Archive for September, 2008
Friday Inspiration - Women in Art
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 like they are alive and moving [...]
Posted: September 26th, 2008 under Inspiration.
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Afremov Selling Art Like Crazy!
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.
Israeli born, Afremov creates unique landscapes, cityscapes and figures using a palette knife rather than a brush to paint. His paintings are vivid and [...]
Posted: September 25th, 2008 under Art Marketing, Sell Art Online.
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Who’s Still Buying Art?
Well some people are despite the current economic melt down.
Art is a luxury item, so of course the majority of people will rein in their spending of luxury goods as the stream of bad news on the economy continues.
However “people with money, always have money”, so says Dick Harrison in his excellent Podcast When the [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2008 under Art Marketing, Build the Brand, Sell Art Online.
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The Subtle Sell of Social Media
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 the fact that viewers go to YouTube to [...]
Posted: September 23rd, 2008 under Art Marketing, Sell Art Online.
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Small Art Shows for Big Profits
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 one painting, however after the exhibition [...]
Posted: September 22nd, 2008 under Art Career, Art Marketing.
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YouTube to Market and Sell Your Art - Jason Baalman Style
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 discovered YouTube as the best way [...]
Posted: September 19th, 2008 under Art Marketing, Artists.
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To Tweet or Not to Tweet, that is Question?
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.
In a post in response to Clint’s article, one artist suggested he [...]
Posted: September 18th, 2008 under Art Marketing.
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