She returns for a moment!

HELLO WORLD!

I have definitely not kept up my end of this inkFinger bargain lately. I am sorry Sutter! It seems I have let a few things effect my posting progress. First thing, work; We all know how this goes right? We'll that is no excuse, so I won't even get into that.

Second, house; This has still seemed to consume most of my creative energy, but I am actually getting to a point where I like working on the house so I have to pull myself away for a bit. I keep working towards my goal of finishing my studio- and THAT, will be tough to fight.

Finally, THIEVES! I don't want to get into it right now, but lets just say Google has helped many people use my images without my permission or knowledge. I am trying to figure out how to stop this, but it still scares me to post. I am really happy when people DO ask my permission, but it boggles my mind how many people think that Google Images are for free to use however they please!

THIS drawing/painting, was done for an art show at MugShots Coffee Shop in the Fairmount area of Philadelphia. It was a "friends of Mugshots" show, and I was very humbled to be asked to put up a piece. The piece sold in 2 days, and these  pics are the only record I have of it. I totally forgot to scan the drawing, and I had to go in at lunch to try and get some images of it. The poor people sitting right in front  of it were very patient with me!

I would have liked some more time to work on this piece, but I must say that it turned out quite nice. It had a very peaceful feeling to it, and I miss it a little bit. The piece was rather large too. About 16 x20 at least! Thanks you to the person who purchased it! I hope you are enjoying it very much! I also hope to have more work up in some local places this summer, so keep your eyes out Philadelphia!

-Niff (yes--niff!)

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Comments

[Elaine]

Hi Niff

Have a look here:
http://www.google.com/intl/pt-PT/webmasters/remove.html

Regards

Elaine

[Elaine]

Me again ... it just occured to me that you use typepad too. I made a text file called robots.txt with the following 2 lines in it

file User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

I then uploaded it into my files section (the last tab in the control panel screen). How it works is explained towards the bottom of the last comment links page.

Phew! Hope it helps.

E

[Niff]

Holy Cow Elaine!!! thanks so much!
your RULE! I am gonna try it out!

[rachael]

Hi Niff & Elaine,
I added a robots.txt file about a year and a half ago and it didn't do anything to stop images from showing up on google (and have not deleted or changed the file-- just hoping that it will start working at some point). I hope you have better luck with it than I have, but sort- of think that either keeping images small or adding a notice to them all is the way to go!
Congrats on the show and the success!
-Rachael

[Gerren]

The advice above will work with google (eventually), but if you want to protect your images from all search engines then you need to create a new .htaccess file in your image directory.

if you search for "image" and "htaccess" you can find plenty of instructions.

[Meghan]

Wow, Niff, that is really beautiful... and framed well, too!

Your leaves remind me of this blogger/jeweller's wares: http://www.abigailpercy.blogspot.com/

[niff]

Meghan: WOW! that stuff is really beautiful! I have seen some of her sketches before, but not the jewelry. I get my inspiration for all my floral designs from vintage fabric and wallpapers. Looks like she gets hers from vintage clip art or something.

thank you so much for sharing!

[Michelle]

I love you work, and I often refer to your site for inspiration. May I suggest you put a watermark on images? I know it kinda detracts from the image but then at least no one can use it (or screen capture it) without credit (see the images in the artist catalogue at www.torontooutdoorart.org).