by admin-eric | Jan 18, 2013 | Fine Arts America
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...
by admin-eric | Jan 11, 2013 | Fine Arts America
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...
by admin-eric | Jan 4, 2013 | Fine Arts America
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...
by admin-eric | Dec 28, 2012 | Fine Arts America
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...
by admin-eric | Dec 21, 2012 | Fine Arts America
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...
by admin-eric | Dec 13, 2012 | Fine Arts America
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...
