Short Stories

“Write what you know.” This is a mantra said and read by many writers, particularly in reference to the novice compositionist. Hmm, novice compositionist, I might use that on my business cards. / Ans…

FREE FOR A SHORT TIME: BECOMING QUINN / (Written by a friend from my hometown.) / My hometown is rather small. This gives most of us who hail from there a feeling of knowing everyone in the area. W…

Enter The Thought Room= … part of a project to soothe and silence the overactive brain. / It’s very simple but unique: soothing music plays, there is a space to type, and you’re sup…

The following are some words of wisdom from a newsletter I receive each week.. / “The Secret of Art” is a speech given by Milton Glaser who is considered to be in the words of Barney Dave…

Quick Tips to get your creativity revved up …I have excerpted them from Jerry Baumgartner and added my own asides in brackets… / * Listen to music by Johann Sebastian Bach. If Bach doesn&…

Here are some further posts which will help enhance your marketing skills… / Traditional Marketing and the Internet / Selling Art…another point of view / The Latest Marketing Trends / Who…

Signing up with a big, well-known art website (like this one) to help sell your art online is usually pretty easy and sometimes even free. But after a few months with no sales many of you will begin …

I’ve just launched a new blog called As Quick As A Flash. / The aim of this blog is to write and post daily flash fiction, of no more than 150 words, inspired by the word-of-the-day at dictiona…

This article is by Carolyn Henderson, the managing half of Steve Henderson Fine Art. She is a Regular contributing writer for FineArtViews and her freelance writing appears in regional newspapers, o…

As artists, when we are beginning to work on a new piece, we may sometimes find ourselves lost along the way…. / We might begin to doubt our abilities, and start worrying about the things that …

How much do you know about your Redbubble gallery?… / For example, do you know how many visitors you get on a daily basis, how long they stay and how many images they view? / I don’t know…

At times when inspiration and work habits have flagged, do you still find yourself posting work that may not be your best, because you think you should be keeping up with the others? / Do you find y…

What’s in a name?…a lot, if you want Google’s search engines to place you higher in the ranks… / The article below was written by Clint Watson editor of Fine Art Views.. / Wan…

To continue the discussion on whether artists should be paid , here is another side of the coin… / About a year ago I led a discussion in the PIMT forums based on a best selling book by Cana…

Reading a recent blog post I came across this argument about whether artists should be paid for their work…a social media person had gone up to blogger Maria Brophy at a show and stated….…

I’ve been talking to you for days now about talking to others, to keep up the conversation, to join in, and until now we have not talked about your audience… / So just who is your audienc…

In continuing the conversation about marketing through social media, it is important to learn how to tell your story…in the last post I talked about your profile page…here are some tips o…

The last few days I have been writing about how to market your work in these times when Social Media is on the rise making it the primary way to sell your art…(see Avoiding Mistakes, Vital Stat…