OMG … Is Kym going to talk about this? Yep indeed, I am! Now I know that this may be treading on thin ice since most artists and creative don’t like to talk about something as crass and capitalistic as money but pricing our work is one of the topics that seems mysterious and many [...]
I have had several conversations with some of my clients lately about collaboration with other Artists. There are so many kinds of collaboration that, as an Artist, are available to us. We can collaborate on projects, on shows, on productions, on particular works, on goals, etc. The list is endless. Let me just start by [...]
A few years ago neuroscientists put to rest the myth that we are either “right brained” or “left brained”. They found that, even though creative tasks do stimulate the right side of the brain more, that the concept of right/left brain did not give us the full picture of how our brains work and certainly [...]
I remember this debate that we would get into back in art school … it went something like this: Does Art create life or does life create Art? (maybe it is still going on …. LOL) and somewhere in the process we would always end up in our own personal inquiry about why we were [...]
Most artists live to create (and create to live) ... but how much time do you actually spend mastering your art, creating, engaged in what you love to do? Have you created today? Did you last touch your pen, brushes, guitar, chisel, sound board, camera, charcoal, etc. a few days ago, last week, two weeks [...]
Success is measured differently by everyone ... but for the most part I find that when I talk to people they actually measure it against others ... "they" are successful so, therefore, you aren't ... or some flavor of that. Weird paradigm right? In the world of comparisons there will always be people who have [...]
