How do you market commissions if you make or aim to generate most of your income from commissions? This is a question which applies to very many artists whether they draw or paint adults, families, kids or their dogs or cats – or other creatures. Yesterday – on my long […]
Month: February 2023
Is Showing Your Art in a Co-op Gallery Worthwhile?
Recently I wrote a post about the advisability of showing your work in a “vanity” gallery. This post has already received a lot of attention, comments, and questions. I appreciate the input from the community and the willingness to share personal insight from past experiences. In the comments, it became […]
A Graffiti Story” Spotlights the Journeys of Five Artists
Tracing the emergence of graffiti from an underground subculture into a legitimate profession, Duality: A Graffiti Story — directed by Ryan Dowling — focuses on the struggles and successes of five noted graffiti artists. In the Buffalo 8 documentary feature film, legendary writers Meres One, Dual, Sloke, Jaber and Never1959 […]
Amy Chaiklin “a woman artist, painting empowering images of women from the female gaze”
Amy Chaiklin says “I am a woman artist, painting empowering images of women from the female gaze.” She explores femininity with evocative images of mythical and contemporary goddesses. Her current series of present-day goddesses portraits started in 2017 titled “Cultured Pearls Portraits.” Together this group of 150 portraits create a […]
Take a look into Atlanta and Meleager
Lebrun, Charles. Atalanta and Meleager. 1658, oil on canvas. 212.5 x 280.5cm. On Display: Walker Art Gallery iconographical analysis Story of the painting This painting is based on the Greek myth called Atalanta and the Calydonian Boar Hunt. This myth is about the hunt of a boar and the story’s […]
Don’t Let Google Control Your Marketing Assets
Here at FASO, we once lost all of our rankings in Google….sounds like a marketer’s worst nightmare, right? When Google dropped the original Panda [1] bomb, we had somehow incorrectly configured part of our robots.txt file, and left a section of the FASO site open to Googlebot that we had never […]
Ana Benaroya – ‘The Passenger’ @ Carl Kostyál « Arrested Motion
For her first show in the UK, Ana Benaroya has presented a new exhibition at Carl Kostyál Gallery in Mayfair called ‘The Passenger‘. While the body of work references Americana and a bygone era of Hollywood glamour, it does so while employing a distinctly contemporary depiction of women. The New […]
Derwent Chromaflow Cats Eye Tutorial
As part of our series of articles about Derwent’s pencil range artist Rosie Wallace shares this step by step tutorial to create a stunning cat’s eye. Rosie has used Derwent’s new beginner pencil range ‘Chromaflow’ which blend beautifully on Saunders Waterford hot press paper. Materials needed for this tutorial Derwent […]
Diane C.Frost and Aurélie Fréoua : A natural collaboration
Aurélie Fréoua (left) and Diane C.Frost (right) Diane C.Frost and Aurélie Fréoua are two London based artists working in different medium and styles. Diane C.Frost is a printmaker working with ink and paper to express herself, being also a linguist and writer. Aurélie Fréoua dives in color in abstract expressionists […]
Highlights from the Yolk exhibition with the Taurisano Collection
Each human begins as an egg but what came first? the chicken or the egg; the collector or the collection? The exhibition YOLK curated by Mollie Barnes founder of She Curates features 21 works from female identifying artists from the acclaimed Taurisano Collection. The exhibition works as an open discourse […]