The Tea Salon

The Tea Salon

Planning Collections for Art Licensing

You're closer than you think.

Ann Shen's avatar
Ann Shen
Jul 29, 2025
∙ Paid

Making an Art Licensing Portfolio, edition no. 2: on how I plan, use existing work, and build out collections.

Welcome to The Tea Salon! To receive new posts and support my work, become a free or paid subscriber.

Champagne Bow Bottles from my Coquette Birthday collection


As mentioned in the first edition of this series, I’m focusing on building up my art licensing business stream this year. For paid subscribers only: I’m taking you behind-the-scenes as I create a full art licensing portfolio and begin this new journey into getting my artwork widely licensed.

In the past 6 months, I built out an art licensing portfolio with over 12 collections and 200 pieces of art – and counting. Most of the new art was created in the last four weeks.

Here’s how I did it…

This post is for paid subscribers

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2025 Ann Shen
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture