"Art Business - Resources for Artists" has had a major revision

Three Black Parrots
16" x 12", pencil in Muji sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

Art Business - Resources for Artists has had a good old spring clean and revamp! I've sorted, turfed, given it a good vac, moved the furniture around and generally 'fluffed'!

It's become a massive site since I started it back in August 2006. During that time it has collected its own group of fans, consistently receives good ratings and plaudits from people who come across it and has consistently been in the top 100 art sites on Squidoo.

However, I've recently been concerned that the growth now meant it was also cluttered and disorganised. The first module in particular - aimed at the emerging artist had become very long. Plus the module devoted to my blog posts about the art business and related matters had become very long

So I've reorganised the modules, introduced some new ones, moved information around so it now sits in the module which it best fits and deleted some material completely so it can go on another site. I've split the Making A Mark blog posts up into sections.

New modules I've added relate to:

• Being a Professional Artist
• Marketing and Selling Art
• The Art Economy
• Selling Art through Galleries
• The Daily Painting phenomenon

There is a new Table of Contents at the beginning of the site (see below). Looking at that provides a quick overview of contents. Click any link in that table and it will take you straight to the section you want to visit. I'm beginning to think it needs a 'back to the top' function!

In broad terms, information is now organised as follows:

• Information for those getting started
• Reality checks for experienced artists
• Being a Professional Artist
• The Business of Art - Useful websites
  
• Marketing and Selling Art
• Websites and Blogging
  
• Copyright
• Pensions
• Geographically specific links
  

You can find out about....................
just click on a link to go straight to that topic

• Starting Out - what do you need to know?
• BOOKS: Getting started
• Reality Checks
• Being a Professional Artist
• The Business of being an Artist - sources of information
• The Art Business: Internet forums
• JOURNALS: Art Business magazines and journals
• Organising yourself, your artwork and your studio
• Marketing and Selling Art
• Making a Mark - on the Art Economy
• Making A Mark - on Marketing and Selling
• e-mail marketing, newsletters and mailing lists
• The Painting A Day Phenomenon
• Selling Art through an Art Gallery
• Advertising On-line
• Art Commerce sites on the Internet
• How to avoid scams and fraud
• Art Shows and Competitions
• Art Licensing
• BOOKS: Where to start with marketing your art
• Making A Mark - on Blogging and Websites
• Websites and weblogs
• Blogging for Artists
• Social media Marketing - tips and techniques
• Business Blogs for artists
• Business blogs - generic advice and information for bloggers
• Computer software for the business end of being an artist
• SOFTWARE: Adobe Photoshop Elements software for the Artist
• JOURNALS: Artist Magazines and Journals
• Copyright, trademarks and web protection
• Photography and Printing
• Continuing Development
• Pensions for Artists
• JOURNALS: More magazines and journals for the artist
• Art in the UK
• The Art Business - workshops and events in the UK
• Art Consultants - UK
• Art in the USA
• Art Consultants - USA
• Art in Australasia
• New GapingVoid Cartoons
• Making a Mark
• Comments and suggestions

Art Business - Resources for Artists

Swan Song
16" x 12", pencil in Muji sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

Now for the interactive bit!

Let me know what you think about:

• the new structure of the site - Does it seem sensible? Can it be improved?
• the content on the site - What's missing? What do you want to know more about?
  

I'm always happy to take suggestions for new links. If you'd like to make a comment or suggestion you have a choice. Either use the comments function on this post or post it as a comment on the site.

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About The Parrot Tulip Drawings

I drew flowers all last week while visiting the botanical art events - so here are a couple of the drawings I did. They're more sketches than drawings as I didn't use archival paper. I was trying out a new Muji sketchbook which measures 16" x 12" (407x320mm). The size is nice to draw on but a pain to scan as I need to stitch the scans together and then remove all the weird colours which emerge when scanning graphite!

You can see more drawings of flowers by viewing the online galleries for flowers and plants on my website Pastels and Pencils

• Drawings of flowers in colour
  
• Drawings of flowers - in pen and ink
• Small works - floral and botanical
  
• Drawings of plants and cacti
  
• Fine Art Prints of pictures of flowers which include a gallery of monochrome prints of drawings in pen and ink