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The iNetwork (Influencer Network) is a Social Media Dashboard App like TweetDeck that allows Nigerian Creatives lend their Twitter Accounts to boost content and get paid.

I came up with this idea, it was presented to Naibac and they bought the idea, and is now powered by DataLab Nigeria. I came up with this initiative so we can earn aside selling our works

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is there a way I can work with u? I am a 3D artist

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Art printed on coffee mugs and t-shirts, made in Nigeria.

Remember not to depend on one or two income streams as an Artist, multiply it

Osaro Osula Art Online Shop. Art on Apparel, Interior Decor, IPhone Cases, Samsung Phone Cases and more. Click to take a tour:
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Commercial art is the art of creative services, referring to art created for commercial purposes, primarily advertising. Commercial art traditionally includes designing books, advertisements of different products, signs, posters, and other displays to promote sale or acceptance of products, services, or ideas.

SERVICES
- Art For A Tune
- Album/Video Cover
- Magazine Cover
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And More...

You also get hyped for using any of the services under Commercial Art via multiple platforms. My team can make your material Trend, we have done it with my hyperrealism video and the musical tune "Ori" by Ola Blackz

For More Information, Contact Me: osaroosula@hotmail.com

PROJECT: Ola Blackz - "ORI" . Art created by Osaro Osula
Project Overview:
http://oosula.com/projects/art-for-ori-by-ola-blackz/

"Ori" has gotten to the Nigeria Top 10 Chart
http://oosula.com/ori-by-ola-blackz-in-nigeria-top-10-raggae-chart/

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Investing in art can be a get-rich quick scheme or not depending on your<!--more--> experience. But for many people, buying and selling art is more lucrative than other investments, and many have built a solid, growing, and rewarding business in art.

THE THREE BUYERS OF ART

First, decide what roll you want to play, whether you want to be an Art Collector, Investor, or Dealer, because each has a different motivation, buying and selling strategy, and outcome objective. The collector buys what he likes, the investor what he needs, and the dealer what he can sell for the highest price in the shortest amount of time. Each needs to follow the strict buying criteria outlined below.

Art Collector
The Collector has a love for art but not a compelling schedule to buy it. He buys only what pleases him, without regard for "what’s hot," possibly buying only one painting a year. The collector has no exit strategy or financial objective in mind when he buys art. He well might keep a painting all his life, willing it to his children or a museum. The art he buys, however, should create future wealth for his family. The collector also needs to acquire art knowledge and competent buying skills so he is not taken advantage of. Serious collectors usually have a focus and narrow interest in a particular School. Always studying art they like, collectors often become "subject experts" in their specialty

Art Investor
Definitely has an exit strategy and outcome objective in mind when he buys art. Developing a financial plan, the Investor buys art strategically, according to the strict criteria listed below, doing extensive research to eliminate risks associated with buying art. The Investor’s time frame is five to seven years out. Even an unfresh painting (recently bought at public auction, or one "shopped around" will be fresh again in five to seven years. The investor buys what collectors desire, insuring him of a quick sale when it’s time to cash in.

Art Dealer
The Dealer’s business is buying and selling paintings, and brokering art transactions. Like any business owner, the dealer is on the telephone every day talking with customer and suppliers: collectors, investors, galleries, auction rooms, and other dealers. When an exceptional painting comes to market, the dealer pursues it relentlessly. The dealer’s time frame is measured in days or weeks, rarely months, generally selling at the highest price in the shortest amount of time. There is always a demand for his paintings. If you’re a "seller," on the other hand, selling art to a dealer can be an expensive proposition, because he’ll only resell your painting right away, to a collector, investor, or gallery, for a handsome profit, exactly what you could have done, if you only knew what the dealer knows. So it behooves the collector to learn the parallel skills of an art dealer.

Next topics on How To Buy And Sell Art For Profit:
1. THREE KINDS OF ART AVAILABLE TO BUY
2. ART DEALERS INCOME STREAMS

Investing in art can be a get-rich quick scheme or not depending on your<!--more--> experience. But for many people, buying and selling art is more lucrative than other investments, and many have built a solid, growing, and rewarding business in art.

THE THREE BUYERS OF ART

First, decide what roll you want to play, whether you want to be an Art Collector, Investor, or Dealer, because each has a different motivation, buying and selling strategy, and outcome objective. The collector buys what he likes, the investor what he needs, and the dealer what he can sell for the highest price in the shortest amount of time. Each needs to follow the strict buying criteria outlined below.

Art Collector
The Collector has a love for art but not a compelling schedule to buy it. He buys only what pleases him, without regard for "what’s hot," possibly buying only one painting a year. The collector has no exit strategy or financial objective in mind when he buys art. He well might keep a painting all his life, willing it to his children or a museum. The art he buys, however, should create future wealth for his family. The collector also needs to acquire art knowledge and competent buying skills so he is not taken advantage of. Serious collectors usually have a focus and narrow interest in a particular School. Always studying art they like, collectors often become "subject experts" in their specialty

Art Investor
Definitely has an exit strategy and outcome objective in mind when he buys art. Developing a financial plan, the Investor buys art strategically, according to the strict criteria listed below, doing extensive research to eliminate risks associated with buying art. The Investor’s time frame is five to seven years out. Even an unfresh painting (recently bought at public auction, or one "shopped around" ) will be fresh again in five to seven years. The investor buys what collectors desire, insuring him of a quick sale when it’s time to cash in.

