4 Things To Consider When Buying Art Prints Online
Art prints are one of the best ways to help make your home feel intentional and refined without breaking the bank. Prints are especially versatile, because they’re easy to customize for your space. Have a big wall? Get a big print! Just need to fill up a little empty spot? Get a smaller one.
That said, not all art prints are created equal. When shopping for prints online, make sure to keep the following things in mind:
Consider your space
It’s important to think about your space throughout the buying process: there’s nothing worse than getting excited about a piece of art, buying it, and realizing that it doesn’t fit in the space you had in mind.
Before you click “buy”, think about where you’ll put a piece: how big is the space? What colors will work well in the room? Is there any other art nearby? What art styles will look best?
Fortunately, VSUAL makes it easy to see how art will look with its Gallery Builder. Using the Gallery Builder, you can upload a photo of your wall and then preview how different prints, sizes, and framing options will look in your space. Or, look at pre-built galleries for inspiration on how to decorate your room.
Floral Wall, by Padmini
Frames make a difference
You should think of your frame as part of your art. Framing can have an enormous impact on how a piece of art is perceived: unframed prints can feel clean and minimalist, whereas a good frame and matboard can elevate a space significantly. Frames can help make pieces with similar colors to the wall they’re mounted on stand out, and they can help draw a viewer’s eye towards your art.
VSUAL offers two frame types: natural wood and flat metal. We also offer multiple colors of each frame, and matted and unmatted options. You can immediately preview any print on VSUAL in any frame style, so it’s easy to visualize how the framed print will arrive.
When you buy a framed print from VSUAL, it will come pre-assembled and with all the hardware you need to immediately hang your print and start enjoying it.
Quality matters
The point of art is to be looked at. It should be examined, scrutinized, inspected. You should expect that every inch of anything you hang on your wall will be looked over.
With this in mind, it’s important to invest not just in good art, but in good quality. Print quality, paper stock, frame quality, and craftsmanship all are important elements to making a piece of wall art feel like a premium product.
Because we know how important quality is, every print from VSUAL is made using archival-grade ink on premium paper stock. We offer two stocks:
Hahnemüle Photorag, which creates muted blacks with even color reproduction and excellent detail
Epson Semi Gloss, a great paper all-around, chosen for its photographic aesthetics, vibrant color reproduction, high contrast, and the painterly feel of a Giclée fine art print
Furthermore, each frame is custom made to perfectly fit the artwork. Frame pieces are cut by hand and manually assembled to fit your art perfectly every time. Even the matting is cut to order.
Support artists
Last but not least, it’s important to make sure that your purchase supports the artist! After all, you’re buying their work because you love it, and supporting artists through purchases is the best way to encourage them to keep creating beautiful art.
Artists on VSUAL set their own markup. They control their profits, and when you buy a print from them, they get paid quickly. Supporting artists is a key part of our mission: our goal is to empower artists to make a living doing what they love. Wherever you decide to buy art, make sure that you are buying directly from an artist and that they’re being remunerated fairly and quickly.
