Getting your artwork online by uploading it to ArtMarketDirect.com is a great way to create a checkout facility for your family, friends, contacts and collectors to use to buy your artwork. With our flat-rate 10% for our FREE package or 3% if you bet on yourself commissions we know that we better value than many industry leading online galleries and marketplaces.
We are so confident that we have the fairest deal online, we have provided a list of our peers and equals below. That way you can compare what’s there and do what’s right for you to create the right ‘marketing mix’ to sell your artwork.
At the ArtMarketDirect Basecamp. we often talk about how we are not interested in competing. Instead, we talk about how the global market is big enough for everyone and we hope everyone succeeds.
After your work is uploaded to your gallery on ArtMarketDirect the question is “who knows it’s there?”
Putting your work on any online site is not the be all and end all, it’s the beginning.
To get it to sell you need to be proactive in sharing the URL to individual pieces and your main gallery. Nearly all onine sales occur where the artist has shared a link to a sales page.
Below is a compilation of sites and groups which we know about where you can share your work with others who can like, share or even buy it.
In all cases where the groups are on Facebook, we recommend you read the ‘About’ section to familiarize yourself with the rules of each including how many posts per 24 hours, whether you can include links etc.
Being included on this page does not signify endorsement, this is simply a factual resource for our members to use.
NOTE: If you decide to post in multiple sales groups, do remember to delete your posts or change the setting to ‘sold’ when a piece sells or else it could get complicated.
We try to keep this list up to date but occasionally something will go wrong. If you are aware of another relevant site or group which should be on the list or if a link we share goes dead or needs updating, please email admin@artmarketdirect.com
Get Your Own Website/Blog
Blogs are easy to create and most often are free to set up or if you want a specific domain might cost you a few pounds per year.
You are then able to share URL’s from of individual pieces and your main ArtMarketDirect.com gallery.
Online Art Sales Sites
Absolute Arts: 35% Free / 20-25% Paid
AbstractArtGallery: 20% fee on sales
AffordableBritishArt: £35 to £135 per year
ArtBoost: 15% inc VAT on sales
ArtClickIreland: Membership fee plus 30% on originals
Artfire: $20.00 monthly fee plus 3% commission
Artful Home: $300 membership fee. 50% on sales
ArtHit: mark up the retail price by 15% plus shipping costs
ArtInvesta: 10% plus Paypal fees from your sales.
ArtMarketDirect: 10% FREE / 3% PAID
ArtUnlocked: 35% commission on sales
ArtZyme: 20% commission plus merchant services fees
Cargoh: 8% commission on sales
DivArt: 10% – 25% commission, with a $300 minimum
Ebay: Listing and transaction fees apply
Etsy: Listing and transaction fees apply
GlobalArtExchange: 20% commission on sales
Imagekind: Fees range from free to $95/year
Neogradys: 10% commission on sales
Saachi: 30% commission on sales
The FunkyArtGallery: Joining fee £50 – £195 plus 35% commission on sales
TheSketchingShop: 30% commission on sales
Vango: 30% commission on sales
Zatista: 45% commission on sales
Facebook Groups
Our Fan Page can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/artmarketdirect/
We also manage various groups which might be of interest depending on your medium:
ARTMARKETDIRECT.COM – https://www.facebook.com/groups/artmarketdirect/ (exclusive to artists who upload to our main site)
Also these none exclusive groups:
PAINTING COLLECTION (ART) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/paintingcollection/
DRAWING COLLECTION (ART) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/drawingcollection/
DIGITAL ART COLLECTION – https://www.facebook.com/groups/digitalartcollection/
COLLAGE COLLECTION (ART) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/collagecollection/
SCULPTURE COLLECTION (ART) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/sculpturecollection/
TYPOGRAPHICAL COLLECTION (ART) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/typographicalcollection/
PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION (ART) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/photographycollection/
PRINT COLLECTION (ART) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/printcollection/
THE ART COMPETITION – https://www.facebook.com/groups/theartcompetition/
OTHER FACEBOOK GROUPS
1) All Art Galleries – https://www.facebook.com/groups/863252153769236/
2) Art For All – https://www.facebook.com/groups/690489347798626/
3) The Diversity of Art – https://www.facebook.com/groups/thediversityofart/
4) The Heart of Art Contest – https://www.facebook.com/groups/JennRyan/
5) Art without Borders – https://www.facebook.com/groups/283597425450130/?ref=br_rs
6) Kingdom of Art (Paintings and Sculptures) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/662478183931267/
7) International ART Society – https://www.facebook.com/groups/364456197304442/?ref=br_rs
8) PASSION & ARTE {Creatividad Aplicada} – https://www.facebook.com/groups/988911351237590/
9) ART – https://www.facebook.com/groups/117598885541253/
10) Fine Art – https://www.facebook.com/groups/354416731325230/
