How is working for your livelihood different from working for your humanhood? And, will anyone pay for the latter?
Livelihood and humanhood
Author: Matt Shanks
Why bother?
Why bother trying to make art? If it’s all been done already, surely there’s no point. Right?
Illustration doesn’t have to put food on the table
What if you didn’t have to rely on drawing to put food on the table?
Sing for your supper
Do I really need to dance in front of my canvas to get eyeballs on my work?
Writing to think
Do ideas come to us through divine inspiration? Or do we just need to pick up a pencil or pen and begin so that we find an idea?
New shoes
Maybe what we wear matters more thank we think when we’re making art?
External influence
There is a benefit to collaborations and commissions that involve an artist making work that their unconscious bias has prevented thus far
Patience is a form of action
When are we avoiding action because of fear versus needing to be patient for the work to find it’s place and time.
The value of originals
When I hold an original, an inner voice, “This is the only one of these in the world.” I don’t get that from a book. Is that OK?
Artificial constraints
While there’s value in imposing constraints on one’s art practice, the opposite is probably true, but how do we decide?
