Explore, Practice & Excel as a Self-Taught Artisan

 

Excel in Arts as self-taught artist. 

Lot of new artists, or those who are trying out their artistic skills, asks for guidance. Most of them say, that they don't have any education in art (an excuse for their poor quality of work), and feel, that it's a big hindrance in their progress. They generally want to know, how to improve their work. They are just ignorant how to go about it. I understand their plight, as I myself am a self-taught artist and painting for less than one and half years. From my own experience I can clearly understand what they are going through. 

Sometimes it is really difficult to answer their queries in short. These people are usually looking for instant formulas to jump up to a master's level. But there are no short cuts to be successful in art or to improve your quality of work with the twist of a magic wand. Sometimes the questions are really silly. But I appreciate that they ask. Asking, increases knowledge. 

To help, assist aspiring artists, here with this article, I'll try to tackle the issues of improving quality of your work and progress with every new piece of art you create and overcome short-comings of not having a degree in art. 

I always tell people to make more and more art. Practice… practice and practice. This is the only way to improve your skills. But along with making more and more art and practicing, you need to study as well. As you need to paint and create with a sense of direction. 

   

Have a proper plan for your work in your head before starting off on the canvas. Though the visual, style, technique or treatment might change as the work progresses, as the brain is very imaginative and keeps working, thinking and flashing new ideas and images in front of you, and you think it will look even better. Never mind. The end result may be better than the one you had thought. Your work must have right path and progression. Learning is necessary to improve your skills and avoid incorrect practices. It's important to keep a check and correct your mistakes in time, so that they do not become habits in long run. Without proper knowledge or guidance, you will keep on repeating the same mistakes. You cannot succeed by ignoring learning and just by picking up a brush and start painting. And it can be achieved too, even if you missed going to an art college and didn't earn a degree. 

We are fortunate to be born in this era of digital media, where a whole lot of study material is available on internet. Knowledge is scattered all around us. We should simply reach out and grasp it. Read books, blogs, articles, watch instructional videos and study works of other artists. We have a whole lot of great artists and master painters, who never went to art schools and or even started painting after the age of 70 and still succeeded. (Mind it they didn't have internet or even computers). The simple formula behind their success was learning, knowledge and proper direction. 

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It is equally important to devote sufficient time to study various aspects of painting, besides just picking up the brush and colouring the paper or canvas. Explore various possibilities of different media, tools and techniques. Study works of great artists. Know the material available in the market and how best you can bring it to your advantage. Find out things that can add a different style or effect to enhance the looks of your works. 

Experiment how your drawing or painting effects can be enhanced by preparing, modifying or changing the surface you are working on. Possibly you can add some texture to the surface- soft or wild, depending on the subject and make your work look more appealing. This you can do with texture white, crumpled paper, using cement or anything you can think of. May be or simply scratch the surface of the paper with your nails or with some pointed objects. Change the way you use your paints by diluting, thickening, throwing, splashing, spraying, and blowing and/or by adding some other medium or material, adding it texture, making it grainy, luminous, dull etc. Understand your tool. Handle it in a different way to see, if you can achieve different effects. Look around your place, for things that can be helpful for you to paint or create some new effects. Drawing and painting is not limited to pencils, brushes or spatulas. Learn about uses of various mediums like fixative, varnishes, gels, etc. for preserving and making your work archival and their effects on the paints used. Give proper thought to the presentation part. Appropriate mounting and choice of right frame can enhance the beauty of your works. 

Exploring knowledge on History of Art, origins of various schools (styles) goes a long way in enhancing your art. A tall building can only be elevated on a strong foundation. 

   

Being a self-taught artist, you have the liberty to choose to paint in the style you wish to. But you must give a direction to your style. Don't let the monotony take over single minded subject or technique. Don't enter a comfort zone. Experiment till you develop your own unique style. Over time you will discover that you are really good at some particular medium, style, and tool or technique. The tools and the material obey your mind and hands. Regular practice and command over it will make you a brand in future. Just painting, probably you will be producing more work. But by painting and simultaneously exploring knowledge, you will be producing quality work. 

