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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...
Improve Your Marketplace Relationship
Maybe your artwork is piling up and you just know that you have to make some connections in the art marketplace. But you feel paralyzed. What should you do? Learn more now! Let’s consider the following three obstacles to marketplace relating that may be stopping...
Tips For Meeting Art Deadlines
Do you have an art deadline coming up? Here are some tips from artists and writers about how they meet their deadlines—and how you can meet yours! Jerry, a portrait painter, explained: “The thing that works best for me is to have a written calendar that I can look at...
Do Artists Run a Greater Risk of Addiction?
Are artists at greater risk for addiction? Indeed they are! Learn more here. The short story “The Bound Man,” by the German author Ilse Aichinger, is a beautiful piece in the existential tradition. It goes as follows. A man awakens one morning to find himself...
