![]() How? I want to do them all! Or at least most of them! The trouble is not lack of inspiration it's TOO MUCH inspiration. So.I spent some time this afternoon (instead of the much needed studio cleaning) thinking about where I am going with my art. I touch again that deep joy that lives within me.Ĭan the beauty of these woods help to heal other people? Might I share this beauty some how, through my paintings, with people who need green as I do? Who need healing from.um.interesting experiences? Walking down the trail through the woods to the beach, some of my tension eases. I drive away from the city, past the house I once lived in, a house that carries some of those memories, past the school where my children went, to the park I remember. I knew only that I need wild, I need green growing things, I need trees. I did not at first know why I am exhausted and my head hurts. I didn't know how these memories would affect me physically and emotionally. I didn't know the training would bring up those long buried memories. So I volunteered where my skills might be useful, and found that the greatest need is working with people caught in domestic violence situations. I thought I might have something to offer women who are struggling as single moms through some of the same issues. Like being on and off of welfare until I finally learned to make a decent living for my family- and now own my home free and clear. Like getting busted for said marijuana and nearly losing my children. What ever possessed me? Just because I've had some.um.interesting experiences, like being in what I thought was a common law marriage with someone who insisted on growing marijuana illegally. I am in Olympia training to work with people caught in domestic violence. I need some green growing.I need some nature. Ancient sorrows and terrors have begun to surface. September 2013: I wrote this several months ago-then felt too vulnerable to print it.Īpril 2013: It has been a long day. Read his article, Art Marketing for Artists Who Want to Change the World, in Fine Art News, for more on this.Ī forest trail at Burfoot Park, Olympia, WA Begin with your existing fans and make them feel included in an exclusive group. Build a community, a tribe, a clan of people around you who participate in the conversation. Become the leader of your conversation, he advises. He advises starting and feeding conversations about art, and using your art to illustrate the conversation. And you know what? Both views-opposite though they are-kind of resonate with me.Ĭlint Watson, whose articles on selling art appear in his blog Art Marketing and Life, says the purpose of art is to amplify ideas. ![]() Two different masters at selling art, both passionate about helping artists to succeed, gave me two very different approaches to selling art, based on their different views about the purpose of art. It is so much easier to dig ditches, clean houses, or teach squirming young children, than to make a living selling my art! Still, the dream won't quite die. The dream of supporting myself through my art sales kind of went by the wayside. Why make art? Why do I make art? Why would anyoneīuy art? Why would anyone buy MY art? What do I want my art to accomplish? I write pages in my journal while sailing in the summer with my Love, and again around Christmas time when I review the year. Twice a year, this question comes up for me. ![]()
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