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Abstract art is a fascinating and complex art form that challenges artists to think beyond traditional representations of the world around us. Instead of focusing on the minutiae of visual reality, abstract art uses color, shape, and form to evoke em... 

Baywood Park is a quaint and picturesque community located in the southern part of San Luis Obispo County, California, just south of Morro Bay. This region is renowned for its natural beauty, offering stunning views of the Pacific Ocean and the surro... 

Morro Bay is the perfect vacation spot for fishing and relaxing. Located on the central coast of California, this popular seaport is home to the iconic Morro Rock. With its long stretches of beach and plenty of fishing boats dotting the harbor, Morro... 

Artist Bio Floyd Snyder was born in Wisconsin in 1946 and moved to California in 1967. He is a California-based photographer who is known for his stunning landscape photographs. Snyder's work has been featured in numerous galleries and exhibitions,... 

From Sketchbook to Canvas: Norman Rockwell's Early Artistic Process The iconic American artist Norman Rockwell is widely recognized for his nostalgic paintings that capture the spirit of small-town America. But before creating such beloved works as"... 

Art and Nature Collide: Georgia O'Keeffe's Influence on Glen Canyon National Park The renowned American artist Georgia O'Keeffe is well-known for her evocative landscapes, particularly her paintings of the Southwest desert. Her work has had a lastin... 

A majestic herd of American bison is roaming through Yellowstone National Park. These iconic animals, also known as buffalo, are a sight to behold in their natural habitat and make for an unforgettable experience for visitors to the park. The sheer s... 

Majestic Mustangs The Wild Horses of Nevada by Floyd Snyder Nevada is home to some of the most majestic mustangs in the country. These wild horses roam the Virginia Range, an area of western Nevada, and truly symbolize the state's rugged beauty. Nev... 

Located on California’s Central Coast, Moonstone Beach has been a beachcombing paradise for generations. Since the early 1900s, the beach has been known as a spot to search for jade, agates, and of course, sea glass. The rugged coastline of Cambria... 

Pitbulls Are Not the Monsters Some Say They Are Photo Credit: Apollo My Favorite Nextdoor Neighbor Portrait by Floyd Snyder What is a pit bull? Pit bulls are a group of dogs characterized by their short, muscular build and strong jaws. The most com... 

Photo credit: Abstract Soylent Green Production Facility 2 by Floyd Snyder The Unthinkable Solution to Overpopulation: Soylent Green Soylent Green is a 1973 science fiction thriller film starring Charlton Heston. In the film, a dystopian future, ov... 

The Lone Cypress of 17 Mile Drive Monterey California has long been a seascape icon, standing as a symbol of resilience against the harsh elements of the Pacific Ocean for over 250 years. Since its appearance in paintings and photographs in the early... 

These are not in order, but I believe they all play a role in how much you are or are not selling. The number of images: As the old saying goes, you simply cannot sell off an empty wagon. Common sense would tell you that. Unless you have some sor... 

Are we retailers or are we just getting paid for the use of our images? We are not retailers, IMHO. That I don’t have to find the suppliers, handle the sales and do the fulfillment is the genius of the FAA system and what I love most about it. ... 

Are we retailers or are we just getting paid for the use of our images? We are not retailers, IMHO. That I don’t have to find the suppliers, handle the sales and do the fulfillment is the genius of the FAA system and what I love most about it. ... 

Advertising Your FAA Artist Website This article aims to address the artist's needs on FAA trying to balance their time between creating their art and selling it. You simply cannot do it all. Not effectively. When is enough, enough, and maybe to... 

SITEWIDE DISCOUNTS ------------------------------------------ If a discount is active and someone buys one of your products, then your profit is reduced by the discount percentage. If you opt out of the sitewide discounts, then your products won'... 

I have several Facebook groups that I own where everyone is welcome to join and post your images with links to where they can be bought. Some of them have specific themes like Western (and wildlife), Seascape (and nautical), Vintage Cars, etc, et... 

I think the average seller, or at least the average selling that is posting in the threads is looking at FAA from the wrong perspective. I don’t see myself as a retailer. I see myself as having licensed FAA to use my image on whatever products ... 

Pull Quote: "My biggest advice is to spend more time focusing on what you can control (e.g. creating incredible artwork, building your online following, building your e-mail list, developing a marketing strategy, collaborating with other artists a... 

Every artist should have at least three pricing points: Distributor, Wholesale and Retail. When you go to a gallery you consign it at wholesale. They ask retail, that is normally 50%. The last thing you want to do is undercut your gallery. Ga... 

