Articles I’ve Written to Nurture, Protect and Encourage Artists

As a child I was fortunate to have a loving mother and other people in my life who provided positive influences. They taught me the virtues of cultivating my maternal instincts and developing empathy for others. As an artist’s mentor I approach every situation from the perspective of being of service. The motto for this website is “Helping Artists Achieve Their Fullest Potential.” You’ll find in this article links to some of the many articles I’ve written to nurture, protect and encourage artists.

As you read the the articles I hope the information provides the support and inspiration you need, helps you achieve your heartfelt dreams and aspirations, and serves to protect you from harm.

Thank you for letting me be a part of your life. I wish you creative bliss throughout every stage of your creative process.

Nurture Yourself

If you’re a sensitive, creative person who is good at fulfilling other people’s needs and forget to pay attention to our own, in time you may become less creative and lose confidence and motivation.  It’s not healthy to neglect your personal needs. Here are 12 ways to nurture your inner artist. The first one is Acknowledge Your Talents, Skills and Strengths.
Read 12 Ways to Nurture Your Inner Artist

Expressing your unique vision as an artist may be one of the biggest challenges you can face. It demands that you explore your innate creativity, fight the demons, ignore the critical voices, discover your strengths, push them to the max, and firmly place your inimitable handprint on the Earth with absolute conviction and no regrets!
Read Expressing Your Unique Creative Vision As An Artist

We all possess an arsenal of certain types of assumptions, habits and excuses that prevent us from achieving our fullest potential. In this article I point to several beliefs that can damage your art career success and ways to overcome them.
Read Beliefs That Can Damage Your Art Career Success and Ways to Overcome Them

You may also want to read How to Handle Rejection as an Artist

Protect Yourself

If you have an email address and are promoting yourself as an artist, chances are you have received emails from scammers who deliberately try to cheat artists and steal their art and money. This article provides the warning signs and contains samples of proven scams and shows you what to do if you receive one.
Read Email Scams Aimed at Artists

Not all art materials are safe. This article sheds light on the subject, cites some dangerous chemicals you should avoid, and offers steps you can take to avoid harming yourself.
Read Are Your Art Materials Making You Sick?

There are many “pay to play” opportunities for artists and not all are created equally. This article offers advice that is useful when considering “vanity galleries” and all exhibition opportunities. When I read a letter or an email that an artist has received from a gallery I can almost immediately determine if it’s a legitimate gallery or a “pay to play” business.
Read Beware of Vanity Galleries

Ways to Encourage and Inspire You

I love to offer you easy to follow, step-by-step guidelines on a variety of topics to encourage and guide you. You’ll find them here —  from increasing your art sales, planning and achieving your art career goals, writing your artist’s biography and artist’s statement, to tips on how to save time so you can spend more of it creating art.
Read More Than 140 Simple and Powerful Ideas to Achieve Your Art Career Success

Creating art career goals can be adventurous, creative and rewarding. Every day you get another opportunity to delve into your deepest desires and formulate new ways to bring them to fruition. As a mentor helping artists achieve their creative, career and financial objectives is one of my favorite activities. In this article you’ll find ways to increase your pleasure while you plan your art career dreams and goals.
Read Take Your Art Career Dreams and Goals Higher With These 8 Steps

If becoming a full-time artist is one of your objectives or insuring that you remain self-sufficient as one, we cannot ignore the topic of money. I’ve written many articles to make the process of building more financial security as simple as possible. In this article I introduce you to some of them.
Read Guiding You to a More Prosperous and Satisfying Life As An Artist

Sluggish energy and lack of sales can often be telltale signs that an artist is suffering from inertia. If you’re there now or have ever been there, this article can show you how to get out of your creative rut. Here are some causes that may have led you there and solutions to get you back on the path to energized inspiration.
Read How to Get Out of Your Creative Rut

You May Also Want to Read…

Many artists serve as mentors, sharing, guiding and inspiring each other. There is a series of articles and interviews on this website in which artists share the spirit of camaraderie and support fellow artists.
Here’s a link: Advice From Artists to Artists

In this article several artists and friends of mine on Facebook pay homage to their mothers and share loving memories. After you read it, I hope you will write a comment expressing your feelings about your mother.
Here’s a link: How Did Your Mother Positively Influence You As An Artist?