5 Tips for Great Marketplace Relating!

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...

11 Days of Love

How do artists describe their love affair with art? Take a look! 1. “I love red so much that I almost want to paint everything red.” –Alexander Calder 2. “I hardly ever paint people unless I’m rather in love with them.” —...

Two Weeks of Beauty

Here’s a quote a day for the next two weeks to inspire you. Please enjoy two weeks of beauty! 1. “We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.” — Kahlil Gibran 2. “If you seek happiness and beauty simultaneously, you will attain neither. For...

Crafting a Starting Ritual

One of the best ways to help yourself create every day is to craft a starting ritual that you begin to use regularly and routinely. When your ritual becomes habitual you will find yourself moving effortlessly from not creating to creating. For example, here’s a...

What If Your Gallery Drops You?

Say that you’ve managed to make a connection with a local gallery and they are currently the only gallery representing you. They’ve been showing a few of your paintings for almost a year now without garnering any sales. In the back of your mind you wonder if they’re...