People who have not had the benefit of formal arts training are often baffled by the effects that a skilled painter can produce. In this article we will review a number of different paint techniques that you can use to create art, decoration, or even just clean, smooth walls. (more…)

Fine Art, Commercial Art, Popular Art

These categorizations of art are blurry at best and often just plain arbitrary. If fine art becomes popular, does it cease to be fine? What about commercial art which has been included in a museum exhibit–is it then fine art? Andy Warhol pretty much invented the idea of popular art (he called it pop art), but in many ways the marketing and mass production of his art was itself a fine art project. Or maybe it was all just a commercial art project

The fact is, artists in this day and age will do well to avoid pigeon-holing themselves into just one category on which they stake their identity. After all, much of the classical art that is now considered to be indisputably in the fine art category was actually created on commission, especially the art sculptures that we all know and love; they were essentially commercial in their time, but were either good enough or popular enough to be treasured over a long period of time.

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It is much more important than you might imagine for an artist to know about website marketing strategies so that you can find a way to make a buck in this world. That is why we have put together a section of the site that will help you understand how to establish your web presence, and to leverage that presence to make money as an artist.