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Are Digital Artshows a Legitimate Way to Show Your Artwork?

Madeleine Jacobs
www.ArmChairPaintClasses.com 


Digital Art Shows
  Digital Artwork Venues for Artwork

   Are Digital Art Shows a legitimate venue for your artwork? Even as much as 5 years ago, you may have gotten a no for an answer, however, as the internet develops more professionally advanced and technically impressive website devoted to selling artwork of all kinds, the answer you would get would be a resounding yes.

   It is now, more than ever, a widely accepted practice to pay for high powered software designed,  and packaged especially  for graphic artists that may actually have never even held an actually brush! Instead, their brush has become the virtual brush within the realm of the computer monitor and their work is just as beautiful on their virtual canvas as the any that

the traditional artist may have ever have created. And, it's become quite common practice to buy prints from artwork made from these software artists. Why not? If you like the art, why does it matter where it comes from? If it looks good, and it makes you smile when you look at it, and it's work framing.....that's the bottom line :)

     There are special shows just for these artists, just like the traditional shows that have always been available to the traditional artist. Instead, a good quality digital image is uploaded online or sent by email. These images may be shown competitively with others or compared to others on a web page and shown to millions of online viewers garnered far more exposure than a traditional art show would ever normally get.

Should You Enter a Digital Art Show?

    How does this art show get all these viewers? If this show page has been online for any length of time, (i.e for years) it has gathered many links, has many repeat visitors, has probably got a newsletter of some sort or a blog page that posts comments. If they regularly offer shows, they probably also offer prizes which also draws repeat artists and advertisers. The longer this show has been online, the better it is for you because it shows some stability and longevity. Go for a show that shows some length. Contact the show and ask about their policies. Try a few entries and see how it goes. Ask what the fees are and what early withdrawal policies might be. Ask what possibly sale outcomes there are from people who are interested in work that is shown from winners, best of show etc. Ask what policies they have for 'renting' space online for new artists.

   Each webspace is different and you need to check all policies out. Don't dismiss advertising online out of hand. As well, don't stop showing in traditional shows, either, because they both work hand in hand. Today, they both give an artist the well-needed exposure that is so much a part of our new digital-age web-world that we now live in.

   Should you enter a Digital Art show? By all means! yes!

Madeleine Jacobs.

February 2/17 /2007

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