I love art and art materials, and I know you do too. That’s why I created a website for people who are passionate about art. Here you can find the best How-To articles, information and buyer guides on all kinds of art and art supplies to help artists like you.
I started selling my own art back in the 90’s, before there was any Instagram, before there was Google, before there was even the internet. All we had, were the gatekeepers running galleries and shady art dealers controlling which artists sell what. The ability to make money as an artist was very limited. There was…
How to erase Posca Markers on Most Surfaces – Having used Uni Posca Markers (also known as Posca Paint Pens) at home and in the studio for many years, and letting my 6 year old play with them I can tell you that I have had a lot of experience cleaning up after using them…
Make your art stand out on Instagram. Popular art hashtags help with discoverability on Instagram. Learn which 30 top art hashtags to use on Instagram plus we go deep into each one. This article was going to be originally be called “What are the 30 best art hashtags to use on Instagram”. I bet you…
This applies to most social media platforms including YouTube and I would exclude Facebook as it is not designed for organic growth. It seems so simple yet we see over and over people making the same mistakes. All that effort going to waste when you could be using that time to push out better content.…
To make art more powerful, an artist needs to tell a relatable and personable story that art lovers and collectors can relate to. The more incredible and real the story, the more powerful the art that is produced to tell it, will be. Keep reading if you want to learn what you need to do…
Can you sell fan art and not get sued? Selling any fanart including fan art commissions of copyright characters illegal is illegal if you do not have written permission from the copyright holder. In some cases you can use the doctrine of Fair Use if your fan art is highly transformative. So selling fan art…
The answer to the question “how to tell a real lithograph from a print?” assumes you mean a mechanical print versus an artists’ hand-made lithograph print. This requires some magnification of the image because a lithographic ‘plate’ which is used to create the printed image is usually hand-made by an artist. Under magnification you can…
Making art prints at Staples means you are using office printers instead of art or museum quality printers (e.g. Giclee printing). Office printing, such as what you would get when you are making art prints at Staples; are not high quality art prints but you can come close with the information in this article. If…
As a collector of art prints and as an artist who produces my own art prints for sale, I am personally on the fence about this question, many times I have wanted to buy a print and I ask myself “are art prints worth anything”? There are many reasons as to why art prints can…
