinterest approaches blogging to me. I get bogged down on having to offer so much information but I hear it is the place to sell art if you do it right! So I will buckle down 🙁
I need to buckle down too, right there with you Kelly! So much to do and learn 🙂
Sheila, I love your painting today. The colors work wonderfully well together and I am glad you did not “fix” it. When this challenge is over, I would like to experiment more (in private where no one sees!) And thank you so much for the info on Pinterest. I am one of “them” that doesn’t know what they are doing! I worry that I have so much of my work out there that would not lead anyone back to me. The SEO stuff is quite overwhelming. In a perfect world I would just hire someone to do it all for me!
Wouldn’t that be wonderful, to be able to hire someone! I hope at least this one part seems more simple. 🙂 I worry about the same thing. If they can’t find us that completely defeats the purpose. Thank you Pam, so glad you like it 🙂
Stand by this. Ones first needs a little time to sink in.
Thanks for the posts. I watched the video and learned so much in 2 minutes.
hahaha, glad you watched it Susan. 🙂 I will remember your words!
Thank you for the Shout Out, Sheila, that is very kind! Thanks for the other info, I have started renaming the pics that I upload. You can go into the properties and change the name. Or just right click on the pic before you upload it, and it says “Rename”. So I agree, it is best to change it before you upload it, and if you have a © on the photo too, that is great.
I need to read more about Pinterest, i just pin and that’s it.
BUT, to be fair, my paintings aren’t where I want to be at the moment so I don’t “push” it until I get the paintings where I am happy with them.
I love the way you are using your .gif’s it makes the painting interesting. This is a lovely painting Sheila 🙂
Thanks for sharing that Cindy! And thank you 🙂 I will be sharing your link each day… sorry I did not think to start sooner.