Book Cover Illustrations

I received an email from James Day saying that some of my book cover artwork and magazine illustrations would be appearing at his Art of Day site. Day’s pages have turned into a promotional website for artists and illustrators with gallery owners (often checking it to discovered talented new artists to exhibit), as well as by art buyers & collectors interested in buying art from today’s emerging artists.

And, as Day notes, “It’s also for everyone who loves art as much as I do.”

So far over 300 great artists have been featured on Art of Day. And today I can add my name to that growing list.

Quoting from the site,

Art of Day actually began as a fan page on Facebook created to promote the art of James Day, the founder of Art of Day. As James expanded the number of artists he networked with on line from hundreds to thousands, he started featuring a multitude of other artist’s work on his fan page in addition to his own. After more than half a year he decided to expand the concept from being just a fan page on Facebook, to a larger platform of promoting the arts through a website, blog, and lots of social media sites.

All of the artists he connected with on line were there to do the same thing, get their artwork seen by a larger audience. So it made perfect sense to feature a lot of artists instead of just one. James believed that together the combination of hundreds of artists might be a large enough draw to bring in the numbers of visitors all of the artists deserved. Since by day he co operated a software & web development company, it was fairly easy to setup a custom website, blog, and tie in social networking.

The Art of Day website was launched on July 12th 2010. In the partial month of July the website received a modest 1,879 visits, most of which were from Facebook. Month after month the numbers continued to go up. In September Art of Day received 3,824 visitors, by December it was 10,469. 2011 started off great for Art of Day having received 26,586 visitors and the next month February 70,299. Several artist features added to Stumbleupon went viral which certainly impacted the numbers for February.

And there you have it.

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As a book cover artist, Duncan Long has garnered praise and support from a very diverse group of art lovers. You can see more of his illustrations and book cover artwork at the Duncan’s Book Cover Artwork Portfolio
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