Your Artist year end review!

Chairs   PK Cravens

The Art Biz Blog has an excellent year end review well worth considering. I am definitely going to work my way through it.Here is an excerpt.

Creative Challenges

What medium or skill did you attempt or master?
What did you try that was completely new?
What did you try that was uncomfortable, but helped you grow?
What new art events, galleries, and museums did you visit?
What art seminars/workshops/lectures/classes did you participate in or teach?
How did you improve your studio habits?

Find the article and other excellent features here:  http://www.artbizblog.com/

Shopping at Columbia Ridge

For people doing last minute Christmas shopping, there are wonderful things to had at the Columbia Ridge Community Centre 10-2 Saturday December 22. Check it out!

The big question

Seashell vase     Paula Cravens

Time and time again, I hear the question, "How much should I price my work for?" Here is a very good article addressing just that topic.

http://visualartmerchandising.blogspot.ca/2010/12/price-formulae.html

The "M" word

Dreaming of Ghost Ranch   acrylic collage

I'm working on marketing, that is....thinking about it, reading about, doing something about it. It's the artist dilema that painting simply isn't enough, you have to work at marketing too. I am making plans for what I want to learn in 2013, what I want to paint and new ways to sell.

Currently, I am checking out the Artist helping Artist's blog:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/artistshelpingartists/2012/04/12/using-pinterest-to-sell-your-art

I find the interviews long but worth listening too. Get a cup of coffee and take the time. And as for Ghost Ranch, I would love to stay there for a month and just paint!

Come on Down!

The Headwaters Art Society will be holding

 a winter Art show and sale

 on Saturday, Nov. 24^th from 11am-3pm

 at the Canal Flats Community Centre. 

There will be 17 artists!

Refreshments

Come on down and check it out!

It's Up to You

 Draped Model   16x16    P. Cravens

There was a dissonance in the force when the topic of price controlling cropped up regarding the Headwaters Art Society Winter Art sale. The price guidelines are merely that, guidelines. Please feel free to join us and set your own prices. We understand that there must be flexibility for different skill levels, etc. And may the ART force be with you.

How to Proceed

Cervus Argentum 2 by Paula Cravens

"Five things you should do after you finish a painting.

1) paint another piece

2) paint another one

3) and another

4) repeat step 1

5) repeat this for the rest of your life"

 

from Kyle Thomas on the Painter's key