Watch this before you start selling paintings on Saatchi Art Gallery 

Correction: Since publishing this video some issues have been resolved. - It's much harder to take high quality images from the site. - You also get customer information (on the shipping label).

First of all, they do share the buyer's information. When I sell something on the site they send me a shipping label with the buyer's name and address! Second of all, none of my images are available as "prints." They already are original prints (etchings). If someone wanted to "steal" an image they're not getting anything like the original. Besides, this is a problem for any artist with a website.

Every artist faces this, all art needs to be uploaded, isn't it, for selling. And I have suffered many times when other artists have actually tampered and copied my art and uploaded on the same platform of another online art gallery, what can we do! We can't sit with our paintings,we have to show them, so finally letting go of all fears and continuing to make art and post art!

Good Video. I have been on Saatchi for over a year. I should have known everything you mentioned, but thought of none of it when I started to list my work. Glad I came across your video and had it open my eyes! Thaks :)

Love your videos. Great points raised here.

You are very paranoid . 1) limited edition prints have to be signed by the artist. 2) when you sell a painting you are given the name & address of the buyer. Hence you do have their details to communicate. 3) it doesnt matter who owns the online platform. 4 ) galleries are not as good as a platform. I know as have been selling art since 1969.

Hi Dries, I am very glad you brought this subject up and gave us a good insight of what is what. For one, I have always long suspected the up and downloading of images, meaning being able to be stolen. The other thing that has kept me thinking is, these online galleries take a good percentage of the commission, as do the real galleries. Saatchi takes 35%, as you mentioned and others take 50% even. The difference usually is, real galleries then take everything on themselves, whilst the online ones put the onus and responsibilities on the artist. Thanks for the rest of the information. All the best Zeal.

Thank You dries, i sell on Saatchi for 5 years now...i didn't realize that, so thank you again...

Thanks for sharing! It was very useful and just in time for me.

Thank you Dries Kettel. 😊

Very informative video. Thank you, Dries. Who knew?

I enjoy watching your videos. I am not an artist, but the information you provide is interesting. I do like art and appreciate that you are trying to help others. 👍

why you made this video but you actually are selling on saatchi art? did you change your opinion,?

Very good info, and it IS a big problem.

I love your accent and fast speaking. Also very informative. Thanks!

Thanks for this.

Thank you for your video : very helpful and i will no longer waste my time with all these art platforms

Thank you for sharing your insights with this gallery. When you mention the ownership of Saatchi Gallery its probably managed by a shell company, a method normally used in business. However the idea of not having your own website is really short changing yourself as youre always the puppet of someone else's good will and policies. Better to be your own master than someone's servant

And how do you copy right your work then? Digital art or paper/ canvas that you upload ?

Good information in regards to the pitfalls...be careful, you could be labeled a contrarian 😂 but it is true, the legwork to sell on your own website is hard and time consuming, many hats have to be worn and a lot of them a creative person won't want to wear as it takes away from the creating process BUT the alternative (i.e. gallery ,other platform) is always the middleman, and it's ok, as long as he likes to eat and you dont mind that he makes up the menu price and keeps the menu most of the time 😂 it's a choice....a hard one...

I once saw a photo I posted on social media printed on a t-shirt being worn by a person in another country I visited. I didn't get a chance to ask the person where the shirt was from because I was inside a train. That same image was digitally altered (looked like basic vectoring) by a street artist which he used for his promotion materials in a solo exhibit held a hotel I stayed in years later. Neither was done with my consent or knowledge. I have stopped being bullish about anything related to online. I was sharing below 1900 pixels wide. Beware, my friends, the thieves can steal from anywhere. The hard work is worth it, don't be afraid to go slow.

This video has been VERY informative. You gained a sub!!👍🏻 A request though. Will it be possible for you to make a vid about offline art galleries ? I am more interested in selling my art in offline galleries rather than online . What will be the pros and cons ?

You promote Etsy, I suppose people could still do the same thing there, or even copy the work behind you. The previous video you say how you sell on Saatchi, bit confusing. Did you yourself take this up with Saatchi, about what people can do, as you explain here?

