Siyeh Glass in Atlanta, Georgia came up with a concept that made them one of the most popular destinations in their city.
Featured Artist Kara Rane
Kara Rane is an artist working in a variety of materials and media. From oil paintings, to sculptures, to large scale installations on glass, each project is contextual, unique.
Interview with Greeting Card Designer Kate Harper
The good news, from my observation, is that the Handmade and alternative card business is doing OK and I’ve had a rep confirm this recently.
Featured Artist Jonathan Lara
What each painting does have in common is the use of vibrant and bold colors. Everything I create I try and make unlike any other artist. I don’t like to follow rules and do anything normal.
How to Generate Buzz for Your Next Studio Event
Are you planning an open studio for the holiday season, and want to draw a crowd?
Featured Artist Michelle Hunter
Her current Brain Series deconstructs familiar themes related to how our brains function. This Series presents opportunities for scientific learning and conceptual visual challenges.
How to Work with Sales Reps
The biggest frustration that I hear from the sales reps that I mentor, is that the old strategies aren’t working anymore.
Featured Artist Rain Longson
With my style being ‘photorealism / hyper-realism’, some folks have thought that my art was a photograph until a close examination shows the brush strokes. I even use a magnifying glass to work on the mouth and eyes of all my subjects and some noses.
Starting Your Career as an Artist
A new book by Wojak and Miller has lots of information for those looking to begin or enhance their art careers.
Featured Artist Jan Crooker
My work has always been about using color. My drawings were in colored pencil and my clay was in colored porcelain, but nothing feels as great as paint. I want to catch the highest moment of brightness and contrast when life seems most intense.
Featured Artist Cheri Halsema
In my art I try to communicate the emotions I feel from the subject matter – to share something of beauty with the viewer. I feel that there is need for me to create, that I want to capture the amazing feeling of the scene before me.
4 Things Artists Can Learn from Their Day Jobs
Even if you don’t love your day job, you can take a few tips from how you work there and use them in your own business as an artist.
Featured Artist Andy Frost
Sometimes a painting is finished quite effortlessly. Others take time, needing to be solved. I hang those on the studio wall for sometimes months and we have a silent dialogue. Well, sometimes it is a lively and not so silent monologue that I have. I wait and listen for the painting to speak to me in its own language.
Featured Artist Deborah Sherman
I have often visited Europe to paint and view the art of the past. Recently I received a grant to fund an artist’s residency at La Macina di San Cresci in Chianti, Italy.
