Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Promoting Your Art: Mailers and Drop-Offs

At USA on Canvas, we receive countless amount of print orders from professional and amateur artists from all over US who do traditional and digital artworks mostly for their customers. 

We encourage artists to sell their prints through us by offering an account with re-seller/pro discount. To set your account as a re-seller/pro, send us an email with your business information (name, phone and website) and we will set your account as pro-seller with 20% discount to start. When placing orders online you can enter any address in US or Canada as your shipping address, if you send labels or stickers we can attach them for you. Please note still the shipping boxes will have our labels on them.



Before everyone is ready to apply for the re-seller/pro account, we would like to go over promotional prints, the classic way to promote your art. Nowadays, there are bountiful online portfolio sites and online shops available for the artists to reach out for their potential customers. The sites are accessible and user-friendly BUT sometimes it is quite difficult to know what what it would be like exactly in real life. 

We believe in the tangible piece of art with real color and texture that will capture everyone's heart and mind.

Print Options

Assuming you have digital files of your artworks, we would recommend printing them on bond paper, laser paper, posterboard, photographic paper for small-scale art and photographs, test prints. If you would like to learn more, go to Types of Print Media.

For more details on pricing and available media types, please use our online calculator on our website. Online Calculator.



We offer folded greeting cards, flat cards, and postcards. 
For more information, go to Custom Greeting Cards.
* We use archival pigmented inks & inkjet printers.
* Cards can be ordered in a horizontal or vertical orientation.
* Your optional message or artist name and statement can be printed on the back of each card.
* Each 5"x7" greeting card comes with a white envelope for mailing and gift giving.


Volume discount rates, multiple prints of the same image/photo:
Qty              2-5       6-10    11-50    51-100
Discount     20%     25%     30%     35%


*Offers cannot be combined. 




What to include

Most importantly, there should be your ART that is standing out. Then your name and contact info including your online portfolio address, email, and phone number so that art directors or customers can reach you when they are interested in your work. You may consider using your mailers as an invitation for your exhibition or workshop events. 

2 Ways to connect:

Good Old Mailers 



If you choose to send your promotional prints via regular mail as your method of connection, you can either choose to go with standard 4" x 6" postcards or something more interesting in unique sizes and formats, like booklet, calendar, or even magnet.

Say Hello! Drop-Offs



An alternative way to the mailers, there will be no need to stop by the post office but you get to actually to go places! Drop off your prints at local gift shops, craft markets, art supplies stores, community centers, and cool cafes so that people can see and take your lovely works home. Before you do that, talk to the owners, managers, or person in charge to let them know about you and ask for permission for distributing your works. Go ahead and have fun! :)


At USAonCanvas, we offer a wide range of giclee and fine art printing options. Select your canvas/fine art paper/photo paper to get multiple copies of your print with giclee inks, and finally send them or drop them off to spread the love!



Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Beach Vacations: The Best Depictions of Beaches in Art History

Is everyone back from the vacation? Or are there anyone cannot wait to leave for a late vacation for this summer? For those who are stuck at the office yet or who are back at the office, we would like to show you some amazing depictions of beaches in art history (both classical and modern) to cool you down a little bit. I know, the paintings and the sculptures themselves are very refreshing and calming but they will be inevitably much better in person. You can find the exact location of each pieces on the captions in the link below that directs you to the best depictions of beaches in art history lists so that you will know where to go for your next vacation!


Pablo Picasso On the Beach (La Baignade), 1937

Of course, the first piece of art HAS to be by Pablo Picasso. Do you want to know what's next? For the following list of beach paintings and sculptures, please visit artnet News link below.


Bring in beaches in your living rooms, kitchen, and bedrooms! At USAonCanvas, we provide a wide range of giclee and fine art printing options to classical paintings available on our website and photographs you took during your vacation. Have custom fitted to its own Floater Frame or Modern frame, and finally showcased in your very own home - no stereolithography printers required!




Monday, August 8, 2016

Giant Athletes Appear In Rio De Janeiro



Sports players and fans all around the world are enthusiastically gathered in Rio to celebrate the world's quadrennial event, Olympic Games Rio 2016. We are glad that there are artists are among them.

In anticipation of the Olympic Games opening this week-end in Rio De Janeiro, French artist JR unveiled a series of giant installations. The first giant street art piece represents Sudanese athlete Mohamed Younes Idriss who lives and trains in cologne, germany. ‘He missed out on qualification for the 2016 rio olympics but he is there some how,’ JR says. The second artwork which  can be found around the barra neighborhood, showing a diver leaping into an adjacent area of the ocean. also attached to large-scale metal beams, the artwork illustrates an athlete with arms stretched open hovering over nearby rocks and making its way into the water below. via StreetArtNews
  

JR (...) describes himself as a photograffeur
he flyposts large black-and-white photographic images in public locations, 
in a manner similar to the appropriation of the built environment by the graffiti artist. 
He states that the street is "the largest art gallery in the world"
... 
JR's work combines art and action, and
deals with commitment, freedom, identity and limits. 
 via Wikipedia 
 

The installations utilize a new technique for JR that sees his signature use of photography printed on giant sheets of fabric attached to scaffolds. From comments on Instagram it sounds like we may get to see a few more of these over the next few days. via ThisIsColossal



At USAonCanvas, we offer a wide range of giclee and fine art printing options. Select your canvas/fine art paper/photo paper to print with giclee inks, have custom fitted to its own Floater Frame or Modern frame, and finally showcased in your very own home - no stereolithography printers required!