Loans that change lives. Chakra-meditation-spiral.gif (GIF Image, 532x723 pixels) - Scaled (95%) 5 Free Art Marketing Ideas for Artists: How to Stand Out from the Crowd. Marketing your art doesn’t have to be extremely difficult. For example, a few days ago I found an artist who was giving away some of his paintings at freedailyart.blogspot.com. His explanation for this odd behavior was simple: that he was a relatively new artist trying to build awareness of his paintings. Naturally he doesn’t give away all of his artwork. Interspersed among the free paintings are others (usually larger ones) which cost something. But that “marketing hook” of giving away a free painting to anyone willing to pay shipping and handling stuck out in my mind—and that’s what good marketing is all about. So today I thought I’d talk about some ways that you can stand out from the crowd.
Here are some of the ideas I came up (most will work both offline or online). 1. The first art marketing idea I came up with is based on my own experiences online. Perhaps they need information on taking care of their artwork. . . how to safely clean their paintings, for example. 2. 3. 4. 5. TO-DO LIST. 30 Lessons Learned. . . From Three Years of Blogging. Over the last 3 years I’ve written, edited, and published quite a few blog posts on EmptyEasel.com—and in that time I’ve also learned a lot about what it takes to run a blog on a daily basis. Here are some of the things I’ve learned: 1. Always brand yourself as better than you are. When you first start blogging you’ll have no track record—so having a strong brand really helps.
Whenever possible, make yourself look professional, trustworthy, and established through the domain name you choose, the logo you use, and even your mission statement. Then work as hard as necessary to live up to your brand. 2. A common misconception among new bloggers is that it’s easy to create a successful blog. Sure, you can learn to ride a bike in a few weeks. . . but you won’t be invited to race in the Tour de France until you have a lot more miles under your belt. 3.
You don’t HAVE to allow comments. Some of the so-called “rules of blogging” will simply not apply to your blog. 4. ‘Nuff said. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. An Artist In Brooklyn. Quotes2.jpg (JPEG Image, 600x555 pixels) Brooklyn Woman Finds Counterfeit Penny Made of Gold. Lynn RoganA “penny” made by a Seattle artist out of 18-karat gold was put into circulation in Los Angeles in 2007 and found by a graphic designer in Brooklyn two years later.
One afternoon in March 2007, Jack Daws stepped up to a newsstand in Los Angeles International Airport with a handful of change, including a counterfeit penny made of 18-karat gold that Mr. Daws, a Seattle artist, had fashioned. He carefully put the counterfeit penny, dated 1970, down on the counter, counted out enough change to pay $11.90 for a Hustler magazine and left. He got a cup of coffee and sat down on a seat with the newsstand in sight, and watched for an hour wondering if any of the travelers had walked off with his golden penny and where it would end up at the end of the day. Most counterfeiting takes something that is nearly worthless and turns it into something perceived to have value.
Then, Mr. “I think I found your gold penny,” the message said. Late this summer, when Ms. She traced Mr. Ms. Do Art Buyers Care How Art Is Created? Over the past few weeks, while trying to find some direction for my art career, I’ve been pondering this question: Do buyers care how my art is created? To answer this question I should probably first identify “who” these buyers are, and more importantly, what they’re buying the art for. In my case, I’m assuming they are people who purchase the art for personal use (i.e., for their own home, or as a gift for someone else’s home), or perhaps business owners who wish to display the artwork in their place of business. Obviously these aren’t the only people to consider when selling art. . . there are also gallery owners, art licensing dealers, manufacturers etc., etc.
But essentially it ALL comes back to the final resting place of the artwork—which in my opinion must fall into one of the two groups above. So if there is a “final destination” or “group of people” the artwork is essentially created for, do these people actually care how that piece of artwork was created? Is it working for you?
How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) - Austin Kleon. Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 Buy the book: Amazon | B&N | More… Here’s what a few folks have said about it: “Brilliant and real and true.” —Rosanne Cash“Filled with well-formed advice that applies to nearly any kind of work.” —Lifehacker.com“Immersing yourself in Steal Like An Artist is as fine an investment in the life of your mind as you can hope to make.” —The Atlantic Read an excerpt below… Tags: steal like an artist. Getting Over The Am I Lucky Syndrome - Ancient Artist: Developing an art career after 50.
