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The Art Business - Resources for Visual Artists

This module covers a range of issues which may be relevant to your art business. However this group is not engaged in offering professional advice. No responsibility is assumed and no liability exists in relation to your reliance on any of the inform...

Tips and Principles for Independent Artists - Getting Started

Over the years, I've met quite a few aspiring artists who keep on-line art galleries or art shops like I do and want a few tips on how they can get more people to pay attention to their art, and possibly get to a point where they actually sell prints...

The Art Business - Resources for Visual Artists

Do you want to know more about the business side of being an artist? Or maybe you're looking for a particular piece of business information for artists? Whether you are an emerging or experienced artist, this site provides you with a link to informa...

Preparing for an Art or Craft Festival

Art and craft festivals are a lot of work but worth it for the exposure you get and the great people you meet. Here is a guide to preparing for a show and having a great time. Oh yeah, and did I mention selling your creations?

Copyright and Orphan Artworks - Resources for Artists

Visual artists need to know how to protect their images - both on the the internet and in the wider marketplace where artists have to deal with the fact that not all countries operate copyright law in exactly the same way. At the same time they need...

Packaging, posting and shipping art - Resources for Artists

How do you pack art? How do you post art? What about international deliveries? What about customs? How do you get it back again? This site doesn't pretend to have the answers to all the very many questions people have about getting art from artist to...

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EBSQ Self Representing Artists :: Who we are, why we're here, and why you should be too!

EBSQ is an online art association whose members represent their own work to the public. Our mission is to foster an active community of independent artists, and to provide tools and services to bring our members greater exposure in the art market. EB...

Make your Handmade Products Stand Out! Using Creative Packaging

There are some easy and creative ways to make your handmade products different from the rest at festivals or shows and make a special surprise for customers ordering your products. This lens is all about using creative packaging to make your creation...

Branding Your Handmade Products

Learn about building a brand as an indie artist or designer. Branding helps create an image for you and your business. It helps generate repeat business and word of mouth which is so important for small business.

Running a Handmade Business

So you're an artist, designer, or craftsperson and want to take your first steps into making money from your talent and skills? This lens is full of advice for anyone starting a handmade business.

10 Good Reasons Why Artists Should Get Real Jobs

We've all seen the deluded souls on Pop Idol shows, absolutely convinced that they are the next big thing, staring open mouthed in disbelief as the judges proceed to tell them that they have no hope whatsoever of going anywhere any time soon with the...

Art and the Internet

This is about how the Art Business relates to the Internet - internet strategy, websites, web design, blogging, presentation of images on the internet and more.

Typography in a jiffy

Interesting Typography.

Blogging for Artists - Resources for Artists

Are you an artist and want a blog? Or maybe an artist who wants to work on improving your blog? If you are then read on - you'll find links on this site to sources of advice, information, and all other matters which are relevant to blogging for arti...

Colors make the web go 'round

For the color and webdesign challenged, the following links and utilities should prove to be valuable assets during your next design job. Image borrowed from Netcocktail.

Website design - tools for web designers

Designing websites can be a difficult job, but it doesn't need to be. There are a whole host of tools available to web page authors that make their lives much easier. This lens describes and lists some applications and utilities for website designers...

My Internet Business Strategy

A lot of people tend to get trapped in analysis paralysis -- and they never get their Internet business off the ground. They either plan and plan and plan, or plan TO plan someday, but they don't actually accomplish anything. If you want an online bu...

Becoming an Artist - Resources for Artists

So You Want to Become an Artist?

EVER WANT TO PAINT A PICTURE? Have you ever tried? Perhaps you are an advanced professional who is widely known. Whether a mere beginner who wants to paint for pleasure or advanced in a career, there is always room to grow and learn how to get better...

Artist Resources

Links, recommended book lists, drawing and painting tutorials, advice and tips and more

Art School 101

I've put together this lens for those of you considering going to art school. I've been thinking about attending art school for awhile now, and I'd like to share with you my research with the hope that it will help you to make an informed decision. T...

How to overcome creative blocks

For those of us that have an artistic calling, it's not always easy to reconcile the need to make a living with a creative life. I have struggled with this issue for several years now, having spent the last 10+ years of my life working in various mar...

