Installation Art & Other Abstract Wonders

I have created several installation art "works." I will do more in the future, as the opportunities arise. And in fact, I like to think of my art lighting (part of the day job) as being a variation on installation art. It is arranging the "space" of light. So it is like an art light installation.

Back and Forth - How Abstract is Abstract?

Who created these two wall reliefs? Why it was I. Both were created a while ago. I drift back and forth, between the landscape and the mindscape. The title of the top image is "Frozen Mind Field." The title of the bottom image is "Sky Connections." I was in a different place when I created each one.

The top one was created when I was in California. Bottom: Texas! hahahaha

I was in the same "mental" place for both. The creatively exploding brain of Robert! It really doesn't go anywhere. Just me, most of the time. Sometimes I feel like someone else. Then I'm Bob Terrell. Or Rob Terrell.

Yes, it's always me, or a reasonable facsimile of me, painting the art. Wherever I happen to be, in the world. Whatever the art looks like, whether it looks somewhat like something you might have seen "out there" somewhere... or not as much like out there ... it's always forms, lines, colors arranged tto make, well, to make an arrangement. I usually call it a painting.

What do you call it?

What's New?

I have been quite busy working on my art websites, especially Terrell Art Studio and Abstract Art by Robert Terrell.

I hired an internet service to help me, especially with Terrell Art Studio:
Greenstalk and they have made many, many web directory submissions on behalf of Terrell Art Studio for me. Hopefully many of the submissions will be positively received by the webmasters of the directories.

I want Terrell Art Studio to be a serious ecommerce, art sales, online art studio gallery for me!

And I want Abstract Art by Robert Terrell website to become more and more my abstract fine art website. At first I tried to make it about sales, but I also tried to make it about everything in my art and creative world. Now I intend to focus it on my creative, visual fine art and nothing else.

And I intend to focus Terrell Art Studio entirely on sales of my artwork, when I'm ready to sell it. Some artworks may never be sold. I don't know. But my intention is for robertterrell.com to be about creating art. Nothing else. I will still have links, etc. They keep things lively and moving, and of course Google seems to want them, as well. (And so do I!)

It is Terrell Art Studio that will be my ecommerce, selling outlet! I didn't say selling out! For me, selling the art is a part of the creative cycle. It's the completion of the cycle for most artworks, hopefully. A few aren't going to be sold, but most will hopefully end up in someone's home, business, office space, lobby, etc.

And posting this is good for me. I need to see these words, not just think them.

The Magic of Web Directories

For a few weeks (few means two) or so, I have been focusing quite a lot on my website, Terrell Art Studio. I hope to launch it like a rocket to the top of Google ratings (and other search engine ratings, too - hahahaha) No, really!!

So I paid for professional directory submissions from Greenstalk.com. I just found their banner by "accident" in my images folder. I guess I accidentally deleted their link a few years ago. So I got curious about them, and logged on. Yes, the little directory is still around, and they do submissions to directories.

I took a chance and paid them some cash to submit to 1000 directories! I thought it might send me way higher in the Google Plex ratings. To number one for abstract art? Well, not sure. There is intense competition worldwide there. But 1000 directories are quite a few! And Google likes the directories, apparently.

See, if this is interesting to you at all... The small human edited directories are out there working away by the hundreds of thousands, or more. And Google is so huge, but the internet is much bigger still! I mean it's gigantic, people. Google can use all the help it can get to "qualify" websites. So it depends upon the countless small web directories to pre-qualify the sites, you might say.

Therefore, if I can get into enough of those, it will help my ratings in Notorious G go higher. How do I do it? By submitting my site to many, many web directories. Luckily a lot of them still offer free submissions. If they didn't, it could get very costly, and costly is a dance I can't join right now.

So the directories that accept my site into their system, link to me, and Google sees with with it's giant all knowing searchbot system. It begins to rank my site higher in popularity because a lot of web directories are linked to me. This is the theory.

With my other art site: Abstract Art by Robert Terrell I spent who knows how much time linking to one art website, online gallery and art resource after another. It took oodles and boodles of time, and I only have a PR 3 website to thank for it. Not that great, really.

So I took a little risk and paid the Greenstalk team to do a lot of submissions for me. What a difference I think it is going to make. The inbound link checkers (you can find many online, show various links coming in so far, from 70ish to 130ish. Either way, it sounds pretty good to me.

And we are just getting it rolling now! There are MANY more inbound links to come, I hope! Maybe 15 times as many or more! Actually there should be more than that before I am through! I am on a roll I hope.

Hope this blog post was slightly interesting. I think it is. It's the net being built. It's a structure, for sure, but not like a steel framework for a building. It is built from a lot of wires, in a way. ha ha

Terrell Art Studio - Etsy Gallery is Online!

Actually it has been online for a while now, but as of today, with 13 artworks listed for sale so far, it feels like a real online art gallery. I'm very pleased and excited to have it going so well and so far so fast!

I intend to make this online gallery a real venture - with a lot of art for sale! Whatever it takes, that's what I intend to do. So I'm shouting it out loud, as they say!

And I have some other "ideas" "plans" "schemes" etc. My brain is exploding. So I need to go back to work now. Things might get messy if'n I don't.

Falling into Place (Continued)

I am in a good place ... as far as my online art "kingdom" is progressing. I just got Terrell Art Studio - Etsy launched. Woo Hoo! It is an exciting time, it is! I am feeling very good about Etsy. I should have known back last December when I first ordered that delicious banana bread from Etsy, that more great things were going to come from the place.

But little did I know then just where it was going to lead. Certainly not to the beginnings of a solid online art studio for me. My spidey sense is really pegging the top of the "go for it" meter on Etsy, I must say. I like how Etsy is arranged, how "Etsy easy" it was to set up my account, how easy it is to upload art, etc. etc.

Anyway, I have installed a link in my Art Links, here, so my fellow bloggers can go check it out. At this point, I have exactly ONE artwork for sale there, but that is going to change, for sure! I hope to have many artworks for sale on Etsy. They are a very reasonable online gallery. It will be no problem at all to keep 50 or more artworks for sale there.

Now I need to keep on keeping on, as I was saying in a previous post. I can't let myself rest now (except for the need for sleep that most of the creatures like myself must have). Besides that, I must focus directly on this art direction NOW.

Falling into Place

Well I haven't posted for a couple of days because I've been busy with art related work. I ordered 4 sheets of paint grade plywood. I've made who knows how many pieces of art with this wood through the years.

I ordered a Bienfang Canvasette paperpad. It will get me started on my Etsy store artworks that I hope to have available online quite soon. And by quite soon I mean by the middle of May.

I have my new camera, a Canon A590 ordered. It will be arriving quite soon. It's not a dSLR, but I read many camera reviews. It is very highly reviewed, and for pix online, I think it will be quite adequate. A dSLR is in my future I'm sure, but not quite yet.

So, I can only say that all cylinders are firing quite nicely. I have been working like a big dog on the website, terrellartstudio and it is really becoming what I hoped for... My online art sales studio! So visit me there.

Come here too. I like this place!