Being Authentic: When Being Real Can Hurt Your Art
Friday, 9 August 2024
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What you say about your art could be the difference between a sale and a missed opportunity. Let’s dig into that!
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Do You Call Yourself An Artist?
Friday, 17 May 2024
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Do you call yourself an artist? Or do you have trouble identifying yourself this way? Here are some ideas about why that may be.
Your Art Has Value! 6 Points To Consider
Friday, 1 December 2023
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Time to brush off those money taboos. Join me as we redefine the relationship between art and the currency it deserves.
Preparing For The Challenge: 31in31 Fast Approaches!
Friday, 29 September 2023
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Preparing for the HowToPastel 31-Pastels-in-31-Days Annual Challenge: Your ultimate guide to success through the month of October. Join us!!
Paint What You Love (And Ignore The NaySayers!)
Friday, 25 August 2023
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How the story behind The Vesuvius Ladies collection of paintings proves the importance of this idea!
Why Are We So Hard On Ourselves? One Thing That May Help
Monday, 7 August 2023
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As artists, it’s amazing how hard on ourselves we can be! Just a few mistakes, just a few missed days in the studio and bam, and we are beating ourselves up. Here’s one thing to do about that!
Taking Small Steps: The Key to Achieving Your Art Goals
Sunday, 5 March 2023
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We all know that, for us, art-making is our way to express ourselves. It’s how we explore our creative side. But, for many of us, finding the time, motivation, and skills to make art can be a challenge. That’s why taking small steps is so important. It’s by taking small steps that we travel our
The Art of Procrastination…Can Procrastination Be a Good Thing?
Friday, 7 May 2021
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I’m an expert procrastinator. I freely and utterly admit it. I have procrastination down to an art! And yet, I’m often congratulated on how much I get done. A paradox yes? What is procrastination? It’s simply the act or habit of delaying or putting off something. There’s nothing negative per se in this meaning and
Putting Yourself Out There – Demoing in Public
Friday, 4 December 2020
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One of my HowToPastel subscribers recently reached out to me. She’d been invited to demo in an open space, with COVID-19 precautions in place, but was feeling too afraid to do it. (Her fears weren’t related to the pandemic.) Because I’d recently demoed at Peninsula Gallery where my mini solo show was hanging, I knew
Six Ways To Prioritize Art-Making
Friday, 6 November 2020
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We’ve just finished HowToPastel’s 5th Annual 31-pastels-in-31-days Challenge held throughout October. The Challenge is always an opportune time to prioritize art-making. A few days after it ended, however, I began seeing the odd post that expressed feelings of withdrawal and a bit of anxiety and sadness because someone is missing painting every day or they
