Blog
This blog is under reconstruction. I recently rebuilt my whole site, and I am still transferring the backlog of blog posts from my old site.
Brand new posts are being added weekly. If you want to receive a notification every time I publish something new, email me!
2018
- 12/15 Gwenn Seemel Facts
- 12/08 The Middle Class Art Market
- 12/06 Repeat Face-lenders Program
- 11/28 What to Do When Your Art Is Rejected
- 11/25 New Site!
- 11/21 Caring Less About What Others Think
- 11/19 Living Gratefully
- 11/12 Pensive Pansy
- 11/05 Beginning Again
- 10/29 Flower Art Therapy
- 10/15 Picked
- 10/09 Another Seemel Photo Filter
- 10/01 Magical Doors
- 09/23 Beauty and Human Understanding
- 09/18 Special Offer for the Lenwoods in My Life!
- 09/17 How to Stay Creative
- 09/02 Community Is at the Core of Everything We Do.
- 08/27 My Artist Comb
- 07/16 The Power of Repeating Yourself
- 07/09 Painting Babies
- 06/18 Congratulations!
- 06/11 Being a Jerboa
- 06/07 Not Like Any Other Business
- 05/30 How to Free Your Art from Copyright
- 05/14 Artists Are Magical.
- 04/30 How to Know If You Copied Too Much
- 04/23 Feeling the Harmonies
- 04/16 The Song in Your Heart
- 04/11 “The People Who Don’t Get It Can Catch Up.”
- 04/02 Why Artists Need So Much Validation
- 03/28 The Tip of the Iceberg
- 03/24 American Ritual
- 03/19 Crosshatch Painting
- 03/12 The Success of Mediocre Art
- 03/05 Everybody Else Has It Easier.
- 02/26 Painting in a Traditional Realist Style
- 02/15 The Mistranslation of the Little Prince
- 02/05 How Do You Make So Much Art?
- 02/01 Someone Left Their Hand on My Lap.
- 01/29 Jealous of Another Artist’s Career
- 01/18 Living Simply Is Part of Being a Full-time Artist.
2017
- 12/18 Painting the Naïveté of Men
- 12/11 A PechaKucha Talk on Queer Art and Christian Supremacy
- 12/04 The Point of Activism
- 11/27 When Making a Gift of Your Art
- 11/20 Makeup Tutorial
- 11/16 How Regular Microdonations to Artists Can Save the World
- 11/13 What Liking Art Means
- 11/08 Hello Kitty President
- 10/30 How to Start Promoting Your Art
- 10/23 The Grid Method for Transferring an Image
- 10/17 Me Too
- 10/16 How to Avoid Art Scams
- 09/25 Antiracist Artist
- 09/11 Why People Commission Portraits
- 08/19 Angry Art
- 08/14 The Fine Art of Burning Bridges
- 08/13 Joyful Serenity
- 07/31 How to Commission an Artist
- 07/24 Are You Qualified to Be an Artist?
- 07/12 Treating Endometriosis: Navigating the Doctor’s Ego
- 05/18 Drawing a Rabbit
- 05/17 You Make a Difference.
- 05/04 Drawing Frida, the Bear, and the Television
- 04/20 Reuse
- 04/06 Patreon and Supporting Artists on a Monthly Basis
- 03/27 A Little Artist Secret
- 02/13 Understanding Inspiration
- 01/15 The Gwenn Seemel Photo Filter
- 01/08 Why People Wear Makeup
- 01/02 I Am Queer.
2016
- 12/26 Being Like a Dog
- 12/05 Making It Automatic
- 11/30 How Much Is This Going to Cost Me?
- 11/21 Stopping Racist or Sexist Behavior
- 11/01 How to Keep On Keeping On
- 10/26 Daily Rituals
- 10/13 What to Do When Gatekeepers Are Biased
- 09/29 Irreversible
- 09/26 Shipping a Painting
- 09/14 Repeater
- 09/12 Building the Ideal Studio
- 09/05 From Childless to Childfree
- 09/01 Respect and Communication after Discrimination
- 08/29 The Professional Artist and the Hobbyist
- 08/16 No Thank You, Pessimism.
- 08/09 This Is What Discrimination Looks Like Sometimes.
- 08/05 Is Fan Art Real Art?
- 08/04 “You Think Too Much.”
- 07/13 Celebrity Portraiture Is Boring.
- 07/06 The Art Business Isn’t Like Any Other Business.
- 06/06 Mirroring and Repeating
- 05/25 Defying Goliath
- 05/17 A Conversation about Pay-to-play Promotion
- 05/16 All the Ways That Artists Make Money
- 05/02 Paint Layers
- 04/20 Painting Portraits on Tote Bags
- 04/07 An Artist Instead of a Graphic Designer
- 04/04 How to Be the Perfect Artist
- 03/30 Art Is Not a Luxury.
