By Carol Burns in Events & Review, How To, Opportunities
2025 may feel far away, but in the world of art competitions, planning is already well underway with themes, submission details and deadlines already decided. So make sure you have plenty of time for the paint to dry on your…
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By Carol Burns in Art And Culture, How To
One school of thought suggests that a great artist shouldn’t worry about everyday things like paying the rent and feeding the family. But when we think of art and money, we generally turn (enviously) to artists whose work sells for…
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By Carol Burns in Art And Culture
As you’ve likely heard, a new social media channel has joined the fray. Threads is a text-based conversation app focused on live chat and content sharing and has been designed to sit alongside Instagram. Forget the arguments between the two…
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By Carol Burns in How To
Having a studio is top of the shopping list for any artist, but when space is at a premium and the investment for professional studio is out of the question, creating a home art studio is the way to go.…
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By Carol Burns in Art And Culture, Artwork, How To
The color black does not reflect light. In fact, the color absorbs light, along with our dreams, our fears, our terrors and nightmares. For artists, black paintings often represents our deepest, darkest thoughts and secrets. Perhaps this vulnerability makes it…
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By Carol Burns in Art And Culture
The color of danger, scarlet passions, power and prestige — red has commanded the attention of artists for centuries. From the Paleolithic period to the contemporary, this archetypal color has been utilized by artists to access the extremes of human…
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By Carol Burns in Art And Culture
For an artist, the color white is a blank space. Traditionally, white paint is a mixer, something to add to real pigments to lighten the hue. But is white a neutral or a base color for artists, or is it…
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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 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 Sara in How To
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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