Become a guest artist - How to provide an article for our website
If you are thinking of submitting an article for inclusion on this website, the first thing we want to say to you is thank you.
If you are an amateur or professional artist, regardless of calibre or medium or run a small/medium art business/store, we encourage you to share your knowledge with our readers on anything art related. We are looking for articles that offer high-quality content from artists/businesses with experience.
If you wish to check out one of our other guest posts, click the link below.
View our guest post by Welsh artist Chris Chalk here
We have nearly 500 subscribers to our newsletter (and growing) and our website receives an average of 2,000 page views a week. We continue to add quality content and regularly work to improve our SEO.
Any article submitted should be written by yourself, but not copied word for word from your own website (and especially not from someone elses's).
Please read our terms & conditions at the bottom of this page before submitting your ideas. You can fill in our contact box, briefly explaining your idea and include any links to the original article on your website or blog so we can check it out and see if we feel it may interest our readers.
Below are a few ideas, however we appreciate that 'art' covers a vast landscape, so use them as a guide only.
If you are an amateur or professional artist, regardless of calibre or medium or run a small/medium art business/store, we encourage you to share your knowledge with our readers on anything art related. We are looking for articles that offer high-quality content from artists/businesses with experience.
If you wish to check out one of our other guest posts, click the link below.
View our guest post by Welsh artist Chris Chalk here
We have nearly 500 subscribers to our newsletter (and growing) and our website receives an average of 2,000 page views a week. We continue to add quality content and regularly work to improve our SEO.
Any article submitted should be written by yourself, but not copied word for word from your own website (and especially not from someone elses's).
Please read our terms & conditions at the bottom of this page before submitting your ideas. You can fill in our contact box, briefly explaining your idea and include any links to the original article on your website or blog so we can check it out and see if we feel it may interest our readers.
Below are a few ideas, however we appreciate that 'art' covers a vast landscape, so use them as a guide only.
Product recommendations
This includes a wide range of art products - Paper, canvas, board, brushes, paints, pencils, scratchboard, pens, accessories, easels, storage, in fact most products found in your favourite art shop, art catalogue or online store.
EXAMPLE
Please include your own thoughts regarding advantages and disadvantages on the product(s) where you have personally tested them (where applicable) as these can be very useful.
EXAMPLE
Please include your own thoughts regarding advantages and disadvantages on the product(s) where you have personally tested them (where applicable) as these can be very useful.
Useful information - hints and tips
This includes how to's, a guide to (Insert subject), medium/product comparisons, how to get the best out of a product, recommendations and literally anything that provides high quality content for the reader.
Step by step tutorials
This includes written step by step guides to working with a medium, a favourite product and it's use, subject creation such as eyes, fur, feathers etc, creating a product for use in a studio ie: storage ideas etc.
Medium techniques
Share your own working styles, preferably with photos too.
We cover coloured pencils, graphite pencils, soft pastels and acrylics, so if you use a different medium, we are even more excited to include your article/blog/tutorial.
We cover coloured pencils, graphite pencils, soft pastels and acrylics, so if you use a different medium, we are even more excited to include your article/blog/tutorial.
Business advice for artists
If you have some good advice that helped you in your own art business ie. legal, pricing, advertising, websites, starting out, etc etc....
Exhibiting advice
Any help, advice and tips on exhibiting in galleries, shops, framers, craft fairs, etc etc
Framing advice
Help on framing, specific medium framing ie: pastels, canvas, glass types, hanging/placing framed art etc etc etc.
Any other article you feel may be of interest, drop us an email outlining your ideas and we will get back to you.
Terms & Conditions
Please be aware of copyright laws
Any article you submit must have been written by yourself. Please do not copy and paste an article from another website, even if it is your own - please adapt it to avoid any website(s) being penalised by search engines. Any images provided must be copyright free (preferably taken by yourself). You may wish to add a company logo to each image before sending them to us. You must provide us with written proof that you allow us to use your article and images on our website. This can be done via email, which we will save for future reference.
Any article you submit must have been written by yourself. Please do not copy and paste an article from another website, even if it is your own - please adapt it to avoid any website(s) being penalised by search engines. Any images provided must be copyright free (preferably taken by yourself). You may wish to add a company logo to each image before sending them to us. You must provide us with written proof that you allow us to use your article and images on our website. This can be done via email, which we will save for future reference.
Advertising
Any article submitted with heavy self promotion will not be included - the articles submitted through this site are provided to offer help and advice to all but is not for advertising purposes. Whilst we are happy to accept recommendations for products, DVD's, books etc, we do not feel that self promotion provides genuine content.
Get in touch if you wish to advertise a product/business with us. Please ensure it is inline with the content found on our website. Fees will vary depending on the amount of content you wish to provide. We will stipulate that it is a paid advert, so our viewers can distinguish between paid and organic content.
Any article submitted with heavy self promotion will not be included - the articles submitted through this site are provided to offer help and advice to all but is not for advertising purposes. Whilst we are happy to accept recommendations for products, DVD's, books etc, we do not feel that self promotion provides genuine content.
Get in touch if you wish to advertise a product/business with us. Please ensure it is inline with the content found on our website. Fees will vary depending on the amount of content you wish to provide. We will stipulate that it is a paid advert, so our viewers can distinguish between paid and organic content.
Offensive content
Please avoid any offensive comments in your post such as profanity or negative comments about another person. If you have had a bad experience with a company and feel that adding this in is relevant to the article, we will stipulate that this is a personal opinion by the writer not the website owner. However, if we feel it is inappropriate or unnecessary, we will have to remove it.
Please avoid any offensive comments in your post such as profanity or negative comments about another person. If you have had a bad experience with a company and feel that adding this in is relevant to the article, we will stipulate that this is a personal opinion by the writer not the website owner. However, if we feel it is inappropriate or unnecessary, we will have to remove it.
Quotations
Any quotes included in an article must be accompanied with the 'quoters' website address ie. Derwent, Faber Castell etc
Any quotes included in an article must be accompanied with the 'quoters' website address ie. Derwent, Faber Castell etc
We reserve the right not to include your article if we deem it unsuitable. This could be for a number of reasons, the main one being that it does not compliment the content found on our own website. It may also be due to poor readibility or low quality information.
We do check websites to ensure they are genuine, so please do not be offended if we cannot accept your article if it appears to be from an untrustworthy site.
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We do check websites to ensure they are genuine, so please do not be offended if we cannot accept your article if it appears to be from an untrustworthy site.
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