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How to Sell Arts Paintings Successfully? Part III (Final)

 In the earlier 2 parts of Blog - How to Sell Arts Successfully? Artist Sonjaye Maurya shared that the emerging artist should have not just a couple of paintings and initiate selling but should paint more paintings before planning to sell them. Another important fact to be considered is to Not paint to sell but paint with all the emotions and heart out. He also suggested the artist should not only tap various offline galleries and exhibitions but also online sites. Below are the 2 links to know have detailed info of earlier parts of Blog: 

1) How to Sell Arts Successfully? Part I & 2) How to Sell Arts Successfully? Part II 

Now the concluding part: 

 Once you have a portfolio with you, plan to promote it. Set out to get your Art Seen. It helps to set goals of where you want to be in a few years’ time. It is said that a piece of art is your own voice. Do take your own liberty to express yourself. But be little considerate too, in order to make a sale of your art. This means your work should have a mass appeal - a style, a subject liked by many. Your work must have a subject, a theme, to which, people can relate themselves easily to. If you are not selling, and funds are what is needed to continually produce and promote art, some changes may have to be made. Look for general trends in the art world, and find out what people are buying and writing about. 

Write regularly, about the artworks you are working on currently. Create an Art blog and start blogging about random thoughts, processes, and works in progress. Whether it is a certain concept, subject, or theme, an art buyer will appreciate the piece more if they can know what it means, and why you created it. Have some of this conveyed through your artwork title, but try to enlighten an art buyer with a summary of what inspired you, so that they can easily explain it to others who will ask questions. Have a website to sell your artworks. It’s the most promising tool for selling in today’s digital age. If you cannot make a website on your own, spend some amount to hire help to create it for you. 

Pricing your work entirely depends on what stage you are in your art career. Add value to your work. Good presentation, framing of reasonably good size enhances your artwork. Smaller is better. 

A lot of artist (including myself) want to make big painting, sometimes of a gigantic proportion. It’s a fantasy of every artist. But you have to think of practicality too. Maybe a big size painting allows you to give ease with big brush stroke to flow or your style of giving finer details comes through better. But small size paintings are affordable. They can be easily framed and hanged anywhere. Easy to transport or ship. High end art is only for an exclusive few. 

Look at the prices of other artists in your stage of artistic development. Visit art galleries or search for prices online. Explain your prices in practical language to anyone who asks, and never base it on emotions. For example, tell them your painting took certain amount of time to create along with cost of materials involved, instead of saying you price it higher because it has personal meaning. Unless they know you, they will not understand the significance of your personal attachment to the painting. If you can convey that the artwork has a certain tangible value related to the time spent, artistic skill success, cost of materials, etc., the art buyer is more likely to buy the artwork. 

 

When a person views an artwork, they often want to buy it because they see something in it that relates to them. They have an emotional reaction to the piece, which stirs them to want to buy it. There are a lot of things that contribute to the value of an artwork. How it is presented, where it is showcased, all helps to increase the perceived value. An artwork displayed in a gallery would certainly appear more valuable than one in a coffee shop. That is not to say you should not display in a coffee shop, especially if you are an emerging artist. It is effective for name recognition. 

 

  ⮜⎯⎯⎯⎯ Tanjore Paintings 

Look for what sells. If you are residing or operating from a particular area (and not in metro or cosmopolitan cities) which has a peculiar taste, culture adopt it in your art form. Say Tanjore in south India, or use of vibrant colors in central India. 

Folk, religious and mythological subjects in north India.  

Folk Paintings  ⎯⎯⎯⎯⮞    

 

Bestselling subjects in Indian scenario are landscapes, seascapes, beach scenes, harbor, animals, birds, flowers, abstract, semi-abstract, impressionistic landscapes, modern art. 

 

 

Happy Selling....!                                    

                                                                                 - www.Artzyme.com/blog

How to Sell Arts | Painting Successfully? Part II

 
Art of selling arts. 

Arts selling blog. 

*Continued from earlier article - How to sell arts successfully? 1 

Many new artists approach me after making their first painting giving details of pains they have taken and the time they have spent on creating it.... 
 
For art buyers to reflect on your paintings have an Artist Statement. It should include primary theme of your creations, your artistic goals and ambitions, why you love to paint, draw, sculpt etc. It should also include who your viewers or audience are, who is your art intended for, some artists and styles that have influenced you. 
 
Include Artist Statement with your portfolio. If someone wants to buy your artwork, wants to see some background of you as an artist, then you may present them with your Artist Statement. You may also post it online where you have an artist profile, or on your Facebook page. 
Don’t limit yourself by following other people styles; take it as an influencing factor and rather be your own self. You are unique in your own way. Your style is your voice and is timeless. It will not dissolve or ends like a trend. But will become your recognition. 
People buy what they see. Visual connection is the key element of desire. We need to get art on display. Galleries, art fairs and online portal (like Artzyme) can’t do it alone. People should be able to see your work not only in galleries, but public places, where captive audiences gather. 

