(To learn about art licensing: sign up for my FREE ten week series called “ART LICENSING MADE EASY” which teaches how to license your art, negotiate contracts and know what to charge $$$. SIGN UP HERE! ) An artist wrote me to say that she wants to license her abstract artworks to be sold on products. But… Continue reading
Posts tagged licensing
Should You Send Your Art Images to a Company in China?
One of my readers asked: “A company from China saw my art online and loved it! They asked me to send 3 images they can print on fabric. They promise to pay me royalties when the fabric sells. I’m not sure I trust them, but I really want to do it. How should I… Continue reading →
Five Steps to Closing a Deal – Artist’s Trade Show Follow Up
(Artwork by the wonderful, fun and talented Sara Jane Franklin. Check out her blog here!) When Drew and I started showing his art at trade shows, the mission was to generate interest from publishers so that we could license Drew’s art to them. The first year we exhibited at License Expo in New York, we had no… Continue reading →
Art, Business and Happiness – Helpful Links
There are countless resources out there. Do you remember life before the internet? If we wanted to know how something worked, we had to track down the experts ourselves or go to the library and hope to find a book on it. Now, the we have information at our fingertips! Below are links that… Continue reading →
Help, a big company wants to license my art. What do I Do?
An Emergency E-mail arrived and I know that a lot of artists find themselves in this position at sometime or another: “I found your blog a month ago and have been reading it religiously. You give such great information! But now I have an EMERGENCY: I have a friend that has created some characters. She… Continue reading →
Branding Art from Surfboards to Greeting Cards – by Kate Harper
Branding Art: from Surf Boards to Greeting Cards – Reprinted with permission and Written by Kate Harper for her GREETING CARD DESIGNER BLOG What do surf boards and greeting cards have in common? Everything. When I first read the story of Maria and Drew’s surfboard design business, Son of the Sea, Inc, I felt like I… Continue reading →