For Aspiring And Professional Artists On The Internets
The About Me page of an artist website manages to compress in one diabolical location many of an artist’s least favorite tasks: writing, boasting and web design. Creating the perfect artist website can feel like an impossible task. Whether you…
Who hasn’t succumbed to an impulse buy based on stunning photos of jewelry online? As an up-and-coming jewelry designer, you know that photographing your jewelry is the key to booming sales. Whether you want to sell on your website, via…
What is more natural than the human body? Nude, the body is flesh wrapped in bone laid bare for the human gaze to contemplate. Is it any surprise that capturing the nude form has been the ultimate goal in art.…
You may be intimately acquainted with your face. But that doesn’t mean you know how to do a self portrait. In fact, mastering the art of self-portraiture can be a lifetime’s work in itself. Self-portraits offer an intriguing paradox. Most…
Do you spend valuable time figuring out what to post on social media? Let’s face it. You know that more and more art buyers are discovering their next family heirloom online. But social media can be a huge drain on…
With the right title, you entice and enthrall your viewers, even before they’ve had time to process the work. Ideally, a title should gesture to the theme, inspiration, or concept featured within the work, without giving it away completely.
Selling art at artisan markets can be a great way to increase sales and visibility without the commitment of a brick-and-mortar store.
An artist statement sets out your unique philosophy as an artist in no more than 300 words (and sometimes as few as 150). It offers insight into your work, in your own words. It also provides context for your art and enhances the viewer’s experience.
What is beauty in art? It’s an eternal question which tests our ideas of history, culture, geography, politics, race, religion, time and place. But the question remains: should art be beautiful? And if it should, what does beauty in art…
As a painter, sometimes the market for your work can be limited. That’s particularly true if you work on a large scale or attach a high price to your art. One way to expand your market is to create prints…
After weathering a decade-long economic crisis, riots and mass unemployment contributing to widespread social instability, Greece’s capital, long associated more so with its history than with its burgeoning present, has emerged in recent years as one of the most exciting…
Becoming a successful artist means more than mastering your chosen medium. Learn how to set long-term goals and measure progress as you build your artistic career.
We’d like to think we’re wise to endless variety of spam emails, but the art scam email can be particularly hard to spot. Not because these phishers are particularly canny, but because they prey on our hopes and vanity. Unfortunately,…
A vanity gallery is the artist’s equivalent of fool’s gold. You receive an email from a gallery you’ve never heard of before. Maybe the gallery claims a “collector we both know” recommended your work. They promise your very own exhibit,…
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