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Morning Art Journaling
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. Marcus Aurelius Before we will start discovering what Morning Art Journaling is and why it’s important, let’s find out what is just normal morning journaling and why is it trend nowadays? Morning Pages are one of these things that sound so simple that you don’t think they could ever work for you. One of the things that I have realized in life is that many of the best things are really simple but our complicated minds want to tell us they won’t work for us. What is Morning Journaling? Morning Journaling is a process of creating three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, ideally done first thing in the morning. There is no wrong way to do Morning Journaling– they are not high art. They aren’t even “writing.” They are about anything and everything that crosses your mind– and they are for your eyes only. Morning Journaling ...
Start New Career in Art | Alexandra Novik-Khamis
I am very often hear that people don’t feel like to start something new at pretty old age; especially if all their life they have been doing totally different activities. Same with art, people don’t want to start painting after 40-50 as they are convinced that if they did not do it before they don’t really have talent then why even try. I believe that everyone can start something new at any age. A lot of painters and musicians are started their careers at very late 40s. And there is nothing wrong with it. As long as you feel inspiration and need for it then go on. Years ago, people graduated from school, got a job and worked at the same company until they retired. Today, it's unusual for a young worker to stay at the same job for more than a few years in the first decade of their career. It's also becoming more common for workers to make a midlife career change, and completely switch gears after spending half of their adult life in the same industry. People want to b...
Creativity as a Spiritual Process | Alexandra Novik - Khamis
It wasn’t that long ago that having a son or daughter who expressed interest in becoming an artist was considered a parent’s worst nightmare. But today, many parents are encouraging of their children’s interest in art. And I am as an art mentor should guide them into art world and bring inspiration for young future artists. There are many options available to help nurture budding talent, but sending a young artist to expensive private lessons isn’t necessarily at the top of the list. Yet, when I see the new undergraduates show up at my art studio, there are some who have gotten an undeniable head start above their peers. For me art education is not only teaching process but rather creative process which inspires students. One of the main goal for me as an art mentor is to bring knowledge together with joy of creative process. First of all students understand the basics of art techniques in chosen field. And then when they know the rules they can smartly break it. Art process fo...
A lot has changed for
artists since the inception of the Facebook, Instagram and other social Medias.
Most notably, artists now have far more options than ever for presenting
themselves and their art to the world. Though the traditional gallery system is
still in place, galleries no longer control the show the way they once did and
for the first time in forever, having gallery representation is not necessarily
the best and only way to go for all artists. In spite of all this, way too many
artists continue their relentless single-minded quests for gallery
representation without even realizing they can now do for themselves pretty
much everything that galleries can do for them... and more.
One
of the reasons to make exhibition in gallery is that artist can communicate and
be more social with guests. For the first time in history and in formats that
barely even existed only a few years ago, artists can now attract thousands,
tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands of followers almost entirely
on their own.
Back in the old days,
art world success used to be all about which handful of galleries had the most
money to spend on the largest ads and best positions in major art publications,
which handful of galleries the handful of newspaper and magazine art critics
visited and chose to anoint as legitimate contenders, and which handful of artists
that handful of galleries decided their clienteles should pay attention to.
Even though this all still happens, it's not such a big deal anymore.
The best news is that
the best art is still what attracts the most attention, regardless of where
it's being made or shown or who's doing the showing.
Artists
can now do practically everything online that galleries once had to do for
them, and often in much larger ways.
The two primary
functions of galleries - providing artists with exposure for their art and
providing collectors and buyers with access to that art - are no longer
necessary or even relevant to doing business as an artist.
People
in the know search and shop online all the time including collectors, curators,
investors, speculators, gallery owners and anyone else who has an interest in
art... including museum personnel. Everyone's on the hunt for the next great
art stars and they know they can cover far more territory far faster on their
computers or cell phones than they can by physically shopping the galleries or
visiting artists at their studios.
For
artists, the chances of being discovered online are better than ever.
In
many instances, the traditional relationship between galleries and artists has
completely flipped. In the old days, artists had to present themselves and
their art to galleries and hope and pray for a portfolio review.
The gallery was the
one in control; artists needed galleries to call attention to their art. Now
artists with impressive online profiles and large numbers of followers have
substantially more control over what galleries they show with or whether they
even show with galleries at all.
While
a typical gallery might have several thousand online followers or maybe
somewhat more, it's no longer that unusual for an artist to have tens or even
hundreds of thousands of fans. There's nothing particularly exciting about
following most galleries online anyway. Pretty much all they do is post images
of art by artists they represent, while artist pages are often rich in content,
visuals and narratives, and rightfully attract tons more viewers.
Online
followers have become the new art world currency, those who buy are the gold
standard, and social networking art stars are beginning to leverage that in
terms of who or even if they decide to show with one gallery or another.
For
those of you who may not get along well with people, are uncomfortable in
social situations, or have any other aversions to real-life interactions, the
Internet has the capacity to be your savior. You can do pretty much everything
from the comfort and protection of your own home or studio without ever having
to engage a single human being face-to-face, at least at the start. What this
all means is that there's no longer any excuse for any artist anywhere not to
try and realize their full potential. Why stop yourself before you even start
when you have such powerful tools at your fingertips? And you should always try
to exhibit your art in galleries as well. But in our time it’s not that
important anymore.
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