Kara Mastin quilt; photo by artist

One of Allyson’s latest suggestions is found in the blog post, Don’t Leave Your Art Work Without a Piece of Paper.  Make sure when you do leave art work for display or on consignment, that you have a written agreement, signed by both parties.  Allyson has a good list of suggestions.

Do you have any tips to add?

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When Leaving Art/Crafts at Galleries/Shops

What has been your toughest call? Are you pleased with how things have turned out? Did you second guess yourself for awhile after making the choice?

As it relates to my work in mixed media, I think the toughest thing for me to decide was not to make items for sale.  I have nothing against sales…I’m as mercenary as they come…but I just couldn’t figure out a way that selling mixed media art was ever going to work for me.

So when someone contacts me about a piece that they like, my only recourse is to sell them a photographic print.  This is hardly a satisfactory solution, since the whole nature of mixed media is THREE DIMENSIONAL!  But there you have it.  My tough decision.

How about you?   What’s been your toughest choice?

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Question of the month: Hard Decisions

I don’t know how this one is going to play out, but it looks good in its beginning stages! See what you think at Folksy.

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Folksy…Etsy for our friends in the UK

Mary makes beautiful leather goods that she sells on her website, Oh! Boyd.

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Pricing your artwork

Or from any other images that you want to use! Animoto is an intriguing site: it creates a slideshow to the music of your choice, automatically. You have to register to use it, and I have no information to give you about copyright issues, so please read all the contracts if you decide to register and use it. Here’s a description from the site:

Animoto.com is a web application that creates MTV-style videos with the click of a button.

Users simply choose a song and images. Animoto then automatically generates a unique video for them. No two videos are ever the same.

Many of the post-production techniques that the founders used while working as producers for MTV, Comedy Central & ABC are used in Animoto’s patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence developed to think like an actual editor and director. The resulting video is produced in a widescreen format, containing the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.

Animoto Productions is based in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

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Make a custom video from your art images

A visual art marketing tool that takes blogging to the next level? That’s vlogging, according to Barney Davey, the art marketing guru. Read all about it at Barney’s blog, Art Print Issues.

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Interested in vlogging?

Want to know how much time your fellow artists spend on their work? Curious about how much other people charge for their work? Where are the “best” places to sell? What do they think of Bob Ross? Visit and see

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Wanna know what the other artists think?

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Art Deadlines List

Charley Parker has a brilliant post on how you should design your website if you want to insure that you never sell any work. Written tongue firmly in cheek, Charley cuts to the heart of several of my personal pet-peeves. But then he turns around and mentions a few things that I have been guilty of doing…ouch! The post is a great learning experience.

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How to turn people off