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  • Pricing your artwork

    Try This at Home: Make three artworks in your signature style using materials you intend to be working with for the foreseeable future. If everything you make is on canvas, use three canvasses, if you vary surfaces a lot between paper, panel, etc., make three of each. Make each surface 12 inches by 12 inches.…

  • Exhaustion

    I am wiped out, physially, and that is NO April Fool’s joke…

  • The Death of Mystique – Cal Arts (one of many mediocre diploma mills) Exposed

    So now Cal Arts has its MFA program work on the web. You can browse the output of the student populace. So now every artist can see the latest developments and rip them off without ever even paying the school a visit. Here come the kids in the cheaper State schools. Here come the housewives,…

  • Is it just me

    Is it just me, or does anyone else tend to give higher star rating on their itunes songs when they bought the music from apple rather than just burned their old CDs onto the mac? Anyway, things are improving here… My Art World Boot Camp has been a success. I did not tape any of…

  • Hot

    It was finally warm today. Hopefully the cold wet winter is gone. I was all bundled up and then went to get the mail and it was hot and sunny and I must’ve looked wacky. The part of the Brewery Art Colony in which I live was the freezer – so it is built to…

  • Villaraigosa gives us ten seconds of his attention – Pay him homage for this, right?

    So Art Blogging L.A. has the Mayor of L.A.’s statement honoring the show of L.A. art in Paris posted up on their/her site: Link to Report of Mayor’s Pablum-Spew You think Mayor V-is-for-Very-Interested-in-Anything-But-Art might mention an actual L.A. artist in his little document?Nah, didn’t think so. Face it folks, the elite use art as a…