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A great morale booster is to win or even place in a highly regarded art competition. Many professional artists today have competitions to thank for getting them started on the road to a successful career. Entering and winning art competitions can be a highly lucrative business if you take it seriously. Every year art magazines alone give away many thousands of pounds/dollars worth of prizes. If you add that to the prizes offered by other magazines and organizations the figure is well into six figures, and someone has to win. Secrets to success:
Most competitions are honourable. That is they seek to improve the standard of art by giving prizes and/or recognition to artists. For that reason, rules often contain a clause regarding the use of the winning images, such as displaying the winning pictures without further payment to the artist. Please note the part that says winning pictures. Winning artists are usually awarded a material prize as payment-in-kind for the use of the picture in a limited fashion. This should not affect © copyright which should always remain with the artist. Avoid competitions where you may lose copyright of your images. Fortunately these are few and far between but mistakes have been made in the past. The use of pictures submitted to competitions can lead to exploitation of artists by some organisers. This is because all too often competitions may have rules that include phrases like ‘...we reserve the right to use ALL images submitted...’ If an image isn't good enough to win a prize but is good enough to be used to promote the competition or any other use by the competition organisers then the artist should be paid for use of the image! This may only be a token amount but it should be paid and copyright of the image acknowledged to the artist. Enter some art competitions and you stand a good chance of making a name for yourself and winning some great prizes. Good luck! |
