3 Ways to Price Your Artwork Relax…It’s Not Rocket Science! How to price your artwork. As discussed in my last post, Selling Your Art, it’s a topic that makes a lot of artists uncomfortable. But let’s face it, if you want to make money from your artwork, you’d better figure out how to put a […]
Selling Your Art It Can Be a Yucky Business This repost discusses selling your art and how for most artists, it’s a yucky business that can dredge up feelings of uneasiness, sleaziness, and an overall feelings of being a sell-out. After all, shouldn’t artists create art because they’re passionate about their work and not driven […]
Procrastination It’s a Fine Line & a Slippery Slope Procrastination. It’s the putting off today of what we think we can do tomorrow. The problem happens when too many tomorrows slip by and you’re suddenly faced with a looming deadline and not enough hours to complete the task. I will admit to being a notorious […]
Tools of the Trade Learning to Adapt & Making Life Easier In recent months, my typical tools of the trade have expanded to include some unconventional items (for me, anyway). My very first real live art teacher was of the mindset that all you needed to draw besides paper, was a pencil. Just a pencil. […]
Christmas Commissions 2018 Why This Year Was Different I didn’t advertise for Christmas commissions this year. Every year I usually announce that I’m accepting commissions months ahead so that I can get as many done as possible in time for the holidays. But this year I didn’t for one very special reason. The simple fact […]
Drawing Under the Weather Allergy Season Sucks! Drawing under the weather is next to impossible and it just plain sucks. It doesn’t matter that you only have seasonal allergies. When things are severe, you feel so crappy that you might as well have the flu. But I’m grateful, I suppose, that I haven’t been this […]
Patience for Your Craft It’s All Relative Patience for your craft or your passion will baffle most people who are not also passionate about the same thing. Sometimes, that passion has to be super specific. For example, for as long as I can remember, I have envied people who have the patience for painting, doodling, […]
4 Tips for Meeting Challenges Successfully A Dose of Reality and Some Common Sense Meeting challenges successfully can be daunting. But that’s the point, isn’t it? Otherwise, it wouldn’t be called a, challenge. A challenge is meant to be a test. In fact, some of the synonyms and antonyms listed by Merriam-Webster include: arduous, backbreaking, […]
Inktober 2018 Comes to an End Until Next Year… Inktober 2018 comes to an end. It’s a bittersweet feeling for me. It was both rewarding and frustrating. It was what it always is…a challenge. This year, I can proudly say that I didn’t fall behind at all. I kept up. In fact, there were some […]
This Week’s Art Experiences Inktober 2018 Challenges For this post I’m letting you in on the challenges of this week’s art experiences. Inktober 2018 has kept me busy and constantly trying to figure out how to draw things that I normally wouldn’t. If you’re familiar with my work by now, you know that I draw […]
Our pets become part of the family. “Keo-boy”, my siamese, was just a month shy of 20 yrs old. It was very difficult when I had to put him down. It was so hard that I even had him cremated. Myra surprised me with a picture of him, which sits in my bedroom til this day. “Babe” followed “Keo” & if you know a bit about Maine Coons you know they have long beautiful hair with striking patterns. She surprised me one Xmas with a portrait of the big boy. I can’t believe it is done with only pencil. She captured every detail perfectly. I have known Myra all her life, as I am her auntie. She has always had a knack for drawing. At 4, she even placed her artwork on my white leather chair! I have seen her develop into a fantastic artist. I will treasure my works of art forever.
- E. Naito
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