Comments on: Tips for Survival as an Artist from Michael Shane Neal: Part 2 http://www.artbizblog.com/2009/05/tips-for-survival-as-an-artist-from-michael-shane-neal-part-2.html for the Business of Being an Artist Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:18:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rich http://www.artbizblog.com/2009/05/tips-for-survival-as-an-artist-from-michael-shane-neal-part-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-457 Rich Fri, 22 May 2009 13:47:18 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/2009/05/tips-for-survival-as-an-artist-from-michael-shane-neal-part-2.html#comment-457 All very good tips and direction. Especially agree with the local networking through hanging your work on high-end walls and donating through auctions. Both of which I am currently doing. Online marketing seems a very time-consuming marketing effort, much more so than local. As artists we find that spending as much time as possible doing our work is our greatest effort but networking, shaking hands is a necessary part of our work. All very good tips and direction. Especially agree with the local networking through hanging your work on high-end walls and donating through auctions. Both of which I am currently doing. Online marketing seems a very time-consuming marketing effort, much more so than local. As artists we find that spending as much time as possible doing our work is our greatest effort but networking, shaking hands is a necessary part of our work.

]]> By: Patricia http://www.artbizblog.com/2009/05/tips-for-survival-as-an-artist-from-michael-shane-neal-part-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-456 Patricia Sun, 17 May 2009 14:39:45 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/2009/05/tips-for-survival-as-an-artist-from-michael-shane-neal-part-2.html#comment-456 These were both very fine reads. I don't know that there is anything especially new here, but having all these tips together encourages me to actually think about them (and confront some of them). I am both a painter and an art jewelry creator and these are applicable to both. But asking galleries, businesses, etc to show my work is as frightening to me as doing auditions were back when I was still a ballerina. I'd love to see an article about confronting and overcoming these fears. I am still working on that and it is so very stressful. These were both very fine reads. I don’t know that there is anything especially new here, but having all these tips together encourages me to actually think about them (and confront some of them).

I am both a painter and an art jewelry creator and these are applicable to both. But asking galleries, businesses, etc to show my work is as frightening to me as doing auditions were back when I was still a ballerina.

I’d love to see an article about confronting and overcoming these fears. I am still working on that and it is so very stressful.

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