Dear friends,

I recently was invited to join MakersPlace, another cool platform for showcasing and trading digital art.

MakersPlace is a platform that empowers digital creators (artists, designers, writers and more) to create and sell their unique digital creations with the help of blockchain technology.

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MakersPlace is owned and operated by Onchain Labs Inc., a company based in San Francisco, California. Their team consists of "veteran technologists and creators with decades of experience building consumer products".

Like most of similar platforms, MakersPlace makes use of Ethereum smart contracts to handle the tokenization and trading of the artworks. But in contrary to other platforms, they pay the necessary gas fees and customers can even buy digital artworks using their credit cards.

The website is currently "invite only", but there are already several well known artists from Steemit around. For example, Reinhard Schmid, Twirble, Haedre, Art with Flo and Sander Jansen Art.

My MakersPlace Store

At first I was a bit unsure, which kind of artworks I should submit to my MakersPlace store, because I didn't wanted to put up the same stuff up there like on SuperRare or KnownOrigin. While I basically decided to put my monochrome grid- and lineart on KnownOrigin, I went for the more colourful and glitchy stuff on SuperRare.

When I looked around at the other artist's works, I noticed that there are a lot of digital drawings and paintings as well as graphics design works on the platform. So I decided to start with one of my earlier digital works called "Tune in, Turn around, Drop out!", a digitally revised edition of an analog sketch, that turned out quite psychedelic, because it works either way around.

It's an edition of 5 and you can get one for 0.5 Eth (or the equivalent in fiat). You can read more about the making-of in my former Steemit post. In case, you're still wondering, why you should actually pay for an artwork, than can easily copied from the net, here is the explanation from the MakersPlace site:

Upon purchase, you'll be given the right to use, distribute and display the creation for non-commercial purposes only. Since you own this unique creation, you can also re-sell the creation on a secondary market or even directly on MakersPlace.

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And here is a short video explaining the whole thing:

More Art

The second piece, I've put up on MakersPlace is a more edgy and contemporary piece, it's called "Plasic Queen".

It is based on a video-still of a performance, I recorded in the late 80s, called 'Plastic World', which has been one of my long lasting sources of inspiration and already went through countless transformations. Here is the work in higher resolution:

Visit my MakersPlace Store

Overall this marketplace for digital art looks very promising and I had a smooth experience putting up my works (and buying a work from @reinhard-schmid). I only once mixed up the public link to one of my artworks with the one from my internal shop page, but after Daniel Chu (Co-founder and CEO of MakersPlace) personally notified me of my mistake, I'm pretty sure, that won't happen again ;-)

So please take a look at my MakersPlace store here and don't forget to bookmark and check out the other amazing artists at the platform!

Thanks for your consideration!

@shortcut