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A smile is a great way to make a solid first impression. And while your art can't smile, it can be matted, mounted, and framed. Whether you're  matting and mounting to sell or matting and mounting for home decor, we've put together this guide to help you out. Contents 1 How to Hinge Mount 2 How to Mount with Mounting Corners 3 How to Mount with Mounting Strips How to Hinge Mount When matting and mounting prints, this is our go-to method. …

As artists, we create for the love. But creating artworks is expensive and you’d like to get at least some of that money back.Luckily, there are grants available for curators and artists. Certain organizations provide monetary support to artists to aid them in creating their artworks. They can be used to pay for materials, studio space, or even your rent. Getting these grants will not be easy as competition will be intense. But this guide will show you how to find the right grants and then how t …

She looked like an alien. All that was going through my head was,“Oh ****.”“But the photo looked perfect on my computer.”“But I had checked, double checked.”But, but, but it didn’t matter.It was the final print, and her skin tones had a hideous greenish hue that just wasn’t supposed to be there.It was one of my first times printing my works and as it turns out...I had been working on an uncalibrated monitor for years.Embarrassing.It was minor enough to be overlooked by the editor and the magazin …

There’s a certain magic around the “starving artist.” I felt it when I read Just Kids Patti Smith’s memoir. How she and Robert Mapplethorpe slept in doorways and begged for food—having only each other and their passion. Young, wild, and broke. Their journey as starving artists was hard and ugly, but through a mix of persistence and talent they break through and find success. They are the ideal. For most following in their footsteps, their journey will stay hard and ugly. Some of it s …

Pricing your artwork can be tricky. Too low and you lose money. Too high and you make no sales. And there lies the dilemma. How do you make sure you don’t lose money but still manage to sell your art? After all, the goal is to turn this art thing into a living. If you’re an emerging artist read on, and you’ll learn how to price your artworks so everybody wins.Doing The Math So You Don’t Lose Money When coming up with their pricing, some people like to use formulas, some like char …