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For signing your paintings, I think whatever you are most comfortable with is best. If you want to switch to your last name, you could include Kim with it and then eventually change Kim Scott to K. Scott. I think customers will be fine with your choice. It might be a fun way to date your work over the years. When you are famous, museums will date your paintings by "pre-kim" "kim" and "post-kim". They can call it the "Kim Retrospect" show. Remember, though, that signing just a first name puts you in good company with the likes of Vincent VanGogh. :0)
On another note, for a business name, I've actually been marketing two different names. Year's ago another artist and myself decided to share studio expense so that we could both get our studios out of our homes. We had to come up with a name for the location and after the long name selection process we came up with the name "Creative Brush Studio". Since part of our studio includes gallery space, we've been marketing our location as "Creative Brush Studio/Gallery" but I have continued to market my portraits as "Oil Portraiture by Mary Reilly". I thought that would cause a problem having two professional names, but surprisingly it has not.
Our lease is up this October and the other artist has decided to leave our studio to seek other endeavors. I've decided to stay and infact expand. My first thought was "Should I change the business name to just my name?" However, last month I am happy to say that the area newspaper had a "Readers Choice Survey" and Creative Brush was voted the Best Art Gallery in the county. That pretty much made my decision for me. I am going to continue to market myself as "Oil Portraiture by Mary Reilly of Creative Brush Studio". I think the most important thing is just getting your name out infront of the public in whatever way possible.
Mary
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