by admin-eric | Aug 8, 2014 | Fine Arts America
Virtually all of us tend to scorn small increments of time and “throw away” fifteen minutes here and forty-minutes there, arguing that we are doing so much already that those windfalls need not be used productively. We opt to check our email, surf the Net, play a...
by admin-eric | Aug 1, 2014 | Fine Arts America
Imagine that you could “upgrade your personality” and strengthen certain traits that would help you create regularly and deeply and that would help you more effectively meet the challenges of the creative life. What traits would you choose? Here are twenty traits that...
by admin-eric | Jul 25, 2014 | Fine Arts America
Galleries often say to an artist, “I want to see a body of work from you.” By this they mean a few things: they want to see a consistent subject matter theme, they want to see visual consistency, and they want to sense that the artist has gone deep and done something...
by admin-eric | Jul 18, 2014 | Fine Arts America
Let’s say that you want to make one new connection in the service of your career. Maybe it’s with a new gallery owner in town. What’s the best approach, given how anxious the whole thing may make you feel? Here’s a simple, 5-step process for making that connection: 1....
by admin-eric | Jul 11, 2014 | Fine Arts America
I was chatting with an exceptionally creative person who introduced me to the phrase “late deciding.” He said of himself that he liked not to rush the “not knowing” part of creating and, rather than coming to conclusions prematurely so as to shut down the experience...
by admin-eric | Jul 4, 2014 | Fine Arts America
As a smart person, you no doubt see through much of life. You see clearly the realities of politics and social structures, the realities of the art world, the realities of health and mortality, and so on. All this excellent reality testing can make a person...
