“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” Andy Warhol Licensing your art to a reputable company is a wonderful way to make your art available to the world. What I love about licensing: You’ll earn money off of one piece of art over and over again You… Continue reading
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Three Reasons Artists Would Need to use A Contract
Contracts are not fun to deal with. They are extra work, and for an artist, just painting is time-consuming. After all, can’t we all just trust each other? The big misconception about contracts is that they are only necessary for big dollar deals, or for strangers. The reality is that contracts help to avoid misunderstandings… Continue reading →
Fear Giving a Price Quote? The art of the Deal Memo
(This is a follow up to a post titled “The Artists Pain: Quoting and Negotiating Prices (A.K.A. the “BRO Deal”)” It’s a funny phenomenon that many visual artists share; the fear of giving a price quote. They worry that if their price is too high, it will scare the client away. If it’s too low,… Continue reading →
The Artists Pain: Quoting and Negotiating Prices (A.K.A. the “BRO Deal”)
“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” Andy Warhol Inevitably, as a creative type, you run into the uncomfortable situation where you are forced to enter into a negotiation on your pricing. It’s common for artists to be approached by someone who loves their work, only to… Continue reading →
Beware of the Online Art Contest – You Lose, even if you Win
This Blog post is re-printed from drewbrophy.com blog It’s an exciting thought, to simply download one of your art images for an online contest where the “winner” will have their art printed on a poster for the Flight of the Concords show! Wow, how great will it be that your artwork is selected out of… Continue reading →