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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...

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...

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...

Even though artists need their solitude and tend to think of themselves as introverts, they also crave the community of other artists, want interactions with like-minded souls, and need a “place to go” that functions as a cross between a salon and a support group. Yet...

Maybe you live in a place that a lot of tourists visit. What can you do to make a better connection with them and turn them into your art customers? Here are some ideas! Artists know better than anyone that places hold meaning. That’s why they hunger for Paris,...

Do you need a marketing assistant to help promote and market your work? Here are some things to think about before you go down that road! With respect to selling art there is a sense in which the work speaks for itself and there is also a sense in which it is a...

Do you want to get more painting done? Then kill maybe! “Maybe” is an artist’s worst enemy – and here’s why. When I coach an artist client I listen for how strongly he says yes and no and how often he gets trapped in maybe. What does being trapped in maybe sound like?...

How can you stand out from the crowd? Do you want to do what every other artist is doing or something smarter? Learn how here! Tens of millions of people produce visual art of one sort or another. It is a straightforward matter of supply and demand that not all of...

Do you feel like you’d like to expand your repertoire of creative projects and maybe expand your marketing efforts too? Here are ten tips for doing exactly that! 1. Know what you currently do Because our lives rush along, providing us with no chance to catch up with...

NEGOTIATING YOUR PRICES A visual artist who has had only a moderate number of sales and for whom each sale is a “big event” is likely to have a hard time negotiating higher prices and better deals. Naturally fearful that if he doesn’t accept the proffered amount or...