Frequently Asked Questions
I love your work! Where can I buy it?
Thank you – that’s great!! Just go to my portfolio site on Pixels.com. Select a picture from the portfolio and select the size and type of print you want. Each picture comes in multiple sizes, materials such as canvas, paper, metal or wood, and you can choose frames and mats. Your orders will be prepared and shipped to your door by Pixels.com/Fine Art America.
What is Pixels.com and Fine Art America?
Fine Art America is like Amazon. On Amazon, you can buy products from multiple sellers, and the process is all through one company – Amazon. With Fine Art America, you can buy art products from multiple artists, and the process is all through one company – Fine Art America. They handle everything – manufacturing/printing, framing, matting, packaging, shipping, and payment. They have 14 production facilities running 24hrs/day to produce the items you want, the way you want them. Fine Art America has been in business since 2006 and is the world’s largest art marketplace and Print-On-Demand (POD) company.
The company has two web sites – pixels.com and fineartamerica.com. Pixels.com is the newer site and has both wall art and non-wall art items. Fineartamerica.com is older and has wall art items only.
Pixels.com is the preferred site to use. Each site has their own user accounts, but all you need to do is to create your account on Pixels.com (only) and you’re set.
Do I need to buy special hanging hardware to hang the print when I order it?
Prints from Pixels.com come ready to hang – there’s no additional hardware needed!
Why should I buy prints versus an original?
Prints are a great way to Brighten & Beautify your space with art. They’re available in a wide rage of sizes, from as small as 8” to 60” (5 feet!). So you never have to worry that the painting will be over or under sized for the space you want it to go in.
Don’t think that you need huge open spaces on your walls in order to have paintings, or that smaller-sized paintings won’t look nice. Sometimes, a smaller piece of art work is exactly what you need to brighten up a space, whether it’s in your apartment, office, home, or other locale.
Since every painting is offered in many sizes, you’ll never have the art buyer’s worst nightmare – “I absolutely love the original, but I can’t buy it because it’s the wrong size for the wall I want it to go on!“
Prints come on canvas, paper, metal, acrylic, wood, and fabric. So you can put a painting in places you wouldn’t otherwise be able to, such as a bathroom.
If you like a painting and want it in multiple locations, such as your home and office, or for multiple sites in your business, you can simply order additional prints. And you can easily change the size and/or material to suit each location.
If a print somehow gets damaged or can no longer be used, it’s not a total disaster. Just order an identical print to replace it!
How do I know what the art will look like on my wall before I order it?
Pixels.com has a cool mobile app that allows you to see what the art work will look like on your wall. It’s 4 easy steps.
How do I create my orders for prints on pixels.com?
Prints are available on canvas, paper, metal, acrylic, wood, and fabric/tapestries. Here are a couple of quick videos that go though the options for ordering art on canvas and on paper. The rest of the materials are basically similar to canvas.
Video - Selecting Canvas Prints
Video - Selecting Paper Prints
Note that when you’re adding mats, the bottom mat is the one that touches the picture. The top mat does not touch the picture, it only touches the bottom mat.
If you need help and/or would like suggestions on frame/mat combinations, just contact me. I’d be happy to help!
Video - Selecting Metal, Acrylic, and Wood Prints
Video - Selecting a Tapestry (fabric)
The prices look high. Department store art costs a lot less.
Department store art is mass produced. Mass production has two liabilities and one benefit. The liabilities are reduced selection and environmental waste. The one benefit is lower cost.
The selection in a department store is severely limited, because it's too costly to mass-produce many different pieces. So you're faced with a Bland & Boring offering, which means that now your space is going to look like everyone else's. Why should you settle for that when you can get art work that's exciting, engaging, and enhances the character of your space?
Department store art has the "one size, take it or leave it" mentality. If you like the art work but want it larger or smaller so it actually fits your wall space, you're out of luck. It makes the lower price, which initially looked like a benefit, a moot point.
Not every copy of a mass-produced item that a department store carries is going to sell. Unbeknownst to the consumer, thousands and thousands items go unsold and become waste. They pile up in our landfills like the picture below, or in our oceans. It's not friendly to the environment at all, and we need to care about the environment, now more than ever.
Pixels.com's wide variety eliminates Bland & Boring. However large or small your wall space is, you can find a print that fits. Since Pixels creates the art after you place the order (i.e. Print On Demand (POD)), so there's no waste from unsold items.
Prints are cool, but I'd rather have the original. Are they available?
Do you take commissions for art work?
Thank you for asking, I appreciate it, but not at this time.