BE PLAYFUL AT WORK
From learning about the human anatomy, colour theory or just starting to work in a new medium, regardless of how wonderful that YouTube Coach describes the process to us or how motivating he or she is — learning new things…
PERSEVERANCE RATHER THAN INNOVATION
In today’s world it is incomparably harder to create something new than it was 100 or 200 years ago. The amount of knowledge one has to have to expand the already present tools and ideas of today’s technology and creative…
THE PERKS OF WORKING IN TANDEM WHILE TRAVELING
We artists tend to enjoy our solitude a lot more than the average person and while there are many among us who are primarily extroverted, a lot of us do love the comforts of our own home and those few…
HOW THE WHITE CUBE PRINCIPLE COULD HELP YOUR ONLINE PORTFOLIO
In 1976, artist and critic Brian O’Doherty published his essay “Inside the White Cube”, that not only created lots of buzz in the art world, but gave this popular mode of displaying work in museums and commercial galleries a catchy…
GOING STRONG RATHER THAN BURNING OUT
For those of us who decided to tackle life at 100%, be it personal goals, professional ambitions or just about any other aspiration we might have, there eventually comes the time when we get to feel the added strain of…
COMMUNICATING WHAT YOUR WORK IS ALL ABOUT
Since the beginning of human creation, art has been evolving in a more or less linear fashion; from Greek realism to expressionism, Roman reiterations of old Greek statues, the coming of the dark ages leading into the flourishing times of…
THE BEST SHORTCUT FOR MAKING IT IN THE ARTS
Rather than waiting for destiny, I am a fan of action, but the problem with a lot of us is, we are constantly searching for that one piece of information that will change our lives. Now, what if I shared…
HOW INFLUENCERS COULD HELP YOU SELL YOUR WORK
Probably the best way to sell art today is to get an influential patron with lots of friends to buy your work directly from a big name gallery somewhere in Hong Kong, New York, Paris or London. It’s just easier…
IN IT FOR THE LONG RUN
There are over 60.000 registered artists working in the UK, that means that for every one thousand people there’s at least one making art and selling it to the market. In the US the ratio is even bigger, with about…
WE ARE LIVING IN GOLDEN TIMES
Who hasn’t heard about the roaring 20s; jazz culture, rivers of champagne, overindulgence and economic prosperity? People in the mid and higher levels of society just had so much cash available to them, that many couldn’t have spent it even…