Start Selling Art Online For Free!

To ensure a good looking display for your artwork you need to properly think of how your art is going to hang your work. Whether it is in a home, an art show or art festival the first thing you should consider is having your painting at eye level. What I mean is that the center of your painting or artwork should be at eye level. No matter what size the painting you’re going to hang it should be hung at eye level. If the painting is too big you may have to find a larger space or hang a smaller work of art.      

Another way to make your space look aesthetically pleasing is grouping your artwork. If the space is large or you have a series of pieces grouping them will be excellent for your space. The unique thing about grouping is that it can work as one work of art or as different entities.

Thirdly, you want to think about the amount of space between your artwork and other objects. Sometimes when you have artwork close together it can look cluttered. No matter how much artwork you have you don’t want to have artwork hung close together just to save space because it will be hard to see the artwork on its own.

Lastly, you definitely want to use the proper tools to hang your work. If you are hanging a painting, please use the proper wiring on the back of the painting, especially if it is a heavy painting with a frame. Always have a strong wire on the back along with hard strong hooks so the wire can attach to it. There’s nothing worse than a painting falling or the wire coming a loose while on display.

Also check out How to Hang Your Art at Art Festivals

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Michel Keck, also known as the “raw artist” used the number one e-commerce site in the world to catapult her art career to next level. She didn’t use galleries, outdoor festivals or any other traditional market strategy that we also know of from the past. With diligence and hard work she used one site to sell hundreds of paintings online. The site she used was eBay. Yep, you heard right eBay.
The first quickest way you as an artist can begin to sale art online with a low overhead is using eBay. There are millions of users on eBay everyday and one way to be in front of those millions is positioning yourself on eBay. eBay is unique because you have over millions ready to buy online. Yes Google have millions of searchers a day but they are not all buyers. There is a difference; the people who go to Google are browsers and the people on eBay are buyers. So you definitely want to go where the buyers are. There are millions of people on eBay with their credit card information already in their hand ready to make a purchase. The key is to get in front of those potential buyers.

The second quickest way to start selling your art online is to utilize online art directories or online galleries. There are several to choose from. They all have their pros and cons but if you are looking for a quick way to sell art online, online galleries are great. One way physical galleries search out artist is by checking out these galleries to find artists they can represent. There are several online galleries to choose from. You have

yessy.com, artspan.com, boundlessgallery.com, emptyeasy.com and many more. Most of them have reasonable setup fees and get a great deal of traffic which is very important. You may want to be careful with how the company markets their site or if they market at all. I’ve used a couple of them and have gotten some great feedback. A very popular one is Etsy which is fairly new and has not been around as long as eBay. The cool thing about Etsy is that the site caters only to artists and crafters but not all sellers like eBay. I know several artists who are making a lucrative income using Etsy. The setup is easy and user friendly which allows the site to be a great way to sale art online.

The third quickest way to sell online is with a blog. They are fast, easy to setup and can be used in various ways. More and more artists are going this route because you don’t have any setup fees or auction fees like eBay. The downside to having a blog is that you are going to have to drive traffic to your blog without any help as oppose to eBay and online galleries where there is always traffic flow on a daily basis. On the other hand, having an artist blog can set you apart from other artists and buyers will not be distracted by other artist and their work. The number one platform for setting up a blog is

WordPress.org and secondly blogger.com. So check them out.

Just remember selling art online is possible and has the ability to serve as another or the only means to making sales with your art. You can choose one of or all three and have multiple streams coming in. Keep in mind that it will be a lot of work posting images and information about your work on all three sites which can keep you from the important purpose of all this, which is creating your work.

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1. You can use blogs to drive traffic to your main site: The more you post something on your art blogs the better your chances of more people seeing your art blog. Google loves blogs and if you have links in your art blog pointing to your main website there will be a good chance people will see and click on the link to your site.

2. Great way to have presence an online. Blogs are free or very inexpensive to have. If you don’t have a regular website you can start with a blog to get you up and running.

3. Sell your work. With PayPal and other online shopping carts, you can easily plug a pay button on your art blog. The button can be placed directly under the image of your artwork. You may have heard of “A painting A Day”, where artists create a painting a day and post the image of the painting on their blog with a link to purchase it on eBay. Two examples of this are, duanekeiser.blogspot.com  and http://carolmarine.blogspot.com/

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