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Teaching Art — Is It For You?
When artists think about the phrase “art education” what usually comes to mind are art activities and art classes in the elementary schools, a major in art or an art school education, or maybe taking a technique or technical class, like studying watercolor or oil...
Painting Powerfully Outdoors
Last week I provided you with 5 tips to help you feel more comfortable painting en plein air. If that subject interests you, here are five more tips. Taken together, these ten tips will get you outdoors and painting away! The sixth tip is to think about partners and...
Enjoy Painting Outdoors But Just a Little Nervous?
Sometimes artists feel anxious about painting en plein air and avoid leaving the studio. If you find yourself wanting to paint en plein air but avoiding it, here are some tips that can help! The first tip is that you will have to do deal with your natural...
The Tao of Preparation
Let’s say that you have a meeting coming up with a gallery owner or a collector. What’s too much preparation for that meeting? What’s too little preparation? Read on! In working with my creativity coaching clients I find that they tend to fall into two distinct...
Publishing Your Art
Artists are confronted by many different ways of “publishing” their art nowadays. What are the positive and negatives of these new opportunities? Let’s take a look! Nowadays you can self-publish a book of your images, pay to have your images inserted into print...
Are You a Confident Artist?
Creating requires confidence—and life can rob you of confidence. If you’ve lost a little confidence over time what can you do to restore it? Let’s take a look! First of all, how does that confidence get robbed? Well, a teacher can choose you as the person she wants to...
Anxious About the Marketplace?
What should you do if you don’t enjoy selling yourself, if you have trouble with people who dismiss you, or if you don’t feel up to asking for what you need? Here are some simple strategies! 1. Not enjoying selling yourself. Strategy: First, begin to enjoy selling...
Making It In New York
Every artist who makes it in New York has a different story to tell. Here is one fictionalized story that will open your eyes! Learn some really important lessons from Aster Lynn’s story … In my creativity coaching work with countless artists over the years I’ve...
Building a Model Creator From Scratch
Imagine that you could build human beings from scratch and wanted to make sure that they’d turn out creative. What traits would you give them? What do you suppose? According to the creativity literature and my own observations working with creative clients, I think...
Shared Studio Blues
What should you do if your shared studio situation becomes a problem? Here are some good answers! Say that you have a studio mate and that you get along pretty well with her. Her paintings look nothing like yours, so you aren’t competing; she isn’t chatty; she has no...
