Art Collectors – What do they really want?

You are a hunter. You didn’t know it, but you are. As an artist you are hunting elusive and rare game called the ‘Art Collector’. Mostly solitary creatures, roaming the plains of the art gallery establishment they need very tasty bait if you want them to come out of hiding, cheque books in hand.

If you manage to snag enough of these collectors with your tasty wares then there is the potential for more of them to head your way, demanding all the  morsels you can feed them. But, as an artist, do you have enough fresh carcasses in the cupboard?

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Art Agents for Early Career Artists – Good or Evil?

Year ago when I first took the plunge into the professional art world I started out creating screen prints in runs of up to 100 at a time with home-made equipment in my Garage.

I figured it would make sense to be able to distribute my wonderful works as widely as possible, and what better way than producing a ton of copies and then selling them to eager buyers.

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Art Tutoring – 10 tips for supporting your art career by teaching art

The income of a professional visual artist can be a roller-coaster ride of financial highs and lows, and knowing this, many artists naturally turn to teaching art in order to bring in some bread and butter income.

I myself have taken this path in the past, and along with my Wife we ran the largest private art tuition program in our local shire for about 5 years.

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Creating Mini Art Prints for fun and profit

You’ve created a brilliant artwork.

All your friends want it but of course they don’t want to part with the vast sums of money required to prise this gleaming jewel of paint and canvas from your hot little hands.

They ask “is there a print available?”

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Procrastination – how to overcome it

Life is so busy. There are so many distractions. So many things to keep your eye off the ball. It’s almost a full time job being an administrator of your own life.

Everybody has their hand out wanting money. Bills keep coming in. Friends demand be Facebooked, MSN’ed, Twittered.

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