The starving artist and the sell-out

As artists, we live with two stereotypes, both extreme and both extremely damaging to our profession.

Free culture

The art world has lots to learn from the forced renivention of the music industry, and watching the documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto is a delightful way to study some of those lessons.

Pecha Kucha Night in Eugene!

Pecha Kucha (pronounced in 3 syllables “pe-chak-cha”) is a presentation format in which a presenter shows 20 images for 20 seconds each for a total presentation time of 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

Painting takes time.

Painting is a process of applying paint and then responding to it, and sometimes it takes many months of doing absolutely nothing to the painting in order to get it right.

Branding yourself as an artist

Though it’s often thought of as a term more suited to the business world, “branding” is essential for an artist.  It helps for marketing work and also for making it.

Suzanne Opton: Soldier + Citizen

Portraits are vertical.  They’re so vertical that we even named the vertical option for printing a page “portrait” (to distinguish it from the “landscape” orientation).  Portraits are vertical because people tend to be vertical.

I ♥ Sweet Station!

Ginou Choueiri’s Potato Portraits are just some of the wonderful things to be found on Sweet Station…

Discounting art

These days, there’s a lot of talk about discounting artwork in order to suit the shrinking wallets of potential clients.  While that may be a good idea for the ridiculously inflated prices of the Christie’s Auction House gang, for those of us who are selling to real people, it isn’t.

Helping myself

I’ve long struggled with panel as a support and working small has never been my specialty, but, by combining the two and painting miniatures on Masonite, I’ve found a new way of working and pulled myself out of a creative block!

A self-portrait made not entirely by myself

The fact that I can’t make a self-portrait without help probably says a lot about me—both as an artist and as a person—but I happen to think it’s a very good thing.

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