Bluehost.com

Through my last couple days of research, I have discovered that WordPress will not work for my purposes with this site, so I am now going with Bluehost.com.  My reasons for this are WordPress is quite limited with what I can add in terms of widgets, and the fact that they don’t allow you to have ads on your site. WordPress is still fantastic for the average blogger, but I want to make my website huge, with any artist being able to easily access it for help on whatever they’re trying to do, so I’m trying out Bluehost.

I have heard great reviews about Bluehost; you can set up a website with them, get a domain name from them, and they will host your site, all for about $84 a year. With the extra security settings they suggest you get, it comes out to about $120 a year. Once I get this set up I will edit this post to let you know how it’s going!

About SoCal Mixed Media

Welcome to SoCal Mixed Media! Here you will learn all you need to know (as I learn along the way) about mixed media ART!

We will be exploring mixing various kinds of paints (oil, acrylic, watercolor), adding photos/pictures/paper to your art, adding unspecified objects to your art (rocks, glass, papyrus, you name it)…..and of course using different surfaces for your art, like canvas or wood.

There will be as many pictures posted as possible, along with the how-to’s, and any comments or questions are welcome. There will also occasionally be a how-to video thrown in there to help with the visualization.

About me personally:

My name is Marcy Eiben. I am a 26 year old artist currently living in San Diego and doing my best to make a living off of art, because I disagree with having a 9-5 and would rather be my own boss and do what I love: art!

I have worked hard over the last year figuring out how to do everything, from getting prints made of my art, to shipping art, to putting on art shows, to getting a website made, to getting business cards made, to marketing myself, etc. etc. so I am now documenting that in this site for anyone else who needs help with the business side of being an artist.

I do a lot of mixed media, but I also do regular, non-mixed media paintings and drawings. I will also occasionally be including pictures of these pieces of art.

Welcome to my journey of creativity! Let’s make some ART!