Tag Archives: business of art
Instantaneous change
There is a lot of good advice on the internet about the studio visit. Most of it is just a variation on hosting meetings in general. Make sure your space is inviting. Make sure the relevant pieces are there to be seen. Be prepared to say something about your work. Know your subject. Don’t whine. […]
Fashionably framed
In my home state of New York, people wear black clothes. They believe that black flatters, is timeless, doesn’t show dirt (and there’s a lot of it) and goes with anything. I hate black clothes, personally. I think black makes me look like an old Italian lady who should be sporting a gold tooth and […]
Marketing your work
Last Friday I attended the annual Artists and Makers Conference in Belfast sponsored by the Island Institute’s store, Archipelago. Henry Isaacs’s opening talk immediately spoke to the divide facing artists today: should we sell online or through galleries. Isaacs came down strongly on the side of traditional gallery sales. That isn’t because he doesn’t understand online […]
Tax season
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Jack of all trades
Driving to Damariscotta
There are three winter formations that I love and was hoping to paint this year. The frozen seeps on rocky escarpments are groundwater’s motion suspended and exaggerated. The cracked sheets of thick ice in tidal marshes are the tide’s motion caught in time. And the thin sheets of ice that form on the edges of […]
Keeping track
Anyone who shows regularly needs some sort of inventory system. I use a simple spreadsheet built in Excel. In the first column, I paste a small thumbnail of the painting, because I can recognize work visually faster than I can by name. This is followed by its title, its physical location at the moment and […]
The Great Dilemma
This time of year, painters apply for competitions, residencies and shows. It behooves us to have good file images of the best paintings we’ve done in the past few years. It’s on those that we will be judged. In some cases, we don’t have good images, because the process of easel to frame to sale […]