Archive of 2007 June

 

finding a market for art

June 08, 2007  :  Business of making art   :  Views 1941  :  7 Comments   
Seth Godin and I seem to be on the same wavelength: his post today on pricing models is eerily similar to notes I scribbled down yesterday on potential markets for artwork. I've been struggling lately with questions of how to price my artwork, and ... Read More

a beautiful weed

June 11, 2007  :  Balancing family and art, Work in progress   :  Views 933  :  3 Comments   
My three-year old son present this flower to my wife as a present. It was such a sweet thing to do, I had to try to preserve it through a photograph. Looking it up online, I found that it is a crown-vetch, a plant often ... Read More

the beauty of science

June 14, 2007  :  Business of making art, On Art and Artists   :  Views 945  :  One Comment   
The New York Times has a good article today on Felice Frankel, an artist who is the head of the Envisioning Science program at Harvard. She uses "cameras, microscopes and other tools to display the beauty of science." It's wonderful stuff. ... Read More

Mask

June 15, 2007  :  Work in progress   :  Views 882  :  2 Comments   
What is your best work? That's a tough question for any artist. Your opinion of your own work changes every day. As Ted Orland discusses in Art and Fear, an artist is frequently unsatisfied with the work they did in the past, because they are ... Read More

life as an artist/parent

June 30, 2007  :  Balancing family and art   :  Views 1364  :  7 Comments   
My art group was recently talking about how having kids impact your art career, and Cynthia described it really well: "It requires discipline and a letting go of whatever idea that you have in your head about what being an artist is all about." Trying to ... Read More