I do not think entering groups and/or contests, in and of itself, is going to lead to direct sales to any significant level vs using that same time to advertise outside FAA. There is always going to be someone come along and say they made sales fr... 

Pricing Your Artwork - What To Do, What To Do by Arnold White Do you know the value of your work and how to price it? Probably not. As a publisher, distributor and consultant in the art world, I have personally reviewed the work of thousands o... 

So, you have X number of images, every one of them is very desirable and very sellable. You have accumulated a significant number of features, likes, comments, followers, and favorites. You have joined dozens of groups and entered all the contest... 

You have to be careful with those Discount Codes. The discount you offer is figured on and paid out of the fee (your markup) you get from FAA on a sale. FAA still sells the product for their full price less your discount. In the example below your... 

I want to mention some thoughts on using #Hashtags in FB groups. I personally don't use them at all and I do not recommend them. Yes, you may get a hit or two because of the #Hashtag coming up in the search, but the other thing it does is it sh... 

I wrote a series of Marketing on the Cheap articles and they are still out there around the net. If you search Google for Marketing on the Cheap by Floyd Snyder you should find most of them. These were original articles that I wrote for Strictly Busi... 

September 5, 2008 What's It Worth? We get a lot of request from many very nice people hoping we can shed some light on the value of a piece of artwork they already own. Unfortunately, as much as we would like to, we are not able to respond indi... 

"I thought that since Canon is a brand name, all their gear had to be good, right? Wrong!!! I had a whole bag full of lenses covering every possible situation, but they were very poor quality. ' Yup, branding is way overemphasized here, IMHO. T... 

As many of you know, I come from a 40 year background in both selling art and advertising. Having been the owner of three brick and mortar art galleries, a publishing company and an ad agency, I am a big believer in traditional advertising. The I... 

How long you have been a member of FAA or how long your image has been on FAA or on the Internet has little to do with selling it or when it will sell. That it does, is a myth that people have bought into here because it is being put forth by a h... 

"Peace and Tranquility" by Barbara and Floyd Snyder Art Exhibit at Los Olivos Wine Merchant & Caf A new show of photographic art by local artists Barbara and Floyd Snyder will be on view at the Los Olivos Cafe from March 2nd through May 4th. T... 

Only 22 miles off the coast of Los Angeles lies one of the most popular tourist destinations of Southern California, Catalina Island. This rocky island that is part of the Channel Island chain, 8 miles wide and 22 miles long, has a very colorful hist... 

Ask any top salesman or sales manager and they will tell you that the weaker the salesman is, the more reliant they are on price to make sales. As a sales manager, it is your job to make sure that the weaker salesman is not giving away the house to m... 

How many images you have for sale is important to how many sales you can expect to make. I would suggest you forget the threads, groups, sponsoring pages, contests, likes, favorites, worrying about the FAA search ranking, views and all of the oth... 

Selling Isn't Selling - its Problem Solving and Filling Needs You will find six different definitions for the word "selling" if you look the word up in the dictionary. Six. However, not one of them will give you the real meaning of the word you ne... 

When people think of historic buildings, they mostly think in terms of the White House, the Empire State Building or Independence Hall. But if you just look around as you are traveling, they are really all over the place, almost everywhere you look. ... 

This is the view (left) of the clubhouse at Pebble Beach Golf Links that golfers see when standing on the tee at the 18th hole looking straight into the back of the clubhouse. Of course, no one plays the hole to cut across the bay. Not on purpose any... 

Image Left: Eleanor Roosevelt Roses by Barbara Snyder Throughout history, a lot of famous people have had flowers named after them. Leonardo da Vinci, Ingrid Bergman, Princes “Di”, Abraham Lincoln, is just a few of those so honored. Also incl... 

Image Left: Reflection Anchorage by Barbara Snyder Morro Rock located in Morro Bay, California is the most famous of the Nine Sisters, a string of extinct volcano peaks, referred to as volcano plugs, that run through San Luis Obispo country. Many ... 

Image Left: Mustang Mama by Jim Rey Having grown up in a ranching family, western artist Jim Rey naturally loves working with horses and cattle. His eyes light up when he talks about training his Border Collie or a particularly wary horse, the day... 

No, I’m not going to get into the nitty-gritty of building a stretcher frame, mitering the corners, and discussing what sort of pliers or automatic stretching and stapling machine you should use. I want to talk about stretching from the aesthetic poi... 

Losing the Copyright Battle I recently had dinner at a Red Robin restaurant. RR, as you may know, covers their walls with posters and art prints. I was sitting in a booth next to a wall with a big ugly black and white print of a cat drawing. A... 

