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And now The Freebies:In researching internet marketing you will find that one of the best ways of getting people to come back,(quite aside from the value of the fine art, there are alot of artists doing exactly what I am doing here but usually not so brazenly) is to give away free stuff. So! Free Prints Four A4 Giclee prints for the price of two. This is a limited time offer. If you purchase two A4 prints you will receive two more A4 prints of your choice at no extra cost. To take advantage of this offer simply add the first two A4 prints to your Pay-Pal shopping basket. On completion of your purchase you will be directed to a thank you page on which there is a link to a form where you can enter the name of your third and fourth print choices. These prints will then be included in your delivery. I would like to suggest that If this special offer interests you please take advantage of it now as this is a limited time offer. Free fine art print downloads.Click here to collect your Free fine art prints. These free prints are high resolution fine art print images and I offer them here for free for three reasons: Firstly, as a gift in appreciation for taking the interest and the time to have a look at my work. Secondly, to be perfectly honest, I would like you to subscribed to my updates and newsletter, that is when I actually get the time to do a newsletter. Add to this that I sincerely promise not to bombard you with e-mails. Thirdly, if you get an admiring response from the prints please don't keep where you got them from a secret. I should also mention that once you have downloaded them they are yours and you have full reprint rights. As long as my name and the name of the website remain on the print which is discreetly included on the image file, you are free to print off as many as you'd like. Might I suggest that they would make a very nice gift as a print or a card. Click here to collect your Free fine art prints. And that's it, I've gotten that bit out of the way. Now, on a more serious note: I was going to put in a few words about "The artist's dilemma" myself because it has much to do with the basis and format of this site as well as what I do as an artist but the passage I've included below say's it so much better than I could I decided to use it instead. To read more by the author, Brian Lee, click here. " The Artists Dilemma:""In the short-run, the truer you are to your own genius, the less it pays." "Since the beginning of time, creative types have struggled with a paradox. If you are an artist, deep down you want to pursue the passion of your genius. You want to create the purest representation possible of your soul and share it with all who will notice. The further you get from your heart, the more anxiety you feel; but you at the same time, you have to eat. Every artist goes through a period, usually in high school or college, where he scoffs at the idea of “selling out to the man.” He thinks: those fools running in and out of that big office in their fancy suits… I’ll never be like that. But soon, the weight of the world starts to stack upon your shoulders as bills start to pile up. Life without a job starts to loose its luster. How long an artist can hold his ground becomes a badge of honor to those who remain. The life of an artist is a constant struggle between creative control and financial reward. This is one reason why so many great artists throughout history lived such tortured lives. Many of the greats were never even recognized in their lifetimes. It wasn’t until they passed that they reached global status. As an adult and an artist, you must find your place on a continuum between creative control and financial reward. If you choose to live on the extreme left of the spectrum, you choose the life of a starving artist in exchange for total control of your art. You create what you want, when you want, no matter who is paying. If you choose the extreme right, you “sell out” your creative skill to someone else. You get paid a lot for your talent, but you do it at the expense of creative control. Your job is to create someone else’s vision. One path is not better than the other, just different. Survival and self-expression are both on the hierarchy of human needs. Unfortunately for the pure artist, survival is necessary before self-expression. A balancing act. "The answer is balance. The longer you resist financial gain as a starving artist, the less freedom you have. It’s unpopular, but true: money gives us a certain amount of freedom; and debt takes it away. At the same time, the more addicted you are to money, the less freedom you have. If money is the center of your life, your creative soul will begin to starve, shrivel, and fade away. If your goal is to eventually have total artistic freedom, you must begin by freeing yourself from needing money. This does not mean to quit society and move into the woods. It means to live as modest a life as you can bare, and build passive income until you are free to create whatever you want, even if no one wants to buy it. Without the pressure of money, your art will flow freely from your soul and fulfill you as an artist." I honestly couldn't have said it any better.
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