Trying to get started on paintings for an exhibition. Need motivation and other help, please!?
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Hello, fellow painter--\n\nIf you are trying to do a body of work, you can try doing a theme.  Sometimes a theme can be based only on something as simple as a unifying color or unifying size of canvas/paper/frame.\n\nThemes don't have to be evident to anyone else, you can use it in your own head without ever disclosing it to anyone or using it as the title of the show, but you could if you wanted to.  Think Monet's haystack or lily pond series.  Van Gogh and those sunflowers.  Cindy Sherman always using herself as her own model.  Unity will also develop in your work as you go along with what's referred to as "voice".  You don't need to try and develop that style or voice, it is intrinsic to who you are as an artist.  For a painter it might take years for you to see that style in your own work, don't strive to create an artificial style unless you are a commercial artist.\n\nI think your background selling art might be a block for you.  Selling/packaging art for a market is a lot different than creating it.  To really create, really let go, you can't be at all concerned with the bottom line of sales.  Often what you like the best is the last to sell while the one you think is crap is the first one out the door.\n\nI deal with the marketing of my work after creating the work.  so, several months in the studio, when I have a body of work that is done, then I focus on great slides, documenting the series and then finding a venue to show it.  I don't create work to sell it but it does sell...you just can't let that desire to sell your work creep into the work because then you'll make crap.\n\nAnyway, I'll keep an eye out for your posts and try and help when I can!  Good luck on your show!
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Use your basic visual concepts of groups of 3 or 5, use symmetry, something that draws attention, depending on the type of exhibit..fresh flowers, balloons, lighting. use covered boxes or something to create different levels, so everything isn't flat on the table.
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gonna have to dig deep on that one...  i would recommend contacting some universities.  they are a very good resource for art and music contacts.
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Begin with things no longer needed around your home, ask friends and family if they have things to donate to you to sell. Everyone has stuff laying around. Just use things you have laying around to start with. It will give you practice and you will soon learn how to write the descriptions and make sure you put good pictures for people to view your item. That is the only way they know your product is really what they are looking for, remember a picture tells 1000 words as long as it shows what you are selling. \n\nHope this help and good luck with your auctions:)
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perhaps refreshen your study room, brighten it up with bright paint, clear out the debris, open the windows, let in fresh air, take a quick shower, set yourself a break time before you get stressed, have a buddy to call you for 'keeping on track'...reward yourself, listen to positive motivation tapes in free time, take up a a new sport for boosting energy,...and talk things out with a counsellor perhaps...might be something there troubling you, choose uplifting music in the background and even splash some Bach flower remedies and aromas around, to clear the head and to revitalize you.  don't get down about things, you'r doing a great job....and hey!! its okay to work with a buddy too....find more buddies and have a different one each night...that makes each one, one a week, and is not tying them down monotonously.
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try to save up enough points... beware of scams that offer you free paintbrushes...they're only trying to steal your account. Play games, restock, invest in the stock market... the more you play the better chance you'll have of recieving a random event, you might just find a paintbrush on the floor. Good luck!
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I've just finished my training year, and so far I've really enjoyed it.\n\nI think art is certainly different from other subjects to teach, not necessarily easier. Certainly once a project is up and running, the amount of preperation and planning you have to do decreases, but then don't forget other lessons often have text books to resort to if they're stuck for ideas.\n\nYou have to keep the students motivated, which depending upon their own interest and ability can be challenging.\n\nHours can vary, but if you basically total up the hours spent in school and add about an hour every weeknight for planning/marking/admin. you won't be far wrong.\n\nOne piece of advice would be to devise schemes of work that actually interest the students. Don't think that just because you think a particular artist or medium is great, they will. Try to develop lessons that interest and motivate pupils whilst also teaching them aspects of art/design.\n\nI would recommend it to anyone who is passionate about the subject and has the ability to communicate to students, something you won't know till you try.\n\nGood luck!
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Find an architect or architectural drafter.\nGo to the library and get a book on architecture.\nPretty hard to explain how to read a drawing in an email.
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Firstly, what is your resolution?  Have you researched it and found topics/themes/articles that might be of interest on your poster?  Have you looked through magazines and found suitable photographs that you might cut out and use?  How about using a favourite photograph of yourself at the top, with personal details and a summary of why you chose your particular resolution.\n\nYou might find decorating the outside edge of your poster with a border of coloured lines or flowers or some other symbols will make it stand out as interesting - or at least draw people to it to investigate further.\n\nTry using different materials in a sort of collage-effect.\n\nBut, most important of all, know exactly what you are aiming for and how you are going to achieve it.  List your objectives and the time in which you hope to have succeeded in reaching each objective.  Truly know your subject and making it interesting to others so that they root for your success.\n\nGood luck!
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Which is best, a painting by Monet, or one by Leonardo DaVinci?\n\nYou don't give much info on what you are trying to do. Will you use computers, do you chart by hand, will you use Technical Analysis or are you a Fundamental Investor? Long-term, short-term, Day Trading?\n\nThere is no one book that will get you started; no ten books. But you have to start somewhere. \n\nGood luck
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try sketchswap.com\n\nA great way to draw and get drawings back\n\nAlso register with a competition page and get lots of chances to win prizes - even a holiday to get out of work\n\nFind a posting board that you can get through the work firewall and make friends\n\nTake extended toilet breaks\n\nWalk around the building looking for a guy called "John" that works in accounting, unless you have a "John" then look for Jeff ;)\n\nBuild a house out of paperclips\n\nDelete all your e-mails that are actually relevant and wait for IT to find them - do this at least once a week for fun and to give the IT dept something to do\n\nEat cheese\n\nSend e-mails to the girl/boy you like in the office\n\nSteal stationary\n\nMove other people's work so that they think they are going mad.\n\nDance\n\nSing
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My University has mentors that you can ask for in your field of service.  I suggest finding this mentorship program and request a person w/that degree.  They'll help you out with the different options.  Also, what in fine arts are you concentrating on?  Painting, Dance, photography, drama, art history?  There's always work for teachers in these areas.
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is this what you're looking for?\n\nhttp://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--10036591/How_to_Be_an_Artist.htm
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Check out "Top 5 Downloads" #4 on the first link for "brothersoft"\n\nThe other links are for other painting activities.
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If you believe that you could do neat work, perhaps you could offer your services to re-paint rooms of a friend's, neighbor's or relative's house if they supply the materials including paints, stirers, brushes, rollers, masking tape and plastic drop cloths.  You would also need a step ladder and rags and old clothes.  How many rooms would you do for $100?  Can someone help you learn the tricks of painting a room including how many coats?  You might also need help moving furniture, etc. out of the way.  Good luck.
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Working as a curator or arts manager could be an option. Curators are artists in their own right even if it isn't their work on display. The event is their canvas.
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Check out Sherwinwilliams.com   virtual painter.  They give you a choice of rooms, you can click and drag your paint choices.  it's great!