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Surprise and delight…that’s what I felt seeing the unveiling of the sculpture of supermodel Kate Moss at the British Museum by sculptor Mark Quinn...

Photo by Davic What to choose….? The ideal, I think, is probably both.  A blog for posting artwork as it becomes available for sale, or showing work in progress, and an art website for displaying your art professionally and coherently...

I know it may seem like I’ve become a YouTube junkie, due to the amount of video’s I’ve posted in recent blog posts, but this clever video by Phillip Scott Johnson is simply a treat to watch.   The faces of women in art morph in and out of each other in skillful transistions that seem...

Well some people are despite the current economic melt down...

If you want to sell your art you’ve got to look at who’s selling a lot of art and work out their ’secrets’, then use your findings for your own art practise...

Since my post about how artist Jason Baalman uses YouTube to promote and sell his art, I’ve been pondering over the interesting concepts of how the Subtle Sell is the key with Social Media.  On the WetCanvas forum, when queried why he didn’t have a very obvious sales pitch, Jason discussed...

Just wanted to throw into the ‘How to Sell Your Art’ mix a recent experience of an Artist friend of mine.  She exhibited three paintings at a local RNLI (lifeboat charity) exhibition recently, that was held during a local festival for two days only + an opening evening.  From this she sold...

I first stumbled across the artist Jason Baalman via the Wetcanvas Forum as he did a post about Being successful on eBay…year long study and I found him to be very informative in his analysis of what worked and what didn’t work with selling art on eBay.    However since then he has...

Not posted in quite some time…been extremely busy dealing with another priority but I read a great post on Clint Watson’s blog about artists using  Twitter entitled ‘A Spectacular Way to Avoid Doing What Really Matters’ , and it re-energised me to get blogging again...

As promised, for anyone not already familiar with forums, here’s a run down on how to get started using the Artdomain Art Forum...

Great news for artists and all those who appreciate art….we have officially launched the Artdomain.co.uk Art Forum. Forums are excellent for artists to connect with other artists, share ideas and thoughts, have their work critiqued, and promote their art via links & forum signatures...

I read an excellent blog post by Clint Watson called ‘Why You Don’t Need a Business Card’ in which he describes a better solution to business cards for artists.  Clint discusses the fact that business cards are often exchanged but further contact is rarely maintained.  To change...

It’s exciting isn’t it?….You’ve decided you want a personal web site to display your art.  You want to rush in and get started.  All you need to do is hire a web designer and……STOP!   Slow down there….take deep breaths.  Before rushing in head first into a web design project,...

Nottingham born artist Debra Ball has been living on Shetland for the past 16 years.  She finds pleasure in the quiet surroundings of island life, and can engross herself in her work, without the distractions of a city environment.  Her work is a mixture of Shetland scenes painted in oils with...

In this last article on Artists and Google AdWords I want to give you 5 secrets to help you be more successful with Google AdWords :- Split Test Your Ads One important tactic is to constantly have two adverts running per Ad Group, which is called ’split-testing’.  These adverts don’t...

In my first article ‘Google AdWords to Promote your Art’ I looked at why you may want to use Google AdWords to promote your art to a larger audience.  In this second article, I will walk you through how to get started with AdWords, choose your keywords, bid on those keywords, and set...

If you have ever wanted to get better search engine results for your art on the web you may have considered using Google AdWords. These are the paid for search results that show on the right hand side of the results page of any search you do on Google.  They can also appear at the top of the...

Don’t restrict yourself to selling your art at only one location i.e...

I got an email the other day from a Facebook ‘friend’ with the message simply “becum a fan”.  Now for those of you not initiated into the Facebook world, what this means is ‘I have a Facebook page about my art and would you like to join as a ‘Fan’ and be updated regularly on my...

Everyone loves Free Stuff - but the reality is that while the best things in life may be free…this does not genearally include artists websites.  We are all getting used to being able to post pictures of our art for free all over the Internet on huge web services like Facebook, Myspace,...

In my blog post yesterday I was discussing artist Amanda Bittar’s use of video to promote her art work.  I commented about her use of her logo - the initials of her name - at the beginning of her films.  She also uses her logo to brand her website.  It got me thinking how professional...

I’ve been looking at techniques that artists use to sell and promote their art online.  My findings are that Artists who are achieving a high profile online are consistently turning to video to reach a huge audience...

If you would like to have Paypal Buy Now buttons beside your Art, to allow buyers to click to purchase, then this walk through should help you set it up.  Click HERE if you want to see an example of what they look like beside artwork...

I’ve just finished an art video for Ayrshire artist David Croft-Smith, which I wanted to show off : http://www.artdomain.co.uk/painter/dcsmith/dcsmith.htm David’s art is so bold and modern, and when displayed in a room context, the viewer can really appreciate the impact that a piece of...

An artist can have great work, but if your work is poorly photographed and put online un-edited, it will never look ‘great’ on the web.  You know yourself that the images that catch your eye on the web are the crisply photographed and neatly squared up images rather than the out of focus,...

West Midlands artist, Sharon Ellis Hughes, takes inspiration for her paintings from her long walks with her companion and four legged friend Ben.  Studying and sketching wild flowers, animals and their environment, Sharon combines her wonderful imagery with her imagination and produces compelling...

I read a fantastic post the other day on Empty Easel’s blog called ‘The SEO Mindset for Artists: Are you ready for a long haul?‘ Basically it discusses that when you are implementing search engine optimisation tactics on your blog or website, you have to have a ‘long haul’ mindset. ...