The fine art of business or the business of fine art.

After just my first day of researching different fine artists who paint abstract with texture I’ve found at least 4 websites that feature artists that are pumping out a lot of artwork.

Osnat Tzadok is an artist that really has her online presence going in a big way. She sells her art at an average price of $720 per original canvas and will recreate a similar painting if you want one that she has already sold. She sells on eBay and claims to have been doing so for years and does quite well.

She even has Google headers of her paintings you can use as well as press releases and all kinds of promotion going. She seems to have figured it out as a business. http://www.osnatfineart.com/ is her web address if you want to check her out.
She’s even got her online images protected and you can’t copy anything even to show her work elsewhere.

Then there is the fine art “clearing house” type of site which claims to be a global community but doesn’t really appeal to me as an artist. It’s called Fine Art America and you can join for free but it costs $90 a year to start promoting your work there for prints on demand. http://fineartamerica.com/

I found a couple living in New Jersey that work together as artist that seemed to be doing quite well as abstract expressionists as well as a professor of art in Philadelphia who uses Photoshop to create digital abstract paintings.

So, is it the fine art of business or the business of fine art I’m getting into here? Seems like a bit of both as I thought it would be.

This piece is a digital painting of my wife Robin created from a photograph taken in 2007 in our back yard.