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Turn your art into fine art prints!

Turn your original art into high quality fine art prints - If you’re not offering prints of your artwork here’s your sign to start now! When I started turning my original artwork into high quality prints, my income JUMPED. It may seem small, but prints are one of the smartest things you can do if you want to have a successful art business.

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How to select artwork that works well together

I often get asked how to start a gallery wall or which art prints work well together, so I’d show you a few options to help kick off your creative juices. When I first begin picking paintings that could work together I like to think about the space, are these going to hang close to each other (like in a gallery wall or paired over a entry table?

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How to work through a creative rut as an artist- 5 tips

In my lifetime of creating art and my 5 year of business I have become good friends with the “creative rut.” Those dry seasons as an artist when the creativity feels harder to come by or your ideas just feel not in alignment with some part of yourself. When I feel like I’m creatively stuck I found these 5 tips helpful to get the juices flowing and find new inspiration.

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Stuck inside more than usual? I’ve got some printable coloring pages you might like.

You’re probably like me, weeks into this global COVID19 pandemic and you’re stuck at home, maybe with kiddos and the ideas of how to keep us entertained has diminished. Really though, how are you filing your days? Well early on I knew I needed a few things to keep me sane during our Washington “stay at home” mandate and I’m sharing a few of these things with you… like the printable coloring pages I made!

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My First Art Walk - How I Created my gallery Wall on a budget

If you have been around this blog for any period of time than you know how much I love a good DIY and as much as I love DIY's I almost love spray paint even more. So when I got asked to participate in my first local downtown artwalk I was thrilled/nervous and completely unprepared to be honest. So I got back to my roots… spray paint that is. I’m pretty sure spray paint can solve 99% of life’s problems.

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