Art Dealer
The Dealer’s business is buying and selling paintings, and brokering art transactions. Like any business owner, the dealer is on the telephone every day talking with customer and suppliers: collectors, investors, galleries, auction rooms, and other dealers. When an exceptional painting comes to market, the dealer pursues it relentlessly. The dealer’s time frame is measured in days or weeks, rarely months, generally selling at the highest price in the shortest amount of time. There is always a demand for his paintings. If you’re a "seller," on the other hand, selling art to a dealer can be an expensive proposition, because he’ll only resell your painting right away, to a collector, investor, or gallery, for a handsome profit, exactly what you could have done, if you only knew what the dealer knows. So it behooves the collector to learn the parallel skills of an art dealer.

Next topics on How To Buy And Sell Art For Profit:
1. THREE KINDS OF ART AVAILABLE TO BUY
2. ART DEALERS INCOME STREAMS

Commissioned oil painting of Bob Marley on canvas.

Feel free to ask any questions

http://oosula.com/evolution-stages-of-a-commissioned-bob-marley-oil-painting/

Video of Genevieve Nnaji Hyperrealism Pencil Drawing By Osaro Osula Edited By KD Media Pictures in March 2015
This video is a slide show of every stage in the process of creating this Art Piece Titled Bravura, Subject Model: #Genevieve #Nnaji.
http://oosula.com/video-of-genevieve-nnaji-hyperrealistic-pencils-drawing-2/

Donald3d:
Nice art

Thank you

I also have art prints for sale
Price: $10

Post your art with details, if you are open for commission and not ready to sell post a portrait to display your art for viewers.

Sculptors, Graphics and Makeup Artist are also welcome.

Image attached is my hyperrealistic drawing of Genevieve Nnaji, I am open for commission jobs, including commercial art, second image is an art for a tune featuring Phyno, more details at my website in my project page

MORE DETAILS:
Video of Genevieve Nnaji Hyperrealism Pencil Drawing By Osaro Osula Edited By KD Media Pictures in March 2015

This video is a slide show of every stage in the process of creating this Art Piece Titled Bravura, Subject Model: #Genevieve #Nnaji.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNPCWox_1eQ

Milena Olesinska an Artist and Exposition Art Blogger from Poland, recently featured the following Artists

Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) USA

Antoine Blanchard

Tomie Ohtake (November 21, 1913 – February 12, 2015) was a Japanese naturalized Brazilian artist

Basuki Abdullah (Surakarta, Central Java 25 January 1915 - Jakarta, 5 November 1993) was an Indonesian painter and a convert to Roman Catholicism

Osaro Osula Nigerian Hyperrealism/Photorealism Artist and More...

My works exhibited are as stated below.

Bravura
Symmetrical
Love In A Strange Place
The Sniper

View the Exposition at:
http://milenaolesinska..com


Thanks to Milena Olesinska

Before we discuss on how to deal on Art, we must learn how to buy Art. It will be selfish for me to base the conclusion only on my opinion, so the information below was gathered from a professional platform called Art Business.

Learn About the Artist, Then Buy the Art.

Q : I was at an art auction preview last week and overheard two people talking about a painting in the sale. One said to the other that the painting was a late work and not worth bidding on. What is a late work, and are late works not worth buying or bidding on? More generally, how do you figure out whether a work of art is worth buying?

A : A late work refers to a work of art completed toward the end of an artist's career. Whether or not a late work is "worth bidding on" or buying depends on the artist. Late works can sometimes be commercial in nature, second-rate repeats of earlier successes, or may be inferior in other ways due to an artist's advanced age. In general, collectors prefer early or mid-career works of art, but not always. Late works by Grandma Moses, for example, are highly collectible and definitely worth bidding on.

Now to your broader question-- what makes a particular piece of art worth buying? In other words, what about a work of art makes it great or good or noteworthy in any respect? The answer in large part involves understanding the life, art and career of the artist who made it.

One of the most common errors inexperienced art buyers make is buying without knowing much more than the names of the artists whose art they decide they want to buy. They assume that just because an artist is well-known, for example, that any work of art signed by them is valuable, and that the signature alone is adequate justification for buying the art. The truth is that it may be great and it may be awful. If you think for one instant that every single piece of art with a known artist's signature on it is automatically collectible, valuable or of superior quality, think again. If that's where you're at, you better watch out because you're fair game for anyone who might be inclined to sell you something mediocre for more than it's worth. Plenty of works of art by even the most famous artists are so subpar that no informed buyer would ever buy them, no matter how cheap they are.

