Guest blogger Kim Bruce shares how adding an (unobtrusive) watermark to your images protects your art and provides a way for people to find you and your site.
Anyone Can Snip: Protect Your Art with Watermarks Read
Guest blogger: Debby L. Williams Have you noticed on Antiques Roadshow that the appraisers always start with: “Tell me about this piece” ? Appraisers are trying to find out the story and history of the object and how much it means to the owner. Before they give any valuation to the owner, they want to
Don't Confuse Price with Value Read
You need to understand the basic parameters of the contest, competition or commission. When you find one worth pursuing, use the following questions to find the answers for a successful submission.
How to Investigate an Artist Call for Entry Read
Pinterest is a great way to showcase your best work to a targeted audience of artists, galleries, and potential customers. Here are some suggestions for artists who want to harness the power of Pinterest.
How Artists Can Harness the Power of Pinterest Read
Every piece of original art has tremendous energy. It vibrates with the colors and intentions you created. Share this with your audience and you are not only creating an object they can see, but one they can experience.
3 Things Artists Can Do to Connect with More Art Buyers Read
Perhaps the most important “E” on the road to love for your collectors addresses a critical part of everyone’s buying and selling experience: Empathy. Those first moments of contact are fragile and involve complex emotions.
Love for Your Collectors Starts with Empathy Read
There are differences among the various types of calls for entry competitions, but let’s start at the very basics: how to evaluate a Call and decide if you should respond.
How to Decide if a Call for Entry is Worth Sweating Over Read
So you’ve heard about art licensing and think it sounds amazing! You can create art and have several people pay you for the rights to use it. ou don’t have to do any of the marketing, selling or credit card processing. Heck, you’ve heard about people who make millions doing it so why shouldn’t you? Well… it’s not that easy.
10 Things to Know Before You Throw Your Hat in the Art Licensing Arena Read
Guest blogger Heidi Spiegel has created two characters: the Artist Me and the Business Me. She says one is committed to making art, while the other believes in the art enough to support and promote it.
Business You Is Looking After the Artist You Read
Fiona Purdy offers a solution to artists who are bombarded with requests for donations. She shares a letter she wrote recently in response to a donation request – a letter that educates the fundraisers.
Educate Those Who Ask for Donations of Your Art Read
