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This Week: 9/7 through 9/13
4 Ways You Can Use YouTube to Promote
Your Art Online
Business Cards 101: For the Independent
21st Century Artist
Michael Naples: A Premier Daily Painter
Are Your Paintings Boring? Spice Things
Up with Creative Intervals
This Week: 8/31 through 9/6
How to Create a Photomontage in GIMP
Have Confidence in Your Artistic Calling!
Beautiful Abstract Paintings by Encaustic
Painter Karen Freedman
The Edges Tutorial: Using Indistinct
Edges to Create Unity in a Painting
An Introduction to Pixel Art (And How to
Create Your Own Pixel Artwork)
This Week: 8/24 through 8/30
How to Draw Simple Shapes in GIMP
Using the Pen Tool
StumbleUpon: An Effective (and Fun)
Way to Market Your Art Online
The Raw, Textural Landscape Paintings
of Richard Hearns
Using Notan as a Painting Strategy: A
Step-by-step Painting Tutorial
How to Turn One-time Art Buyers Into
Happy Return Customers For Life
This Week: 8/17 through 8/23
How to Create a Digital Painting In GIMP
How to Track Your “Press” Coverage
Online: Two Free Tools for Artists
Italian Villas and Gardens: Scenic Floral
Paintings by Maria Serafina
Seeing “Notan” - How to Make Stronger
Compositions Using Lights and Darks
The Evils of Splash Pages (And Why Art
Blogs are Still the Best Choice for Artists)
This Week: 8/10 through 8/16
How to “Unskew” and Color Correct
Images of Your Artwork in GIMP
How to Respond to Difficult Clients
(Using 4 Readymade Answers for Artists)
Of Railways and Locomotives: Three
Train Paintings by Richard Picton
Six Reasons Why Your Next Painting
Should Be a Self-Portrait
7 1/2 Practical Tips on How to Safely
Package and Ship a Painting
This Week: 8/3 through 8/9
How to Use GIMP to Resize and Crop
Images for the Web
Marketing Your Art Locally: 7 Reasons to
Market Your Artwork Closer to Home
Softly Lit, Impressionist Oil Paintings by
Dianne Mize
How to Draw Correct Proportions. . . Every Time
The Pro Mindset for Artists: How to
Think and Act Like a True Professional
This Week: 7/27 through 8/2
How to Download, Install, and Run GIMP
on a Mac (in Just 9 Easy Steps!)
8 Rules of Painting You SHOULDN’T Live
By (and Why)
Nature’s Brightest Hues: Still Life Flower
Paintings by Maureen Shotts
Trying Adwords For the First Time?
Here’s What Happened to Me
Producing a Community Art Event? Here’s
A Last Minute Checklist
This Week: 7/20 through 7/26
How to Download and Install GIMP on
Your Computer (PC Tutorial)
Drawing 3-Dimensional Objects (And
How to Fix Mistakes When They Occur)
Authentic Southwest Landscapes by
Texas Painter Kim Shields
How to Increase Participation at Your
Community Art Event
CafePress Buys Imagekind: Is This A
Win-Win or A Lose-Lose?
This Week: 7/13 through 7/19
Open Source Software for Artists: Why
You’ll Never Pay for Art Software Again
Twitter and Artists: Is Twitter the Next
Big Art Marketing Tactic?
Absolute Truth in Realism: Incredible Oil
Paintings by David Jon Kassan
How to Use Guidelines to Draw: A Lesson
in Drawing Direction and Movement
7 Foolproof Ways to Promote a Local
Community Art Event
This Week: 7/6 through 7/12
What’s the Most Difficult Part of a
Painting For You?
Need a Painting Reference? Clay Models
and Dioramas can Help!
Colorful Landscapes and Figures by
Dominique Amendola
Learning to Draw: The One Drawing Skill
Every Beginning Artist Needs
How to Plan a Community Art Event
This Week: 6/29 through 7/5
And the Winners of the ArtFlock and
EmptyEasel Art Competition Are. . .
