Boost Your Art Sales by Selling on Artist Community Websites
Ever thought of promoting your art online? If not, now may be the perfect time.
With so many websites online at the minute offering different ways in which artists, photographers and designers can promote and sell their work online, it seems foolish to not even consider this as an option if you are an artist of any ability.
Selling in galleries is great, it gives you great exposure in the arena's and circles that you want your work to be seen in, and it also provides the perfect real life platform to show off your work.
Viewing art at exhibitions and galleries is probably the best way to sell your original work, the atmosphere is perfect and people fully appreciate your work because they are right in front of it, feeling the whirlwind of emotions that often flow over someone when viewing art they love.
Unfortunately it is difficult, as I'm sure artists of all kinds know, to make a decent living from merely selling original works in galleries and exhibition spaces.
Even reasonably successful artists can really struggle to get by simply selling original works.
Some of the most successful artists financially are artists who predominantly sell large volumes of art prints.
These artists often sell to a commercial market and therefore tailor their work to this audience.
As a result, this market has many negative points, none more prevalent than the fact that you see the same pictures over and over again in homes of people you know.
It's boring, and people want more, so why not feed this market with your own creations and appeal to people who don't want some run of the mill art print that has been sold a million times in the past year.
There are many artists community websites and other print on demand websites that allow you to upload works and sell them as prints, canvases and other products to a worldwide audience.
Doing this brings a number of benefits.
You can sell to worldwide audience and get a worldwide following for your work for a start! You can also feed the demand for prints that aren't the standard works that you can buy all around the world, create your own niche and spread the word of your unique and rare art prints.
As well as selling your work on these websites, they are also a great place to raise the profile of your work and you as an artist.
Being an artist is like anything else, if you sit around and don't promote your work anywhere or to anyone it is never going to get noticed.
So use artists community websites as a launch pad to promote your art as well as a place to sell.
Become involved in these communities online and get back what you put it.
Hopefully after reading this article you may consider selling your work on an artists community website or online gallery.
The next step now is to find one that you like and is suitable for you...
With so many websites online at the minute offering different ways in which artists, photographers and designers can promote and sell their work online, it seems foolish to not even consider this as an option if you are an artist of any ability.
Selling in galleries is great, it gives you great exposure in the arena's and circles that you want your work to be seen in, and it also provides the perfect real life platform to show off your work.
Viewing art at exhibitions and galleries is probably the best way to sell your original work, the atmosphere is perfect and people fully appreciate your work because they are right in front of it, feeling the whirlwind of emotions that often flow over someone when viewing art they love.
Unfortunately it is difficult, as I'm sure artists of all kinds know, to make a decent living from merely selling original works in galleries and exhibition spaces.
Even reasonably successful artists can really struggle to get by simply selling original works.
Some of the most successful artists financially are artists who predominantly sell large volumes of art prints.
These artists often sell to a commercial market and therefore tailor their work to this audience.
As a result, this market has many negative points, none more prevalent than the fact that you see the same pictures over and over again in homes of people you know.
It's boring, and people want more, so why not feed this market with your own creations and appeal to people who don't want some run of the mill art print that has been sold a million times in the past year.
There are many artists community websites and other print on demand websites that allow you to upload works and sell them as prints, canvases and other products to a worldwide audience.
Doing this brings a number of benefits.
You can sell to worldwide audience and get a worldwide following for your work for a start! You can also feed the demand for prints that aren't the standard works that you can buy all around the world, create your own niche and spread the word of your unique and rare art prints.
As well as selling your work on these websites, they are also a great place to raise the profile of your work and you as an artist.
Being an artist is like anything else, if you sit around and don't promote your work anywhere or to anyone it is never going to get noticed.
So use artists community websites as a launch pad to promote your art as well as a place to sell.
Become involved in these communities online and get back what you put it.
Hopefully after reading this article you may consider selling your work on an artists community website or online gallery.
The next step now is to find one that you like and is suitable for you...
