When artists can balance the art with commerce and begin with nothing but talent, courage, drive and a dream – I study and learn from them.
Featured Artist Wen Redmond
Wen enjoys exploring her medium, expanding its perception, and pushing boundaries to see “what if?”
How to Engage Your Art Website Visitors
Present your work at its best by using professionally taken photographs. After all, you work hard to create your art. Don’t you deserve this?
Featured Artist Gretchen Deahl
I work primarily in ink, pencil, and watercolor, using Photoshop for technical assistance. Children’s illustrations, including a world of whimsical monsters comprise much of my recent work.
Building Value in American Handmade Fine Craft
What can artists and craftspeople do today to both build value and express the value of what they love to make?
Featured Artist Mark Rosenbaum
I don’t keep a formal sketchbook as some artists do. Instead, I do my “sketching” and prep work in front of a 2000 degree furnace.
Featured Artist Holly Friesen
Often as I work vivid dream images arise and replace my rational, thinking brain with sensations and feelings that are experienced physically in my body.
How Artists Can Build a Brand
A marketing expert and artist shares his expertise with fellow creatives who want to make a brand presence.
Featured Artist Marta Spendowska
My hope and goal is to move you, inspire you by the pure allure of the person’s story behind the painting and the magnificent nature of watercolor.
Copyright Wars: How Big Box Store Theft Culture Hurts Artists
Guest blogger Emily Danchuk is an intellectual property attorney and founder of Copyright Collaborative, a web-based subscription program designed to educate, empower and unionize artists across the country in the fight against intellectual property theft. I think it’s safe to say that the word “infringement” conjures up visions of Chinese factories and dusty marketplaces in […]
Featured Artist Sally Smith
I find satisfaction in resolving certain engineering challenges such as how to make fully functional doors from tiny twigs or ‘stained-glass’ windows from Dragonfly or Butterfly wings.
How to Become a Successful Freelance Artist
Successful artist and guest author Noah Bradley shares tips for artists who want to sell their work as freelancers.
Featured Artist William Barnhart
I strive to unravel and engage the viewer in universal truths that transcend the boundaries of social class, politics, nationalities, religion, and even time itself.
Featured Artist Kathy King
The signature component of my designs is my bead quilled work.