The Pocket Art Movement: What you
Need to Know about ATCs and ACEOs
The Surrealist Duo: Collaborative
Paintings by Jim and Lynn Lemyre
Artocracy.org: Affordable Art Prints and
Downloadable PDF Artwork
Why Every Artist Should Consider
Organizing a Local Community Art Event
This Week: 6/21 through 6/28
Day 5: The Final Entries Have Arrived. . .
Day 4 of the ArtFlock & EmptyEasel “Win
a Website” Competition.
Competition Day 3: More Artwork and a
Final Call for Entries
Online Art Competition, Day 2. Ten More
Entries and a Second Chance to Vote
Day 1 of the ArtFlock & EmptyEasel “Win
a Website” Competition.
This Week: 6/15 through 6/21
Announcing the ArtFlock & EmptyEasel
“Win a Website” Competition!
Plein Air, Reference Photos, or Your Own
Imagination - How do You Create?
Elegant Lines, Forms and Figures:
Beautiful Paintings by Cliff Warner
The Changing Landscape of Photography
Artistically Stuck? Here’s One Way to
Jump-start Your Creativity
This Week: 6/8 through 6/14
This Week: 6/1 through 6/7
What’s the Best Brand of Oil Paint
According to Artists?
Why Photograph your Art? Instead, Use a
Scanner and Photoshop Elements 6
Brilliantly Lit: Beautiful Photography by
Rodion Yefymov
Creating Art on Commission Without
Getting Burnt: A Short Guide for Artists
This Week: 5/25 through 5/31
Do you Have your Own Studio Space for
your Art?
Avoiding the Art Portfolio Woes: Ten Tips
for Portfolio Success
Colorful Abstraction: Pastel Portraits by
California Artist Alicia Sotherland
The SEO Mindset for Artists: Are You
Ready for A Long Haul?
The Best Art Websites: A Look at Traffic
Trends (So Far) in 2008
This Week: 5/18 through 5/24
What Makes you Like (or Dislike) a
Specific Work of Art?
What to Put in Your Artist Statement, CV
(Curriculum Vitae), and Biography
Underwearhats and Donuts: Offbeat
Paintings by Stacy Brown
A Link, a Wink and a Smile: Smart
Outbound Linking for Artists
Should Artists Put Ads on their Websites?
Pros and Cons:
This Week: 5/11 through 5/17
Were You Encouraged to be an Artist?
Why I Use CafePress to Sell My Art
Priscilla Treacy: Painter and Printmaker
Want to Sell More Art? Try Marketing
Your Art Through Affiliates
Where Artists Sell Art: A Web Survey
of Nearly 300 Artists
This Week: 5/4 through 5/10
What Image-editing Software do You
Use? Poll Results Inside
The Printing Checklist: 7 Steps to Ensure
a Quality Print Job for Your Art
How to Add Depth of Field to your Photos
with Adobe Photoshop
How To Add Color To Black and White
Photos in Photoshop
How to Add Bleed and Crop Marks to an
Image in Adobe Photoshop
This Week: 4/27 through 5/3
Would you Rather Sell Original Art, or Art
Prints? Take the Poll. . .
A Brief History of Japanese Art Prints
(also known as Ukiyo-e)
Buildings, Boats, and City Streets:
Paintings by J.K. Chapman
My Review of Zazzle.com: Printable
Products and Posters on Demand
A Poem for Artists, by Robert Bruce
This Week: 4/20 through 4/26
How Much Time do you Spend on Art?
Finding Investors for Yourself & Your Art
Anamorphosis Art by Awtar Singh Virdi
CafePress.com: Where Art Becomes. . . Stuff.
Does Your Art Fulfill a Need? It Should.
This Week: 4/13 through 4/19
How Important Do You Think the Internet
Will Become for Artists?
My Art Was Stolen! What Do I Do?
Lois Eakin: Contemporary Realism in Oils
Etsy.com: A Place to Sell Fine Art Online
or Just Handmade Items?
