Before you are ready to send artworks:

1. You need to join our gallery and to obtain account number; together with the account number you will be assigned 2-3 letter code to prefix your image files. To join our gallery, please send an artistic biography with 4-5 artworks attached. We apologize for not accepting everybody - our art shop has strong leaning toward professional and well recognized artists. We also ask to send your photo image to publish on the biography page. Please, send your request to info@elite-art.com.
2. You need to prepare image files in jpeg format, the size must be not less than 600 points in the largest dimension. An appropriate color balance, brightness and contrast of the image are very important. It might be really disappointing for a customer, if he or she finds a critical discrepancy between the image and its original.

How to submit artworks:

1. Name your image files starting with the code and adding a sequential number. It is ok to have gaps in the numbers, if you are not sure which number is the latest one (look up your exhibition to figure it out). The number for every painting you have submitted into our gallery must be unique.
2. Prepare a text file with description of the images (plain text file is the best choice using WordPad under MS Windows, for example). There must be one empty line between image descriptions. Description consists of fields and their values separated by semicolon ":". The fields are (our comments how to fill these fields follow in "[...]"):

   artist:[your account number or letter code]
   code:[image code]
   title:
   subtitle:[if you have any]
   year:[artwork date]
   size:[size is given in format "10x12" where "10" is width and "12" is height; default size is in metric system, if you use inches - write "10x12 in"]
   plot:[use one of the numbers:
       1-Portrait;
       2-Landscape;
       3-Still Life;
       4-Nude Art;
       5-Genre Painting;
       6-Abstract;
       7-Expressionism;
       8-Surrealism;
       9-Naive;
       10-Impressionism;
       11-Modernism;
       12-Copies and Interpretations;
       13-Metal Art and Sculpture;
       14-Photographic Art;
       15-Realism]
   subject:[use one of the numbers:
       1-Landscape;
       2-Cityscape;
       3-Seascape;
       4-Still Life;
       5-Portrait;
       6-Genre;
       7-Nude;
   select 0, if nothing is applicable]
   technique:[use one of the numbers:
       1-Painting: oil;
       2-Painting: acrylic;
       3-Painting: mixed technique;
       4-Painting: tempera and gouache;
       5-Painting: watercolor;
       6-Graphic art: print;
       7-Graphic art: drawing;
       8-Applied art: ceramics;
       9-Applied art: glass;
       10-Applied art: castings;
       11-Applied art: enamels;
       12-Applied art: dolls;
       13-Applied art: stained glass;
       14-Applied art: textile;
       15-Applied art: folk industry;
       16-Photography;
       17-Metal Wall Art;
       18-Metal Art: sculpture;
       19-Sculpture: wooden;
       20-Sculpture: stone]
   media:[use one of the numbers:
       1-canvas;
       2-paperboard;
       3-board;
       4-paper;
       5-wooden board;
       6-plywood;
       7-bronze;
       8-metal;
       9-metal sculpture;
       10-tapestry;
       11-batik;
       12-glass;
       13-wood;
       14-marble;
       15-leather]
   price:[the amount of money you want to receive]
   description:[optional, any additional knowledge about the art, its subject, history and so on]
   comment:[optional, this is a place for special comments about condition of the artwork]
   Note that the order of fields is not important.

3. This is an example of three paintings described according to the specification:
   

   artist:at
   code:at032
   plot:6
   subject:6
   technique:1
   media:1
   title:Egypt - Figures
   year:1999
   price:500
   size:60x50
   
   artist:at
   code:at073
   plot:3
   subject:4
   technique:1
   media:1
   title:Still Life
   subtitle:
   year:2000
   price:900
   size:80x100
   
   artist:at
   code:at092
   plot:4
   subject:7
   technique:1
   media:1
   title:Naked
   subtitle:
   year:2004
   price:1600
   size:81x73
   

4. Once you have images and their descriptions you can send the package in e-mail (info@elite-art.com). If the size is too big, please notify us and we will suggest alternative ways of sending the data.