by admin-eric | Oct 11, 2013 | Fine Arts America
What should you do when meaning vanishes? Here’s a four-step technique to try! Read on … Every day we’re bombarded by small (and sometimes large) threats to our experience of life as meaningful. Maybe you get a painful rejection from a gallery. Suddenly painting (and...
by admin-eric | Oct 4, 2013 | Fine Arts America
Does your brain race? I suspect it does! Nature evolves a creature like us, gives us a super-sized, experimental brain, and tries out thinking. What a fascinating capacity with which to aid or burden a creature! Since the goal of nature is not to evolve perfection but...
by admin-eric | Sep 27, 2013 | Fine Arts America
Anyone who puts work on public display invites criticism. What are the best ways to deal with the criticism that may be coming? Read on! 1. Grow a thicker skin Your prime strategy is to grow a thicker skin and let criticism bounce right off of you. If your skin is...
by admin-eric | Sep 20, 2013 | Fine Arts America
Visual artists, like all human beings, experience significant emotional distress. What can we do to reduce that emotional pain? Read on! We experience emotional distress in all sorts of ways, as sadness, anxiety, addictions, unproductive obsessions, unwanted...
by admin-eric | Sep 13, 2013 | Fine Arts America
Very often an artist wants to continue in her current style, perhaps because it is still meaningful to her, perhaps because it sells, or both, while at the same longing to begin some new work and see where her creativity and her updated experiences might take her. The...
