Resources For Artists

This is the program that I use for photo editing. I’m not too fond of the Adobe Subscription, and this program can be bought outright for way less. As the only fully-loaded photo editor integrated across macOS, Windows, and iPad, Affinity Photo is the first choice of millions of creative and photography professionals worldwide.

This is the most excellent place, offers science kits, educational toys, school supplies, arts and …

This is the checklist I use to keep track of things when I am putting together an art exhibition.

This is a checklist I use to make sure I am not missing anything when I am working on an art installation.

Art Prof is a safe, nonjudgmental, educational space that’s free and full of really useful resources.

This is an art learning subscription service. All skill levels are welcome, and the projects are suitable for ages 8 and up. The projects will help aspiring artists build skills and experiment with different mediums.

This is where I go online to get most of my art materials.

An illustrator making cute art for companies and showing other artists how to do the same.

This is where I share how I build my various easels.

Simple and easy graphic design program for logos, business cards, flyers, social media graphics and banners, etc.

This is by far the best mock-up website I have ever found. Sign up through this link and get THREE MONTHS FREE and try it out.

Clear Bags This is where I buy my protective plastic sleeves for art prints.

This is a place where you can find art festivals and shows.

This is a non-profit organization that is free to join and offers resources for freelancers and independent workers, including healthcare resources, education, advocacy, financial planning, and special rates on products and services that may benefit you. Their for-profit Freelancers Insurance Company funds them.

Although you may not have access to the class, this worksheet will help guide you in writing an awesome and fun artist BIO.

This is where I order all my marketing material, like business cards and whatnot. I know many people use Vistaprint, but I do not. This is a better deal if you order 1000 and up. Their customer service sucks, but I’m always happy with my orders.

Purchase lapidary, raw materials, and tools for jewelry …

Inkscape is a Free and open source vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS. It offers a rich set of features and is widely used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagramming and flowcharting. It uses vector graphics to allow for sharp printouts and renderings at unlimited resolution and is not bound to a fixed number of pixels like raster graphics. Inkscape uses the standardized SVG file format as its main format, which is supported by many other applications including web browsers.

This is my second place to get art materials and supplies. Look for coupons.

Once inside a collection, select ‘View all’ and make sure to click the ‘Larger image available anywhere’ tickbox to show only images with high res versions to download.

This site has more links of websites where you can find images. Sometimes when I get stuck, I go there and look around.

This free service allows us to intergrate woocommerce, etsy, and other platforms for shipping commercial and save money on shipping. It is pretty amazing—all our shipping resources are in one place.

This is a chapter from my money book which covers detailed instructions on different methods you can use to price your art.

For my print on demand, I use printful. They can be integrated with woocommerce, Etsy, and many other shops.

The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed, is the voice of the UK’s self-employed population who make up one in seven people working today. We make sure freelancers, interim managers, consultants and contractors are represented to Government.

This is where Klee gets a lot of her metals and jewelry tools.

This is the site where Klee gets her needle felting wool and supplies, they also …

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Easy to use website templates & hosting. They offer e-commerce setup, custom email management, and social media integration.

This is where Klee get’s a lot of the gold, diamonds, and more high-end components for jewelry making.

Want to know how to apply materials to any surface? Substrate Index From Justpaint.org A really awesome and in-depth index of surfaces and how to prepare them for painting.

This is where I pick up most of my shipping supplies, shipping is a bit expensive, but it is quick and worth ordering in bulk.

This is the contract I use when I hang my art for sale at a local business. I use this contract when posting my tags and taking care of the sales myself by having contact info on each tag.

We have our site at wordpress.com, which is owned by Automatic. There is a difference between what you get with .org vs .com. We sell things from our site using woocommerce plugin.

This is something we created years ago that helps us keep track of what we want to discuss and focus on throughout the year.

This is a planner I use for planning out large projects for the year. Use this to hold yourself accountable to follow through.

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