1) GET A PORTABLE STUDIO – Keep an art journal with you 24/7/365 as it can
be amazingly affective for you and your work. It is a powerful tool to
access your own personal creative space at the drop of a hat! Most of all it
allows you to hit the studio with out having a formal space that you
physically go to, or when you are away from your formal studio. All in all,
the important thing is that it is your space to have and to hold, regardless
of where you are and what you are doing. You can just connect with that
essential part of you that wants to WORK any time, anywhere.
2) CREATE A COMMUNITY SPACE – All over the globe there are spaces available
for rent. Do some research! Find out from who, what, when and where you can
rent out a space. Then take the space and cute it into 4 separate spaces.
You take one space and rent the other 3 out for whatever your expenses are
(rent, heat, electric). This is a totally positive, exciting way to develop
a free space for yourself and support others who are looking for inexpensive
work space and want to be around other like-minded artists! If you present
yourself to the owner of the space in a serious manner with a clear plan and
a commitment to the project he or she might even create the space for you
and keep your start up costs real low.
3) You can TAKE THIS IDEA and build on it all the way to owning your own
building with studios and a gallery, art café and so on… It has been done
all over the world for many years. Just start small, use your creative mind,
and think "space"! Just keep thinking about it until you make it happen! It
does not take money, it takes time, smarts and the willingness to believe!
be amazingly affective for you and your work. It is a powerful tool to
access your own personal creative space at the drop of a hat! Most of all it
allows you to hit the studio with out having a formal space that you
physically go to, or when you are away from your formal studio. All in all,
the important thing is that it is your space to have and to hold, regardless
of where you are and what you are doing. You can just connect with that
essential part of you that wants to WORK any time, anywhere.
2) CREATE A COMMUNITY SPACE – All over the globe there are spaces available
for rent. Do some research! Find out from who, what, when and where you can
rent out a space. Then take the space and cute it into 4 separate spaces.
You take one space and rent the other 3 out for whatever your expenses are
(rent, heat, electric). This is a totally positive, exciting way to develop
a free space for yourself and support others who are looking for inexpensive
work space and want to be around other like-minded artists! If you present
yourself to the owner of the space in a serious manner with a clear plan and
a commitment to the project he or she might even create the space for you
and keep your start up costs real low.
3) You can TAKE THIS IDEA and build on it all the way to owning your own
building with studios and a gallery, art café and so on… It has been done
all over the world for many years. Just start small, use your creative mind,
and think "space"! Just keep thinking about it until you make it happen! It
does not take money, it takes time, smarts and the willingness to believe!
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Re: Art Studio Ideas
Mon, March 31, 2008 - 10:31 PMHell to the yeah!!!! I used to take my watercolors and index cards to shows and coffee shops and paint. Then, I graduated to an actual watercolor sketchbook... That, ofcourse, took atleast five years and many sketchbooks. Then a craptastic thing broke me. My car got stolen with my WHOLE f-ing art show worth of stuff in it- in a church parking lot- a month before a show. I had to chip my sketchbooks out of three inches of ice after a 3 day storm. Also I had to dodge cars. It was all in the middle of the street... I started doing these paintings so fast. I was afraid to show them but there was nothing else. I sold out most of my show, and I felt like I got my life back. The whole direction of my work changed. FOR THE BEST. I trust my instincts and it is good. Saturday, my life dream of opening an art gallery is coming into being. We also offer art studios for rent and artist business services. I don't own this building but I'm owning my dream. FINALLY. "...only do or do not."
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Re: Art Studio Ideas
Wed, April 2, 2008 - 11:01 AMThe most important thing I have learned since I quit my "real" job a few years ago to pursue my artistic career is that you can only sell yourself when you're confident in yourself. I know from personal experience that when I have a series of those "gray" days I should stay far away from potential clients, as I tend to hang myself with something resembling a lack of self-confidence. On any other given day besides those, which are far and few between, I literally get whatever it is I set out to get that day.
