Art and Painting Tips: Artistic Advice and In-depth Art Tutorials for Artists

Dealing with clients can be tricky. The following paragraphs will give you some "readymade answers" for a few tough situations that most artists - at some time or another - will likely find themselves in.

Truly valuable paintings should always be shipped by an expert art moving company. Unfortunately, most of our artwork probably doesn't fit into that category, so it's up to us to package and mail our paintings ourselves.

One of the first things that artists might want to do in GIMP is to format images of their artwork for the internet - perhaps for an art blog or an online gallery. In this tutorial I'll be showing you ...

Many artists put all their marketing eggs in one big basket (the internet) yet there are still a lot of good reasons to promote your art in your own town. Here are seven benefits that I've come up with.

One of the most important skills any artist needs to have is the ability to draw something with the correct proportions. Proportion, by the way, is simply the size of an object in relationship to other objects around it.

For all artists envisioning a successful, financially secure career in art, the following article is my attempt to offer a few guidelines, observations and warnings about how to be a professional artist.

GIMP is an open source alternative to Photoshop that is available for both PCs and Macs. In today's article, I'm going to explain how to install GIMP on a Mac in just 9 steps.

It's the day of your community art event, and you're well-prepared. Now as long as the weather holds (or if you're indoors), you're good to go. Here's a last-minute checklist of the materials you'll need for a group painting event.

If you want to edit photos or create digital artwork, GIMP is a great free alternative to Photoshop Elements or Photoshop CS3. (The name GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program, by the way.) Here's how to download ...

In today's tutorial I'm going to start with a brief exploration into the illusion of dimension - in other words, the basic principle behind drawing 3D objects. Plus, I'll show you the BEST way to correct your drawings when things ...

The big day is here. You've planned your art event, you've promoted it, now it's up to the participants to make it a success. Here are a few techniques for making sure that everyone has a great time.