New Beta Site Offers Online Portfolio + Store to Photographers, Illustrators, Graphic Designer, Fashion Designers

June 26, 2015 mariekazalia Leave a comment

Sell your photographs, illustrations and designs

With Picxe, you have your portfolio and unique online store in a single site. Picxe is positioned as a comprehensive service that allows you to share, organize and market your art, design, and photography images.

Picxe is in Beta. During this period, those who register and upload 30 images in at least 3 categories will receive the pro account for life!

The Picxe site is in Spanish. I’m a native English language speaker and I have studied Spanish. But can read more Spanish than I can speak. As a study exercise, I registered on the Picxe site without translating the site into English. Well, I did look up some Spanish words in my Translate iPad app while completing the Picxe site sign up on my computer. But, of course, you can use Google Translate to view the Picxe site in English or any other language. In case you don’t know, here are the steps: Go to Google Translate, which you can find here. Copy and paste this link: https://picxe.com into the first box, and set the language to Spanish. Set the second box to English or other language. Then click the green “Translate” Button. The entire Picxe site now appears in English, or what ever language you have selected.

Since Picxe is based in Spain, adding your designs and photography to the site could help you reach a new market for your work.

Find more photography and art sales resources here and here.

art sales, Calls to Submit

Pattern Bank: Artists,Want to Earn Money From Prints 24/7?

May 17, 2013 mariekazalia Leave a comment

Pattern Bank needs talented print designers!

• Want to earn money from prints 24/7 ?
• Get your prints seen by a truly global audience
• Free to join
• Upload your old archive of un-sold designs
• Build a custom sellers profile page
• Great commission from each design sold
• Stock and exclusive license options
• Prints can be sold in repeat and inspirational format
Patternbank is currently developing an exciting new section of their site. Through Patternbank.com you will soon be able to upload, sell and earn money on your print designs. We aim to offer an extensive library of high quality downloadable prints. Trend and print themes will be categorised for easy search options, making it simple for buyers to find the exact design they need for their new collection.
Join, upload, sell and earn from the comfort of your studio/home. Patternbank will soon become the go-to online source for all things print, pattern and graphics. With our extensive industry database we aim to get your designs under the noses of key buyers within the fashion and design sectors and showcasing your designs to a global audience around the clock.
If you would like to be one of the first to appear and sell designs in the ‘Patternbank Studio’ sign up now for the pre-launch application. Please email sell@patternbank.com with 4-6 sample designs. We will get back to you with our selling price structures and more detailed information of how you can join the Patternbank Studio.
*Please attach 4-6 print designs for studio accreditation. (max 2mb attachment – low res is fine as these are just for application). http://patternbank .com/

If you are an artist looking for more art sales opportunities, or an artist seeking art licensing opportunities visit our Artist Resources shop.

Calls to Submit

Jester Jacques Gallery Accepting Submissions From Artists

March 2, 2013 mariekazalia Leave a comment

In the past, I’ve posted news from Jester Jacques Gallery on this blog. Yet, the gallery is so active online, with great information shared in ongoing newsletter announcements that I felt their activity warranted a 2nd post.If you are an illustrator, tattoo artist, graphic designer, print maker or street artist, Jester Jacques Gallery WANTS TO SEE YOUR ART! Jester Jacques Gallery predominantly sell prints (screen prints, lino cuts and digital prints), but they are also open to selling drawings, any mixed media on paper and photographs. Email karen@jesterjacquesgallery.co.uk with a few examples of your work, as well as links to your website/portfolio for consideration.If you are a writer, Jester Jacques is constantly in need of contributors to their blog. if you enjoy reviewing exhibitions, have some interesting ideas to share about any genre of creative work – fashion, design, branding, illustration, etc. – they welcome your posts. Email info@jesterjacquesgallery.co.uk to suggests topics.Jester Jacques also offers free event listings for your upcoming art exhibitions, as well as running short features for new, small, emerging creative businesses. Email info@jesterjacquesgallery.co.uk with your events or background to your business.To get an idea of the art they like, view some recent submissions they loved enough to post to their website — here. For a list of thousands more gallery links + opportunities click here.

Calls to Submit

#Hashtag Gallery Call for Submissions

February 7, 2013 mariekazalia Leave a comment

CALL FOR ENTRIES: “JUST MY TYPE”

Show Runs March 14-17, 2013

#Hashtag Gallery is pleased to announce our 3rd group exhibition show titled “JUST MY TYPE”, and we are looking for artist submissions to fill the walls with great TYPOGRAPHY based artwork. Does your art have lettering in it? Words, or a message to it? Perfect! Bring it in!!

More Submission Details here: http://www.hashtaggallery.com/2013/01/30/call-for-entries-just-my-type/

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Streetlance Site Launched to Help Artists Make Money From Their Creative Skills

May 9, 2012 mariekazalia 1 Comment

Call For Artists: Mini Job Opportunity

Streetlance is a new online artist marketplace where people can buy and sell creative mini services!

The Streetlance.com goal is to inspire people to be more creative, so they will find their own way to make money online with their creativity. Streetlance will help bridge the gap between the artists’ expectations and the reality of employment.

