Are you looking for an easy and powerful way to drive traffic to your art hosting sites and web stores? Why not take advantage of YouTube's 60 million plus viewers per day and advertise your artwork with videos? Chances are, you already have everything you need to create your own video, and hosting on YouTube is free. So what are you waiting for? Here's what it takes to create and host a video of your art: 1. Create digital (.jpg) images of your artwork by photographing or scanning them. 2. Make an introduction image with your artist name, logo (optional), and website URL in a graphics editor >> Continue Reading. Click HERE .......

Buying art and original contemporary paintings online can seem unwise to most people. The fact that you cannot see the painting in person deters most people away but this does not have to be the case. Purchasing art online can be a great way to start or expand your growing art collection. One of the major reasons to buy paintings online is price. A lot of online art galleries are just that, online. These galleries do not have the typical overhead of a brick and mortar art gallery so they typically can pass those savings onto the collector. There are also artist communities and online services >> Continue Reading. Click HERE .......

We all know that Van Gogh only managed to sell one painting in his life - a clear illustration of the fact that making art and selling it are two very different things (and great comfort to those artists who never sell anything!). The ability to create good art does not necessarily bear any relationship to the ability to sell it.  Completely different skills and knowledge are involved. The traditional model has been that the selling side has been taken care of by galleries, leaving artists to concentrate of the creative side. This is fine if you are lucky enough to have a h >> Continue Reading. Click HERE .......

How do I learn the business of selling art? For upstart artists, this is the most important question that they can ask themselves and the most crucial to find the answers to. One mistake young artists make and even some older veterans make is they think of their art as an artistic creation rather than a business. The truth is, if you intend on selling art you're in the business of selling just as much as you are the art of creation. It is just as important for you to learn the business of selling art as it is the business of creating your art. While there are many opinions about how selling ar >> Continue Reading. Click HERE .......