Weird! I was thinking about selling on Saatchi art today!

just getting around to this, but man i looked at some of the art being sold and im shocked some of this garbage is being priced so high

My thinking is that, should the current managers of saatchi online are asked to drop the brand name, it wouldn't be extremely difficult to do extensive publicity of a new brand name. Such publicity would simply mention what has happened and promise even much improved services for the collectors and the artists. Thanks for the video.

If Saatchi online is that bad, why are you still publishing and selling your art there?

well can't you water mark your images? Once you watermark the image it's unusable for others unless they buy directly from the Artist

thank you for sharing

Legit paranoia here. The only way to not have your art stolen online is to never put it online. All reward requires a level of risk. If you don't put your art out there it is a guarantee that NO ONE will ever buy it. I've been a commercial artist for 20 years, I've seen folks rip off my work. While they are doing that I'm a step ahead creating something new. This guy has another video where he tells you how to sell on the same website and how to make $8500 a month on instagram. If I were making that a month I certainly wouldn't be wasting my time posting videos on youtube.

good advice.

It's a shame Saatchi, being the company they are, do not have some protection for artists in relation to this.

Thank you !!! I have immediately deleted my artworks on Saatchi… but maybe it’s too late already.

hi my friend amezing video

Saatchi is my friend!

Hi, are there any artists from Spain who sell on Saatchi? Tell me how to write down a VAT number without registering an autonomo, because sales are not stable?

If we take your advice and sell on Saatchi, do you have a video on best practice on that platform?

Hi sir I'm From india sir I heard about this website if I want to sell my painting in other country what I should do and how can I sell my painting in exhibition please tell me sir ........................

Great information- I really worry about this too. Decisions to make. I had some art on a well known online seller some years ago and I moved and lost the old email address as it was satellite in a remote area in Australia.Then all the emails were purged or lost by that internet company. I had an accident and took some time to recover so art was not on my mind. So I had no idea whether any art sold. The company kept making excuses to allow me access to the old account. Finally I managed to close the old account after 5000 emails. But I still don’t know whether anything sold. All my fault but so frustrating.

Some of the info here is well known to people with some web knowledge (for instance many companies upload full sized files, expecting to only make the compressed file public with file extension à la "artwork-700x300.jpg" when in fact using hard URL full version is accessible by just typing the same address but using "artwork.jpg"). BUT what I didn't know was the print-on-demand thing... Hadn't check the website for ages. And the dodgy use of Saatchi name... No wonder so many little know digital artists have started including Saatchi in their CV and pop up in the Google Search. That itself is good PR, but worthless in the grander scheme of things. PS: Same applies to Instagram. I don't know if it still the case but larger sized files used to be there for picking with little view source and URL knowledge. On a certain level it is actually good for those who photograph real paintings with real texture and possibly a little angle, since it would look stupid to just print it out.

So if you are selling actual paintings where do you send your art work ? To Saatchi or to the customer?

I once had a Saatchi account about 10 years ago. All of my work is digital, such as photographs and digital illustrations. After 2 years at Saatchi with no sales I deleted my art and closed my account. I have had more luck selling thru stock photo agencies, such as Robert Harding, Cavan, and Adobe Stock. They only display small versions and watermark the images to make it harder for thieves to copy them. But those types of agencies are not for painters or sculptors who make physical material artwork. Stock agencies only work with digital media.

Ah nothing to do with Saatchi Agency anymore. Thx for this info!!!

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What about sculpture selling on Saatchi? Any better online gallery?

where you reccomend to sell both> original and print?

He does saatchi promote artist himself? Im not getting views in my artwork that i upload

Hi! Could anyone tell me how to delete my items from Saatchi ? I am trying to delete but it says "Problems deleting art work" WTF????

What is a “better” site to sell art?

Its 2022 and you are still on Saatchi, so it can be that bad?

Can i "only sell digital art" on Saatchi Art? I don't want to sell physical art & i don't want to deal with shipping/logistic stuff.😊

Two red flags for Saachi ? Sounds like a no go to me. So people just printing your photos that could be done from Etsy too ! So a Gallery is the way to go ?

ok these are pretty tough problems. So what should I do to solve or avoid them?

Omg😂😂 I was just trying to step my account there 😭

How can we save our uploaded artwork at saatchi from being stolen?

