The Hometown Art Gallery

November 17, 2007 – 3:26 pm

Buying art is easy at Hometown Art Gallery located at www.hometownartgallery.com. They help to bring artists and art enthusiasts together. It’s a central location where the artist’s goal of marketing their art work to buyers can come true. Hometown Art Gallery also attempts to quench the public’s interest to learn information about artists in their community. 

The experience of viewing and buying art from new artists is one of the features of the online gallery. While the experience is not the same as visiting a real art gallery you can see many artists display their work. The design of the site is like visiting a museum with the intent to attract the serious buyer and the casual onlooker. With many artists work available you can easily spend over an hour casually viewing the works.

Type of Art

The gallery represents over 17 art types including mural, photograph, digital image, and fiber art; they showcase 16 different subjects like abstract, cityscape, landscape and others; and a variety of mediums from clay, pastels, bronze, and 26 other types. They handle any style including retro, impressionistic, realist and 21 other.  Surface art includes board, canvas, glass, film and seven other categories. Finally there are over 100 artists that showcase their art.

Family Friendly

We know that artists can and do create art that is controversial and not appropriate for children. Hometown Art Gallery provides a family friendly button that allows you to search for art that avoids controversy or inappropriate subjects. They may have an broad definition of controversy or subject matter, but it is nice to know that they respect some sensibilities without limiting the artist from presenting their work without censorship.

The Artist opportunity

The artists can create their online Art Gallery free of charge. With a large audience available, they can increase sales. The sales process including orders, shipping and payment is easy and straightforward and all monetary transactions are secure. There are no extra costs associated with membership to online gallery. Artists can sell their art on other galleries, there is no restriction put on artists about where online they can sell. They can also voluntarily participate in marketing programs like eCards and screensavers.

The Buyer

Many of the features found for sellers are also available to buyers. There is an easy to use interface. You can buy directly from HometownArtGallery.com without going through Pay-Pal or some other third party. All transactions are secure. The check-out operation is fast and you do not be a member to purchase art.

Membership

Here is where the Hometown Art Gallery is different. You can become a member of the gallery; it’s free. But that alone in not a reason to join. If you have favorite pieces of art or favorite artists you can create and manage several galleries. Wish lists are also possible where you can add art pieces that you could buy. And you can receive notifications and discount promotions and offers available to members only. This includes notifications about new artwork from your favorite artists or art subject. A newsletter is also available. Membership also allows you other benefits. Most important is that if you want to buy any art product you have to be a member. If you want to monitor your order you need to register. If you want to create your art gallery or receive special offers this is available only to members.

Purchasing Art

If you want to purchase any art piece this can be easily done. There is an icon “Buy this piece” which will then activate the purchasing steps process. Purchasing transactions can occur with the major credit cards.

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