Artist Statements
Grant and Proposal tips
Grant links
Grant writing services
Photographic Links
Publicity
Showing and Exhibition links
Artists of Note
Writing an Artist's Statement in 50 words or less
This one is mostly aimed at students who are just completing their first year of studies, but all examples of statement writing can come in handy.
Writing an Artist's Statement by Ariane Goodwin
Here, Ariane offers a number of excercises that can be used to help overcome the writer's block that often hits artists after they've gotten past the "I like to paint" portion of their statement.
This page doesn't claim that there is only One True Path to the perfect artist's statement, but allows for statements to be formal, playful, or mixed. A decent article.
Again an article from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (ECIAD) summarizing how to go about writing summaries in an objective fashion. Very helpful for writing up that 50 word project summary for your grant application.
Writing Proposals and Letters of Intent
Some small amount of help with phrasing things on grant applications, applications to graduate school, and other organizations.
10 Point Plan for Standard Grant Funding Proposal (PRIVATE)
This one's limited to people who pay a yearly subscription to http://www.artdeadline.com. It's worth the price of admission for the articles and all the other resources including a whole lot of calls for entry for shows and exhibitions. This article is handy for all sorts of proposals including exhibition proposals you might present to galleries.
This is a big one relating to organizational proposal writing. Has a nice bit of structure to it, and worth a read.
Okay, these places aren't free, and they don't tend to work on consignment. They tend to be tough to use if you actually have a real financial need, but you know what they say - it takes money to get grant money. Or something like that.
So you want to promote yourself as an artist? Well, you may want to start with good quality, full colour photo business cards. I used KeeperKards myself, but here are the main competitors in Vancouver, BC
KeeperKard - I wouldn't recommend their web design services at all, but their printed products are quite nice. Call them for information on discounts for visual artists.
ClubCard - these guys have an interesting variety of products including stickers and temporary tattoos, they're a little bit higher priced, but the quality isn't much different than KeeperKard's.
I'll be happy to help you design and even host your artist's website or any collateral products such as business cards and brochures. I try to cut other artists a good deal.
Another photo magazine out of the UK
Using 120 film in a 620 camera
Handy information for when you've only got slow speed film and not nearly enough light to get good exposures. For example, shoot ISO 100 film at 400 and tell the lab to "push the roll 2 stops"... can be a slide lifesaver... (aug 30, 2001)
"The issue of Depth of Field (DOF) seems to cause a great deal of confusion. Every photographer understands it somewhat, but rarely with the rigor needed to explain it to others. In fact, to be completely honest, I've had to go to a couple of reference books to be sure that I get the explanations here technically correct."
Some good basic tips, and links to some other great articles, some of which I might also get around to linking in. (aug 30, 2001)
...instructions on how to print B&W images. Also covers B&W film development as well as slide chemistry and developing. (aug 30, 2001)
F32 - The Online Photography Magazine
Has some interesting articles on the history of photography as well as informative tip and technique articles. (aug 31, 2001)
Miscellaneous Photographic Formulas
Some interesting bits of formula, as well as the cheapest and easiest silver recovery system I've seen yet for fixer.
Ilford and others have removed a lot of PDF files from their websites that contained developing information, etc on their films and papers. Someone who has an archive of a lot of them from Kodak and Ilford.
The Original Photoshop Brushes Bureau
Hosted at nocturna.net, this is one serious brush archive for messing up your pictures.
Grungy, distressed fonts in a variety of styles
DHTML scripts for menus and such. Likely each has been seen in a million places already, but it might be a good place to start. There is a version of Tetris written entirely in DHTML though...
As with the DHTML at Dynamic Drive, these are likely over-used bits of JavaScript, but sometimes, you just need some reference code.
More degraded brushes for PhotoShop, plus a whole list of links to other sites that host brushes.
SeaCreatures brushes for PhotoShop
More brushes for PhotoShop, based off images available from a german book.
Kind of annoying in its navigation. You click on the picture and it spawns a little window that has no sense of "Back," though there are brushes and images.
Photoshop brushes...
Royalty-free free stock photos.
One way to make an image look like it was cross-processed slide film.