Sell your arts 
 
Probably this may not work too. But taking steps is the only path to success. Don’t give up. You’ve dedicated years, money and countless hours into developing your skill. So if you’ve been knocked down, get up and keep moving forward. Why would you give up? Why put all that time, blood, sweat and tears to waste and just throw it all away? A common reason why artists fail is that they get caught up in other aspects of their lives put their artwork on hold and, eventually, the creativity starves and dies. People, who don’t give up, no matter what life throws at them, are more likely to make a name for them in whichever creative vocation they choose. Winner are not those who never fail, but those who never quit. Harder is the conflict, more glorious the triumph. 

                               

Start networking with other artists. Exchange ideas, knowledge and information and learn from them. Knowing people is more important than achieving a college degree. Whom you know is more important in art-world. 
 
There are more possibilities than ever for emerging artists to sell arts. Just browse online (Right price and place for art creations) and you will find hundreds of ways an artist can sell art. But, even though these opportunities are available, you need to explore strategies to use them and make your art visible and saleable. 
 

Make long term plans to sell your artworks. The most important is to have a good portfolio, with a variety of themes, techniques, and styles. Your portfolio must have large enough collection that portrays you as a serious and dedicated artist. 

                         To be Continued - Concluding part in coming week.... 

                                                                                       - www.Artzyme.com/blog

Earn Now 💰 - How To Make and Sell NFT Arts

 💰 How To Make and Sell NFT Arts ? 💰 

Down below, will take you step-by-step through the process of turning your beloved artwork into a newly-minted NFT that will outlive us all on the Ethereum Blockchain. We say Ethereum because, at least for the time being, Ethereum is the prime blockchain for selling and trading NFTs. 

Step 1: Create Some Art 

  

Source: SALE ON DIGITAL ARTS DONE ON MOBILE 'TANDAV' (artzyme.com)

The first thing you’ll have to do when setting out to sell some NFT art is, well, create some art of your own. This can be almost any form of media — GIFs, illustrations, videos, 3D models and the like. A short stroll through Rarible or Foundation will give you an idea of the general Inclinations in crypto Art. Currently, there seems to A preference for either very avant-garde, experimental abstract art or meme-heavy internet culture references. Not that that should necessarily inform your work, once you’ve settled on the kind of art you’d like to upload, you’re free to move on to the next step. 

Step 2: Set Up an Ethereum Wallet 

 

There are numerous wallets out there to choose from to serve as your public address and store your private key, but it is generally recommended to rely on a hardware wallet.

In case you are new to cryptocurrency, here’s a quick crash course on how crypto wallets work: They are essentially software or hardware that help you operate a public address on your cryptocurrency’s blockchain. This public address is what stores the cryptocurrency and is viewable by all, though its ownership is completely anonymous (unless you make it otherwise). Every public address has a private key that is used to deposit, withdraw, or send funds to and from the address. Think of it as a mailbox: everybody can see it, knows where it is, and can send mail to it. But only the person with the key to the mailbox can open it and retrieve what’s inside. 

There are two types of wallets: Hot Wallets which are connected to the Internet and provide greater convenience to the user at the expense of lesser security, and Cold Wallets which Store your information offline and are less convenient for frequent use but provide much greater security to the user. A popular example of a hot wallet is the commonly used MyEtherWallet, while the best examples of cold wallets are the hardware-based wallets from Trezor or Ledger that we mentioned above — and also pen and paper. Yes,good ol’ pen and paper can function as a cold wallet as well, though you’ll need to generate your own public addresses which can be a pain. 

Many recommend MyEtherWallet or Metamask for new users who are new to crypto and only looking to put their work up for sale, or any of the Trezor/Ledger hardware wallets for those interested in storying crypto in general (as well as those who have made a sale of significant value and would like to keep their earnings safe!). 

Note that Foundation only connects to Metamask.

Step 3: Buy Some Ether 

In the maelstrom of news and surging interest in NFTs, it may be news to you that putting an NFT up for sale will actually cost you some money. This is because of how the Ethereum blockchain works: Unlike Bitcoin, in which miners are rewarded with Bitcoin for contributing the computing power necessary to verify transactions and add their record to the blockchain, Ethereum miners are paid with a different currency on the blockchain known as gas.

Whenever you are looking to confirm a transaction and added to the blockchain, a transaction fee is paid (ostensibly to cover the gas and platform fee) — Ethereum miners are able to pick and choose what contracts they would like to expend the computer power on and thus the more gas you pay for your transaction, the faster your contract will be carried out and added to the blockchain. This includes uploading your NFT.

