This is the first in an ongoing series where we’ll be talking about a small collection of amazing books that deal with art and the creative process. These particular books were chosen because they have dramatically changed my perspective as both a writer and as a human being I truly believe that any of the […]
Gimme Five You’ve probably heard it said before that we become the average of the five people we hang around with the most. This supposedly not only determines our level of career, success, and income–but our general attitude and outlook on life as well. Twenty years ago, this essentially meant that whatever motley group of […]
Actually, I guess that’s not really fair because as a writer, I never actually went to art school because I was stuck in “writer’s school” which I’m pretty certain sucks. What I’m really talking about is any type of so-called “art school” whether it’s music school, design school, fine art school, or your plain old […]
What is a peer group (and why should I care)? When we’re growing up, there always seems to be a lot of talk about our “peer group”, but what exactly is a peer group and why would I be talking about any of this now? Well according to our good friends in the dictionary […]
“But you’re a writer, you’re not an artist!” (insert mildly derisive tone here) I hear this from people all the time when I tell them that I help run a website called “Skinny Artist”, and then reveal that I am a writer and not a visual artist. To many people (mostly non-artists) it seems almost […]
Okay, okay, Radiohead is not the “Dead” (but they’re closer than you think) Many of you may remember a few years back when the band Radiohead decided to release their album “In Rainbows” as a name-your-own-price download before it was ever released on CD. This was considered nothing short of crazy because, at the […]
One of the biggest challenges many creative artists have is simply finding the time to be creative. We really do enjoy creating our art (most of the time) but there never seems to be quite enough hours in the day. We know that we just need to sit down and do it, but we always […]
These are amazing times to be an artist! Thanks to the world wide web, we now have a direct connection to a world wide audience. We no longer need a booking agent, gallery owner, or editor to approve of our work before our customers/audience are able to see what we do. For example, if you […]