Having studied a few years of Architectural Engineering way back when, I always, in the back of my mind, wondered what I missed by not studying at an art achool. After all, I have ended up with a career in “Fine Arts.”

You gotta love it! How can we not be inspired by the artists coming up to us and telling us that we have opened new doors for them? Or that the group makes them feel as though they belong?  How telling as well. Watching the video on my early education experience at the hands of [...]

This is a quick post to remind you to look at your email address. Ideally, it should be you@you.com. But if it’s not, please don’t try to do business with an earthlink.com email address. Yes, it keeps spam away from you, but if a potential collector emails you and gets back a link to a [...]

The following is a one day art/craft show that has been around for 30 years.

The question of HOW to bring in money from your art product takes on a whole new perspective when the times get tough and sales either drop or become non-existent. And if you never made any money from your art, then a tinge of desperation sets in.

Starving Artist Sale! I hope none of you EVER participates in a show or sale where this is the headline grabber! “Well”, you say, “What else should we use? It IS a sale and we ARE starving!” Humor aside, think what you are implying. You might as well yell “ART GIVEAWAY!”or “CHEAP! ALMOST FREE!” Most [...]

Adding video content to your website has become a new means of increasing traffic and raising your site in the Search Engines.

We are now in the month of January, named after the Roman god Janus. Janus had two faces, on to look forward and one to look back. That is what we need to do now.

What do the trials and tribulations of a Paris restaurant have to do with an art career? Everything!

Where does an artist who has a successful business or niche go when they want to “play?” When they want to learn something new? Where are the art groups whose camaraderie and geniality would help foster non-judgmental experimentation in the arts? Maybe working in the abstract, working with airbrush, a modeling paste, or oriental paper?