If You’re a Niche Artist, Trade Shows and
Conventions Might be Your Best Bet
This Week: 4/6 through 4/12
Artist Portfolio Websites: How Much
Would YOU Pay for an Art Website?
Going from Amateur to Professional:
10 Words of Wisdom for Aspiring Artists
Ben Lustenhouwer: Portrait Painter in Oil
and Watercolor
On Your Lunch Break? Then Check Out
the Art at ArtBreak.com
Adwords & Artists: My Final Thoughts on
Advertising Art with Google Adwords
This Week: 3/30 through 4/5
What Keeps You From Your Art?
The Truth Behind Studio Visits: What
Artists and Art Buyers Should Know
Paintings by Shelley Hocknell Zentner:
Physical, Powerful, Intense
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or Paid
Advertising: Which is Best for Artists?
Imagekind and RedBubble Go
Head-to-Head: Who Will Win in 2008?
This Week: 3/23 through 3/29
Artist Poll: How Many Page Views Does
Your Art Blog or Portfolio Website Get?
Inktense Ink Pencils: Derwent’s Unique
Alternative to Colored Pencils
Finding Humanity in Clay:
Original Sculptures by Linda Lewis
Copyright Information for Artists:
How Copyright Laws Protect Your Art
5 Free Art Marketing Ideas for Artists:
How to Stand Out from the Crowd
This Week: 3/16 through 3/22
Plein Air Paintings from New Brunswick
Artist Michael Chesley Johnson
Art, Architecture, and Geometry: Black
and White Photographs by Paul Politis
When Suns and Fractals Collide: Brilliant
Digital Artwork by Nathan Selikoff
Jax Chachitz: Dynamic Abstract Paintings
Urban Photography by An Xiao: Haiku
Imagery and City Scenes
This Week: 3/9 through 3/15
Art Competitions: How Often do You
Enter Juried Art Shows or Competitions?
How to Write an Art Blog (So that Your
Visitors Won’t Leave)
Johannes Wessmark: Photorealism with
Colored Pencil and Watercolor
Artflock.com Goes Social, Adding More
Community Features for Artists
Finding Fulfillment as an Artist: How to
Figure out if Your 9-5 Job is Right for You
This Week: 3/2 through 3/8
What’s Your Favorite Artistic Medium?
Poll Results Below
How to Grow Your Mailing List - Here’s
One Artist’s Story of Success
The Art of Texture: Impasto Oil Paintings
by Trisha Lamoreaux
Adwords Quality Scores and Minimum
Bids: More Adwords Tips for Artists
A Special Thanks to EE Contributors
This Week: 2/24 through 3/1
Paying by Commission or by Monthly
Fees: Which would You Choose?
6 No-brainer Art Marketing Tips: So Easy
There’s no Excuse for not Using Them
Baiko’s Ikebana Art: The Japanese Art of
Flower Arranging
Artist Websites 101: Why Artists Should
Avoid JavaScript and Flash Websites
When Artists Start to Collaborate Online,
Both Buyers and Sellers Win
This Week: 2/17 through 2/23
Pricing Your Artwork: Where are YOUR
Prices At?
How to Make a Paintbrush Cleaner Jar
Stunning Textile Landscapes by Scottish
Artist Moy Mackay
A Look at Google Adwords’ Tools and
Features - From an Artist’s Perspective
Learning from the Presidential Election:
Similarities Between Art and US Politics
This Week: 2/10 through 2/16
What Inspires Artists? Where Do You Get
Your Inspiration for Art?
Mat Cutting Made Simple: How to Cut
Custom Mats with Logan Team System 2
Robin Cheers: Paintings of Life in Motion
Advertising Your Artwork with Adwords
But Not Getting Many Clicks?
To Watermark or Not To Watermark?
That’s the Artist’s Question.
This Week: 2/3 through 2/9
How Many Artists Have an Advertising
Budget? Poll Results Inside
What to do with Leftover Art? Collage it!
Miya Ando Stanoff: Steel Paintings of
Minimalist, Abstract Landscapes
How to Advertise your Art Online with
Google Adwords: The Sign-up Process
Boundless Gallery Adds Custom Framing
for Artwork Plus “Truly Free Returns”
This Week: 1/27 through 2/2
What do Most Artists think of Bob Ross?
