GET YOUR ARTWORK PUBLISHED
DO YOUR RESEARCH, AND GET YOUR ART PUBLISHED! Plunk down a five pound exhaustive art portfolio on some art director’s desk and it will not be nearly as impressive...
ARTWORK FAILURES
WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WORNG … WRONG ! Recently I posted on Facebook a meme that read, “The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” When...
WHEN ARTWORK BECOMES COMMERCIAL
COMMERCIAL ART – “Art created for commercial purposes” Getting inspired and being highly-motivated in your commercial art is an “art” unto itself. Inspiration and motivation are the primary components needed,...
DERWENT WATERCOLOR PENCILS
DERWENT WATERCOLOR PENCILS …SIMPLY AWESOME ! For some reason I tend to compare the cost of most every purchase to the cost of a tool. If my wife, Sandy,...
WHEN YOUR ART GOES COMMERCIAL
When an artist accepts a commission or works as a commercial artist, everything shifts into high gear – BIG TIME! For over 20 years, I have designed and built props,...
“I Could Do That ! “
I recently posted a meme that read “my teacher thought I was smarter than I was, so I was.” I am not very competitive, by nature. Growing up, I...
PASTELS
PASTELS I love pastels as a medium. Pastels produce rich, saturated, and often painterly results – so buttery that you risk getting color on the tip of your nose...
Serendipity
SERENDIPITY … an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. Artists can’t help but listen to that beckoning within; often wooing us away from family, friends and business simply...
INSPIRE , “to breathe life into”
The word “inspire” is, for me, best defined as “to breathe life into”. You can certainly tell in all of the arts and some of the crafts if inspiration...
THE OISHI TECHNIQUE
I had been searching for an easy, clean and inexpensive way to do wire sculpture. I first tried brazing. This is the state of the art technique requiring a...