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The art of going pro navigating the shift

Going Pro, the secret weapon for today’s turbulence

2010 by Bill

We could com­mand higher prices as our mas­tery improved because mas­ter­ing a tech­nique or style was one of the pri­mary cri­te­ria for suc­cess. Fur­ther­more, our skills were gained and refined through years of prac­tice and training

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Featured artist sarah lacy

Sarah shares her thoughts about wisdom and sharing

2010 by Bill

I’ve also learned that I need to cre­ate work that’s impor­tant to me. I have to dig deep. When I do that, I cre­ate work that’s mean­ing­ful to me and mean­ing­ful to oth­ers, and that’s my job at the end of the day – to cre­ate mean­ing. And those are always the pieces that I can’t keep around – they fly off the shelves.

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words of and inspiration of an artists journey

A stamp of approval

let's talk by Sarah Lacy

I told myself I wanted to stop sell­ing my art because I wanted to focus my entire being on study­ing and learn­ing. That’s a lie. The real rea­son I wanted to stop sell­ing was because I didn’t think I had a right to. I didn’t think it was fair to try to sell peo­ple low qual­ity art made by a Not Real Artist. I didn’t have the stamp of approval. The “art world” had revoked my license.

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The art of going pro

A story about Alice

2010 by Bill

Alice didn’t worry to much about what she would do after grad­u­a­tion, she fig­ured she would take some time off for travel and paint­ing. She had planned a road trip that would fol­low his­toric Rt. 66 from begin­ning to end and in the process paint the land­scapes and arti­facts that memo­ri­al­ized this famous highway.

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The art of going pro

Professionalism in practice…setting the stage

2010 by Bill

…being a pro is a mind­set, a way of see­ing life and the world. Because it is a mind­set that can be learned, prac­ticed and improved it lives in con­stant change and is not the exclu­sive domain of super stars or any other elite class.

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let's talk about beauty

Does Beauty Matter? part II

let's talk by Bill

Scru­ton explores the change brought on by Deuchant, Koontz et. al. and how that change attempted to give mean­ing to “a hear and now” world as opposed to an ide­al­ized one. Scru­ton main­tains that art is really about cre­ativ­ity which is a call to oth­ers to see the world the way the artist sees it.

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Perfectionism and Quality

2010 by Sarah Lacy

If I wiped out every paint­ing I wasn’t com­pletely excited about, then I’d have no paint­ings. In every sin­gle piece, I hit a stage where I think I’ve screwed it up com­pletely, and that there’s no hope.

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The code of professional artist

The Art of going Pro: the missing piece

2010 by Bill

Call­ing our­selves artists is not enough, while it cer­tainly pro­vides a label for what we do it does lit­tle to describe an atti­tude, an approach to life and work. Stop­ping with the artist label gives us to much wig­gle room,

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The Art of Going Pro: an identity crisis

2010 by Bill

The lan­guage we use to describe our­selves, what we do, how we do it and how we frame our responses to deci­sions, is directly related to how we are in the world and how oth­ers expe­ri­ence us…it seals our iden­tity and in turn describes our vocation.

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