Coral Bay Art: Artists Links

VISUAL ARTS RESOURCES #13
Web Art Biz #2 : Selling Art Online

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WEB ART BIZ WEB #1 : GOING ONLINEWEB #2 : SELL ART ONLINE
WEB BIZ #1: GOING ONLINE Why Create An Artist's Web Presence Your Online Art Portfolio Hosting & Web Space for Artists Art Website Promotion Art Web Rings Link Exchange For Artists	WEB BIZ #2: SELL ART ONLINE Artists Galleries & Spaces Online Selling Your Art Online Online Artists Communities Create & Sell Art Products Online Optimizing Your Images for the Web
Elsewhere: Art Business Books & Magazines

ARTIST GALLERIES & SPACES ONLINE

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dART Fine-Art.com: Collector/Community Membership (Free) : for collectors, community members.
Basic Membership (Free) : for artists and dealers with websites
Host Membership (Fee) : for artists and dealers that need a website
Featured Membership (Fee) : for dealers and serious artists that want premium placement
The Digital Artist Gallery: For emerging and established artists including graphic designers, illustrators, painters, sculptors, textile and fiber artists, installation artists, photographers, craftspeople, printmakers, typographic designers, calligraphers and more. There are four membership categories: Exhibit, Mini-Portfolio, Portfolio and Gallery


a nonprofit virtual gallery hosting contemporary artists and facilitating the direct relationship between artists and art lovers. Hosted online galleries free with no setup, no annual membership fee and no fee on sales. Go HERE for full information on signing up for your free virtual gallery	Electronic Cottage, Online Gallery Your direct connection for the purchase of original fine art and handmade craft from over 1000 acclaimed artists & craftspeople! EC is now one of the most well established and prominent online galleries on the entire WWW -- Add your site
The Pegasus Art Gallery features 200+ international artists. PAG was created to help Artists display their work in an aesthetic online environment and to promote Art in general. It remains 100% nonprofit. Eclectic Thumbnail Gallery, The Virtual Gallery (professionally designed web space for Artists), The Ring Gallery (artists' pages in a web ring environment), and the Millennium Gallery ( works of various artists reflecting the energy and promise of the New Millennium) . Also Pegasus News 'N Views (of Members) the Art Forum, Tips and Links.

The Artist´s Web has dedicated itself to marketing Canadian artists of all mediums online where they will benefit from the global exposure. ART IN CANADA	Offers visitors a fun way to rate pictures of art and users/artists to freely display their pictures, send private messages, post public comments and advertise their work or gallery. RANK MY ART

Create Your
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deviantART: Free membership to this fast growing, popular and exciting online art community!
Exhibit Your Artwork on PaintingsDIRECT.com: PaintingsDIRECT.com represents living artists creating two-dimensional, original artwork, including drawing, painting, photography and printmaking. Read more here for information on how to submit your slides and artist's CV.
Art Tract The Artists Website:: Ádd your work their gallery, no commission, no set up fee
Tribal Arts: List your art site with Tribal Arts if it features African, American Indian/North West Coast, Asian, Indonesian/Himalayan, Islamic, Oceanic or Pre-Columbian art.
Jolaf Juried Online Arts Festival: Jolaf gets prominent positioning in the search engines because they have been on the Web since early 1996,and are therefore well established, they go back regularly and reregister themselves with the major search engines, to stay high in their indexes, all of their pages are designed to be "search engine friendly" to get the best possible positioning and they contract with major engines for higher rankings. In order to take advantage of the traffic they generate you can join add your original art or craft work to the Juried Online Arts Festival in one of two ways. If you already have a site become a JOLAF link member (annual $25) or have them custom design a site for your studio.

