Hi,
I made a lot of changes to my website:
https://www.kaustavmfineart.com/ I wanted to know a few more things:
- Shall I delete the abstract art related sections?
- Feedback regarding info of my paintings
- Any painting that anyone finds irrelevant
- Shall I remove the sold ones?
- Changes to social media
- Suggest changes in other areas
- Shall I limit the number of photos on websites? I will continue to post on social media though
- I don't know how to link PayPal but even if I can, is this necessary?
- Any other suggestions are also welcome
Thanks
Kaustav
Comments
and "where my heart is" is just for a dollar?
I say keep the sold paintings, it sends a nice message, and we still get to look at them.
In respect to your website, @Kaustav, I agree with PaulB about keeping the sold paintings on the site - it sends a nice message. Prospective buyers are reassured that they are not the only ones who find the paintings worthy and tempting.
You have used maybe half a dozen different fonts throughout your website, I would suggest that you reduce that down to one or two. I would suggest a sans serif font like helvetica or something similar.
Change still lives to just still life.
Some of your paintings are watermarked with a copyright, some are not. I suggest you do one or the other for visual consistency. (As an aside, artists own the copyright on their paintings whether of not they mark it as such, if someone wants to illegally use an image you have created they just need to crop it out so personally I wouldn’t bother with the watermark as it detracts from the painting)
Sizes- not all paintings have the size listed in the description, and where it is mentioned I can’t tell if it’s inches or cm.
Social media- I think Facebook, YouTube, and instagram are plenty.
Introductory statement on home page.
Needs to be in a bigger font and take up more space on the page.
“Kaustav Mukherjee is an Indian artist who specializes in landscape painting and portraiture. While, his landscapes are rustic realist scenes, his portraits are modern and traditional simultaneously. Kaustav also loves non-representational abstract paintings that are embroidered with fluidity of vivacious colors and form”
I know it’s pretty hard to talk about yourself and big yourself up in public, so I’ve done it for you.
”Based in (wherever you are based), Kaustav Mukherjee travels throughout the Indian sub-continent capturing the textures,colours, and timelessness that embodies the social and cultural soul of his homeland.
As a professional artist who specialises in landscape, portraiture and still life painting, Kaustav has the ability to translate a vast expanse onto canvas whilst communicating his intimate connection to place. His portraits and still life paintings further explore the modernity of the everyday within the traditional framework of realist fine art oil painting.
When so moved, Kaustav expands his artistic expression into abstraction, weaving colour and form to create vivid works of art.
"where my heart is" is for US$ 1,020/- I guess it's too damn cheap with shipping and framing included.
@Kaustav : at first it looked like $1.020 rather than $1,020 , that's why i mentioned.