So you will want to buy some Ether in order to purchase the gas and pay the transaction fee. Transaction fees fluctuate pretty wildly, but are overall significantly lower than they were a month or two ago when Ether started its bull rush. 

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Step 4: Choose a Marketplace 

   

Once you have your art, your wallet, and some Ether burning a hole in your pocket, you are ready to put your NFT to market. What do you want to do is head over to ethereum.org and take a look at their selection of DApps — short for decentralized apps. Rarible, Nifty Gateway an Foundation are some good starting points to get a handle on the Ethereum market and some eyeballs on your own NFT. Each one caters to a slightly different taste so make sure to check all three of them, as well as the many other market places, before settling on one. 

Foundation seems to be the best for digital painting, while Nifty Gateway caters most to 3D models and Rarible seems to be a chaotic mix of the aforementioned of Avant-Garde/Internet meme culture fusion. 

Related: Best Arts Marketplace website online

Step 5: Upload Your Arts 

  

While each platform will differ in where you click the actual button, they all start with connecting your crypto wallet. Each of the major sites will automatically create an account associated with your wallet and guide you through a relatively simple upload process in which you have to choose how many “copies” of your NFT you’d like to mint and what percentage you’d like your royalties to be whenever the item is resold.

This latter feature is an innovative leap forward for digital artists who, unlike their traditional counterparts, could never truly limit the supply of any one work once dispensed nor produce a true “original.” An NFT essentially comes with a blockchain-printed certificate of authenticity that proves its originality as the original work, making it possible for the original artist to get a cut of every subsequent trade/sale — a feature even traditional artists can’t feasibly reap the benefits of. Once you’ve chosen the work, set your copies, and royalty fee, you’re ready to move on to the final step.

Step 6: Pay the Transaction Fee 

  

With your NFT artwork locked and loaded, all you need to do is pull the trigger on the gas and you can sit back while your work is uploaded to the blockchain and becomes a unique entity on the network, immutable and invulnerable to any server collapse. The transaction fee will ensure that your NFT is mined by whichever Ethereum miner picks up the contract, pocketing your fee for their  trouble. 

After that, it should only be a matter of a couple minutes before your newly-minted NFT is up and on the market for just waiting to make the day of the keen-eyed patron who sees it first!

(Word of Caution – Pls check government and RBI policies regarding crypto currency if you’re based in India). 

                                                                                       - Himjal 

The intense and turbulent friendship between Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh

The intense and turbulent friendship between the Post-Impressionist masters Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh lasted only 63 days and ended in one of the most bizarre acts in the history of art — van Gogh brutally slicing off his own ear. But while the friendship became intense and fraught, it began with the brightest of hopes.    

                                            

In October of 1888, the 40-year-old Gauguin arrived in the sleepy French city of Arles after months of insistent invitations from van Gogh, then 35. The Dutch-born van Gogh, little known outside avant-garde Parisian circles, dreamed of transforming Arles into an artist’s commune and believed that Gauguin, an older and more established artist, was destined to be its leader.

For van Gogh, the long-awaited arrival of his mentor was a sign that his vision was finally coming true, but Gauguin had different motivations. Gauguin’s art dealer in Paris was Vincent’s brother, Theo van Gogh, and Theo had promised Gauguin 150 francs a month if he relocated to Arles. Far from becoming the “bishop” of a burgeoning artist’s collective, as van Gogh had envisioned, Gauguin saw Arles as a way to scrape together enough money to get back to the island nation of Martinique, his true source of inspiration. 

"The relationship was doomed from the start,” says Bradley Collins, an art historian at the Parsons School of Design and author of Van Gogh and Gauguin: Electric Arguments and Utopian Dreams. Once in Arles, Gauguin made it clear that he didn’t much care for the town — he called it “the dirtiest hole in the South” — and announced his intentions to eventually return to the Caribbean.

“With those words, he completely destroyed van Gogh’s fantasy of Gauguin serving as the leader of a new artist’s collective,” says Collins. “Van Gogh became a kind of time bomb after that because he was always concerned that Gauguin would leave. 

The friendship had a competitive undercurrent

With this shadow hanging over their relationship, the artists settled into a small corner house in the center of Arles immortalized by van Gogh in “The Yellow House (1888). Van Gogh was coming off an intensely productive summer, during which he produced some of his most enduring masterworks, including “Still Life: Vase with 15 Sunflowers (1888) and “Starry Night Over the Rhone (1888). Although Gauguin was meant to be the mentor and van Gogh the student, Collins says there was also a competitive undercurrent.

