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We’ve chatted for the past two weeks about how to ask for money. Let’s finish up with three more essential tips. Read on! 1. Follow up on your requests Don’t send an email and take silence to mean that your email was unwelcome, that you’ve been rejected, or anything...

Last week we looked at three tips for asking for money. Here are three more! Read on … Be affirmative, brief, and clear – the ABC rule! How you ask for money is important. No one likes (or needs) lengthy pleas, whiny or negative pleas, or confused or confusing pleas....

You need money for art supplies, building your website, your marketing efforts, and, well, just to live! One challenge is figuring out where to look for the money you need. But a second challenge is equally pressing: being able to ask for what you need and want. Here...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Artists, like all human beings, find it hard to implement practices that they know would serve them. They know that they’re not getting to the studio first thing in the morning because they’re in the habit of staying up super-late—still they stay up late. They know...

Organization can be a real challenge for each of us. It is even more of a challenge for everyday creative people who have lots of ideas, dreams, goals, responsibilities, and just plain things going on; and who may also be a little suspicious of organization. But as...