With the unfortunate demise of Paintworks (bankruptcy) and the steady loss of other painting magazines we are all looking for what will fill the void.
E-zines are popping up all over the place. I know of three: Interactive Artist Magazine, Pixalated Palette and PaintingEzine. And I have asked these three for a little bit of a review! Hope you find it helpful.
We will start off with the Interactive Artist Magazine because it has been around the longest.
Interactive Artist Magazine was started 6 years ago when Dawn Knowles worked on a production with Detroit Public Television. She grew up in the industry and knew in some way she wanted to be a part of its growth – specifically education. She decided to do just that and thought it would also be a way to help her family’s manufacturing business, Martin/F.Weber, thrive. Dawn loves people and enjoys sharing her love and passion for the arts with others. She wanted the magazine to be a way to inspire artists along their creative journey.
IAM is a unique, online artist magazine, providing creative inspiration and education to you, 24/7, without leaving your home or art studio. They offer Written and Video Lessons by some of the top artists in our industry as well as up and coming artists that are just emerging. IAM offers a Virtual Gallery, enabling artists to share their work, and a store for artists to sell their DVDs, packets and ePackets. They provide Product Reviews as well as Informative Articles and Lessons in every issue. IAM publishes a new issue every February, April, June, August, October and December, and each issue is packed with an average of 5 Written Lessons, 5 Video Lessons, 4 TV Artist Video Lessons and so much more!
IAM’s Editor in Chief, Sandy McTier, says one of her main goals in every issue is to reach and inspire every artist regardless of their skill level. IAM offers Artist Tip Tuesday on their FB page and will soon start a FB Group to follow along with a series being offered in 2015 – Making Art your Business with artist Carol Foldvary-Anderson.
http://InteractiveArtistMagazine.org
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