True story. This morning I opened our local newspaper to be greeted with headlines of another art gallery closing. Based on the many Google Alerts I have running this is common news all over the country and the world. The current economy is just too weak for many art galleries to survive. Of course this [...] Read more »
What Is An Artist To Do With Twitter?
You can now find me at www.twitter.com/DaryleDickens or @DaryleDickens. I have been on Twitter for over a year now but decided to create a separate account just for this blog. My plan is to be selective about who I follow and only focus on connecting with artists who use Twitter. After further review I have [...] Read more »
Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century Is Now On Hulu
You may have heard about Hulu, an evil plot by aliens to destroy the world through free television on the internet. Because after all tv rots the brain and tv on the internet really softens it up. (Don’t take my word for it.) And it seems that even high brow television is a weapon in [...] Read more »
Liz Lomax And Her Hand Sculpted Illustrations
Hand sculpted illustrations? How in the world do you sculpt an illustration? Well if your Liz Lomax you create three dimensional sculptures then take digital photos of them, thus creating a hand sculpted illustration. And from the looks of it Liz is quite good at it. She has created work for Mastercard, Officemax, First National [...] Read more »
Another Online Tool For Selling Art
These days an artist needs to do all they can to make their art available to those who want to buy it. Being represented by a gallery can be nice but in the age of the internet many artists are selling their own art and keeping more of the profit. Cartfly.com is a place that [...] Read more »