Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, Pablo Picasso was without question one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. Together with Georges Braque, he also created Cubism. But what of the real person behind the man?

This weeks featured artist, Myra Rodriguez, is a photographer. But aside from her technical skill in working with a camera, she has the gift of artistic vision – in her case the ability to capture a story in each image – as if each was embedded with gigabytes of information just waiting to be told.

If you are an artist and you want to be commercially successful, you have to think like a business. Businesses don’t make money by asking customers or partners to feel sorry for them. They get successful by having a vision, a clear achievable plan, investing in it and executing it.

In my dream, the artist explained that she had been in discussions with a major gallery to have her work represented by them and that the whole process had been going really really well. Until…. she referred to herself as an EMERGING artist. What does it mean?

That’s it – our simple AMS new years resolution for 2010! You can borrow it or take it if you want to – but if you do you have to honor the commitment. When you do everything to the best of your abilities you open the door and graduate to the next steps in your art career and your life.

2009 was a great year for us at Art Marketing Secrets and Beautiful Artist Websites! We launched our gorgeous new website (the one you’re looking at!), researched and wrote a bunch of great new articles on art marketing, selling art, artist websites, and inspiration. And, we heard back from you – your thoughts, creative and commercial dreams, experience, and inspiration! Before we look forward into 2010, here is a roundup of our best and most popular art marketing articles from 2009!

Our Christmas gift to you this holiday season is a special PDF version of our very popular article, “18 Tips To Be The Great Artist Of Your Dreams”. You can download it and pin it on your wall or noticeboard. It’s a reminder of what to focus on to make yourself great in 2010! We hope you enjoy it

One of the great secrets to success, handed down through time from the earliest sages and philosophers, is the power of three. It is one of those “magic” numbers that we can naturally focus on with ease. Three can help you build success with your art career too!

People can sense authenticity a mile away. It is such a powerful thing to see the work of a person who is truly aligned in their purpose and efforts. Like a big electromagnet it can attract exactly the right people who will love and purchase your work – if that is your dream.

Along the seven rivers of the rugged Australian Kimberley Ranges enigmatic rock paintings bear witness of an advanced civilization that existed long before the ancient cave paintings of Europe, long before man is believed to have acquired the intellect of expressing concepts in art.