Sundry Works Help · Bio sheet

Making an artist bio sheet for a show

One page about you, to stand beside your work at a show.

What it's for

A show asks for a few words about the artist, and the usual answer is a page typed up once in a word processor and nudged back onto one sheet every time something is added. This page lays it out for you: your photo, your QR code and logo, your name and the line under it, your bio, your shows and awards, and a last line saying what you paint in and where to see more.

Like the business card, it is drawn from your own details, so no painting needs to be open.

The picture is the page

The page beside the settings is the actual sheet, at its real size, shrunk to fit the screen. What you see is what prints, line breaks and all.

If the words run past one page, a note above the Print button says by about how many lines. Make the text smaller, take the photo off, or shorten the bio. A second page tends to get lost at a show.

The words

Name at the top and The line under it start as your artist name and tagline from the Business tab. Type in them to say something different on this sheet only.

Your bio and Shows and awards are kept with your profile, not with the sheet, so they are there for anything else that wants them. A blank line starts a new paragraph. If your bio is empty and you have an artist statement, Start from your artist statement copies it in to work from.

The last line, left blank, is made from the paint you use and your website on the Business tab - "Works primarily in ... More of the work at ...".

Pictures and look

• A photo of you - printed square, about 2¾ inches. It is trimmed to a square, keeping more of the top than the bottom, so a photo with your head in the top half works best.
• Your QR code and logo come from Brand assets on the Business tab. Each has a tick box to leave it off.
• Contact line - your contact address, website and socials along the foot. Off unless you tick it, because the QR code already says where to go.
• Name set in and Paragraphs set in - which Brand type font each uses. The fonts themselves are chosen under Brand type on the Business tab.
• Text size - 11 or 12 reads from a step back.
• Colour - the two lines across the page and the line under your name. It starts as your accent colour from the Business tab.
• Paper - US Letter or A4.

Printing

Press Print the bio sheet. In the print dialog set the scale to 100% ("actual size"). Choose Save as PDF instead of a printer for a copy you can email to a venue.

Card stock, or plain paper in a sheet protector, keeps it standing on an easel through a weekend.

The rest of the Help

Start here

• Getting started with Sundry Works - What Sundry Works does and how the tabs fit together.
• Using Sundry Works on your phone - Putting Sundry Works on your phone, beside the laptop or instead of it.

Your catalogue

• What's due and what's unfinished - Where the app opens: what to carry on with, what needs you, what's coming up.
• Cataloguing your paintings - Your catalog - add paintings and open the one you're working on.
• Reviewing everything one painting makes - Everything the open painting makes, on one page, with the one decision each needs.
• How to price a painting consistently - Work out a consistent price for the open painting.
• Tracking what sold and who bought it - What sold, who took it home, and what it brought in.
• Story cards, show labels and a portfolio - More than one at a time: a whole show's story cards or labels, or a portfolio to send.

Making things from a painting

• Writing a story for a painting - Generate a written story for the painting and keep the best one.
• Making a printed card for a painting - Lay out the printed card for the painting.
• How to make a certificate of authenticity - A painting's two printed documents: its certificate, and the label for its back.
• Web-sized copies of a painting's photo - Export web-sized copies of the painting's photo.
• Branded posts of your paintings - Branded static posts for Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook.
• Making a reel of a painting - Build the vertical reel frame and video for social media.
• Designing an artist's business card - The card you hand out, laid out down to the last millimetre.
• Making an artist bio sheet for a show - One page about you, to stand beside your work at a show.

Running the business

• Setting up your artist brand - Set up once: your identity, brand assets, and colours.
• An address book for galleries and collectors - Galleries, collectors and suppliers - what they bought, and when you last spoke.
• Checklists for shows and studio jobs - Reusable checklists for shows, errands, and anything you repeat.
• A calendar for shows and deadlines - Shows, deadlines, and events, with a countdown to each one.
• All your post comments in one list - What people said on your posts, from every platform, in one list.

Connections and setup

• Posting to Instagram and Facebook - Connect your accounts so you can post directly from Sundry Works.
• Posting your paintings to Threads - A second Meta connection, separate from Instagram and Facebook.
• Posting your paintings to Bluesky - The easiest connection of the four - a handle and an app password.
• Pinning your paintings to Pinterest - Pins with a link back to your page, sent by the Sundry Works service.
• What social media may do with your paintings - What each place you post to may do with your pictures, and what you can do about it.
• Scheduling posts to go out later - Line a post up now and let it go out later, with the app closed.
• Configuring Sundry Works - Where everything plugs in: your social accounts, your website, your AI service, and where the catalogue lives.