Art Supplies - Resources for Artists

Buying Art Supplies Online

Buying art supplies online is economical and convenient. Often the selection is better than in a local art supply store. Most of these suppliers are located in the US.

Art Supplies in the UK - Resources for Artists

Do you have problems finding art shops or art suppliers or just anywhere that has got that illusive item that you want. Do you forget who stocks which range? This site provides details about where to find fine art materials supplies in and around the...

Art Supplies in the USA - Resources for Artists

Do you have problems finding art shops or art suppliers or just anywhere that has got that illusive item that you want. Do you forget who stocks which range? This site provides details about where to find fine art materials supplies in and around th...

Art Equipment - Resources for Artists

This site is for visual artists.  It provides links to: items of art equipment and tools recommended ways of putting together toolkits and recommendations for equipment for working in the studio or plein air Additional information about speci...

Composition and Design - Resources for Artists

Composition and Design - Resources for Artists

You can use composition and design to help to make your artwork more more pleasing to the eye. This lens contains links to - information and advice about composition and design for artists. - various books concerned with composition and design. It's...

Colour - Resources for Artists

Colour science, systems and models - Resources for Artists

If you want to understand more about the science of colour, how it works and how people think (or thought) it works then this is the site for you. It is closely linked to: (1) a project about Colour on Making A Mark in June/July 2008 - and book revi...

Colour - Resources for Artists

What is colour? Do you know or do you want to learn more about colour and its use as an artist? This site provides links to information and advice about colour and how to understand and analyse it - and then use it as an artist.  It includes: * l...

Colour - Art Book Reviews for Artists

This site identifies leading art books about colour and includes art book reviews - for books about understanding colour, using colour, mixing colour. It is closely linked to: (1) a project about Colour on Making A Mark in June/July 2008 - and book...

Drawing and Sketching - Resources for Artists

The Big Drawing Book Review - Resources for Artists

This lens supports The Big Drawing Book Review on my blog.  I started this in support of the Big Draw month (October 2007) which is co-ordinated by the Drawing Campaign.  Read about The Big Drawing Book Review. It covers books: * for people...

Travels with a sketchbook - Resources for Artists

This lens provides resources for people who like looking at travel sketchbooks and people who'd like to keep a travel sketchbook but need a few tips first. When I travel, I sketch. When I sketch on my travels I record it in on my blog Travels with a S...

Art Journals

Art journals generally combine visual journaling and writing. Every imaginable style, media and technique is used by art journalists. There are no rules!

Drawing and Sketching - Resources for Artists

This lens is about drawing and sketching. It shares information about drawing and sketching - materials, drawing communities and forums, instruction books and other resources which support the development of drawings and sketches. New links are being...

Moleskinerie

Welcome to Moleskine talk on Squidoo. This is the companion site to Moleskinerie.com - a summary of the most requested information about our favorite black notebooks, and the best articles and posts. ---------------------------------  The domain m...

Drawing and Sketching - Resources for Artists (continued)

Pencil World

In a world growing increasingly frenetic as new technical advances and distractions are heaped upon the masses it's good to know that the common wood cased pencil is alive and well.  Far from being replaced by computers, printers, PDAs, CellPhon...

Drawing techniques: using carbon, charcoal, and graphite.

Hello and Welcome...I would first like to encourage you to visit my website and studio blog at Marsha Robinett Fine Art, where you will find dramatic fine art pencil drawings.  I use predominately carbon pencil with accents of charcoal and graph...

Illustration - Resources for Artists

Illustration Portal

This is a categorized listing of the many talented illustrators that I've come across in my career as an art director. Also included are a list of artists' representatives as well as illustrator networking and blogging sites.  I've grouped the il...

Pen and Ink - Resources for Artists

Pen and Ink - Resources for Artists

This lens provides information and advice for artists using pen and ink. Topics covered include tips and techniques for working with pen and ink, books about working in pen and ink and information about different brands of pens suitable for artists a...

