Lizzy Love ♥ Oddball Art Co.: Artists Checklist

Artists Checklist

10 Steps To Success

1. Stay positive / Be proactive.

2. Nobodies going to come to you

3. Promote your work and yourself - YOU are the business. i.e. website, facebook

4. Build a professional online portfolio. i.e. Fine Art America, Behance or Deviant Art

5. Learn how to photograph your work properly - i.e. go outside, turn off your flash - Check out my post on photographing art

6. Network with other artists and art lovers. i.e. Blogging

7. Create an Etsy shop to advertise/sell your art.

8. Learn basic business & marketing principles. i.e. business cards

9. Believe you can. Believe YOU are the best artist in the world!

10. Live, Eat, Breathe Art! PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE & never stop PRACTICING!

10 Ways To Release The Creativity From Within...

Visit Art Galleries or Exhibitions as often as possible.
Try thinking about daily things in rhymes, it will help broaden your vocabulary which is especially usefull for creative writing.
Change your routine, i.e. drive a different route to work, go some where else for lunch.
Open your eyes and actually look at everything around you, you'll be surprised what you see.
Every once in a while try to do something that you enjoyed doing as a child, try to release the child from within, children are after all the most creative beings out there.
Clear your mind at least once a day, if you don't have a clear mind you won't have room for creativity.
Make sure you ask yourself an out of the ordinary question each and every day. i.e. What if the grass grew purple?
Try picturing your life as it if it were a movie or novel, what would happen next? Who would you meet?
Talk to someone or some people that you normally would ignore, they might have something interesting to say.
Carry a pocket sketch book with you always and note interesting things.

If a pig drinks a quart of buttermilk before he starts, And runs a mile before he farts, And the faster he goes, the farther he gets, How far will he go before he shits? Now in order for me to win this bet, I must take you to where the fart was let, A farmer saw the pig pass with buttermilk shooting from his ass. And the farmer knew this to be true 'cause the pig shit buttermilk as he flew. Now if that pig can hold his gas, And run a mile with a puckered ass, it seems to me if he keeps his wits, he can run five miles before he shits. ~ Marve Matlack (RIP)

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