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4 things that can help you overcome your fear of releasing your art files for licensing

About a month or so ago, I received this question on Threads: “How do you let go of the fear of releasing your files?” And I immediately connected with this question, because it was one I had early...

How I discovered I could license my art to luxury hotels

Did you know that you could license your art to hotels? This is where you hand over a hi-res file of your artwork in exchange for a handsome fee and a signed permission slip. …Yeah, I didn’t either...

Beginner's Guide - 3 Things you need to know about how art licensing works

When I started my business, I only had a vague idea of what licensing was and how it worked. When I would see other artists get licensing deals with big dreamy retail stores, I would think to mysel...

4 Things I learned from my first successful licensing income

When I typically tell the story of how I first started licensing my artwork, I always mention that my first licensing deal was with Anthropologie, and that is true to an extent. I would consider th...

What is an art consultant?

When an art consultant first contacted me in 2016(ish), I had no idea who they were or what they did. Up until that point I had been mainly dealing with regular everyday customers-- people who saw ...

Why licensing is a perfect business model for highly sensitive introverted artists

As highly sensitive introverted artists our nervous systems need us to retreat from the world when we’re overstimulated. In this blog post, I’ll share why licensing art is a perfect business model ...