The website beta version was launched a couple of months ago and Streetlance is looking for more talented artists to join their community. Fashion designers, writers, songwriters, entertainers, illustrators, painters, performers, dancers, musicians, graphic designers, videographers, typographers, are all welcome to join Streetlance.

The site offers artists great opportunities to pitch themselves and make money by doing microjobs. As freelance artist on Streetlance you can post a pitch and offer a small creative service for a small price which you can finish in for example 15 minutes. Great way to promote yourself, gain experience, make money, build up a portfolio and attract new clients. And by the way, small orders leads to big orders right?

To be successful, artists must be creative, think out-of-the-box and come up with unique ideas and custom services. Registering is free and you can post unlimited pitches–they even recommend you to do this. There are also tools available which you can use to share your pitch socially to attract more buyers.

Here are a couple of tips for selling on Streetlance:

It takes a unique pitch to sell your creative skills. Quality is important.
A pitch should be creative and uploaded with a real video with an introduction and example of your product or service.
You may include a link to SoundCloud or YouTube to showcase your work.

Join the Streetlance Artist marketplace!

Calls to Submit

3 Calls for Artists To Submit

April 20, 2012 mariekazalia 2 Comments

My own work (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1. Working Artists Org. $1,000.00 Purchase Awards, Call for Submissions from Artists Internationally: http://www.workingartist.org/art-grant-guidelines.html

2. Juicy Canvas Beta Launch, Call For Artists–Illustrations, Drawing, Graphic Design, Paintings: http://beta.juicycanvas.com/artists/faqs.html

3. 4Heads, a NYC-based arts group,created the Governors Island Art Fair project in which more than 100 artists will be chosen to receive exhibition space!

Artist materials

What You Can Learn From This Artist’s Approach

March 31, 2012 mariekazalia Leave a comment

After I accepted Dan St. Andrei’s friend request on Facebook, he sent me this note:

Thanks for accept, Marie!
It is also a great pleasure for me to invite you to visit my online portfolio. Your opinion will be challenging for me.
Have a nice weekend,
Dan
www.danandrei.com

dan st. andrei photography portfolio
danandrei.com
Dan St. Andrei in an art director, photographer and painter specializing in advertising, art photography and graphic design. Dan is based in Lisbon, Portugal, and also have studios in Miami, FL and Bucharest, Romania.

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His line “Your opinion will be challenging for me” caught my attention. It signaled his professionalism and confidence. His site is impressive too!

Dan’s approach impressed me. Some artists can learn from his approach.

Here are a couple of examples of how *not* to present your art–

I’ll never forget one artist who asked me to review her site to select art for one of my projects. I took the time to go over her site and copied one of her titles directly from her website then let her know that I could use that one for the project. She immediately emailed her reply *that’s not my title!” Her site is in such a mess that her art is mis-titled and she used that as impetus for lashing out. Another artist sent me a PDF of 100 numbered images to review. There were problems with his numbering on his images. Midway down the list numbers began repeating so that two completely different images had the same number. It may sound harsh, but most would have trashed the PDF and not replied. But I was kind enough to reply and inform him of the problem. In his responding reply, rather than correct his numbering system and resend the corrected PDF, he sent me instructions that I should count –1,2,3, etc. Like I needed a lesson in how to count to 100!

Get your materials in order before sending them out. If you need help you will find my ebook guide for artist making submissions and submission resource lists here.

Promotion Tools

Design Spiffy Custom Design For You For Less $$

March 14, 2012 mariekazalia Leave a comment

“I have more than 10 years of print and web development experience. I bring a wealth of design principles to designspiffy.com creating a polished and original effective design,” says Sylvia Pekarak owner of Design Spiffy.

Sylvia has developed corporate identities, advertisements and packaging for promotional sales in high-tech design for scientific development and the fashion industry, working with such high-profile clients as Princess Cruise Lines and Toby Keith. She is ready to offer her personal attention in creating to meet your needs.

Design Spiffy will custom create a logo for you for $50.00 –postcard designs and banner ads for the same low price.

“I am confident that my combination of practical work experience and solid educational training has prepared my design company for the many levels of graphical elements needed in this fast pace evolving, electronic era,” states Pekarek. “I fully understand the level of professionalism and communication required for long-term success in this field, creating prompt and effective design so your company gets NOTICED.”

Design Spiffy operates on a quality foundation of unwavering ethics and quality results, with satisfaction guaranteed.

Sylvia Pekarek is an artist who studied at the Academy of Art University and majored in Graphic Design, lending her love for art to every aspect of the design process– proof-reading artwork, print, design, art production, and catalog design. Sylvia says, “I have an artistic eye and it far extends the print graphic world and enters into digital photography, painting, web design,and illustration.”

designspiffy.com

At Design Spiffy, Sylvia creates logos and branding elements for a large number of clients, including web to high print quality logos, content, posters, professional presentations, icons, and banners/designs, digital photography, branding, identity development.

See the various affordable packages available to fit your design needs and budget on the Design Spiffy site.

You do not see what you are looking for in one of their graphic packages, Sylvia will create a custom package to fit your business needs.