Connect with Jackson’s
on Social Media

Whichever your favourite social media app you’ll probably find Jackson’s there! Artists have found social media a great way to connect with Jackson’s. We answer materials questions, give advice, share artworks, and seek out interesting art-related things to share and inspire you. Our followers often get first notice of limited time offers, as well. Since social media is a quick way to communicate it is a great way to keep up-to-date. Here are the places on the web you can find Jackson’s.

Facebook is our most widely-followed social media account, and it’s probably where we spend the most time: sharing offers, new product announcements, articles we think artists will find interesting and wonderful artworks. We also share updates about articles on the Jackson’s Blog. We tend to post first thing in the morning and then at regular intervals through the afternoon. What’s nice about Facebook is that we can enjoy all sorts of discussions with our customers. We spend a fair amount of time answering customer queries, sharing our advice about certain products or techniques, and just talking about art and the people who make it. Share your work with us, we’d love to see how you are using our materials.
Jackson’s Facebook

We use our Twitter account to share articles from the Jackson’s Blog, news, opportunities for artists, news about new products, amusing tweets, and work by historic and contemporary artists. Along with Facebook it is the place to get first notice of limited time offers. We get a vague sense that there are more printmakers on Twitter than on the other social media, though we can’t work out why that would be the case. Our Twitter page probably has more varied content than the other social networks, as we do retweet a lot of professional and amateur artists whose work has caught our eye. Come join in the conversation.
Jackson’s Twitter

Instagram is all about the beauty of the photos which our in-house photography team create. Mostly these photos show art supplies in use, though we do occasionally post work by contemporary artists. We also write a bit about the art materials. We usually add an image each day. For a long time, Instagram was simply a mobile app, but now you can also view it on your desktop computer, but for the full functionality you will need to use it on a mobile phone or tablet. An updating feed of Instagram photos can be found in the right-hand border on the Jackson’s Blog. (You’ll have to scroll up a bit on this post to see it).
Jackson’s Instagram

Our Youtube channel contains all sorts of videos about art. We have mixing guides for oil paints, showcases of new products, ‘unboxing’ videos which show you exactly what a certain set contains, tutorials, reviews and much, much more. As of this today, we have over 700 free videos to watch and are adding more each week.
Jackson’s Youtube channel

Lots of artists use Pinterest as a means of finding inspiration or viewing a selection of similar images. Pinterest learns what you are interested in (in my case, wood engravings, copper engravings, drypoints and pencil drawings) and then conducts visual searches to find things that tally with your interests. You then ‘pin’ things you like to ‘boards’ (that is, ‘save them to folders’). It’s a great way of finding new work by like-minded artists. We also have lots of boards of beautiful art material images as well as artworks and tutorials. We use it, as well, to showcase entrants to some of our competitions.
Jackson’s Pinterest

Tumblr is a ‘microblogging site’. We use it as an alternative place for some of the articles from the Jackson’s blog. Some of Jackson’s customers prefer using Tumblr to read out blog content. These posts are then displayed as a series of tiles, which you can quickly scroll down until something piques your interest. It’s great if you’re looking for something specific, but not so great if you’re looking for a conversation.
Jackson’s Tumblr

Flickr is a photo-hosting site. It is part of Yahoo, so you can use the same password. We have two groups on Flickr, our posts of images and a gallery of artists work that have joined the Jackson’s Flickr Gallery. For those who don’t have Instagram, our Flickr image posts give a similar experience; a series of beautiful photos of art supplies, posted usually once a day.
Jackson’s Flickr

Google+ isn’t the most widely-known social network, but more and more people are using it. It works like Tumblr; it’s a micro-blogging site which displays all of your posts in one long feed. Artists connect and make ‘circles’. We use it to share articles from the Jackson’s Blog.
Jackson’s Google+

Most people will know LinkedIn as a means of establishing professional contacts and finding jobs, but it is also used as a micro-blogging platform. It works rather like Google+ or Tumblr.
Jackson’s LinkedIn

If you aren’t using any of these you can still get the latest news and offers by subscribing to the weekly Jackson’s Newsletter.