How To Put Together Artist Portfolios
Posted By seovine on June 8, 2011
Your skill can only be judged when it is on display, and keeping your work in your basement sheltered away from everyone else defeats that goal. You can properly display and expose your work through artist portfolios that are well put together rather than letting them waste away. You will possibly even end up on your way to impressing a few gallery directors and owners and it only takes a few simple steps.
Start by selecting your best pieces, preferably limiting them to at least 20 and possibly no more than 30 pieces of work that you feel are most representative of what you can do. You risk the possibility of boring your audience if you include any more than that. They also won’t be able to form a proper impression of what you are capable of if you do any less than that. Make sure that the pieces that you plan to include in your portfolio have a lot of variety in them. Throughout the included works, avoid sticking to just one subject or theme. Showcase your talents by including several pieces that utilize them if you are capable of using a wide array of media. Ensure that you avoid glare when photographing your works for the portfolio by shooting them from an angle rather directly head on. You may want to feature larger format photographs if you want to feature larger pieces such as posters and murals that you may have done in the past. You can get a large portfolio case rather than just the standard sizes that are commonly available to ensure your audience is able to appreciate the details that can be found in your larger pieces.
make sure that they are properly displayed and arranged in your binder once you have selected the pieces that you want to include.Choosing the right kind of binder can be just as important as selecting the kind of works that you put on display. Get a binder that can be refilled with the plastic sheets that you use to place the photographs. That way you can take photographs off all your work and place them in their own individual sheets, switching them in and out depending on the audience that you will be showcasing your work to. As much as possible try to avoid the cheaper and flimsier binders as they can reduce the overall impact, particularly if you are showing them to interested gallery owners who may want to feature your work. Invest in quality leather portfolio cases if you can afford it. Arrange your work rather than displaying them at random and print small labels to help identify your work. You will want to include published reviews of your work if you happen to have any.
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