This artist paints miniature art on feathers
UK artist paints wildlife and pets on found and donated feathers.
affordable art
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Keisha Collins – A New Found Talent in Newfoundland
Keisha Collins was one of the youngest artists to enter our North American Artist Showcase. At 17, she still lives at home in a small...
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artFido’s featured artist – Bijan Soltani
artFido’s featured artist for this month is Bijan Soltani. Born in Kerman/Iran in 1986, Bijan now lives in Perth, Australia, working full time as an...
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Nick Brandt – The beauty of East Africa in black and white photography
Nick Brandt shoots exclusively in Africa and is one of the world’s most prolific wildlife photographers. His amazing black and white images of elephants, lions,...
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Affordable art – what does that mean?
The wonders of modern technology (mostly Google – but we don’t feel comfortable giving them all the credit) tell us at artFido that what most...
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Stunning paintings by autistic three-year-old who can’t speak sell for 800 pounds after she took up a brush just a few months ago
By HUGO GYE A three-year-old autistic girl has made a splash in the art world with her extraordinary paintings. Iris Grace Halmshaw began doing art...
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INSTAGRAM: BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARTISTS
Mindlessly double-tapping through Instagram can quickly turn into a black hole of nail art, puppies in costumes, and half-naked Rihanna. Looking for a more cultured...
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artFido’s Buried Banksy – go fetch!
To celebrate artFido’s one-year anniversary, we are giving our Facebook fans an opportunity to own their very own Banksy! Hidden deep in the heart of...
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Art for sale – the price of art online
Pricing art for sale isn’t easy. There’s no official pricing structure. No accepted rules. No hourly rate conversion. No union and little to no economies...
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art attack – why would people want to hack an online gallery?
In less than two weeks, artFido will have been selling art online for an entire year. It seems like only yesterday that we were telling...
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Copyright or wrong – Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios on artFido
by Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios I’m sure I’ve used that headline before. But it’s too good to resist. According to The Art Newspaper (TAN), Italian artist Claudio...
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Mark Fitz – On street art, getting people to buy art and how to sell art online
Mark Fitz first caught our attention during our “Put Your Art in Print” competition in 2012. He was yet to sell art on artFido but...
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Selling art online – to fee or not to fee?
When we launched artFido.com in May of 2012 we knew it wouldn’t be easy. Getting artists to consider selling art online through a completely new...
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Want to buy art online? Why not check out Emelie Coffey’s work on artFido
Emelie Coffey is a massage therapist with knack for creating comfort, remedy and beauty with her hands. For the next two weeks, artfido will be...
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The dilemma of selling art online – no touch, no smell, no see
We’ve written about selling art online before. No surprise really, as we are first and foremost a platform built just for that, to buy art...
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And the ballroom dancers went around…and around…and around again. A lesson in reading art auction figures.
By Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios Hello, old friend. Nice to see you again. It’s good to know some things never change. As regular as clockwork… John Brack’s...
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Selling art online works for David Giles – artFido’s featured artist
While some artists are reluctant to venture into the world of selling art online, David Giles has done so with enthusiasm and energy. One of...
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A Warhol for Every Wall – Online Auction of work by Andy Warhol
By Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios In what can best be described as the modern art-world equivalent of a garage sale, Christie’s is currently running an online auction...
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Hey now, hey now, my bunting’s back! You can take it to the banksy
By Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios. Alternatively, just take the Banksy. Either way, I think someone’s been taking some creative licence with the disappearing Banksy that has just...
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Will new art do away with old art?
There is no doubt that new forms of communication are putting pressure on old forms of communication to ship up. Or shut down. Every week...
