5 Main Problems of an Artist: Getting Prints Made

At the beginning of this blog I went over 5 main problems I had encountered as an artist that I wanted to go over at various points in my blog. These are mainly situations regarding selling and marketing your art. In case you haven't been with me the whole time, here they are again:

Problem #1: How do you get prints made of your art?

Problem #2: How to get a good website without paying a couple month's salary for it.

Problem #3: How to really promote yourself and make your work known.

Problem #4: How to get your art in galleries, have art shows, and have your art displayed.

Problem #5. How to actually make money from your art and hopefully transition it into a full time job (if that's what you want). I figure this one will hopefully fall into place after I figure out the first 4.

Today we will delve specifically into Problem #1: How do you get prints made of your art?

When I was first conquering this problem, I did what I always do; I googled it. This came up with all sorts of stuff! Apparently there are many different kinds of art prints, including regular photographic prints, including limited edition prints, and then gliclees, which are basically an art print on a canvas, so it should really look like the original painting.

Anyway, long story short, I really just wanted some copies of my art work to sell, without going broke. I didn't need anything complicated or too fancy. Finally I got a referral from a friend for a good local printer (Chrome Digital). I looked up their website, called them, and found their prices were quite reasonable. So I've been taking my art to them for about 1 1/2 years now. They create perfect quality digital images of my art, and then amazing prints.

Some examples of the digital images from Chrome:

Then it comes to another important point, how do you ship prints? I have been going through a bit of trial and error on this recently, so I thought I would pass on what I've learned, but that is a whole story in itself so you'll have to look at the next blog post for this information.

Thanks for reading!