What are Sparklinks? Your daily marketing nudge
A Sparklink is a small daily nudge from ArtHelper — a link in your email or in a text message — that takes you to your Assistant with one of your paintings already loaded and a useful task ready to run. Tap the link, look at what the Assistant pulls up, and you’ve done a minute of marketing for your work without having to think about where to start. This article explains what they are, how they work, and how to get more or fewer of them.
How a Sparklink works
You don’t have to set anything up. As soon as you sign up for ArtHelper, you start getting one Sparklink a day.
You get an email (and sometimes a text message) from ArtHelper with a friendly subject line — something like “A new way to describe this painting” or “Possible collectors for this piece”.
The email includes one of your paintings and a short pitch for what the Assistant can help you do with it today.
Click the button in the email. ArtHelper logs you in automatically, opens your Assistant, and loads up that painting along with the task.
The Assistant runs the task and shows you a draft — a description, a list of collector questions, a social caption, ten possible collaborators, whatever the day’s prompt is.
Read the result. Edit it if you want. Copy it, save it, or send it.
That’s the whole flow. The point is to give you one useful, finished thing each day without having to come up with the idea yourself.
Where the painting and the task come from
Sparklinks pull your own artwork — the paintings you’ve uploaded to ArtHelper — and pair each one with a different task each day. The tasks are pre-built prompts called Sparks. There are hundreds of them, covering things like writing a description, finding hidden sales opportunities, drafting a story for a collector, planning a social post, or thinking through what your work is really about.
The first six weeks or so of Sparklinks use a curated sequence of the most popular Sparks — the ones other artists have clicked and finished most often. After that, the daily mix gets broader.
If you don’t have artwork uploaded yet
Sparklinks need a painting to attach to. If you haven’t uploaded any work yet, the email will gently ask you to add some first. The fastest way:
Go to arthelper.com/upload.
Drag in a few photos of your paintings, or click Add artwork and choose them from your computer.
Wait a few minutes for ArtHelper to read each image. After that, your Sparklinks have something to work with.
Five or six good photos is enough to get started. You don’t need to upload your whole portfolio on day one.
Getting more or fewer Sparklinks
You get one a day by default. You can turn the email off, turn the text message off, or both, from your settings.
Go to arthelper.com/settings.
Open the Notifications tab.
Toggle off any email notifications you don’t want. The Sparklink lives inside the Daily Activity Email setting [VERIFY BUTTON NAME].
To unsubscribe from text messages, reply STOP to any Sparklink text. To turn them back on later, reply START.
What to do with the result
Once the Assistant produces something — a description, a caption, a list — you have a few options.
Copy and paste it into Instagram, an email to a collector, or wherever you need it.
Save it to the artwork itself by clicking Save in the Assistant. It’ll be there next time you open that painting.
Ask the Assistant to change tone, shorten it, lengthen it, or try again. Just type your request in the chat box.
Common questions
Why do I keep getting emails about the same painting?
Sparklinks rotate through your uploaded work and pair each piece with different Sparks. If you’ve only uploaded a few paintings, the rotation is small, so you’ll see them come back around. Upload more work and the variety grows.
The Sparklink opened an empty chat — what happened?
This usually means the painting attached to that day’s Sparklink hasn’t finished processing yet, or you weren’t fully signed in when you clicked. Refresh the page or click the email link again. If it keeps happening, contact support.
Are Sparklinks free?
Yes. Every artist who signs up gets a daily Sparklink. Some of the more advanced Sparks behind them are part of paid plans, but the daily nudge itself is free.
Can I pick which Sparks I get?
Not yet — the daily sequence is the same for everyone. You can run any Spark you want manually by opening your Assistant and choosing one from the sidebar.