How to Make Art, Keep Your Soul and Make Money.
How to Make Art, Keep Your Soul and Make Money.
Talking to the 5th graders gave me a clear insight into how fulfilling the 5th grade was. It's when I became an artist. It's when I learned about realism & abstraction. It's when I started looking at the world with an artist's eye. Maybe it's in the 5th grade when we can clearly see who we want to be when we grow up.
I can throw around words like “abstract expressionism” in the semi-secret language of people who create, go to museums and understand decades and centuries by style of painting. We can speak with to each other. We have a particular language.…
Putting on the lipstick & the heels! When I start complaining to my, sometimes exasperated, staff that we will have no work after we finish whatever mascot we are working on….….and we will be absolutely out of money,…..nobody will ever…
When first started AvantGarb (we’re a custom, mascot making company), I was the only employee. I did everything, designed, made the mascots, shipped them, did the marketing —everything.Quickly, I realized I was going to have to hire people. Just as…
Remember. To have an arty biz, you have to be arty. ….and remain arty. ….and keep up with the times. To grow an arty biz you have to finish and ship on time. the arty, biz babe
Aw geez – arrogant me. I thought I was going to be a different kind of boss…don’t we all? I was going to be the one who understood the needs of the people who worked for me. I was going…