You can search Google and come up with literally millions of websites that tell you all about being a success on social media sites. It can be overwhelming and it is. So I decided to make my own social media rules. This is how I interact on the one social media site that I seem to …
If the only reason you are donating art to charity is for the exposure then you are doing it for the wrong reason.
My father has had a great influence on my life like most parents. He taught me a work ethic that lead to self employment at an early age, I was 26. But more than that he influenced how I look at the world and interpret that with my unique visual language.This is how my dad influenced my art practice.
I had choices, I was lucky, I had a college education, I got to chose. I can not for one minute imagine NOT HAVING A CHOICE!!!! But there are so many girls (and boys too) but mostly girls that due to tradition or religion don’t get to chose.
As I get to know more artists I’m finding that not only do some have day jobs but another passion outside of their art. I have found doctors, engineers, welders and technical drafts-people. What’s fascinating to me is that these disciplines are considered left brain while art on a whole is consider right. You know, math …
So I have kind of an ironic story about a studio accident I had with these pins I use so much in my art. I was snipping some with wire cutters and try as I may to contain the pieces some went here and there around my studio floor. One stray went straight into the …
I met Bev Tosh in the early 90’s as a student in her figure drawing class at the University of Calgary. Later I attended her figure painting workshop at Series in Red Deer – twice. When I left my design business to pursue my art career full time an opportunity came available for studio space …
I have been very fortunate to have had a few studio visits over my career. The last one is of considerable note but before you get all glad on me; even though it lasted 3 hours, alas it did not lead to representation. But he was very generous with his time and for that I …
Over the years I have made 100’s of submissions and like you I have had gallery rejections way too many times. This isn’t an article about how to handle rejection. We all know that we just pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try and try again. This is a list of my all …
I was talking to a fellow artist last week about the in’s and out’s of being an artist and in that conversation I found myself saying quit profoundly: “Just tell me what you want me to paint and I will paint it” This was on the heels of a discussion about how the gallery system tries to …