Traditional Fine Art Printmaking - Resources for Artists

Printmaking - all about techniques, tools, and artists

I am a printmaker.  You will find a lot of artists who are printmakers, and who are passionate about printmaking, and educating the wide world about printmaking arts.  I am one of those artists.  You will find on this lens information...

Printmaking Artists on the Web

Are you interested in the print arts or in artists who do printmaking?  Then you've come to the right place!  This lens is a list of blogs and sites by artists who are either printmakers or who discuss printmaking or printmaking artists.&nb...

Monotype prints - collecting and making of unique artwork

Information for artists,graphic collectors and everyone interested in monotype printmaking (free tutorial:how to do a monotype print ). Printing monotype prints from a glassplate without using a press is the focus of this lens. Here is a great introd...

Print Gocco

It may look like a toy, but the Print Gocco is one of the smallest and most versatile screen printing systems in the world!

Watercolours - Resources for Artists

Watercolor - Resource for artists

This is a lens about watercolor. It has links to forums, material, recommended books, artists-websites, who are offering Videos/DVD's. Of course this lens is not completed yet, but I will continue to work on it with every new info, which I get.

Watercolor Painting For Beginners

You have found the best resource on Squidoo for all of your beginner watercolor painting needs including watercolor painting supplies, free watercolor painting lessons, watercolor painting books, watercolor painting videos and more. Click here for mor...

Acrylics - Resources for Artists

Acrylic Painting Techniques

Do you like art or making art? Do you like to paint or want to learn how? Do you like easy clean up and environmentally friendly? If so, then my intent that is that this lens can help you in some way. I started painting when my daughter was young and...

Acrylic Painting: Two Secrets

"Beautiful oil painting!" "I love your 'oils'." Has this happened to you? I have received these compliments about my acrylic paintings for many years. Even my gallery owners have told clients (in my presence) that my paintings were done in oil. Yike...

Pastels - Resources for Artists

Pastel Class - Resources for Beginning Pastel Artists

This lens was created to gather pastel demos and tutorials into one convenient location for the beginning pastellist. There's more than one way to create a beautiful pastel. See how different artists develop their work. Oil pastel demos are included....

Pastels - Resources for Artists

Do you want to know more about hard and soft pastels? Whether you are an experienced pastel artist or somebody who is completely new to the joy of producing art with pastels you'll find something interesting and useful in the information and advice p...

Daily Painting with Pastels

Perhaps you are an artist interested in learning more about pastels or you just want to improve your paintings. You have come to the right place! I have only been painting with pastels for two years but I have totally immersed myself in learning abou...

Pastel Art Organizations & Societies

When links for “Art Organizations & Societies for Pastels” are found I will add them here to make a comprehensive list for anyone that is searching for a particular group.

Coloured Pencils - Resources for Artists

Coloured Pencils - Resources for Artists

Find out about coloured pencils - information for everybody from experienced artists to beginners wanting to learn all they can. Topics include - tips and techniques for working with coloured pencils, - information about coloured pencil brands and as...

Creating Art Using "Neocolor II Watersoluble Wax Pastels"

The excellent lightfastness, high-quality pigments, and adaptability to numerous techniques make Neocolor II Watersoluble Wax Pastels a creative medium for all artists, including colored pencils artists, fiber artists, illustrator...

Australian Coloured Pencils Resources

This was created in a hope to create a local resource for Australian coloured pencil artists and in doing so to also provide a way to find Aus. CP artists. I am always wanting to add new info so email: belinda.lindhardt@gmail.com if you have anything...

Egg Tempera - Resources for Artists

Egg Tempera - Resources for Artists

This lens is about egg tempera and provides links to all sorts of websites  associated with egg tempera - other websites providing information about egg tempera, artists, supports and grounds, pigments and pigment suppliers in the UK Europe and...

Portraiture - Resources for Artists

Portraiture - Resources for Artists

This site is about portrait painting and drawing. Do you want to learn how to draw or paint people? Or maybe you want to know more about portrait societies or portrait competitions; portrait artists or portrait exhibitions; portraits in museums or po...

Still Life - Resources for Artists

Still Life - Resources for Artists

This lens provides information and advice from various websites for artists wanting to understand and draw and paint still life subjects.  Topics covered include: -  definitions and categories of 'still life'; -  links to museums, art g...

