Want a cool new website of your own ?

Don't you wish your website was just like me ... ?

Note: If you want to start with the cheap deal, skip to the end before you go back and read the rest of the sales pitch!

I know there are plenty of artists out there who, like me, would like a clean simple web presence with a contemporary feel and no clutter, where it's easy to add new work and manage things without having to pay your web designer to update the site when all you want to do is put up the new painting / installation / photos / construction / video etc. you just made.

• You don't want it to cost a fortune and take weeks to set up.
• You do want it to be a highly professional showcase for your art and an easy point of contact where people can find you.
• You don't want to have to divert yourself from the business of making art and teach yourself web programming because it's too expensive to get someone else to do it.

That's why I decided that, having had fun setting up my own site, and seeing that I think I have a good idea of what most artists want from a website, AND since I was a computer programmer and website guy in a previous life, I'd offer a cost-effective solution for other artists. So here's the deal:

1. Setup: £395 gets you up and running with a new clean and contemporary artist website with your own domain name, similar to my own site at martinherbert.com. It should take around 2 weeks from when I receive your content. You pay a deposit of £195 when you order and the balance when it goes live.
2. Maintenance option 1: If you are happy managing your own site content and reasonably confident that nothing will go horribly wrong then you can pay £12.50 a month (or £140 a year) to cover domain name renewal, hosting on the web server, and email/phone support for minor issues. I will give you instructions on how to upload your own content to add new work to the site and so on. If you need me to do more work on the site, then it costs £50 per 'incident' (which is tech speak for fixing something when it goes wrong).
3. Maintenance option 2: On the other hand, if you'd rather not get involved with managing the site at all and you just want me to look after everything for you, then you can pay £25 a month (or £275 a year) which means I will upload all your new work, make all and any changes you want and fix absolutely anything, as quick as I can. No extra costs (unless you want a total rewrite of the whole site of course!).

I think that covers more or less everything! If you'd like to talk about putting together a new artist site, please get in touch via the contact form on my website (click here) or email martin [at] martinherbert.com.

One last item: I need to do a couple of websites quick so I have more to show to potential clients, so I'm offering the first two sites at a knock-down set-up price of £225. If you'd like a really CHEAP deal, get in touch quick!

Peace and stuff, 

Martin

Last week of online sales - everything half price at etsy.com !

"Encyclopedia Xenopelagica Plate VII" : Digital painting
Copyright © 2005 by Martin Herbert

So, as per my previous posting, I'm ceasing all on-line operations from 31st August. (Well, it might take me a while to get everything taken down after that, but that's the general principle).

Hence, for the last week, starting today - Sunday 25th August, everything at etsy.com is HALF PRICE (woohoo!).

Enter the discount code CLOSING50 during checkout for 50% off your whole order. This is in addition to any individual item price reductions I might already have made.

Additional bargains on other sites as already posted - see here for details.

Bargains!!! Go get 'em!!! (etc.)

CLOSING DOWN SALE! ... The Big Momentous Decision

Coupon code for etsy.com

OK, so... Big Momentous Decision made.

I am getting out of the more 'commercial' and illustrative art business to devote my time to developing more 'serious' work, so as of 31st August 2013 I will no longer be selling artwork (originals or prints) online. There are a number of reasons for this:

• Print-on-demand sites like Saatchi.com and 'crafty' sites like etsy.com don't make enough sales to justify the time and effort I spend in maintaining them and fulfilling orders.
• I have reached a point where I really need to concentrate on developing my artwork to a highly professional standard and so I really need all that time and effort for painting!
• The image presented by these sites conflicts badly with the needs of professional dealers and gallerists who need artists to present a coherent and professional image to potential clients.
• The style, content and technique of my artwork has evolved to a stage where I no longer feel a connection with many of the projects I've undertaken in the past. Having started to find a 'voice', there is a lot of stuff out there which I no longer relate to ... basically I need to leave the artistic past behind and continue developing the directions in which I've been moving for the last couple of years.

I'll shortly be launching an all-new website at www.martinherbert.com, and I will also be maintaining this blog, which will get a major makeover in the near future.

This is basically a Big Scary Thing, and I am launching off into a foray into the serious fine-art world with no guarantee whatever that it will pay off, and resigning myself to the fact that I am likely to make more or less nothing for the next 1 - 2 years. The good news, however, is that until the end of the month I have reduced the price of everything currently for sale online in a grand closing-down sale so...

At etsy.com, enter the discount code CLOSING20 to get 20% off your whole order.

At Fine Art America (or Fine Art Europe), enter discount code VEMDUU to get 20% off your whole order.

At Saatchi Online, prices of originals have already been reduced by at least 20%, with as much as 50% off some items. All prints are on sale at the minimum price allowed by the site, a large saving on some items.

and finally, at RedBubble, I've reduced my markup by 50% on everything, which is as much of a discount as I can afford - don't make much here anyway!).

There will undoubtedly be a lot happening over the next 12 months or so, so keep an eye on the blog, make sure you're subscribed to the newsletter (see below!) etc...

Note: This does mean that our project wowlookwhatigot.com will also not be going forward, but we will fulfil all our obligations to our funding partners - you'll be getting the first prints soon, and they will all be signed and numbered limited editions, so hang onto them - they could be worth real money in the future! (If you never signed up to wowlookwhatigot.com, sorry - it is no longer possible to add new subscribers).

All the best to everyone, and I'll be back with more news soon!

Martin

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OK ... new policy ... from today, whenever anyone adds one of my pieces to a treasury on etsy.com, I'm going to reduce that item in my shop by 10% for a week - keep an eye on Facebook and Twitter for announcements!  (Click on those links right there to follow me on FB or Twitter if you're not already doing so!).

So - if you have an etsy.com account and you'd like 10% discount on any of my work, you know what to do ... go create a treasury that includes one of my pieces and tell me about it.  It shall be announced to the world AND that piece will be discounted for a week!

Go treasure, now!

Having a bit of a tidy up ... found a dragon

Hi all, just a brief update this time, to say I'm having a bit of a search around the studio for neglected things in dusty corners.  Having rummaged through the large pile of mailing tubes I've accumulated over the years, one or two surprises turned up.  There are a few prints which I'd stashed away and forgotten about, so I figured I wouldn't be losing anything if I offer them at a knock-down price...

So a few things to put up on ebay ... starting with a copy of the Welsh Grand Slam rugby print "Mine" which I think the printers gave me in a '2 for 1' offer, and which I'd completely forgotten about ...

"Mine" : Digital painting 15" x 20" : Copyright 2008-2012 by Martin Herbert

Regular price £150 ... now up on ebay at a starting price of £35, with free postage in the UK!  Please feel free to go and bid - more offers coming soon.

"Mine" (Detail) : Digital painting 15" x 20" : Copyright 2008-2012 by Martin Herbert