It is great to expose your work on Internet, but you might want to make money as an artist too. There are several sites, wherre you can join the artists community, shocase your work and offer it for sale. To find such sites Google something like "buy art online", but here are links to some best known:
To get more about online commercial galleries and building a professional career as an artist, try some of folowing books:
Find out how I present my fine art in online commercial galleries.
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Documentary Videos about your Art
Since we can produce HD videos already with most mobile phones, not to mention low cost cameras, it is a very good idea to record any of your exhibition, interview, lecture, etc. and make it available on the Internet. Use free video sharing sites to publish your documentary, like:
To get more about new media, online video and building a professional career as an artist, try some of following books:
Use new media to expose your work on Saatchi online or Fine Arts Europe and Fine Art America or find more about the way how you can insert youTube videos on your web site.
To get more about new media, online video and building a professional career as an artist, try some of following books:
Use new media to expose your work on Saatchi online or Fine Arts Europe and Fine Art America or find more about the way how you can insert youTube videos on your web site.
Internet Art Galleries
As a beginner you don't need to pay for your own web site to build a gallery of your works on the web. There are many free photo sharing web sites available, where you can showcase images of your works, like:
To get more about new media and building a professional career as an artist, try some of folowing books:
Use new media to expose your work on Saatchi online or Fine Arts Europe and Fine Art America or find more about the way I present my fine art in new media.
To get more about new media and building a professional career as an artist, try some of folowing books:
Use new media to expose your work on Saatchi online or Fine Arts Europe and Fine Art America or find more about the way I present my fine art in new media.
Artist blog
Blog is one of so called Internet 2.0 tools, a simple tool to write a public digital diary. It allows adding text, images, video, link, etc. It usually allows readers to add their comments (forum), distribution to RSS feeds and social media, multi-authoring, etc.
Some most popular sites to build your free blog are:
Blogger
Wordpress
Tumblr
To get more about building a professional blog as an artist, try some of folowing books:
You can combine your blog with professional selling services like Saatchi online or Fine Arts Europe and Fine Art America or find more about the way I present my device art in new media.
Some most popular sites to build your free blog are:
Blogger
Wordpress
Tumblr
To get more about building a professional blog as an artist, try some of folowing books:
You can combine your blog with professional selling services like Saatchi online or Fine Arts Europe and Fine Art America or find more about the way I present my device art in new media.
Artists Web Site
As a successful artist you will probably want to build yourself your own web site.
First you will need a domain name, most probably something like NameSurname.com. You can register it with a registrar.
Than you will need a place to host your web pages. It is hosted on a web server, the service by itself is called Web hosting.
Web hosting services often offer many additional applications, but one of most importatnt is CMS (content managing system), which allows you to add and change content of your web site. The other way is to have a software for building HTML sites on your computer and to use FTP to transfer them to the web server.
On your web site you will most probably have pages with:
Web site with your own domain is like a tie on a business meeting - it has no real purpose, but you just need it to look serious. In contrary to social media, blog and other community web activities, web site is a passive presentation. It means it is mostly visited only by people, looking exactly for data about you and your work.
Most likely you will need a professional to start your own web site.
To get more about new media and building a professional web site as an artist, try some of folowing books:
Use new media to expose your work on Saatchi online or Fine Arts Europe and Fine Art America or find more about the way I present my media art instalations in new media.
First you will need a domain name, most probably something like NameSurname.com. You can register it with a registrar.
Than you will need a place to host your web pages. It is hosted on a web server, the service by itself is called Web hosting.
Web hosting services often offer many additional applications, but one of most importatnt is CMS (content managing system), which allows you to add and change content of your web site. The other way is to have a software for building HTML sites on your computer and to use FTP to transfer them to the web server.
On your web site you will most probably have pages with:
- CV
- Artist statement
- List of exhibitions
- Artistic references
- Articles about you
- Articles and lectures by your own
- List of art projects
- Gallery of your works
- Videos about your work
- Contact data
- etc.
Web site with your own domain is like a tie on a business meeting - it has no real purpose, but you just need it to look serious. In contrary to social media, blog and other community web activities, web site is a passive presentation. It means it is mostly visited only by people, looking exactly for data about you and your work.
Most likely you will need a professional to start your own web site.
To get more about new media and building a professional web site as an artist, try some of folowing books:
Use new media to expose your work on Saatchi online or Fine Arts Europe and Fine Art America or find more about the way I present my media art instalations in new media.
About the New Media
We call "New Media" technologies and services, appearing at the turn of Millenium, like:
New media caused a new form of culture and have strong influence on "traditional" media like:
But also has strong influence on the way we think and communicate.
To get more about new media and building a professional career as an artist, try some of folowing books:
Use new media to expose your work on Saatchi online or Fine Arts Europe and Fine Art America or find more about the way I present my fine art in new media.
- User interface
- Multimedia
- Web sites
- Interactive instalations
- Computer games
- Virtual worlds
- Virtual reality
- Computer animation
- Digital video
- Smart phones and tablets
- etc.
New media caused a new form of culture and have strong influence on "traditional" media like:
- Photography
- Movie
- Painting and fine arts
- Sculpture
- Music
- Theatre
But also has strong influence on the way we think and communicate.
To get more about new media and building a professional career as an artist, try some of folowing books:
Use new media to expose your work on Saatchi online or Fine Arts Europe and Fine Art America or find more about the way I present my fine art in new media.
Monday, 21 October 2013
How to handle Rejection
Most stories about successful careers are stories about extreme persistence. The more bulletproof on defeat, a better chance to succeed!
Don't expect every your efford will result. In contrary: it is possible only 1% of your effords will result in an exhibition, sale, article or any other goal you want to achieve. It is very usuall only 3-5% of your applications or requests will be answered and only half of them in your behalf. Keep knocking and it will open once - that and hard work is the secret of success.
To get more about building a professional career as an artist, try some of folowing books:
Expose your work on Saatchi online or Fine Arts Europe and Fine Art America or find more about the way I present my net.art projects.
Don't expect every your efford will result. In contrary: it is possible only 1% of your effords will result in an exhibition, sale, article or any other goal you want to achieve. It is very usuall only 3-5% of your applications or requests will be answered and only half of them in your behalf. Keep knocking and it will open once - that and hard work is the secret of success.
To get more about building a professional career as an artist, try some of folowing books:
Expose your work on Saatchi online or Fine Arts Europe and Fine Art America or find more about the way I present my net.art projects.
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