by admin-eric | Oct 28, 2022 | Fine Arts America
An artist had better not wait to be inspired before beginning to work, since inspiration typically only comes to artists who are willing to work when not inspired. Tchaikovsky put it this way: “I’m inspired about every fifth day, but I only get that fifth...
by admin-eric | Oct 21, 2022 | Fine Arts America
Unless you are impervious to the facts of existence—and no one is—you must learn how to create in the middle of things. You must learn how to create when wars are raging and when your own hormones are raging. You must learn how to create even if you hate your...
by admin-eric | Oct 14, 2022 | Fine Arts America
I’ve been writing a lot lately about authoritarians: what you can expect from them, how contact with them harms you and wounds you, and what you can do to heal and recover from authoritarian wounding. Artists, who are typically highly sensitive and who are also...
by admin-eric | Oct 7, 2022 | Fine Arts America
[Don’t forget to get your hands on a recent book of mine, Redesign Your Mind. It will help you a lot!] Okay, here we go! Marketing is hard enough without sabotaging yourself with unhelpful self-talk. You say that you don’t like marketing? Change your self-talk! What...
by admin-eric | Sep 30, 2022 | Fine Arts America
Get inspired! Here are 14 artists on loving art. Enjoy! ** “I love red so much that I almost want to paint everything red.” — Alexander Calder ** “I hardly ever paint people unless I’m rather in love with them.” — Sylvia...
by admin-eric | Sep 23, 2022 | Fine Arts America
The sales part of life—selling your paintings to buyers, selling your wedding band to wedding planners, selling your coaching services to prospective clients, “selling” your novel to literary agents and publishers—is, well, an unavoidable part of our life. We would...
