If you are an artist or photographer who has a dream of making a career out of your craft, you will need three things: practice, promotion and patience. And you will need them exactly in that order.
Practice means that you will be painting a lot of paintings. Many will be thrown right in the trash because they just didn’t work out. Photographers will be taking many photos in a single shoot only to find that none of them work or if you are lucky one is good enough to list for sale. You will try new things that will either be total flops or lead you to something really cool and interesting. You will invest money that seemingly never pays off. These days I sell about 5 prints a day on average from the various POD sites I am on and about 2 originals per week. The majority…
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Like most artists, I am most happy when I am creating. When it comes to the selling part it takes a great mental effort to “enjoy” the process. It is tedious and monotonous to do computer work. Listing and promoting. Listing and promoting. Answering emails. Ordering supplies. If only a wealthy patron would sponsor me so all I had to do was paint and create all day without even considering the business of selling art. While I am still waiting for that fantasy to come true, I soothe myself with those moments of utter jubilant joy when I can escape the dirty work and just create. O.k., painting is dirty too, but a good kind of dirty. 😉
Please enjoy my latest painting titled “Jubilee”. It was a real treat to create!
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I will be busy this week with family and Thanksgiving festivities….went down south today to spend some time with relatives who flew in from Colorado….It was a little chilly for a beach day, but this little girl was determined to enjoy herself. She was so caught up in the simple joy of digging in the sand when her parents graciously let me take a few quick snaps….aaaahhhhh I remember….
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Sometimes you just gotta get fresh! I have been promoting past works heavily lately for the Holiday season and I have been painting custom work based on much older pieces. I love working with all of my creations, but sometimes I really need to create something new. After avoiding yellow for many years due to emotional reasons, I have found that it is showing up a lot lately. Something really bad happened to me that I used to associate with the color, so it is refreshing to see my soul embracing this light and life giving hue. Today I offer you some fresh lemons….I can almost smell them….
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Yeah, okay… it sounds like a reach, putting a dessert spread in the same category as photography. I know. But bear with me. There’s a point to this.
My wife and I kept hearing all the time about this Nutella spread. People rave about it (all over the place) and it seems like it’s the biggest thing since sliced bread (I can hear the shouting now – “Sliced bread covered with NUTELLA!”).
See what I mean?
So we finally decided to see what the fuss was really all about. As a background, we’re not huge on being trendy or hip just for the sake of trendy or hip. We never owned a pet rock (just Google that, it’s hard to explain how that happened) and we don’t stand in line for the new release of ANYTHING. I mean… if something is popular and good, they’ll make more. Why camp…
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This really got my attention the first time I saw it. This rustic classic door and window with a horse shoe above each is on a western old barn in a mining town, my guess from the late 1800’s. It’s located behind a friends saloon in the middle of the Colorado Rocky mountains about an hour south of the Buena Vista Colorado area.
It is believed if a horseshoe is hung over a doorway, with ends up will catch good luck and ends down will let the good luck spill over the door and stop evil from entering.
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Friends, this quiet spot in the woods is like a dream for me, this image is an HDR and maybe a bit dramatic, but i like all the colors. Something to look at in the drab months ahead, when i will have to make my own light and action. Today is the eve of deer hunting and the deer will be hiding out for a few weeks to escape the hunters, not my favorite time of year. Orange is the color this week. til Tomorrow MJ
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