Poll Results Inside
Finding “The Joy of Painting” with Bob
Ross and his Painting Techniques
Earthy, Ochre Landscape Paintings by Deborah Paris
Using Photoshop’s Healing Brush, Smart
Blur, Despeckle Filter, and Color Replacer
Tracking the Online Art Market: A Look at
10 Art Websites’ Monthly Visitor Stats
This Week: 1/20 through 1/26
Spontaneous and Intuitive - OR - Careful
Planner? Which Type of Artist Are You?
How do You Know When a Painting is
Finished? Learn to Take a Fresh Look
Sky-high Paintings: Sunsets and
Skyscapes by Gerald Schwartz
How to Use the Pen Tool in Photoshop:
A Tutorial on Outlining Objects
8 Sensible Projects for Artists: Things to
Do When You’ve got Time on Your Hands
This Week: 1/13 through 1/19
What Blogging Program do MOST Artist
Bloggers Use? The Winner is. . .
7 Methods for Painting Abstractly: My
Experience at an Abstract Painting Course
Benoit Philippe: Impressionist Watercolor
Paintings from the United Kingdom
How to Use the Curves Tool in Photoshop
to Add Contrast & Fix Washed out Photos
How Building an “Authority” Art Website
Can Help Me Sell My Art Online
This Week: 1/6 through 1/12
Resolutions for 2008? What Resolutions?
How to “Square Up” Photos of Your Art in
Photoshop with Free Transform & Liquify
It’s All in the Painterly Details: Daily
Paintings by Abbey Ryan
8 Must-read Art Blogs for 2008 - a Few of
the Best Art Blogs Online
Seven Things I Learned in 2007
This Week: 12/30 through 1/5
This Week: 12/23 through 12/29
What’s the Best way to Improve at Art?
Here’s your Answer.
7 Tips to Increase Art Sales on
Imagekind and other Art-selling Websites
The Art of the Horse: Equine Art by
Horse Racing Artist Sharon Crute
What is “Contrapposto” in Art? Here’s
an Explanation of Classical Contrapposto
Where is Google Ranking Your Art Site?
Find Out With SEOdigger.com
This Week:12/16 through 12/22
How Long have You Been an Artist?
A Review of the GetPaidToDraw Program:
Can you Really Make Money this Way?
Beautiful, Whimsical Still Life Paintings
by Cindy Revell
Edward Hopper: Not Just Another 20th
Century American Painter
Writing (and Bidding on) Facebook Ads:
An Advertising Tutorial for Artists
This Week: 12/9 through 12/15
Where do Most Artists Sell Art? Online, in
a Gallery. . .Where?
Implying the Details: Oil and Pastel Tips
from Desmond O’Hagan’s Workshop
Alex Garcia: Portraits in Egg Tempera
TalentDatabase.com: A Network for
Artists, Musicians, Writers and more.
Advertising Art on Facebook: How Artists
Can Use Facebook Ads to Target Buyers
This Week: 12/2 through 12/8
The Best Places to Buy Art Supplies:
(According to Other Artists)
Should Parents and Teachers Discourage
or Encourage Young Artists?
Linda Apple’s Daily Paintings: Small
Snapshots of Life
My Review of MyArtInfo.com: A New
Social Network / MySpace for Artists
How to Pack Your Painting Supplies and
Artwork for an Airplane Flight
This Week: 11/25 through 12/1
Daily Painting: A Sideways Look at the
“Painting A Day” Art Trend
Greg Marquez: Watercolor Paintings of
the Changing West
Romanticism: The “Emotional” Art
Movement of the 18th and 19th Century
The New ArtistRising.com: Minus Sistino,
Artist Rising Needs to Stand on its Own
This Week: 11/18 through 11/24
This Week: 11/11 through 11/17
Contrasting the Work of Cézanne and
Monet: Two Unique Paths To Modernism
My Review of Artwanted.com: Comparing
Features, Traffic, Pricing and More
From Breakfast to Dessert:
Still Life Paintings by Vic Vicini
What was Mannerism? Who were the
Mannerists? An Intro to 16th Century Art
5 Ways to Make your Art Website Better
(and Help your Artwork Stand out Online)
This Week: 11/4 through 11/10
Can Art be Taught? Or is Creating Good
Art Limited to the Naturally Gifted?