I was having a nice visit with a friend of mine. She's a fiction writer, and we like to commiserate - how's the book coming, how was your last show, that sort of thing. As she was preparing to leave she said something that left me hanging: " Well, you know we're just doing it for the internal satisfaction... " with her unspoken addendum being "because the market doesn't value what we do.
" What she seemed to be saying - and what I seemed to be accepting - was an idea that isn't true: that doing it for internal satisfaction is somehow settling for less than what we should be settling for. I mean, isn't that the ultimate justification for not achieving your goals - I do it because I get some intrinsic value? As uncomfortable as it is, our society reinforces the belief that value in creative work comes from external acceptance and reward. I've decided to call this way of thinking the Am I Lucky Syndrome. And yet, after decades of "painting prolifically and selling sporadically," Mr.
The Proust Questionnaire. The Proust Questionnaire is a self-discovery tool that can help you to define your tastes and your personality. As an artist, it coud help you in various ways: find subjects you like, make your artist statement more personal, get ready for future interviews and even help you shape the business side of your art practice. Marcel Proust was a French novelist best known for his series of novels “À la recherche du temps perdu” (In Search of Lost Time), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. The Proust Questionnaire was made famous (and therefore get its name) to the responses given by Marcel Proust. He actually answered the questions several times during his life. The questionnaire will be more useful if, after answering each question, you also ask yourself: “Why?” Be honest with yourself. You don’t have to share the answers with anyone if you don’t want to.
Here are the questions. Your most marked characteristic? The quality you most like in a man? The quality you most like in a woman? PersonalNote. Did you know on an average week I may be approached by as many as 20-35 artists looking for gallery representation? Most of them are ineffective. Are you making the same mistakes they are? Before I explain, let me introduce myself. My name is Jason Horejs. I have owned Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona for more than eight years. In August I publishied my new book, "Starving" to Successful | The Artist's Guide to Getting into Galleries and Selling More Art. This book comes from my experiences with artists. That lack of information leads to these blunders: Mistake #1: Presenting an inconsistent body of work. Artists generally love their freedom. Often I feel I am looking at the work of multiple artists as I review a single portfolio.
If you work in several media and a variety of styles, focus on just one for the next 6-12 months. You can further create consistency by presenting the work in a consistent way. Don’t confuse the galleries you approach with multiple styles in your portfolio. Random Art Prompt Generator. How to Say “NO” to Distractions.
Preparation is everything! As the Boy Scouts say, “Be Prepared.” When I have an art project to do, I put myself through a NASA-like preparation period to get things moving. Maybe it’s because I am an ADHD sort, but I need that prep time to really get serious and focused about my work. You see, if there is a phone call, or a dinner call, or a floating anxiety, it can derail the whole process, and the mission becomes a flop. As a result, I’ve learned some tricks that help me focus during crunch time, and keep other people from interrupting my flow.
Here’s what works for me: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. This works whether the task is cooking a meal, getting prepared for an important business meeting, or even finishing a big art project. Is this overkill? For example, all my life I have found telephones to be a bane of productivity. Whether or not a phone call is important, if the topic is something completely different from what I should be focused on that day, then it has no place in my schedule. Who pays for the news media? It's easy to act as though the news media is something that is done to us. Some alien force, projected onto all of us, pushed out by them. Of course, that's not true. It's something we buy, something we pay for. We're paying for superficial analyses, talking points, shouting heads, *****gate of the moment, herd journalism and silly local urgencies instead of important international trends. We're paying for fast instead of good. We might pay with a dollar at the newsstand, but we're probably paying with our attention, with attention that is turned into ad sales.
Too often, we fail to stop and say, "Wait, I paid for that? " Almost everything else we buy is of far higher quality than it was twenty years ago. As the number of outlets and channels has exploded, media companies have faced a choice. I fear that the race to the bottom will continue, but it's hard to see how anyone could be happy winning it. Their civic obligations aside, it's up to us to decide what to buy. How to Say “NO” to Distractions.