Gauguin, for example, chose to paint some of the same subjects as van Gogh. In response to van Gogh’s “The Night Café in the Place Lamartine in Arles (1888), Gauguin painted “Night Café in Arles, Madame Ginoux” (1888), which Collins believes is a caricature of the original. The two men also painted portraits of each other, the most famous being Gauguin’s “The Painter of Sunflowers” (1888) that captured van Gogh fully absorbed in his work, with hooded eyes and a blank stare. When van Gogh saw it, he reportedly commented, “That’s me, alright, but it’s me gone mad.”

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The artists had contrasting personalities.

In Gauguin’s personal journals, written many years later, the elder artist made much of the “Odd Couple” nature of his and van Gogh’s contrasting personalities. For one thing, Gauguin was a slow and methodical worker, while van Gogh often slapped paintings together in a couple of hours. There were also organization and cleanliness issues.

“Everywhere and in everything I found a disorder that shocked me,” wrote Gauguin. “[Van Gogh’s] colour-box could hardly contain all those tubes, crowded together and never closed. In spite of all this disorder, this mess, something shone out of his canvases and out of his talk, too.”

Collins says that Gauguin seemed to have a deep respect for van Gogh’s work. The older artist was enthralled with van Gogh’s first sunflower series when it was shown in Paris, and although he disagreed with van Gogh’s thick impasto painting style, he couldn’t deny its power. But it’s also clear that Gauguin would not have shown van Gogh so much difference, or put up with the Dutch artist’s oddball behavior, without Theo’s influence.

For his part, van Gogh bristled at Gauguin’s preoccupation with money. When van Gogh envisioned his artist’s collective, it was almost monastic, says Collins, marked by a communal sense of sacrifice for an ideal. Gauguin’s version of an artist’s colony was more like a trade union, where painters pool their work and sell shares to investors. In an uncharacteristically anti-Semitic tone, van Gogh once complained to Theo about Gauguin’s “Jew plan.”

Van Gogh became more erratic

It’s hard to know the exact truth about the series of events that led to Gauguin fleeing by train to Paris two days before Christmas. Gauguin’s journals present him as a caring mentor disturbed by van Gogh’s increasingly erratic behavior and concerned for his own life. Van Gogh reportedly took to standing silently over Gauguin’s bed while he slept, and spent their shared money on prostitutes and absinthe. One night, after van Gogh threw a drink at Gauguin’s head in a bar, Gauguin finally reached his limit. He told van Gogh that he was writing Theo and going back to Paris. 

Gauguin’s decision to leave Arles was apparently too much for van Gogh’s fragile sanity. The next day, Gauguin reports that van Gogh chased after him in the street with a razor blade. Gauguin checked into a hotel for his safety, not knowing that his housemate had returned home and inexplicably cut off the lower part of his left ear. According to police reports, van Gogh then went to a local brothel, asked for a woman named Rachel, and presented the wrapped and bloody ear to her as a keepsake.

“You have to see the ear cutting in the context of the relationship with Gauguin, and van Gogh redirecting some of the anger he felt toward Gauguin toward himself,” says Collins. “Why it took that bizarre form, who knows?”

The two men would never see each other again in person, although they continued to write each other letters right up until van Gogh’s tragic suicide in an insane asylum at age 39. 

How is Holi celebrated? 'The Festival of Colors'

 #HappyHoli 

Holi the festival of colors and fun is celebrated across India in different forms and themes, for various reasons. To know more visit http://www.holifestival.org/holi-in-india.html Exclusive Holi offers!!! Shop now on Artzyme.com. 

It is primarily observed in India, Nepal and other regions of the world with significant populations of Hindus or people of Indian origin. In recent years the festival has spread to parts of Europe and North America as a spring celebration of love, frolic, and colors.  

                              Holi Painting Contest organized at Artzyme 

                                      

Holi is an important festival to Hindus. It is celebrated at the end of winter, on the last full moon day of the lunar month Phalgun (February/March), (Phalgun Purnima), which usually falls in March, sometimes in late February. 

The festival has many purposes; most prominently, it celebrates the beginning of Spring. In 17th century literature, it was identified as a festival that celebrated agriculture, commemorated good spring harvests and the fertile land. Hindus believe it is a time of enjoying spring's abundant colours and saying farewell to winter. To many Hindus, Holi festivities mark the beginning of the New Year as well as an occasion to reset and renew ruptured relationships, end conflicts and rid themselves of accumulated emotional impurities from the past.   

