How many hats are you wearing as an Artist? What does it really look like? If you have no time to breathe, your family or friends can’t remember what you actually look like, your stress is building and your creativity is waning because of all that you have to do, then it is probably because [...]
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.” Michelangelo I did something very unusual for me a few weeks ago. I turned my TV on. I literally have not watched broadcast televisions in over 30 years. There is a TV in my home but it [...]
Professional Artist: Are you one? Do you want to be one? What is a Professional Artist anyway? Well …. there are thousands of definitions – about as many as there are Artists and Art Professionals (Gallery Owners, Critics, Art Historians, Art Marketers, etc.). I am sure YOU even have your own definition. However, for the [...]
Are you waiting on permission as an Artist or Creative? So many Artists I know are. While we, on one hand, may be fiercely independent, on the other hand we can get stuck waiting for permission of some sort. What kind of permission you ask? From whom you ask? Well let’s just look around for [...]
A few weeks ago I posted about completing 2016 and I posed several series of questions that you could ask yourself in order to reflect on the year to have the year be complete for you. Completing a year is an important step to do before creating your new year – the reflection process is [...]
Before we even start to talk about Art Blogging we should probably be really clear that an Art Blog isn’t your answer to becoming known or selling you Art overnight. Nop. Sorry. Blogging is a long haul game of creativity and passion. Make no mistake about it … posting regularly to a blog takes time [...]
