Articles · 28. gennaio 2023

A lot of people either stop to think of the artist's profession as "magical and fascinating", or as "a waste of time and not a real job". Only 1% stops to listen and understand what's really behind it.

Articles · 16. dicembre 2022

First of all we specify that the "war" mentioned in the title does not refer entirely to AI. For a month or more, a new platform called an "Art generator" has been launched on the web: this type of processor is capable of creating from scratch - after entering certain keywords - a real digital drawing: portraits, landscapes, animals fantastic… everything you can imagine, just a click away. Yes, it looks great. But it's not.

Articles · 09. dicembre 2022

Fraud is one of the methods most used by criminals to be able to illegally take money from people: we have telephone scams, mail scams and even scams regarding donations for the unfortunate. Even during the Covid period, a high number of scams were reported, mostly implemented via the internet, the new frontier for stealing and disappearing into thin air without a trace.

Articles · 02. dicembre 2022

I'll be naive, but I'm always amazed when I read the news about a famous person who turns out to be a piece of manure. Not that this is great news, you say. But you can't deny that it's still a shocker, especially when it comes to someone you know for their talent.

Articles · 30. aprile 2022

Vent art is not an artistic current, but an expression to indicate the kind of drawings that represent the emotional state of the artist, in this case negative emotions dictated by sadness or anger.

Articles · 15. aprile 2022

I think you are all familiar with the story of the security guard who, at the Yeltsin museum in Russia, drew a pair of eyes on the human figures in Anna Leporskaya's modern work. I don't know the work, but the first thing I thought is: "Are you a huge moron?"

Articles · 05. febbraio 2022

The word "Like" is a term that is used as an adverb or adjective to indicate a context of similarity, liking or loving. In fact, the common use for which we see and use this term is mainly in contexts where we want to say that there is something we like.

Articles · 07. gennaio 2022

Stealing is a crime, everyone knows it. People steals out of greed, out of spite, sometimes out of necessity and often to get stardom. Such crimes are punished when justice manages to find the culprits… much more difficult when it touches an artist, be it a professional or a freelancer.

Articles · 03. dicembre 2021

On the Twitter profile of “Tea, Cookies and Art” I asked this question: What are the phrases that a person should never say to an artist? The (many) responses I received are not hypothetical phrases, but real offenses that users have been told during their life as freelance artists.

Articles · 30. marzo 2021

Commissions never paid, drawings never delivered, bogus disputes… these are just a few examples of the reasons behind the countless scams that take place every day on art platforms.