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Have art, illustrations and photos that you want to share, or even sell? A site you might take a look at is Red Bubble. The site claims to have shipped 114,000 items of art to 71 different countries in the last few months.
The Red Bubble Mosiac is what caught my eye, fascinated me, and led to me explore more about this site. As you mouse over the mosiac, you see hundreds of different works of art, combined to create an image of the word PAX. You can click on any image to see it full-size and buy it if you want. There's also a mosiac called Warm Iron composed of images of clothing art.
Photocritic gave Red Bubble a positive review and many readers chimed in with positive comments about the site as well. It's free to sign up there. If you decide to sell something, Red Bubble takes a cut.
Here's a Red Bubble page belonging to Celia Coulter. She's displaying illustrations, photos, and t-shirt designs. I liked this image of hers so I clicked it to see if it was for sale. It is, as either a card or a print.
Images can also be sold as calendars and posters on the site. When you decide to sell something, the site tells you what it will cost to produce it on their end, then you add whatever markup you want to earn for yourself.
Photopreneur also reviewed Red Bubble favorably. This site pointed out that the selling is really left up to the individual artist, although Red Bubble does provide widgets for promoting your work on your blog. Meliors Simms is using a Red Bubble widget on her blog at Bibliophilia.
You can join a Facebook Red Bubble group to help promote your work.
Karin Taylor created a blog to support her art sales on Red Bubble. Other bloggers have done the same thing, for example, Thick Black Outline.
At Untraditional Home, in New Year's Meditation, Heather made looking at Red Bubble one of her goals for the year:
Speaking of art I have several projects in my head, including the new website. First, I am going to choose a few social networking artist sites (probably Etsy, Red Bubble, and Zazzle but maybe Imagekind).
In the past, I've written about another good place to sell photos, Photrade. In researching this story, I found several references to Zazzle, an artists' sales option I will report on in the future.
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Virginia DeBolt
BlogHer Technology Contributing Editor
Web Teacher
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