by admin-eric | Jan 26, 2018 | Fine Arts America
Here’s an excerpt from my forthcoming book The Magic of Sleep Thinking that comes out in a month from Dover. The book can be preordered now! ** If you want to use your brain’s ability to think while you sleep, just create a sleep thinking prompt or question that takes...
by admin-eric | Jan 19, 2018 | Fine Arts America
Anyone who puts creative work out in the world invites criticism. What are the best ways to deal with the criticism that may be coming? Here are five useful tips: 1. Grow a thicker skin Your prime strategy is to grow a thicker skin and let criticism bounce right off...
by admin-eric | Jan 12, 2018 | Fine Arts America
When you enter the marketplace, you open yourself up to criticism. You might as well accept that fact. Some people will like what you do and others won’t—and those who don’t may well share their unflattering opinions with you. Nothing injures the psyche more...
by admin-eric | Jan 5, 2018 | Fine Arts America
To what extent ought you to be your “real self” in your public interactions in the art marketplace? Think of the elementary school teacher who would love to smile but who has learned that to maintain order in her classroom she must adopt a certain stern attitude until...
by admin-eric | Dec 29, 2017 | Fine Arts America
Relationships in the arts are complicated. You may be very friendly with a fellow painter and also quite envious of her. You may actively dislike a gallery owner or a collector but decide that he is too valuable to cast aside, maybe because he is your only advocate or...
