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Your invitation says: "...a place for the non professional artists , photographers, art amators, painters, to share and promote their art. or personal sites..." I have been painting for over 35 years...there have been times in the sun...plenty of sun if you consider all the street shows...laughs*
Well, my meaning was...I have been "almost famous" but people forget, clients go "incognito" and the galleries become harder to deal with...and so on. So...at this point in my life...I consider myself brand new!
After years of selling my art...everything came to a hold...it is as if the muse of inspiration did not agree with me having one more child...and puff! Nothing would show up that had any meaning, I went blank and did little painting for years...(aside from what the gallery asked for...numerous redwood paintings and quaint cottages with a garden...eeekkkk)
So...here is the blessing...eBay!
if you ever want to challenge yourself, join us there...it is not easy, but you will feel the juices flowing with inspiration and the rewards are many, people who would never have dream of buying a painting or a drawing are beginning to buy my art...and I...humble servant of those who write me a check...strive to paint from my heart and not because I am going to match the colors of their couch...it is an honest exchange...yes?
So...my question to you after all this musing...what makes an artist to become professional...is it money, is it pretige...is it the quality of his/her craft?
I sense that there will be many answers and all of them different.
Wishing for you...a world of beauty and many hours to create.
Griselda
Well, my meaning was...I have been "almost famous" but people forget, clients go "incognito" and the galleries become harder to deal with...and so on. So...at this point in my life...I consider myself brand new!
After years of selling my art...everything came to a hold...it is as if the muse of inspiration did not agree with me having one more child...and puff! Nothing would show up that had any meaning, I went blank and did little painting for years...(aside from what the gallery asked for...numerous redwood paintings and quaint cottages with a garden...eeekkkk)
So...here is the blessing...eBay!
if you ever want to challenge yourself, join us there...it is not easy, but you will feel the juices flowing with inspiration and the rewards are many, people who would never have dream of buying a painting or a drawing are beginning to buy my art...and I...humble servant of those who write me a check...strive to paint from my heart and not because I am going to match the colors of their couch...it is an honest exchange...yes?
So...my question to you after all this musing...what makes an artist to become professional...is it money, is it pretige...is it the quality of his/her craft?
I sense that there will be many answers and all of them different.
Wishing for you...a world of beauty and many hours to create.
Griselda
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Re: What makes one...a professional artist?
Sat, July 3, 2004 - 2:37 AMit's adificult one to answer , Gris
I paint and draw a lot but I have sold very little. In all these years on the web, only one person bought me a painting..
All I do are intimate home exhibitions so my collectors are mostly my friends ( and none of them have too much money to buy art. since I suport my family with my job , I have never considered seriously the possibility to do the same with my art... if I loose my job , I would reconsider the situation but the most propable issue would be a very dificult one. only a few artist in france succeed making a decent living with their art. in most of creative cupples, one of the two has a regular job. Lost of painters are teaching art too and make their living with the teaching.
in fact , the only positive feedback I have with my art , I find it on the web with you guys... it's precious ... it's an invitation to keep being curious and creative and keep sharing what we do.
when I wrote a few words to introduce this tribe it came out like this but I don't think there is an issue here about being profesional artist or amator .... we are all doing our best to be creative and that is all that matters :) -
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Re: What makes one...a professional artist?
Sat, July 3, 2004 - 7:20 AMAwww...Moox don't wait to quit or lose your job to start flapping your artistic wings...try eBay...they will love your art, just imagine yourself selling these right away...the way you work you do not even need to do it on canvas do you? easy to ship, and whatever you get from them will feel like a win. See...one of the reasons I did not sell for a long time, I as used to asking large amounts for my work...I was afraid that the gallerie I work with would frown on me selling for less...but I found a way to paint something totally different and I do it in small scale (I dont have much time to paint these days)....it is a wonderful adventure to see how people react to your art...and getting money for that...even better, it is the act of blessing each other, and having abundance and prosperity flow...how can you go wrong?
You are one amazing artist...I have to say...again and again...!
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Re: What makes one...a professional artist?
Sat, July 3, 2004 - 11:24 AMIn my opinion, if you make a significant portion of your income by selling your artwork or skils, you are a professional artist. Some that are accomplished at creating art make NOTHING and there are some that know absolutely NOTHING about art techniques that make a bundle. The market decides who is and who isn't professional. There are a lot of folks [like me] that try and make a go of "art as business" and never make a dime. Us I call Semi-pro or ProAm artists.*
*maybe that should be gluttons for punishment or deluded dreamers! lol -
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Re: Scott....what is a professional artist?
Sat, July 3, 2004 - 7:05 PMI see your point, yet there are many artists I know, who have been my inspiration, others my teachers and they do not paint for money, mostly retired folks and they seem to me quite content not to be called "professional"
See, my whole issue is with the word, like you said...there are some who do little creative work, they find a way to reproduce something on canvas, and others will make them famous overnight...it kills the idea, their spirit belongs to someone else...and so it goes.
One of the reasons I love to sell my miniatures in eBay...it keeps you honest...ohhh boy...you think you got something good going and it dries out!
It is like a mantra...a living process of going around and around...it keeps me humble!
Ohh by the way...your photos are so beautiful...I can see you making it well with your art! -
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Re: Scott....what is a professional artist?
Sun, July 4, 2004 - 10:51 AMpersonally i feel as though it is the way we look at ourselves that makes us professional artists.
it all depends on how you look at the word professional
i have seen more "outsider artists" produce more work and have more devotion than many professionally trained artists.
what does that mean? who deems these people outsiders ?
art defines cultures -
cultures define society-
society defines professional
isn't that some sort of a dichotomy?
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