                                    

It also has a religious purpose, symbolically signified by the legend of Holika. The night before Holi, bonfires are lit in a ceremony known as Holika Dahan (burning of Holika) or Little Holi. People gather near fires, sing and dance. The next day, Holi, also known as Dhuli in Sanskrit, or Dhulheti, Dhulandi or Dhulendi, is celebrated. Children and youth spray coloured powder solutions (gulal) at each other, laugh and celebrate, while adults smear dry coloured powder (abir) on each other's faces. Visitors to homes are first teased with colours, and then served with Holi delicacies, desserts and drinks. 

                                     

In the Braj region around Mathura, in north India, the festivities may last more than a week. The rituals go beyond playing with colours, and include a day where men go around with shields and women have the right to playfully beat them on their shields with sticks. 

In south India, some worship and make offerings to Kaamdev, the love god of Indian mythology, on Holi. 

After playing with colors, and cleaning up, people bathe, put on clean clothes, and visit friends and family. Holi is also a festival of forgiveness and new starts, which ritually aims to generate harmony in the society. 

Like Holika Dahan, Kama Dahanam is celebrated in some parts of India. The festival of colours in these parts is called Rangapanchami, and occurs on the fifth day after Poornima (full moon).  

   - Himjal (founder of Artzyme, marketplace for Arts - Paintings & Home décor) 

How to Sell Arts | Paintings Successfully? Part I

Sell Arts Successfully - I 

Arts Blog 

Many new artists approach me after making their first painting giving details of pains they have taken and the time they have spent on creating it. Rather than being passionate about Arts, artists with an intention to sell their 1st painting want to know how much money it will fetch. Or no. of artists with just 4/ 5 pcs with them expect to make a sale. And I always get to hear complaints from aspiring artists about how art galleries don’t entertain them, or don’t give response to their queries. 

  

 Emerging Artist - S Prabhakar 

                                                                     

  

 Established Artist - Sonjaye Maurya 

In this competitive market everybody wants to set the cash register ringing and not waste time or efforts in promoting new artists. Take an example from our day to day life.  Shopkeepers prefer to stock and sell branded goods rather than unbranded stuff though they could be of better quality as branded products are fast moving, requires no hard selling or pushing across the counter. We also, as a customer ask for branded product if the shopkeeper tries to sell us an unbranded product. The same applies to art too. Everyone has to make money, including online portals and galleries. 

My young fellow artists, Rome was not built in a day. And if it was that, every young lad alighting at Dadar (Mumbai) with rosy dreams of becoming a star in Bollywood would become Dharmendra. Being successful as an artist (painter) is not easy as in any other field. Lot of struggle is involved. You have to prove yourself. And if you are looking for someone to market you, first you have to make a brand out of yourself. 

So make a brand of yourself. Prove your mettle. One movie of a new comer or struggler when becomes a hit on the box office, producers’ line up at his place to sign him/her up for their new movies. Have patience. Look at the bigger canvas. Success is not easy to come. But when it comes, it knows no bounds. 

As I mentioned, paint with planning, in my article ‘EXPLORE, PRACTICE AND EXCEL AS A SELF-TAUGHT ARTIST' here I say promote with planning. As in any other business, to sell art also you require proper planning and strategy. 

So what should be done to sell your Arts! 

Creating art and marketing art are two different roles. Many artists are not trained marketers. They would rather spend their time in their studio creating. But, in order to sell art, some art marketing and promotion knowledge is necessary. Organize and set apart art creation and art marketing time. As artists, we need to realize that just as much as time is spent in creating art, same amount of time needs to be spent in marketing and promoting it. Without marketing it may be very difficult to sell art and receive commissions. Unless you have someone else to do the promotion and marketing for you, you will have to schedule and organize your time. 

Like any other product or service, art too requires good marketing. The only difference is that here the market is different and the clientele is different too. Everybody doesn’t buy art as it’s not considered a necessity. So the target audience is limited. It is essential to reach out to the prospective buyers. And how to do that! 

The path of an artist is different. Some of us lose vision and determination. So if you want to succeed, uphold to your dreams and fight the good fight. Take advice of successful artists, navigate adversity and embrace self-discovery. Never talk negative about your art or express self-doubt. Believe in your product. This is the business aspect of your creativity. 

                                                       To be Continued - Part II in coming Week....                                                                                                             www.Artzyme.com/blog