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Learning When to Say Yes to Projects
May 7, 2018This last week was a bit different as I swapped a Monday with a Wednesday so I was already feeling the pressure from work that didn’t get done over the weekend. I was not-so-patiently waiting for the domain transfer to go through on my website so I could tell people… -
The Business Aspect
May 2, 2018It’s taken me years to get over the idea that real artists don’t make money. It’s another aspect of the “real” artist myth. Yes, it used to be very difficult to make a living from making and selling your art but that was mostly because the options were limited to… -
Pushing Through the Fear
April 25, 2018Art and fear are old friends. There is literally a book called “Art and Fear” (which I own). What’s interesting is that this fear isn’t an innate quality of art making. Rather, it’s something that we’re taught. In late 2017 I read the book “Your Inner Critic is a Big… -
Stumbling First Steps
April 18, 2018First Day. A few hiccups but mostly it just felt good to have an entire day to make art. I’d had a rough game plan for what turned out to be an overly ambitious printing project. Several months ago, I’d purchased some basic screen printing supplies to do a few… -
Getting Back to It
April 11, 2018Throughout my life, I’ve always had the feeling that I was trying to live the “right” life. I’ve listened to what others have told me I should be or what I should want out of life I was 30 years old before I finally realized what I wanted to do…