Featured Art: Mademoiselle Pogany – Constantin Brancusi
Constantin Brancusi created many beautiful pieces in his life. Many years ago at the MoMA in Manhattan I met one of them: Mademoiselle Pogany (1913) Bronze with black patina.
It sits like an object of desire and radiates like – …
Big Artist Website Mistake #1: Poor Image Quality
This last article in our “Big Artist Website Mistake” series is short and sweet but also incredibly important to your online marketing success.We believe it to be the most important success/fail factor with any artist’s website.
There’s an old saying …
Big Artist Website Mistake #2: Inconsistent Work
One of the biggest hallmarks of the beginning artist is inconsistent work. Inconsistent style, color schemes, quality, technique, etc. When you think about it this is entirely natural because an artist at this stage of their journey is very much …
Big Artist Website Mistake #3: Distract Your Visitors
In the previous article in this series we discussed the importance of website navigation – in a nutshell how not to let your visitors get lost and frustrated. Today’s topic focuses on not distracting attention away from your art.
Lets …
Featured Art: Wheat Field With Cypresses – Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent is without question my favorite artist of all time. I was asleep to art until I saw his “Portrait Of The Artist, 1889” at the Musee D’Orsay in Paris in 1996. The painting moved with life-force even though it …
Big Artist Website Mistake #4 – Ask Harry Potter!
In one of the earlier Harry Potter films (I think it was “Goblet Of Fire”) there was a competition in which the contestants had to find their way out of a deadly maze. At first the maze looked innocent enough …
Featured Artist: Lee Robinsong
Back in July of this year we received a brief but interesting email. “This is good”, announced the title. I ignored it for a while expecting that it was a sales pitch from yet another internet “entrepreneur”, but eventually I …
Big Artist Website Mistake #5 – Poor Quality Bio
In yesterday’s article we promised you the big-5 list of art website bloopers to avoid at all cost with your artist website. Today we are counting down starting with Mistake #5 – Missing or Poor Quality Bio.
Let me tell …
5 Big Artist Website Mistakes That Don’t Sell Art – Can You Guess?
You might think you have an awesome artist website – but there’s a good chance it suffers from at least one major problem that could seriously limit your career success. Avoid these 5 major mistakes and remove important roadblocks that …
Featured Art: Ascension Of Eve – David Pearson
Wandering through the beautiful galleries on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, NM some years ago I found myself in an enchanting sculpture garden at the Patricia Carlisle Gallery. It was one of those places where you felt that if …