Starting Your Art Career: A Guide for Students and Beginner Artists
Thinking about turning this love of art into a career? Are you a student who is trying to pursue their creative passion? This week’s blog post summarizes questions I often…
Category: Career
Making the Leap to Full-time Artist
Wishing you could leave the corporate world and just make art all day? Before you make the switch to a full-time artist, its time take inventory of what you have…
7 Skills of Highly Effective Artists
1. Be Open to Change – Be open to wherever you see change happen in your creative career. For example, you may switch to an entirely new discipline and hop from pottery…
How to Get Your Big Break!
We all dream for the big break and this post is how to make it happen! A big collector happens to see your work and buys the entire series. A patron of…
10 Reasons why you Should Quit Your Day Job and be an Artist
While there are some artists who are able to make a solid income from their work the majority of us are going to have to learn how to balance a…
The Blank Canvas: Finding Inspiration
Seeking inspiration can be difficult in a world of ads, social media and the latest trends switching daily. With Pinterest and Instagram as the new ways to “get inspired,” these…
It’s Okay to Take a Break
Creativity is a cycle. It is okay to feel burnt out, to suddenly feel like you don’t want to make art or that your creative juices have run out. Its a…