It’s hard enough to determine ones own value as an artist, so figuring out how much working with a partner could be worth in the long run might stretch a lot of our minds a bit too far. Truth be…
I got into a conversation a few days ago with a fellow art enthusiast on Facebook, going by the name of Ivan Shershukov, with whom we had previously discussed a lot of my blunders in the past and I have…
There are a few companies that really know what they’re doing — even if we don’t agree with their products, their models of how to sell said products are the best in the world — and we artists can really…
I guess most of us don’t become artists, but end up artists. What I mean by this is that as the kids that grow up in an engineer household, filled with technical models, equations and maths, can end up loving…
The internet, especially social media, have given us an incredible tool — we can now potentially reach anyone in the world. If before you had to go through all the gatekeepers of the art world, now you can do everything…
I started out as a happy painter about 10 years ago, under the comforting and protective wing of the educational institutions in Slovenia (with tax-exemptions, free healthcare and subsidised food and even living, we probably have one of the best…
There is a wonderful analogy used at the beginning of the book The E-Myth by Michael Gerber, where the author describes any entrepreneur as a company of three strongly distinct individuals: the entrepreneur, the operator/manager and the technician/craftsperson. When we…
Just like a Ferrari and Honda don’t use the same pricing model for their products, we artists have to differentiate between two distinct ways to approach our prices. Depending on whether we aim to have a go at the gallery…
Being an artist is a full-time job and then some; creativity doesn’t just come on its own and setting up a routine for us to be able to create day in and day out takes a lot of effort. And…
As tastes in art are incredibly subjective, the value of any particular piece can seem like it has been decided upon on a whim. But while this may even be true for many a piece of art being sold today,…