Advertising Your FAA Artistwebsite (Premium Account or Website) The purpose of this article is to address the needs of the artist on FAA trying to balance their time between creating their art and selling it. You simple cannot do it all. Not ... 

FAA Views and Visitors One of the questions that comes up most often from new member and some old is about the views supplied to us by FAA. Unfortunately they are not what you would think they are or what you hope they would be. For the most p... 

As soon as you became a professional artist you also became a wholesaler, a retailer and a salesman, rather you like it or not. The old saying of "build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door", well it just doesn't work that ... 

Fyi: Facebook Groups I started four Facebook groups for members of FAA to consider joining and posting their art work too. I though you may be interested. Here are the links to the groups. Over a year back I stated a Facebook group that h... 

Bruce Cheever remembers his interest in art started as a child. His natural, artistic talent led him to enjoy success as an illustrator for many years, eventually leading to a career as a fine artist. During his years spent in illustration, he gained... 

“Marketing is not an event, but a process . . . It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely.” This is how Jay Conrad Levinson, author and ... 

To use Facebook and maximize the potential you have to join and be active in groups. The number of friends and likes and comment are nice, but what really counts is how many people see your Facebook posts that are members of the art buying public and... 

50 Effective Tips to Help You Sell You Art from www.artpromotivate.com (To be perfectly clear, I did not write this and I am not claiming I did) Selling art online partly depends on exposing it to as many people as you can. The more people who ... 

About Nancy Cawdrey "Whatever medium I am working in, I like to mix color on the surface of the painting--giving the work more immediacy and spontaneity--what I call spirited painting. [On silk] I [can] really float brilliant color with spirit an... 

G.Harvey and his images have influenced a worldwide enthusiasm and demand for contemporary American art for a generation. Few artists have intrigued and captivated art collectors as widely as the celebrated painter, G. Harvey. During his storied care... 

Martin Grelle The image shown is called: Apsaroke Guardian Whether painting the Native Americans in a dramatic, picturesque setting, or the American cowboy in the dusty cattle-working pens, Martin Grelle captures the spirit, beauty, and vastn... 

David Mann’s life focus has been his interest in the Native American culture, horses, and art. As a child, the artist collected any Remington and Russell prints he found along with books illustrated by Will James, Paul Brown, and Wesly Dennis. Man... 

Ragan Gennusa grew up in East Texas enjoying the outdoors and sports, but he was drawn to art and could always be found using his pencils and brushes when he had an opportunity. “Art was just something I always enjoyed,” he recalls. Gennusa took a... 

This is a response I gave in one of the threads regarding using search to be found. It was in response to someone that had indicated that I was saying the search and keywording was not important and that I had some sort of insider information. Which ... 

Keep in mind, FAA does not sell your work in the sense that they are going bring the buyers to you. You may get a few accidently sales that way but basically you have to sell your own art OUTSIDE of FAA. Don't get all bogged down in all of the in... 

One of the most common discussions that comes up is advertising (selling) . Particularity how much and where to advertise. I have posted a blog: Advertising Your FAA Artistwebsite http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/advertising-your-faa-artistwebsite... 

Click on the link to see more information on the image: Gol-Durn Trouble by G. Harvey G.Harvey and his images have influenced a worldwide enthusiasm and demand for contemporary American art for a generation. Few artists have intrigued and captiva... 

Bruce Greene is a Western painter who has ridden trails and experienced the cowboy life he portrays in the very narrative images he creates. The artist is a native Texan who has reached the pinnacle of his profession through hard work and an extraord... 

Marketing Your Art - Here, There, and Everywhere by Arnold White A professional artist's success is in direct correlation to finding the right markets for his artwork. The million dollar question is where can I market my art and get the most o... 

Take Your Passion and Make It Happen By Floyd Snyder If you have a mind for trivia and remember the movie, Flashdance, you may recall the catchy main theme song called, What A Feeling. In my head I can still hear Irene Cara belting out the wo... 

July 11th, 2014 - Santa Maria, CASeascape and Nature Photographer Barbara Snyder Joins FASGallery Fasgallery is owned and operated by S&S Enterprises, owners of several on-line art galleries specializing in fine art reproductions. photographer Ba... 

If you have ever watched The ABC sitcom "Freddie" and ABC's "Extreme Makeover Home Edition", you may have already viewed some of Rodney White's phenomenal art pieces. Once in a while something so unique, eye-catching and visually pleasing comes along... 

If beauty in artwork can defined as a delightful quality intertwined with harmony of form and color and combined with craftsmanship and originality, then one need look no further than the work of Karen Noles and her artwork of Western art that revolv...