There is a factoid that contrary to popular opinion, an artist will only spend 20% of their time actually making art, that the rest of their time is spent running their art business. For me, juggling my ketubah business alongside my oh-so-slow-growing fine art ...
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This year, the powers that be have decided that we need an extra second added to the year. It's an trivial amount of time, simply required to make the calendar's bookkeeping all work out. But it's an interesting idea, receiving this fraction of extra ...
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As autumn gives way to winter, my ketubah business tends to slow down, and I find more time to spend working in the studio. Autumn is a important time for me: to collect things to photograph, to search for new ideas and inspiration. My son ...
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"An artist's obligation is to create and support his loved ones." — Yuri Gevorgian Yuroz
Amen. Seriously, what else matters? It is too easy to get hung up on unimportant matters. I know that when my nose is to the grindstone, and I'm cranking ...
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What makes you hungry to make art? What conditions do you need to to be in to find enough fuel to fire your creativity? In his blog today, Wil Wheaton describes a friend of his who quit his well-paying job to start acting:
...he ...
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Working from home can be tough. Working for yourself can be tougher. It's hard not having an infrastructure to work within, guidelines that help you know what's expected of you. It's tough not having any co-workers, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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My nearly-3 year old just discovered Snoopy. He's known about the Peanuts for a while, but recently he really connected with the stories. We have several of the Peanuts' holiday specials on DVD, and he began watching them over and over (and over). Within a ...
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Today is the birthday of Ted Geisel, Dr. Seuss. As an artist, he is one of my heros. When people ask me which artists I have been influenced by, I look to people like Ted Geisel and Charles Schulz. Geisel was man who ...
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