Art is important. It is also important to know how to make it when you are working with a limited budget. If you do not have the budget to pay someone to make art for you, it helps to know how to do it yourself.

Treat this as a multi section blog about all things art and include a section for Artist for Hire

The goal of this site is to provide a forum for artists and art enthusiasts to share their views, work and experiences. In particular, I’m looking for a few mentors who will be willing to share their tips and tricks for the aspiring artists. If you would like to submit your art or be an Artist for Hire, please contact me through the links below.

I’m looking for someone interested in creating the following sections:

Artists for Hire (artists who are willing to do custom work)

Free Art (art that can be downloaded)

Paid Art (art to buy)

General Advice and Help (for artists)

Art is a hard business, even if you are good at it. Most people aren’t, but they still want to be artists. That’s fine, but if you want to make money, you need to understand that most of your competition will be doing something related to art. People who are trying to sell art as a service are not necessarily competing with people who are trying to sell art as a product.

Artists for Hire

If you think that being an artist is fun, but also a lot of work and worry and self-promotion, and you have something else you’d rather do with your time, you may want to consider being an Artist for Hire.

This blog is about how to do exactly that. I will post helpful hints about marketing yourself as an artist in various ways along with the occasional rant about why it seems like more trouble than it’s worth. And then I’ll post some art too.

We live in the world of free content and ubiquitous advertising. If your goal is fame or fortune, selling paintings might be harder than ever and selling yourself might be easier than ever.

Many people do not know what art is. This is because they have never been taught to look at art. The only way to learn about art is to look at it. One cannot read or study about art, one can only experience it.

Who decides what is art? The artist does.

Your job as an artist is to make something and then tell people that it is art. If you are successful, then your audience will decide whether or not your work is art. If you are unsuccessful, then you have failed as an artist because you did not communicate your vision clearly enough.*

*Artists who are unsuccessful with the public should not be discouraged by this fact. This simply means that they need to study more in order to clarify their expression of their vision so that others may understand them more easily and appreciate their work more deeply.*

Artists must always grow and develop their craft in order to produce the best possible work for those who choose to view it. Artists who do not improve upon their knowledge and skills of their craft become stagnant and cease to create good work, resulting in a loss of credibility as an artist in their field. Not all artists will agree on what is good work or bad, but if you produce poor quality work over a long period of

Art is an important part of any culture. Whether it’s a cave painting or a photo of the family, art lets you capture a moment so it can be remembered, appreciated and shared with others.

Trying to master art takes time and energy. With so many things competing for your attention, how can you learn how to create art?

Here are some hints:

1) Begin with what you know. Art is about expressing who you are. So start by drawing yourself, or someone you know. You’ll have something concrete, something that represents you – and if you do it well, it will also look good!

2) Start simple. When I started learning art I was overwhelmed by all the different styles, mediums and techniques out there. After I had the basic idea of creating art down, I started looking at other examples of how other artists worked in different styles to find the ones that were most appealing to me.

3) Practice every day. Creating art is like a muscle: the more you work it, the stronger it gets. If you want to become good at it, practice as often as possible!

4) Find other people to learn from. The more opportunities you have to share your art with others and get their feedback,

Art is easy if you don’t care about it. It is hard if you do, which is why most people don’t.

Art is also easy in your head and hard on paper. It’s all just marks on paper, but the question “does this say what I mean?” can be surprisingly difficult to answer. Perhaps that’s why so many first drafts are abandoned.

The same thing goes with art that isn’t in words; anyone can come up with the idea for a painting or a song, but executing the idea well takes skill and effort, and it may take many drafts to get it right. And of course there is no such thing as a perfect painting or song, so it never really gets finished; you just run out of time and have to stop.

And there’s another complication: good art is not just something that looks good or sounds good, but something that looks good or sounds good to other people. Why do some colors go together and some don’t? Why do some combinations of notes sound pleasant while others sound jarring? You could explain the physics behind it all day long, but you still wouldn’t know whether your combination of colors or notes would work until you actually tried it out on someone else.

Why do people find some things

Art is not a profession or a career. It can’t be taught in school, and it’s not something you get better at with practice. It’s a gift, like singing or telling jokes. But because we treat art as a kind of handicraft, as if anyone with enough patience and native talent can do it, we have forgotten that it is one of the most difficult things people can do.

We talk about “starving artists,” but no other group of workers are expected to succeed without pay. No one would trust an accountant who didn’t charge for his services, or a lawyer who gave his advice away. If they tried, they’d be driven out of business by their more efficient competitors; only those who did charge would survive.

Artists are expected to work for free, and their survival is seen as proof of the inherent virtue of their work. We say that only the best artists will be able to make a living from their art, but then blame them when they aren’t rich and famous. And even though there are businesses that profit from art—galleries, magazines that review it, auction houses—no one expects them to pay for the privilege.

No wonder so many talented people give up trying to make art. If I had the