Painting can be an oasis of calm in a hectic world. I get so much satisfaction from simply being in the creative space and making a nice painting that when I do sell a painting, the sale is actually just the icing on what's already a very tasty cake.
Another way enterprising artists are keeping their heads above water in these tight times.
I get a lot of questions about how best to use the web to promote your art. The truth is that there's no single best way - the internet is a big place and the answers it holds for your success are limited only by your imagination. Out of all the methods to market your work online the standard painters website is perhaps the one thing any artist shouldn't be without these days.
Here’s an idea you might like to use for a bit of self promotion, or giving your gallery a helping hand in selling your work, or even helping with getting into a gallery to start with.
These days it’s so easy to make your own published media with publish on demand websites popping up all over the web.