This post is by guest author, Suzanne DeCuir, and is an excerpt that has been lifted from FineArtViews.com. I read with interest the range of opinions about what to say and what not to say about one’s work.  I’ve concluded that the decision you make depends upon

Here’s a mini-article from artheals.libsyn.com and link to a great podcast by Alyson Stanfield, who I have featured here before. I know you’ll enjoy the podcast if you are at all interested in selling your work. Alyson knows her stuff. As the founder of ArtBizCoach.com,

This is a post excerpt from a fantastic blog, the Art of Non-Conformity at chrisguillebeau.com. I just loved it, and thought as an artist or someone who loves art, you’d appreciate it. Here it is (read the rest HERE.) Something’s been bothering me lately, and judging from

One day last month, a friend of mine sent out an email from Bangkok. He was on his way elsewhere, and wanted to include thanks and farewells to some of his friends in Bali, one of whom was Elsha, this month’s Featured Artist. Above left: Barbie Spellbinder – Code Blue (Barbie

Stone carving by New Zealand Stone Sculptor, Jocelyn Pratt This post by SubmitYourArticle.com’s Steve Shaw will interest you if you want to get local publicity the soft-sell way. This article teaches you the RIGHT way to do local business article marketing. I’m so pleased

I get the FineArtStudioOnline.com newsletter. There are always some great articles in it, and I thought you’d be interested in this one from today by artist-blogger, Moshe Milanovsky. The first link below will take you to the article on FineArtStudioOnline.com – I recommend

Sculptor Geoffrey Gorman is so busy these days that he can hardly keep up with the demand from collectors for his sculpture. Wouldn’t you just love to have people say that about you? How does he do it? I thought you’d be interested to see, so you could take some ideas home

Today’s Post is by Lori Woodward, from the newsletter FineArtViews. Lori is a regular contributing writer for FineArtViews. Find out how you can be a guest author on FineArtViews. She is also a contributing editor for American Artist’s Watercolor and Workshop magazines,

Alyson B. Stanfield was a museum curator for a number of years, so she has quite a background in the making, presenting and marketing of art. She also worked in a surprising place you’d never think anyone in the arts would work – you’ll hear about that, and how it affected

I was doing some research on soapstone this week, and came across this series of entries on wikipedia.com. I lifted almost the entire thing – read the rest here. Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a metamorphic rock, a talc-schist. It is largely composed of

Here’s a little info from the http://globalstoneworkshop.com page I saw this morning. This looks really awesome – go all over the world and carve in different countries’ stone! Both images below © Global Workshops. You can see way more on their site. GLOBAL STONE

By art publisher and marketing expert B. Eric Rhoads This is an article I recently read on Eric Rhoads’ blog. Click here to go to his site, although you can read the article right here as well, including all his links. He is a highly respected artist, art expert and publisher

Other artists ask me all the time for tips on how to market their work. There’s no set secrets, believe me! Here are the Big Two, as far as I’ve seen: 1. The unbending intention to get your work out there because you know it has value and serves your market well, and 2.

Recently, an old friend emailed me and told me she wanted to rep my work, but wanted to be able to go to a site where she could ONLY see recent works. She told me it was way too confusing to her clients to sit there and say, this is sold, this one is available. That’s OK –

If you’re one of those artists who say, “don’t tell me I have to market my work, I just make it,” you’ll really appreciate the solutions for easier marketing in this note today. That actually goes for you health, biz and energy coaches and practitioners,