11) Art Promotion – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1499031763700734/
12) Art World Wide – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1477163032564421/
13) Master of Art Contest – https://www.facebook.com/groups/421420561296554/
14) 100% Art – https://www.facebook.com/groups/301942356512960/
15) Art – https://www.facebook.com/groups/322288601275732/
16) ART.WORLD – https://www.facebook.com/groups/ART2014/
17) ART – https://www.facebook.com/groups/160429837345523/
18) STAR ART – https://www.facebook.com/groups/807367396103559/
19) The Art Gallery, Creative Minds.. – https://www.facebook.com/groups/474420132900694/
20) Thai Art Collector – https://www.facebook.com/groups/thaiartcollector/
21) Art – https://www.facebook.com/groups/612323288932389/
22) Art Auction – https://www.facebook.com/groups/Montmartre.French/
23) Free Art – https://www.facebook.com/groups/673780912821119/
24) ART IMPRESSIONS International – https://www.facebook.com/groups/artistic.synergy/
25) ART-Салон – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1201173049998880/
26) Japan Art Gallery – https://www.facebook.com/groups/688305647856381/
27) Art World – https://www.facebook.com/groups/928752577170996/
28) Art and artists worldwide – https://www.facebook.com/groups/364940360352624/
29) ALL ARTS – https://www.facebook.com/groups/artisticamentefalando/
30) FINE ART – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1484507708254053/
31) ART & DESIGN / PATTERN – https://www.facebook.com/groups/patternartgroup/
32) Outsider Art Gallery – https://www.facebook.com/groups/outsiderartgallery/
33) Indian Art Society – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1586474438287051/
Facebook Sell Groups
1) G.ART WORLD MARKET – https://www.facebook.com/groups/560250820684255/
2) Fine Art Universal – https://www.facebook.com/groups/fine.art.universal/
3) Art Display and Sell – https://www.facebook.com/groups/860237854032732/
4) Art Gallery International – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1443240472585950/
5) Fine Art Universe – https://www.facebook.com/groups/fineartamerica/
6) Fluid Art Techniques – https://www.facebook.com/groups/fluidart/
Start pinning your own artwork to a “My artwork” board. Make sure you pin the images from your ArtMarketDirect.com gallery and website (rather than just uploading them from your computer) so that there will be a link back to your site when people click on the images.
That is just the start of it. You can create multiple boards for a variety of topics you’re interested in, and do plenty of pinning and repinning.
If you pin some great content, more people will follow you, and that means every time you pin one of your own images, those followers will see it in their home feed, and just might follow the link back to your ArtMarketDirect.com gallery or your own website, or repin your image for their followers to see.
Paint My Photo
Paint My Photo great online community for photographers and artists, where you can find reference photos to paint from, without having to worry about any copyright issues.
An extra benefit though is that if you upload your paintings to the site, and link from your painting to the reference, and vice versa (via a comment on the photo), it’s a great way to introduce more artists and photographers to your work.
Every time you upload a painting to Paint My Photo, you will get a stream of comments complimenting your work. If you include a link to your ArtMarketDirect.com gallery or your website in the image description, many potential collectors will check out the rest of your portfolio, and sign up to your mailing list.
Instagram is the ideal social media platform for artists to share their content from their ArtMarketDirect.com gallery because it revolves entirely around images.
You can use it to share your completed paintings of course, but it’s also great for sharing works in progress, collages of your painting process, and even short (15 seconds) videos, giving a snapshot of your life as an artist.
You can’t place a link in an Instagram post, but make sure you place a link to your website in your bio text, and when you post, encourage people to click that link. For example, you might post a 15-second video, and then say “click the link in my bio to see the full video,” and post the full-length video on your blog.
Make sure you use #hashtags to describe your posts, as this is the main way people will find you (there is no equivalent of the ‘retweet’ in Instagram), and as with all social media, if you interact with people, they are much more likely to follow you, so look for posts related to yours and leave them a nice comment.
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With ArtMarketDirect.com artists are able to take control of their own careers, list their own pieces for sale to collectors and undertake their own fulfillment of orders.
The only stipulation on ArtMarketDirect.com is that the work you list is your own and is original. Where prints are for sale, we ask that all image copyrights belong to you and that you are legally disposed to sell the pieces you have on offer.
The site is FREE to use with only 10% sales commission OR for those willing to bet on themselves with only a nominal subscription (from less than £1/month) to upload unlimited artwork and very low 3% commission on sales. If you are a creative ArtMarketDirect.com is the best option you have.