Denver Colorado’s ArtworkNetwork.com:
A More Local, Less Global, Art Network
Luminous Landscape Paintings
by Virginia Artist Jennifer Young
The Baroque Art Movement:
Artists and Artwork of the 17th Century
7 Tools and 3 Essential Skills Every Artist
Needs to be Successful Online
This Week: 10/28 through 11/3
Need Painting Inspiration? Try a Book!
A Review of Ugallery.com: The Online Art
Gallery for Emerging Student Artists
Remembering Childhood: Black and
White Photography by Richard Vanek
The De Stijl Art Movement (also known
as Neo-Plasticism)
How to choose a Domain Name (and
page URLs) for Your Art Website or Blog
This Week: 10/21 through 10/27
Artists’s Thoughts on Abstract Art
Paintings of Holland by Jiddje Straatsma
What is Cubism? An Introduction to the
Cubist Art Movement and Cubist Painters
1 Artist + 7 Tips for Writing a Press
Release = Free Newspaper Publicity
Two Tried and True Methods for Drawing
Attention to your Art Blog
This Week: 10/14 through 10/20
How to Prepare an Art Portfolio: A Guide
for Freelance and Self-employed Artists
The Surrealist Art Movement: André
Breton, the Subconscious, and Surrealism
Plein Air Paintings by Jan Blencowe
The Easiest SEO Tip for Online Artists:
Using Bold and Italic Keywords
This Week: 10/7 through 10/13
How to Add Incredibly Thick Texture
to your Acrylic Paintings
The Dada Art Movement (Or Anti-Art
Movement if you Prefer)
Pastel Paintings by Tennessee Artist
and Pastelist Paula Ford
Smart Linking for Artists: Using Anchor
Text to Increase Traffic to your Art
How to Increase Sign-ups and Ultimately
Sell More Art with your Newsletter
This Week: 9/30 through 10/6
Oil Paintings with Texture by Colorado
Artist Louis Dilts
Reverse Acrylic Paintings by Canadian
Artist Jeanette Jarville
Janet Vanderhoof: Painter and Colorist
Fields, Farmlands, and Barns: Landscape
Paintings by Michael Defrancesco
Dreamlike Paintings by Massachusetts
Artist, Tina Sotis
This Week: 9/23 through 9/29
How to Buy Art at Art Auctions: Advice
for Art Collectors and Art Investors
Art Nouveau:
Stylized Shapes and Curved Organic Lines
Abstract Textile Art by California Artist
Sarah Symes
Using Meta Descriptions for your Art
Blog: Another SEO Tip for Artists
Going from Part-time Artist to Full-time
Artist? It May Help to Adjust your Prices
This Week: 9/16 through 9/22
The Debate Continues: Original Art IS
Affordable; There’s no Need for Prints!
Artist Portfolios at AbsoluteArts.com:
Worth the Price or Not?
Brilliantly Bold: Black & White Paintings
by Sharon Cummings
BoundlessGallery Switches to Yearly
Fees & Lower Commissions for Artists
3 Reasons to Sign your Artwork and
2 Reasons Why I Choose Not To
This Week: 9/9 through 9/15
I Want to Sell my Art—where do I Start? Help!!
Searches That Went Awry:
How Some Visitors Found EE
Classical Landscapes by Paul Keysar
Prosperity and Posterity in the Art World:
Can Artists have Both?
Deep Linking Techniques for Art Bloggers
(and Artists with Online Portfolios)
This Week: 9/2 through 9/8
Why Sell Limited Edition Prints?
Art Should be for Everyone!
