Artdomain Art Marketing Blog

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. 

 I’ve just finished an art video for Ayrshire artist David Croft-Smith, that I wanted to show off :

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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 David’s art would have on a living space.

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, dark, uncropped, crazy wallpaper [...]

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 naive-like paintings.

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.  You need to work at it consistently for [...]

When I first saw Belen Sambucety’s art work I was impressed with her handling of composition and colour.  As you look closer you see the loose brush strokes that build up the bright colours in her paintings.  She creates strong compositions by her use of shapes united by one dominant colour.

Hands up those of you who have a mailing list where people can subscribe to receive regular info from you on your art?
Hands up those of you who don’t?
Active mailing lists are a very under used marketing tool by artists.  By keeping in touch with people who have either already bought a piece of your art, or who [...]

In my last blog post I discussed email signatures and mentioned the importance of building your ‘brand’ (you and your art). Today I want to bring up the subject of Domain Names.
Why is it important that you get a domain name for your art?  Well, this all connects up with building the brand and reflecting professionalism.  If you [...]

This blog post is about self-promotion and how few artists do this simple step to self-promote.  Now I know artists don’t like to blow their own trumpet…too crude, but so many artists miss opportunities to remind people that they are artists, that they have a place where you can view their art, and what kind of [...]

After spending quite a bit of time looking around Facebook I began to notice that artists who produced videos of their art got more comments and had their work visible on groups a lot longer than artists simply posting pictures of their art.