by admin-eric | Sep 27, 2013 | Fine Arts America
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...
by admin-eric | Sep 20, 2013 | Fine Arts America
Visual artists, like all human beings, experience significant emotional distress. What can we do to reduce that emotional pain? Read on! We experience emotional distress in all sorts of ways, as sadness, anxiety, addictions, unproductive obsessions, unwanted...
by admin-eric | Sep 13, 2013 | Fine Arts America
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...
by admin-eric | Sep 6, 2013 | Fine Arts America
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...
by admin-eric | Aug 30, 2013 | Fine Arts America
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...
by admin-eric | Aug 23, 2013 | Fine Arts America
Is it time to live out one of your dreams—the dream of sketching and painting in Paris? Read on! We must do our creative work right where we are and we mustn’t pine to be somewhere else. If we actually do need to be somewhere else, then we must do what we can to move;...
