Top 10 Mistakes Artists Make When Building a Website

Your website should be as energetic as a living breathing thing. There will always be something to add, change or remove. With enough attention, you can turn your website into a marketing machine

How Artists Can Build a Brand

A marketing expert and artist shares his expertise with fellow creatives who want to make a brand presence.

Copyright Wars: How Big Box Store Theft Culture Hurts Artists

Guest blogger Emily Danchuk is an intellectual property attorney and founder of Copyright Collaborative, a web-based subscription program designed to educate, empower and unionize artists across the country in the fight against intellectual property theft.   I think it’s safe to say that the word “infringement” conjures up visions of Chinese factories and dusty marketplaces in […]

How to Become a Successful Freelance Artist

Successful artist and guest author Noah Bradley shares tips for artists who want to sell their work as freelancers. 

Thriving as an Artist in Mid-Life

Rhonda Schaller, author of  Create Your Art Career shares wisdom for getting centered and creating a vision in mid-life.

An Artist’s Life in Italy

Being a plein air painter is special: it allows me the opportunity to interact with people every day while I’m out working and to really learn about a place. Italians love to stop and talk and to answer my questions about the place where I am working.

How Natasha Wescoat Rocked Her Online Art Sales

A well-rounded web presence is an essential part of your art business and brand if you want to sell online.

Art Publishing: Everything has Changed, Nothing has Changed

The challenge of art publishing is to keep up with the methods of distribution to get that art from you, the artist, to the end user who acquires your creation and grows to love it.

Are You Afraid of Success?

There is a lot of talk about the fear of failure, but what if you aren’t afraid to fail? What about being afraid of succeeding?

Creating a Jewelry Collection

By doing an actual planned and designed collection, I feel I can tell a better story about me, and about my work, and speak more directly to my target market.

The Truth About Art Publishing

The average life span of an image in the marketplace is much shorter than it was in the distant 20th Century.

An Artist’s View of Art Publishing – Part 2

As an artist, you are free to pursue your craft in the manner of your choosing. But the business side of the art world is no different than many others – timing plays a big part in things.

An Artist’s View of Art Publishing – Part 1

As long as you go into art publishing with clear expectations, I don’t think you will be disappointed with your experience, especially if you work with a top art publisher.

Perseverance and Results

Every time I felt like giving up because I came away from a show where I sold nothing, it made me dig deeper and become more resilient.