Christine Montague - The Model Visits the Portrait Studio

Well, I guess a more appropriate title would be: An Open Letter With a Short, Short Story Tucked Inside.

This came from an artist, who was attending the smARTist Telesummit 2011, and wrote this forum post to one of the speakers, Jason Horejs.

Notice her progression from Sell my art? You gotta be kidding…

To…., well, here…read it for yourself…

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Breathe in the creativity, breathe out your own.

“Wistful on a Lake Huron Afternoon”

Christine Montague
www.christinemontague.com

Breathe in the creativity, breathe out your own.

“Chinese Pot & Peonies”

Cheryl Anderson
www.cherylandersonart.com

Breathe in the creativity, breathe out your own.

“Swing”

T.M. Gand
www.TMGandFineArt.com

Breathe in the creativity, breathe out your own.

Harley Davidson – 1990

Nancy Masters
www.NancyMasters.com

Breathe in the creativity, breathe out your own.

Resistence-Total

Janet Lasher
www.JanetALasher.com

Breathe in the creativity, breathe out your own.

The Best of Summer

Carrie Tasman
http://tasmanstudio.blogspot.com/

NOTE: This post, for those of you keeping up, is a re-post from last year. Why? Because, the problem isn’t going away and I’m the drumbeat in the lost artist jungle….

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Artists love black. Love, love, love it. It has class. It engages. It draws you in.

Black is classy. It fairly screams “high end.” It dominates and holds our attention. Let’s face it: black has power.

And for years and years and years it has been the color of choice to lay the crown jewels on, as the backdrop for a brochure, in framing… the list goes on.

But let me tell you the one place where everything black does, and stands for, works completely against you.

And against your…

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Breathe in the creativity, breathe out your own.

John Nordell

http://www.johnnordell.com

Breathe in the creativity, breathe out your own.

Marilyn Webberley

http://www.marilynwebberley.com

One of the main challenges of trying to fit marketing into an artist’s busy life is this overwhelming sense that it’s just all too much. I know because I struggle with this story too.

And, I have to remind myself that it is just a “story,” and as long as I keep telling myself the same plot over and over, that’s exactly where…

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It’s easy to deride Artist Statements. I’ve done it myself countless times when they are pompous, self-congratulatory, or badly written and trite, trite, trite.

But like the About section of any website, where we click in the hopes of connecting with the human being behind the virtual page, an artist statement has only one purpose…

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Breathe in the creativity, breathe out your own.

Sheila Finkelstein – “Tulip”

http://www.photographyandtransformation.com and
http://www.sheilafinkelstein.com

In the old days it was location, location, location.

Now, it’s attitude, attitude, attitude.

We know this is true, especially as social media marketing takes over the traditional way of doing business.

I mean, it’s always been true that our attitude…

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