What is the best piece and worst piece of advice you’ve gotten?

Jules, Rachel, and Stephanie discuss Stephanie's answer a listener question "what was the best piece of advice" and then we added "what was the worst piece of advice"!  If you have a question you'd like us to discuss feel free to  email us at hello@artistssoar.com

Key talking points: 

• • Stephanie's best advice she received was to use her cell phone to convert the image to black and white to see the values better.
    • Another app is called "Grid Painter" which helps you see black and white and reduces the number of values
  • Julie's best advice received was "People buy your joy" by Lila Rodgers.  
  • Rachel's best advice from Jennifer Redstreake was "paint what you see" because everyone sees things differently.
  • Worst Advice:
    • Stephanie's someone said to buy the cheapest paint because you'll over paint.  Instead buy good paint like Williamsburg Paint, Old Holland, and Gamblin, because it is high-quality paint, Polychromos, Prisma colors.  The same applies for the other brands.
    • Julie's bad advice that she received was "just put it out there".  Instead of just putting it out there, Julie only posts things she doesn't have any reservations about - she only posts what she's proud of.  
      • Good enough for everyone else is not good enough for you. 
      • Do you pull off pieces that you are no longer proud of?  Julie doesn't because it is too difficult to do it.  Pulled stuff from my website - yes.
    • Rachel's worst piece of advice was to send the Star Wars people images of her artwork to see if they would allow her to sell them.  
  • What do you do with archived/old pieces that you aren't proud of?
    • Stephanie and Julie - start fresh.  The old pieces showed where we were and were lessons learned.
  • Get back to the fun, not every piece needs to be monetized.  You don't have to sell the work if you don't want to. 

 

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