Artists who hope to make money need customers. The tens of millions of tourists who travel annually comprise one category of customer. Some tourists come to a given locale such as Santa Fe,...

A creative escape is a little time-out-of-time that you carve from your schedule to devote to running away to your art. A creative escape is like getting away for a romantic weekend with your lover...

I believe it was a ’56 Buick. I know it cost me $50. It was my first car, and I drove it mostly drunk — I was drinking quite a bit in the Army. I would leave Fort Dix sober, it being only Friday...

Virtually all of us tend to waste small increments of time and throw away 15 minutes here and 40 minutes there, arguing that we are doing so much already that those windfalls need not be used...

Are you worried that you may be repeating yourself in your art and not moving forward? A creativity coaching client recently said to me, “I just painted something I really like. But it looks an awful...

  For you, creating art is one of your life purposes, and one of your meaning opportunities, which are the activities that you use to define yourself. Are there others? There probably need...

We’ve recently chatted about how to ask for money. Let’s finish up with three more essential tips: 7. Follow up on your requests Don’t send an email and take silence to mean that your email was...

In Part 1 of “Asking for Money” we looked at three tips for doing so. Here are three more. Read on… 4. Be affirmative, brief, and clear — the ABC rule! How you ask for money is important. No one...

You need money for art supplies, building your website, your marketing efforts, and, well, just to live! One challenge is figuring out where to look for the money you need. But a second challenge is...