I was recently at an art show where I found myself drawn to various art pieces. I noticed that my steps were usually the same with each piece: After staring at the work from several angles I would walk closer to the piece and look for the label to see the Title of the piece. [...]
So, as an Artist there may be certain words that may send your Creative Free Spirit running for the door. I find that 3 of the words that seem to do this, when I first mention them to my Creative and Artist clients, are: Commitment, Drive, and Discipline. After working with tons of Artists over [...]
When was the last time someone told you “YOU ROCK!”? No matter when it was … I am here to tell you now that you DO! I think we constantly need to be reminded … mostly by ourselves and if possible it is great to hear it from the outside too. The 2 real questions [...]
To take commission work or not take commission work … that is the question I have been facing into with several of my clients over the past couple of months. It is a personal decision. I have heard Artists debate this over and over along with the whole conversation about creating art just for themselves [...]
When I work with my clients one of the first things I have them do is create a vision for themselves, their lives and their Art 5 years in the future. When we have a vision of our future-Artist-self we can use it to determine what we need to do today in order to have [...]
One of the basic things about us as humans is that we tell stories. We tell stories constantly to others and even to ourselves. Stories about things in our day, how we feel about things, how this or that happened … we are storytelling machines. And as much as we tell stories we also mostly [...]