Flowers in Art: Resources for Artists

Flowers in Art - Resources for Artists

Do you love looking at flowers in art? Do you want to know how to learn to draw or paint flowers? Do you want to improve your flower drawings or flower paintings? Or do you just love flowers? If you do then consult the resources in this lens to find...

Botanical Art - Resources for Artists

Botanical Art - Resources for Artists

This site shares information about botanical art - societies, collections, books and other resources which support the development of botanical art. It also links to leading botanical artists in the past and present. Its subject matter will interest...

Gardens in Art - Resources for Artists

Gardens in Art - Resources for Artists

If you love looking at paintings of gardens or enjoy drawing or painting your own garden or gardens you visit then this site will interest you. It also looks at gardens as art and artwork in gardens. It shares links to information about: - looking at...

Plein Air - Resources for Artists

Plein Air Painting-Resources for Artists

  Plein air painting is all about painting in the great outdoors, on location, surrounded by your subject. No studio, no photos to copy from, just you and nature, one on one. This type of painting requires certain techniques, materials, equipmen...

Packing for Your Plein-Air Excursion

WHETHER YOU HAVE EVER PAINTED EN PLEIN AIR (French for "in the open air") on location before or not - it is is and will be an adventure! And with that adventure, comes some of the top questions I receive..."what's the best way to pack?" Essentially,...

Plein Air Painting with Pastels

“A painter who begins and finishes indoors, that which is outdoors, misses a hundred little facts…a hundred little accidental effects of sunshine and shadow that can be reproduced only in the immediate presence of Nature.” ~Winslow...

A Painting a Day - Resources for Artists

$100 Paintings

Have you ever wanted to start collecting original art but felt you couldn't afford to buy an original oil painting?  Many people feel that way.  That's why I offer small format paintings.  Each one is an original creation, painted with...

Daily Painting with Pastels

Perhaps you are an artist interested in learning more about pastels or you just want to improve your paintings. You have come to the right place! I have only been painting with pastels for two years but I have totally immersed myself in learning abou...

Miniature Art - Resources for Artists

Miniature Art - Resources for Artists

This lens is about miniature art and netsuke. It shares information about miniature art and netsuke - art societies, exhibitions, materials, forums, books and other resources which support the development of miniature art. New links are being added on...

Art cards and ACEOs - Resources for Artists

Artist Trading Cards Are Dangerous!

Yes I've become an ATC addict. You know, Artist Trading Cards, those little 2 ½" by 3 ½" pieces of art. This is my very first ATC. Curious to see the whole set and find out how I made them? Well I would be if I where you! See...

ATC's - Exploring Art In Minature

Artist Trading Cards are 3.5" x 2.5" mini wonders of art!, because of their small size they are very addictive to make and a fantastic collectors item! The purpose of this page is to act as an information database to the wonderful world of a...

Art Cards: The ABCs of ATCs and ACEOs

What are art cards?   In the simplest of terms, art cards are small format, miniature pieces of art.  They are paintings, drawings, collages, handmade prints, altered art, assemblages... they come in most any medium, in any style, from anyw...

Feline Art - Resources for Artists

Feline Art - Resources for Artists

This lens aims to provide resources for feline artists.  It shares information about feline art - societies, collections, books and other resources which support the stimulation and development of feline art. New links are being added added on a...

Drawing and Painting Cats

Gayle Mason shares information about how to draw and paint cats. This site lens includes links to cat drawings, lessons in drawing cats, artists who blog about cat art, art materials, art reference books, books about cats,exhibitions including feline...

Street and Graffiti Art

The (Street) Art of Stencil Graffiti

Stencil graffiti is growing in popularity worldwide. This street art can be a few simple words, or a grand scale art piece. Because it is cheap, quick, and easy, this style of graffiti has grown tremendously. Often the stencils express political and...

Photography - Resources for Artists

Digitizing Color Transparencies -- What You Should Know

When I stumbled over a large box full of color transparencies (35mm slides) from my early photography days, I wanted to see them again.  Although I had spent many years of taking pictures using transparency films such as Kodachrome, Ekt...