- 03/23 Trust Your Gynecologist to Treat Endometriosis?
- 03/14 Do Artists Need a Day Job?
- 02/22 How to Do an Artist Talk
- 01/11 Respecting Artists
2015
- 12/30 Bad People and Good People
- 12/19 Grandmotherly
- 11/19 Multicultural Mum
- 11/09 Skin Tone in Painted Portraits
- 10/01 How to Make a Living as an Artist
- 09/17 TED’s Copyright
- 09/07 Free Online Drawing Workshop for Artists and Amateurs
- 07/20 The Teacher Who Never Taught Me
- 07/06 Living Artists Giving to the Public Domain
- 06/24 How to Get an Honest Critique of Your Art
- 06/18 How to Love Your Art (and Yourself)
- 06/04 Drawing and the Artist’s Hand
- 04/23 Selling Art to Strangers Online
- 04/16 Happy Paywalls with Bob Ross
- 04/02 Just a Visual Artist
- 03/30 Self-expression and Communication
- 03/24 Givens
- 03/18 Treating Endometriosis: Physical Therapy and Squatting
- 03/16 The Good Thing About Mistakes
- 03/05 Treating Endometriosis: a Gluten-free Diet
- 02/26 7 Reasons to Try Being an Artist
2014
- 11/17 What the Artist Adrienne Lewis Did for Me
- 10/06 The Freelance Life
- 10/01 7 Lessons Learned while Doing Public Art through the RACC
- 09/23 Craving Credit
- 09/08 Why I Paint with All Those Little Marks
- 08/12 Painting the Kirk Reeves Mural
- 07/30 Why Doesn’t the Kirk Reeves Mural Have Mickey Mouse Ears?
- 07/28 Scaling Up My Style
- 07/25 On Portraiture and Appropriation
- 07/21 A Very Personal Public Art Piece
- 07/06 Why I Am Painting a Mural of Kirk Reeves
- 07/01 Artist Cindi Oldham: Interview About Art and Imitation
- 06/16 The Roles We Play
- 06/05 Understanding Fear
- 05/22 My TEDx Talk!
- 05/12 Writing an Artist’s Statement
- 04/28 Why Artists Quit
- 04/24 Anger and Intellectual Property
- 04/07 Adrienne Lewis and Me: 2 Painters, 1 Technique
- 03/28 Treating Endometriosis: Cookies
- 03/26 How My Style Evolved
- 03/20 The Allure of Hyperrealism
- 03/17 Why I’m Intimidating
- 01/23 Commercial Use and the Free Artist
- 01/16 For Real
- 01/09 Workshopping!
2013
- 11/14 On Separating Artists from the Rest of Society
- 10/03 One More Reason Why Artists Need to Learn About Copyright
- 09/24 My Art in a Gap Ad
- 08/08 How to Start Selling Art
- 08/06 How to Publish a Book of Your Art
- 07/08 The Two Kinds of Criticism
- 06/24 An Art-writing Tip
- 05/16 10 Things Learned in 10 Years
- 05/13 Art Auctions and Artists Giving Back
- 04/10 How to Get Grants as an Artist
- 03/20 Treating Endometriosis: Diet and Chinese Medicine
- 03/14 Treating Endometriosis: the Mirena Coil
- 03/11 Becoming an Artist
- 03/07 Treating Endometriosis: the Pill and the NuvaRing
- 01/21 The Selfish Artist
2012
- 12/08 When People Take Photos of My Art in the Gallery
- 07/25 Why Are You an Artist?
- 06/14 Violent Tendencies
- 06/12 How to Price Art
- 05/16 Social Currency
- 05/14 Not Painting My Vagina
- 05/03 The Stupids
- 03/26 The Pleasure of Panel
- 01/26 Taking Someone to Small Claims Court as an Artist
2011
- 12/22 How to Put Hanging Wire on a Painting
- 12/12 Art in a Series
- 12/01 Keeping the Faith as an Artist
- 10/31 The List
- 09/30 How to Stretch a Canvas
- 09/28 A Business Model for an Artist Who Does Not Use Copyright
- 09/26 How to Build a Stretcher for Canvas
- 05/04 Do-over
- 04/27 Artists’ Contracts
- 03/01 Why Endometriosis Awareness Matters
2010
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2008
- 09/27 How to Show Your Art
- 07/20 My Disposable Thumb
- 07/07 The Difference Between Propaganda and Art
- 07/03 Paint Your Life
- 06/22 The Definition of Art
- 03/19 Everybody’s a Critic