SELLING ART ONLINE

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Internet Print Sales What Works? Article: "End of the Mystery - Shall I Tell You How It's Done? I know what works. It's taken a few years of banging my head against that virtual wall, but I now know how to sell fine-art prints over Internet. Shall I tell you how it's done?..."
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Creating a Successful Auction Listing:
Article featured on Self Representing Artists.: "The perfect scenario. The new auction art collector cruising the endless page after page of art, sculpture, wrought iron tangibles, wild extravagant paintings of interesting mixed media artworks and then he stumbles onto your page and viola!: this person is drawn in....." [read more]
ArtBridge:: Sell Sell products through the Art Store increase your sales without compromising any integrity in your work. Become an Art-Bridge Store vendor at no upfront cost: and the commission is only 18% of which 3% goes to pay credit card processing fees.
Sell Your Art at the Yessy.com Art Gallery (About this Associate): Browse thousands of paintings, photography, sculpture, drawings, digital art, mixed media, glass, ceramics, jewelry, and much more. Create your own free trial art gallery today!

This eBook will teach you all the important things including what themes sell best, what to avoid, how get exposure and how to optimize your art images for great presentation

Author, Brett Raven, has been selling art on Ebay since 1999 and has made as much as $5000 in one month just selling art work. Sell Your Art Online

Sell Your Art Online by Brett Raven
There is no better place to sell your art work on the internet than through Ebay - - Info, Techniques, Strategies.
Most artists never consider selling anything, let alone making a living ... by selling their art. Few have ventured online to sell their art, and even fewer have even considered using the powerful internet giant Ebay. You may ask if it is even possible to make a living selling art on Ebay. Yes, you really can make a living! [find out more]

SELL YOUR ART ON THE INTERNET. CREATE AN ONLINE PRESENCE.

Eye of the Art: Sell your art on the Internet: Create an online presence by adding your artwork to the growing artists community at Eye of the Art.

Once you upload your artwork, they can begin selling it. Once your artwork is published on the web it is available to be seen and discovered by the art world. Other galleries visit their pages regularly looking for new talent.

There are so many benefits to joining Eye of the Art, ... startup is fast and easy...there is no limit to the amount of art work you can show... you can accept payments from all major credit cards. Other great benefits include custom made business cards and your own direct gallery URL.

Still not sure? Then try it for free - using their 30 day FREE trial membership

ARTICLE
Cyberspace Selling
an article by J. Iverson
"We have to decide what we want to do in this brave new world of cyberspace. We can just dip a toe in it with a billboard on the Information Highway; we can use it as an electronic catalog to display our up-to-the-minute work; we can use it to sell to the public or perhaps sell to retailers – or maybe a little of both. Whatever we decide to do should be based on a serious conversation with ourselves about
our goals [Continue]

ARTICLE

Internet Print Sales
What Works?

End of the Mystery
Shall I Tell You How It's Done?
I know what works. It's taken a few
years of banging my head against that virtual wall, but I now know how to
sell fine-art prints over Internet.
Shall I tell you how it's
done? [Read Article]

ONLINE ARTIST COMMUNITIES

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RankMyArt: Offers visitors a fun way to rate pictures of art and users/artists to freely display their pictures, send private messages,post public comments and advertise their work or gallery. Works as a reciprocal link source.
WetCanvas: Cyber living for artists, currently the largest community site on the Internet with a specific focus on the visual artist, is an effort to bring information relevant to today's artist to an online format. It is part magazine, part virtual classroom, and part reference site. - it is all about community.
ArtScuttlebutt.com: ArtScuttlebutt.com is an artist discussion forum provided by Art Calendar Magazine, the business magazine for visual artists. This virtual artist’s support group is for anyone interested in art: from emerging artists to established professional artists. Topics include: business, supplies and education. Artists can meet, discuss techniques, and network at this online artist community.
Cheap Joe's Artists' Community: The Cheap Joe's Artists' Community is an online resource for artists where you will find lots of things to spark your creative interests as well as your intellect - FREE and completely art related. Join this community and participate in the Artists' Discussion Board where hundreds of artists talk to each other about projects, material, and/or just to keep in touch!
Passion4Art: Fee based art site community offering:Homepages, E-mail, Art Cards, Art Events
ArtConspiracy.com: A community of artists that have come together to share their talents with the world
Artists Resource:: An online community for artists of Northern California "and beyond" that connects, educates, empowers and promotes creative people in the visual and literary arts.. Postings of calendars of shows, events and classes, readings, interactive forums, competitions, jobs, galleries, portfolios, hundreds of art links, art supplies, advice and techniques, and artists' stories.
Art on the Net: A collective of artists helping each other to come up on the Internet and share their works on the World Wide Web. Artists create and maintain studios and rooms in the gallery where they show their works and share about themselves.
International, representing over 100 artists from around the world including poets, musicians, painters, sculptors, digital artists, performance artists, animators and others. Memberships are granted based on reviews of the art work submitted
Participating artists support the site by paying an annual membership fee of $60.00 and are requested to donate one time a single piece of art to be auctioned off to help support our site.
Cyber Art Web: promotes web artists with competitions, forums, chat, gallery, search tools, Photoshop, job links, software links. Gallery of cyberart websites containing digital art.