Handmade Photographic Prints

My lens is about an alternative photographic process and my print sales from my Etsy shop page. Below you will find information about how to create your own Cyanotypes, something about me and links to books you can buy on the subject. Interestingly th...

Locality Based Art Communities - Resources for Artists

Have you ever thought of starting a lens for your local art community? This module will include examples of lenses which promote relevant links within their local communities. See if you can improve on what is already listed.

Art Resources in Newfoundland and Labrador

Isolation is a way of life in Newfoundland and Labrador and it has both drawbacks and advantages. As an artist living here, there is inspiration all around. The artistic community is thriving and networking possibilities surround us. However, the ab...

Exposing the Arts in Kenosha, Wisconsin

ExposeKenosha.com is a collaborative effort of artists working with artists to promote one another in the thriving arts scene of Kenosha, WI.

Painting holidays and art colonies

Art Colonies and Communities - Resources for Artists

This lens provides resources for people who would like to know more about art colonies and art communities - places where artists have created groups and communities. Some of them are famous - and some are not. Art colonies around the world are incl...

Art Holidays - Resources for Artists

Have you ever thought about going on a painting holiday? Maybe you'd like to improve on your experience last time? Or maybe you're thinking of providing painting holidays or workshops and are wondering what you need to do. This site is designed for...

Photoshop - Resources for Artists

Lens which provide photoshop related resources.

Adobe Photoshop Brushes

Collection of web sites that offer quality and free Photoshop brushes, brush tools and articles. You don't know what are Photoshop brushes, or how they are used? Read the Photoshop brushes tutorial. Tips on making, using and organizing brushes may be...

learn photoshop - video tutorials

photoshop is the most powerful image editing program on the planet...it is also less than intuitive in how it does what it does...looking over someone's shoulder (even if that shoulder is a virtual shoulder) can unlock much of the mystery that trying...

learn photoshop by the deke

everyone loves to look over my shoulder when I "play" with images and it is something I enjoy doing...however, when I need help and there is no shoulder for me to peer over, I seek out those in the know (and that "in the know" is...

Postcards and Greeting Cards

Designing for greeting cards

Greeting cards are big, big, business, despite the coming of ecards. If you have ever hand drawn a card for your friends or family, you are in effect a card designer. However making money or better still a living, illustrating greeting cards can be a...

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Joining this Group: what you need to know and why lenses get rejected

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Comment on the site and suggest new categories or lenses which need to be developed in future

makingamark Thanks Spirituality - but I think your comment popped up on the wrong group! :) (It's actually for my group which is all about cats!) Posted September 23, 2008

Photo colorization Services | Picture colouring | Image colouring services

Great source for artists.Really you did a great job.Thanks.

Posted September 21, 2008

matteopaints What a great set of links and information, I don't know where to start, great work! Posted September 19, 2008

spirituality Great group. Thanks for submitting it to my Excellent Groups Award. You won it and got featured on my Great Groups Lensography Come take a look and proudly display your badge like a select bunch of other groups already have! Posted July 01, 2008

makingamark I'd really appreciate it if all people wanting to join this group read the criteria for entry before suggesting a lens. The criteria for entry comes just above this feedback module - so that's not far to go! :) Posted April 29, 2008

ideacoach Art Interviews is a lens that features audio interviews of artists discussing issues like doing outdoor art festivals, collage making and more. Posted April 27, 2008

LittleMan

My older brother would love to be a part of this!
Something like this is long over due, and I believe he will agree. He will be sending in his application soon.

Posted April 20, 2008

makingamark Thank you for your application Michael - unfortunately it doesn't quite meet the criteria and I'll send you an e-mail explaining why. Posted March 06, 2008

Paroshep A useful and well done group. I am sending in my application. Cheers, Posted March 02, 2008

Lesley-Smitheringale This is an extremely impressive bank of resources - simply wonderful and must have taken a long, long time to do! If you would like any info on silk painting, please let me know. I am mainly working in photography at the moment otherwise I would have joined this Group. Posted January 19, 2008

 

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