One of the most important things next to creating unique & interesting art, is how the art is presented and how you take care of the art when it is shipped to galleries and buyers. Presentation is a factor that is present in everything we partake of, whether it’s buying a new guitar, dining at a restaurant or staying somewhere while on vacation. If your dinner was just thrown down in front of you, and the place was dirty and the people rude, would you feel comfortable about spending your …

Here is an article that was submitted by Molly Crabapple, artist, writer and creator of the very cool Dr.Sketchy’s Anti-Art School.
If there is anyone with the knowledge to help make your art shows more of a success than they normally are, it’s Molly.

Like many artists, you may be tired of waiting for a gallery to sweep
you off your feet. You’ve sent your slide packets, you’ve written
artist your statements, and you’ve received only discouraging silence
in return.
At this point, like many artists, you decide to grab fate by the
balls. …

The discussion of whether or not it’s a good idea to go to an art school, is one I have read, overheard and been involved in many times. It’s a difficult question, one with a potentially very expensive outcome. In some areas of art, I do think it could be a good idea to go to art school. Photography, graphic design as well as 3d animation have very technical aspects to them that can be cleared up from higher education. One could possibly teach themselves all these aspects, but it …

This article is inspired by an article over at ‘Lines and Colors’ called: “How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web”. It’s a great article, quite sarcastic but there are some great tips there. In the many months that I have been running the Creep Machine, looking for featured artists, images for art of the day & prints and originals for sale, I have seen some amazing web sites and some really bad ones. So I decided to write down some tips, to make sure that your art gets …

Besides buying art off of the original creators website, or even through a gallery, another potentially good resource of buying art is through auction sites like eBay or Etsy.
Along with the good deals, is also the probability of problems. So this lil article is basically just giving readers a heads up on what to watch out for.
1. Its ideal if you are given the provenance of the art, or the origin or source of where the art is coming from. This is also very helpful when the piece is quite …