by admin-eric | Jun 5, 2015 | Fine Arts America
It will pay you excellent dividends to arm yourself with some personal answers to the following ten questions. What will you do when: + You really want to paint but you feel resistant? + Everything else in life seems to come before the painting? + You’ve painted for...
by admin-eric | May 29, 2015 | Fine Arts America
If it’s become your habit to apologize for your work, to hide from potential buyers, to avoid marketplace interactions, to dismiss yourself as soon as you can (as if beating others to the punch), then these are bad habits that you will want to change. To change a...
by admin-eric | May 22, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Do you want to try your hand at some new art but feel resistant? Here are four tips for getting started! First, try to detach from your current visual library A very common problem, and almost always an unconscious one, is the need an artist feels to make his work...
by admin-eric | May 14, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Here are 4 tips for completing your creative projects: One. Don’t believe that this is your “best idea ever” (and therefore feel scared that there will be nothing coming next after this one is done). A new idea will percolate up once this project is finished! Two....
by admin-eric | May 9, 2015 | Fine Arts America
Today I’m presenting a one-day writing workshop in London, auspices of Alternatives. This past week I led a weeklong deep writing workshop here in London, in Bloomsbury, at the London Center of Arcadia University. It’s been a lovely week (with some afternoon drinking...
by admin-eric | May 2, 2015 | Fine Arts America
In the psychological literature you will hear about “good stress” (called eustress) and “bad stress” (called distress). But it isn’t the stress that is good or bad, it is the stressor. The stressor or demand may be so-to-speak positive, like a gallery wanting a show...