| Years ago there was only one way to sell your | | | | More and more often, the control of an artist's work |
| artwork and that was to pound the pavement. You | | | | is kept solely in the hands of the artist themselves. |
| had to walk from gallery to gallery with your portfolio | | | | Whereas once an artist had to hope to find a gallery |
| begging to see the gallery owner and hoping that the | | | | owner or an agent in order to display his art for |
| owner would like your work enough to display it in his | | | | public consumption, now the internet allows an artist's |
| gallery. While many artists still choose to take this | | | | work to be seen all over the world. Now anybody |
| approach, more and more artists are embracing the | | | | can sell art online, whether or not that person is a |
| notion of being able to sell art online. | | | | recognized artist. Heck some people who would not |
| In today's world, websites are dedicated to the act | | | | consider themselves artists are selling online and |
| of displaying an artist's work and allowing that artist | | | | building enormous reputations for themselves! |
| to set the rate he/she wants to receive for their | | | | Do you want to sell art online? You are not alone! |
| work. Some artists build their own websites, | | | | Take some time to research your options. There are |
| eliminating the need to pay costly display fees and | | | | plenty of ways to spread the word about your work |
| commissions to galleries and art selling sites. Do the | | | | on the Internet. Forums, classified ads, auction sites, |
| gallery owners like this? Probably not, but when you | | | | sales portals, personal websites, all of these are |
| don't have an expensive budget, why break it when | | | | methods by which a person can make money off of |
| you don't have to? | | | | their artwork! |