That's why I make videos and I prefer now to post videos, slideshows and montages rather than just straight off images. The problem is it is hard to get anyone to watch the videos. Even harder to get the proper watch time. No watch time and the reels and videos don't go to anyone. And you don't want to show entertaining content. You want to show what you create which is sort of like a promotional advertisement.

those images are 72dpi, cant print them in quality mate,.

wht do you think about the artworkarchive

1 Its bizarre how much you look like me. 2 thank you for this video. 3 where do you recommend we sell? Small and large locations please.

Which is a good place online to sell your art?

So where would you recommend selling art?

that's why any upload I do in the internet of my art is at 45 to 60 DPI so if someone steals my art and print it, the quality will be shity.

So what do you do in order to protect your work from being reprinted??

All Print on demand hold this insecurity. Imagine their database get stolen!

If you download 1900x1900 you can than use AI upscale to 3800x3800 and print even better quality

I did not found a folder it's not true

Then where to sell art?

How is it going at this moment in 2023?

The answer is never put up images over 72ppi.

But you sell on saatchi Art too!

Thanks bruh 🤕 I was planning to make account on sachi

Well i doubt he will win his law suit because as you said, he sold his website. They bought the rights to his name, not the actual site. They could have just made a different site but they wanted a site with his name in it, so they bought his site which then means they bought the right to use him name on their website.

people can steal image from instagram...and print.....so..fear is not the answer.

Can it be uploaded with "watermark" instead? to avoid being stolen

Can’t you use a watermark?

Good idea to show te exact step by step on how to stole someone's art digitally through saatchi art HA

It is almost impossible to believe that Saatchi just let another unrelated company to use the braded name of Saatchi in the same category field without controlling the impact on Saatchi's reputation...

you do know who has bought your work on Saatchi.

Disagree. When I have sold on Saatchi, who I would still recommend, you get print-out for shipping label to affix to box/tube. Thereon name, phone number etc.. I have thereby called and thanked customers also. And can contact directly subsequently. Saatchi otherwise unscrupulous? Isn't much of art-world and world in general? I'll try and do a painting of unscrupulous people one day. P.S. I have impression that at least some of Saatchi curators have gone Woke. In that: its not originality, or accomplishment, it's identity that's promoted. Not the Johnny Depp, Hunter Biden identity thing. Selling a name/label. Like a handbag, watch, or some such like. Something else. P.P.S. Is obscene profiteering &c. OK, as long as it's Woke? P.P.P.S. Johnny Depp certainly treats artists who are in contrast to him unknown, with an immense respect. Righteous for that. I am amused at people who buy his Art only. They're buying a name. The "Art" is I am informed, overpainted giclee, which prints were produced from photoshoped images. Correct me if wrong please.

As of today: 02/16/2021 you can still access a large reproducible image. No security on this platform.

Saatchi Art Online is a waste of time unless you have a big online following. There are millions of artworks for sale. It's a sad place to end up as an Artist.

That hair nigga....that hair...!

Спасибо! Эта он-лайн галерея, к тому же, ввела санкции против художников из России. Теперь потенциальный покупатель должен заплатить за картину русского художника дополнительные 1000$ непонятно за что. ))

GODD I cant believe companies can just steal the hell out of your art😡😡.

Can't you just watermark it?

Hard to give credibility to a guy that seems like he just came out of an hangover and doesn't remember the last time his hair saw a brunch. Bullshitting it's easy in fact it's so easy you have a channel about it. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

This has changed now though? A friend has sold on saatchi (she sells ALOT) and has never had this issue I fear artists like you scaremonger in fear of a saturated market

You don't need to even save the page. Just drag the picture to a new tab and you can see it opened in a new tab at its best quality. It sucks! Also, delete my comment. I don't want to teach something detrimental.

Actually you are not telling the truth. Saatcji Art is building a career for good artist. They promoting me, they print my work in a catalog which is send to 250000 people, they feature artist. Your video is just click bait.

holy shit that's horrible !!! i am so sorry that scammer do that to you . . .

damn dude get a haircut.....that mop is a fire hazard !!! lol

Thanks for your video? But why are you still there? According to the link in bio in your Instagram