By Carol Burns in How To
An artist homepage is your shop window. Just like an eye-catching display that turns window shoppers into buyers, your homepage should make the casual browser stop and think “WOW!” But designing a stunning homepage can be intimidating. You’re an artist,…
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By Carol Burns in How To
It’s a fascinating question for new and experienced oil painters: What are the best surfaces for oil painting? Or, to use the famous painters’ parlance, what “support” should you paint on when you work with oils? While the default answer…
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By Carol Burns in Events & Review
After an enforced break, art exhibitions are back with a flurry in 2023. So what are the unmissable exhibitions in 2023 and how do you get the most out of them? Some artists shy away from exhibitions. They worry of undue…
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By Carol Burns in How To
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…
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By Carol Burns in How To
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…
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By Carol Burns in How To
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.
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By Carol Burns in Art And Culture
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…
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By Carol Burns in How To
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…
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By Sarah Gonzales in How To
From Impressionism to Pop Art: Every Movement Begins as an Artist Group If you’re wondering whether you’d like to join a local artist group or create your own, it may be intimidating to imagine yourself among the ranks of the…
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By Kevin Jamieson in How To, Resources
Self Promoting On Social Media For better or worse, social media has become an all-pervasive feature of our time, impacting everything from how we think and communicate to the way we relate to one and other at the most personal…
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