Handling ‘Creative Disasters’

by | Nov 18, 2016 | Fine Arts America

HANDLING ‘CREATIVE DISASTERS’ The creative process comes with its share of mistakes, messes, failures, and other “disasters.” How you handle them determines whether you will give up or persevere. Here are ten tips that will help! 1. Mind your language Is it really...

Dealing With Day Jobs

by | Nov 11, 2016 | Fine Arts America

A day job is a job whose primary meaning—or only meaning—is that it allows you to survive while you work on your art and your art career. Some day jobs are satisfying in their own right, some are completely unsatisfying, some are more like second careers with their...

Organizing for Artists

by | Nov 4, 2016 | Fine Arts America

Almost everybody feels the need to get better organized. But what does “better organization” really mean? Is it about having a good filing system and multiple to-do lists or is it about more than that? Let’s take a look. 1. Organizing for the long-term Each day...

When Your Mate Brings Home the Bacon, Part 2

by | Oct 28, 2016 | Fine Arts America

Last week I provided three tips that you might use when, as a working artist, you find yourself bringing in far less money than your mate does. Here are three more! 4. Explain that you don’t want to feel—or be made to feel—one-down, inferior, or dependent because of...

When Your Mate Brings Home the Bacon

by | Oct 21, 2016 | Fine Arts America

Let’s say that your mate brings in $60,000 annually from his or her job and you bring in $1000 annually from your art. Given that that disparity is likely to put a strain on your relationship, what can you do to reduce that strain? You can’t just snap your fingers and...

Creating or Relating?

by | Oct 14, 2016 | Fine Arts America

Take a peek at the following five quotes. 1. “I am closer to my work than to anything on earth. That’s my marriage.” — Louise Nevelson 2. “With my idealism about dance, it was insane to pretend that I could compromise in another area of...