by admin-eric | Oct 23, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Step 4. Pick One Idea It’s not unusual to have several different ideas for the classes, workshops or retreats you want to run. As a person with a fertile imagination, it’s easy for you to dream up lots of alternatives! But then you are faced with choices. Since having...
by admin-eric | Oct 16, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Step 3. Decide to Start Ever had the experience of not being able to find the edge on a roll of packing tape, getting frustrated, and just giving up, for the moment at least? It turns out that something similar can happen as we dream about running our class, workshop...
by admin-eric | Oct 9, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Step 2. Don the mantle of leader When you run a successful art class, workshop, or retreat you are doing more than presenting information or sharing techniques. You are leading. Leadership is not a quality we usually associate with teachers or with workshop leaders...
by admin-eric | Oct 2, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Step 1. Embrace the Logic If you’re a working artist who loves making things and who has little patience for other pursuits why would you want to run art classes, workshops or retreats? Won’t they cost you time and energy that you’d rather devote to making art? And...
by admin-eric | Sep 25, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the most powerful and the most useful. One such simple idea is getting to your art before your “real” day (of a day job or similar responsibilities) begins. Many people already do something during this “before the day begins” time:...
by admin-eric | Sep 17, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Selling to Tourists: Louise’s Workshop Let’s create a hypothetical watercolor artist by the name of Louise and place her in a particular locale—let’s say the art tourist town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California—and see how she might go about selling to tourists. Step 1....