AARTI Internet Art Gallery
Contemporary Art For Sale: provides artists without their own Internet presence (and some who do!!) the opportunity to exhibit their paintings in a virtual art gallery

Art Navigator
A place where artists and art-buyers meet. Present your personal artworks or your company/gallery on Art Navigator. Presentation on Art Navigator helps to become visible and successful.

Artists Directory Service (FREE)
Go to www.YourArt.com under Artist Directory select "Submit your site".

Virtual Gallery Service(Less than USD $3/month) www.YourArt.com/gallery.php We invite you to display your works of
art in our Virtual Gallery

womenscreativity.com
Showcases a visual arts gallery, articles, recommended books and quotes to create a place that both inspires and celebrates the ways women express their creativity.

CREATE & SELL ART PRODUCTS ONLINE

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Zazzle: Design & Create Custom Products: Make custom t-shirts & apparel posters & prints greeting cards within minutes
You can create a custom product quickly and make money every time it sells. There's no minimum, so you can still order 1 or 2 at our value prices. Plus, we ship your order within 24 hours!
CafePress: CafePress enables individuals and companies to sell a wide variety of products online with zero upfront costs. You own your work, just open a FREE account, choose from over 50 products and upload your artwork, music or content and design your products. You set the retail price.
Print on Click: An Internet affiliate program that makes it possible for the visitors of your web site to buy exclusive art prints, posters, or canvas transfers made from any of your images at affordable prices. Whether you are an artist, photographer or just have online picture gallery, Print on Click will work for you provided you have high resolution images. You can set your own fee for using your images or receive 10% commission on sales referred through your web site.

iPrint:: quickly and easily create, proof, and order a complete line of professionally-printed items -- everything from business cards to bumper stickers; Custom printing your artwork on T-shirts Any of your work can be printed – paintings, photographs, digital art, even photographs of your sculptures. The transferring method of printing allows you to sign your artwork right on the shirts as well.

Sell prints of your work on canvas. A print on canvas is relatively new and exciting form of transferring original artwork into another form of work-of-art. -You can order a single print. Order almost any artwork available, including your own individual original artworks The quality of prints on canvas is excellent. We use the best canvas and equipment available on the market to produce these special prints.

OPTIMIZING YOUR IMAGES FOR THE WEB

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Optimizing Your Art for the Internet: in-depth tips on how to streamline your scanned and/or digitized images for use in your web site.
Optimize Your Images with Paint Shop Pro: Using the JPEG and GIF optimizers in Paint Shop Pro, you can get your images Web-ready in no time at all. This tutorial explains the differences between the two most popular image formats on the Web and how to optimize your images using Paint Shop Pro.
JPEG, GIF and PNG: What is the difference between JPEG, GIF and PNG? Which should be used and when.
Head to Head: JPEG vs. GIF: The time has come for some head-to-head comparisons of JPEGs and GIFs. In these examples, you will see for yourself how well these formats perform their intended purposes, and why these two image file formats are the perfect complement to one another for publishing on the World Wide Web.
GIFbot:: A free and convenient image optimization tool offered by NetMechanic that works on all JPEG, GIF and animated GIF images. Analyze and compress your images on your Web site or from your own PC. Compare before and after, select and your choice. GIFBot reduces image file size, not actual image dimensions, so your page layout is not affected but will load faster. GIFBot does not require any software downloads.