Making art

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Mark making is a fundamental part of creating a painting or any piece of artwork. Discover what mark making means and how artists use it in their art.

Printing with leaves, flowers, and other found objects allows you to create decorative patterns and works of art that capture the beauty of nature. Photo © Adam Mastoon. You can make beautiful stat…

By Carrie Lewis in Art Business Advice > General Art Advice When most artists think about making money with their art, three things immediately come to mind: selling originals, doing commission work, and selling prints. Some artists might also think of teaching, or design jobs. But are those the only ways to make money as an artist? Absolutely not! In fact, we’ve put together a huge list of 77 ways you could turn your artistic skills into income. Not all of these […]

Learn how to make a gorgeous art print made from your favorite fresh blooms. Our simple flower pounding technique makes it easy to transform fresh flowers into a gorgeous art piece you can hang, display, or gift.

Jan Riggins and her 13-year-old daughter Olivia have always loved chalk art. Before the pandemic, they used to partake in sidewalk art competitions whenever the opportunity arose, but now they're dazzling their neighbors in one Fort Worth neighborhood in Texas. "When all of the festivals started getting canceled or postponed, I was really disappointed," Jen, who also paints in watercolor and oils, told Bored Panda. "That’s when I decided to just start using my sidewalk and driveway."

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By Aletta de Wal in Art Business Advice > A-Z Art Marketing Guide Welcome back to “The ABC’s of Art Marketing”—an alphabet guide to marketing your art, from A to Z. In today’s article, I’ll be focusing on the letter “Q” for Quality and Quantity. As you may remember, in my last post I urged you to trade perfection and procrastination for productivity and progress. Now I want to describe where quality and quantity come in. Quality is the proper response to […]

I recently read a piece in the NYT that made me physically ill, because holy hell is patriarchal capitalism brutal. The article, “Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’,” relayed the sad truth of a woman’s role at work: Even though womxn, on the whole, are more highly educated than men.