A Review of FineArtStudioOnline.com:
Portfolio Websites for Artists
Robin Kibby’s Urban Landscape Paintings
Contest at ArtistHideout.com
Understanding Inbound Links: For
Artist Bloggers and Art Website Owners
This Week: 8/26 through 9/1
Vineyard Patterns: A Plein Air Painting
Demonstration by Jennifer Young
Oil Paintings by Jeffrey Smith:
An Artist and Teacher from Minnesota
A Review of RedBubble.com: Online
Art Gallery and Creative Community
The Art Deco Movement: Technology and
Geometry Combined with Modern Art
How to Increase Traffic to your Art Blog
by Describing your Artwork for Google
This Week: 8/19 through 8/25
A Complete List of Oil Painting Supplies
that every Beginning Oil Painter needs
A Review of Artspan:
Contemporary Artists’ Websites
Paintings by Mick McGinty:
Vast Landscapes and a. . . Spice Caddy?
The Abstract Expressionist Movement
Are Personal Art Websites the Best Way to Promote Art Online?
This Week: 8/12 through 8/18
Super-realistic Pen and Ink Drawings by Melissa B. Tubbs
Deliciously Colorful Paintings by
California Artist Susan Jenkins
Mixed-media Artist Helen Harris:
Landscapes of Layered Paper
Seattle Artist Barbara Geri:
Small, yet Powerful Paintings
Night Time Photography by John Vias
This Week: 8/5 through 8/11
This Week on EE: Change is Good, right?
Those Art Deadlines can be Tough
What is Impasto? Thick, Textured Paint.
Need to Research Famous Artists?
Check out these Art History Websites
Claude Monet:
Plein Air Painter and Impressionist
UK Artist Vivien Blackburn: Paintings of the Sea
Thoughts on the Timeless Nature of Art
This Week: 7/22 through 7/28
All Work and no Play. . .
Chiaroscuro in Painting:
The Power of Light and Dark
Yessy Art Gallery: A Review
Mary Cassatt:
An American Female Painter in Paris
Oregon Artist, Michael Orwick:
Landscape Paintings Without End
Marketing your Art Online:
Introducing a New Kind of Artist’s Agent
This Week: 7/15 through 7/21
That Modern Art Stuff.
An explanation of Impressionism:
Manet, Monet, and other Impressionists
A Review of ArtByUs.com:
Sell your Art Somewhere Else
Eugene Delacroix:
19th Century French Romantic Painter
Stephen Farley: Textural Resin Paintings
Changes in the Works for Artist Rising
This Week: 7/8 through 7/14
An Art Gallery Cartoon: When in Doubt. . .
How to Stretch Canvas:
A Tutorial with Step-by-step Instructions
GoZabo.com:
Selling your Hand-crafted, Original Artwork
Colorful Paintings by Lisa Lorenz
Henri Matisse:
Fauvism’s most Colorful Painter
9 Reasons Why Every Artist
Should Have Their Own Art Blog
Weekly Preview: 7/1 through 7/7
On Color:
Things only an Artist would Say
How to Prime a Canvas:
A Tutorial on Priming with Acrylic Gesso
How many Imagekind Artists Pay
for a Pro or Platinum Membership?
Erik Tiemens:
Watercolor and Gouache Paintings
Georges Braque: Cubism’s other Creator
America doesn’t have Talent:
Why Boy Shakira Represents Art Today
This Week: 6/24 through 6/30
Learn to Paint like This Cartoon
Artist and You’re All Set.
The Color White: Pure, Cold, and Clean
Firefighting Art straight from the Fire Station: buy Firefighter posters, prints, and paintings
Brian Simons: Cityscape Paintings
Pablo Picasso:
20th Century Painter and Founder of Cubism
How to Give an Art Critique:
Constructive Criticism for Artists
This Week: 6/17 through 6/23
Iraq Fireworks - A Cartoon about Freedom
The Color Brown:
Plain, Predictable, and Safe
Is Artist Rising Dead?
Edgar Degas:
Paintings with Movement and Form
Oil Paintings by Debbie Miller