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Painting with WSO I went on to Will Kemp’s Beginners Still LIfe videos with the WSO sample colors. I wanted to see if I could work with them. The Slver Goblet showed good reflections and the Grapes and Green Tomato looked good too, even though the chiaroscuro got away from me. WSO Silver Goblet WSO…
In love with WSO I use to work with regular oil paints. Because of the solvents, the smell, and the mess, and health risks I stopped. It’s been a dozen years since I have painted. One of my good friends suggested that I try water mixable oils instead. My reaction was the normal, ‘But oil…
Negative Space I started revisiting learning to see. When I drew the spaces, the blossoms just sort of emerged. This exercise was good for me Realistic Dimensionality After quite a bit of practice I was able to get a pretty good handle on putting a 3-imensional object onto a 2-dimensional drawing paper. It surprised me…
Looking at the posts so far it seems that they are starting once the work has progressed quite a bit. It’s always good to start at the start! What about learning to draw before we worry about copyrights. In the next series of posts I will share some of my journey. The internet is amazingly…
A watermark is a logo or name that is placed on top of an image. Watermarks credit you as the artist of your image and it is very difficult for anyone to remove/change this. The one most used is the copyright notice, best known as the C symbol (©), plus the year the work was…
There’s no doubt that posting your work online can be risky. At the same time, in this increasingly digital art world, online exposure is often critical to an artist’s success. While nothing is foolproof, there are some measures you can take to help protect your art on the web. Only Publish Small, Low-Resolution Images A small,…
Always Sign Your Name On Your Work This is the first step in protecting your art against copyright violation. Adapt the habit of signing all your works, preferably with the year of completion. You must always sign your artwork once it is finished. You could do it discreetly in a corner, or make you signature…
When I did Corporate Consulting I followed Steven Covey’s principles laid out inhis book: Seven Habits of Highly Successful People. These have now been adapted to helping us artists. 7 Habits of Highly Effective Artists and Creatives https://youtu.be/1tGNkAwrBD0
One NY city gallery wrote about this back in 2017 For the art world, the internet is a lot like the American frontier: full of opportunity and promise – but also a place to be wary. Today, with just a few clicks, you can share your art with a worldwide audience, meet and acquire new collectors and…
You may want to consider this relatively new way of getting paid for your artwork. Pixels.com is one of the distribution channels. This is the way they describe what they offer: Welcome to the largest, fastest-growing art and photography community in the world. Pixels is the premier online marketplace for buying and selling original art,…
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