People overpay for inferior art all the time because they don't have enough experience looking at art and don't know enough about the artists who made it to tell whether or not it's any good. In fact, the main reason why poor quality art has any market at all is that people who have no idea what they're doing buy it.

All artists, even the most famous, make great art, good art, not so good art, and art that just plain sucks. If you want to buy good and avoid sucks, you better learn how to tell the difference BEFORE YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT BUYING PIECE NUMBER ONE. Here's how to do it:

* Scour the Internet for information about the artist from as many different sources as possible. Get the big picture; don't stop after one or two websites and think you've done due diligence. Also look through any books, catalogues, articles or reviews you might come across-- as many as you can get your hands on and from as many different sources as possible. Pay special attention to interviews or features about the artist, either online or in books or catalogues, and pay especially special attention to the images or illustrations because those are usually better quality examples of the artist's work.

* Talk with collectors who are familiar with the artist, galleries who sell or represent art by the artist, and even curators or critics if you get a chance-- whenever and wherever you can. Have them explain to you what makes the good art good and why.

* If you're fortunate enough to have the opportunity, speak directly with the artist. Have them provide you with information about their career, their resume, and have them explain particular pieces or styles of art. Have them tell you about their most significant artworks and what makes them significant.

* Look at plenty of art by the artist-- as much as you can and wherever you find it. Your goal is to learn why one piece is more desirable or expensive, and the next one is not.

* Shop around. Get MULTIPLE opinions from MULTIPLE galleries or dealers BEFORE you buy. Do not settle exclusively on one gallery or dealer, no matter how compelling they are. Wait until you have a good feel for the overall market.

* Keep in mind that it's all about the art. No matter how gorgeous or well-appointed the gallery or how convincing the seller, you want to make sure you're getting a quality work of art for your money.

* Corroborate all claims that a seller makes regarding a particular work of art (or the artist who made it). Often you can simply ask the seller for information or data that substantiates what they're telling you; other times you may have to call out for second or third opinions. What you want are facts-- names, dates, prices, illustrations, essays, websites, etc. If you're not sure whether you've got enough information to go on, then wait until you are.

* Don't try to be clever and beat the bushes for bargains until you genuinely know what you're doing (if you only think you know what you're doing, then you're not ready either). Rest assured that you will be taken to the cleaners if you do.

Getting your basic art education may sound like all work and no play, but quite the contrary. If you like art, learning about it by going places and looking at it, reading about it, and meeting interesting art people in the process is pure pleasure-- and great adventure. The fringe benefits, of course, are that the more legwork you do, the better informed you get, and the more discriminating you become as a buyer.

Back to your original question, all artists have periods in their careers when the art they create is generally considered to be better than the art they create during other periods-- early, late or somewhere in between. The more you know about an artist, the easier you can identify which periods those are, what the art produced during those periods looks like, where the best places are to find it, and what prices are fair to pay for it. To repeat-- this is knowledge that you should acquire BEFORE YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT BUYING PIECE NUMBER ONE-- as you wend your way from website to website, dealer to dealer and gallery to gallery. Not only will you eventually find the art that's perfect for you, but you'll have plenty of fun and fascinating experiences in the meantime.

Decorative Art
Known as "furnishing pictures," and is often used for decorating purposes. This classification of art is generally thematic. Little intrinsic value exists in decorative art, an original decorative art is rarely painted by a "listed" artist. But distinctive decorative art can be expensive, especially if it’s antique. Decorative art will not increase in value. Therefore, it is not a wise investment choice, but very considerate to Art Dealers selling at the highest price in the shortest amount of time (Art Prints). There is always a demand for decorations.

Art Prints (Print On Demand), Posters and Wallpapers are very good examples of Decorative Art, but limited edition Art Prints are distinctive decorative art, particularly if it's by a listed Artist.

Collectable Art
A collectable or collectible Art (aka collector's art) is any art regarded as being of value or interest to a collector (not necessarily monetarily valuable or antique). All kind of Arts are collectables.

Collectable Art suggests that someone else also collects the same artworks. Therefore, a market already exists for your painting. Collectable art can either be signed or unsigned, "listed" or "unlisted" (recorded in auction price guides). But generally it is of modest quality.

The only difference between the Collector and Dealer, is the necessary monetary value in the case of dealing.

Investment Art
Will always increase in value. High calibre, well-listed artists generally create investment quality paintings. Sought by collectors, investors, and dealers, investment art appeals to buyers beyond the state or local region, meeting national and international demand. Connoisseurs, experts, and art historians determine the quality standards for investment art. Therefore, if you own investment art, it can easily be sold for a profit. If investment art is ever lost, the finder essentially holds a bearer instrument—the equivalent of cash. A metropolitan radio station once reported a Picasso artwork was lost—accidentally left on a New York City subway. Can you imagine? The radio station asked the finder of the artwork to call the police. Leaving a painting by Picasso on a Train is like leaving a bag with a million dollars cash in it on a park bench. Forget it!

Next topic on how to Buy And Sell Art For Profits:
ART DEALERS INCOME STREAMS

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