I've been an artist for 59 years. More seriously in the last 10 or 11 years. This nonsense of losing your identity or becoming too commercial is simply art snobbery and in some cases a way to limit the success of the competition. If you don't sell your work, what do you do with it? Buy a warehouse? Not being able to sell the piles of work really keeps me from producing. Clutter stops me. It's encouraging when someone thinks enough of your work to buy it. I have the added problem of living in a very rural community with very little support for art. I live in a beer and camper world and buying art doesn't cross most of their minds. On top of that there aren't many art galleries. I am not alone in this. Not sure of what the answer is for us.
The answer is to use the internet to promote your work far and wide! It’s wonderful that you live in a rural area, you no longer need to be in a big city to be noticed for your work. Nor find a gallery when there’s more scope to sell directly to clients. It’s a really exciting time for artists 🤗
Thank you so much for your content! Times have changed a lot since the days that artist had patrons or starved to death. Artists nowadays have the whole wide world to sell their art, if they know how to do it - and such insightful content can help us understand how the art-market works nowadays. I will surely take some time to answer all the questions you provided here for reflecting on my online artist-persona before building my website 🙂
Seriously, just about every painting I've done over the 60 years I've been painting is a different style. My most recent paintings are very nice and interesting I believe.
Historically artists went to school to train to be an artist so that they could develop their skills and get paid for their art. Artists would be commissioned to paint families, for churches and murals. Leonardo da Vinci was commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa in 1503. Artists have had art careers for a long long time
@@marthamayronson True! Art teacher here. In the old days the Arts was just like any other trade profession, and often a family business. Famous and non-famous artists often had teams of artists behind them, helping to fulfill the demand for art from the church, wealthy people, and organizations. One-man teams were rare, but became more common in more recent times.
Thanks so much for all your videos, I'm just starting out as an artist and it's great to have a mentor like yourself. It really helps to make you feel like you're not on your own. I launched my website a couple of weeks ago - I'd love to see you critique some artists' websites, I think it would be really interesting. (link in my channel bio)😊
Thanks for your lovely feedback and support 🙏 We critique artists’ websites inside of the Artist Accelerator 🙌 the artists that we work with find it incredibly helpful.
