Posted on Leave a comment

Show Your Work by Austin Kleon Book Review

Show Your Work by Austin Kleon Book Cover

You can post all the paintings you want on your website and send links to your friends, but it will only get you so far. Unless you are famous chances are you don’t have a huge following of fans all fighting each other to be the highest bidder of your latest artwork.

In order to be found, you have to be findable.

Austin Kleon aims to change your situation in his book Show Your Work: 10 Ways To Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered. The book is about how to self promote yourself and your products in perhaps what can be seen as a more humble way. By sharing their own work they can in turn ask for fellowship, feedback or patronage.
Continue reading Show Your Work by Austin Kleon Book Review

Posted on Leave a comment

Daily Painting by Carol Marine Book Review

Daily Painting by Carol Marine

I’m always on the lookout for more art books that will help me learn how to be an artist, but many of them don’t focus on the concept of painting daily. This is a review for the book Daily Painting: Paint Small and Often To Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist by Carole Marine.
Continue reading Daily Painting by Carol Marine Book Review