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:
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- 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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