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 🤗
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.
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 🙂
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.
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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 🤗
Each painting I’ve done in the past six mos looks like a totally different style and each is me.
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.
How’s that working for you?
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 🙂
I’m so glad to hear you will be actively using what I shared in this video! Thank you for watching and being a supporter of the channel 🤗
Amazing advice. I can’t believe I just finally found you today.
Welcome! And thanks for watching and supporting, I’m glad you’re finding my videos helpful 🤗
Great stuff here thank you ma'am.
Historically, ppl don't have "art careers". They had patrons or supplement their income with other work.
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.
I love your work,Martha,You are a magnificent woman!
Thank you! 😊
Very interested, very good for my painting.Very good for growth of my painting , And building my Art
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Thank you so much. I found this very helpful! 😊
I'm so glad! 🤗
I'm a new artist and your words resonate with me, thanks!
I’m glad to hear it resonates with you! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🤗
Thank you for your brand new video.
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This was very helpful. Thank you.
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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.
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Great video! tremendous advice! ~
I’m glad you found it helpful! 🤗
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you lost me at; "you' re here because you want to make money from your art". not for me me channel, thx
My content is for artists in business 😅 always here if you change your mind!