How to Name Your Art Category

I was chatting with an artist yesterday who was having trouble figuring out what to call her paintings. She knew the history of art and knew that what she was painting could fit into the categories of narrative painting, classical painting, philosophical painting, and...

10 Fall Resolutions for Artists

1. I will create every day. Or almost every day! 2. I will market every day. Or at least on lots of days! 3. I will make some new, excellent connections. And not just Facebook friends and twitter followers! 4. I will find at least one person who wants to write about...

Expanding Your Repertoire, Part 3

Over the past two weeks I’ve shared six tips for expanding your repertoire. Here are the final four. Enjoy! 7. Stretch in a new direction If you’re moving in a genuinely new direction, that movement is likely to feel risky as well as exciting. Remember that risky...

Expanding Your Repertoire, Part 2

This week we look at three more tips for expanding your repertoire. 4. Investigate your fears We often hide from ourselves the fact that something is making us scared or anxious. Maybe we have real fears that our drawing skills aren’t up to snuff but keep dodging that...

Expanding Your Repertoire, Part 1

There may be some new creative projects that you want to begin or some new ways of marketing and promoting yourself that you know would be smart to attempt but something seems to be holding you back. Over the next three weeks I’ll provide ten tips for expanding your...

Live-Apart Relationships

Artists struggle as they try to balance their desire for relationship with the many real and perceived drawbacks of relationship. Some come to feel that they do best with a partner whom they see relatively rarely—and then they wonder if that is really a completely...