I am so happy I was skeptical and looked this up before doing anything 😌

Creativity means the world to me. It allows me to be free and express myself without being chained down by societal norms.

I needed to hear this today!

Inertia is property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest until that state is changed by an external force. In other words, you will stay where you are, unless you push yourself forward!

I’m so glad I stumbled upon this episode and your channel, I liked hearing about your experience as a working artist. 😊

How !.. .arghh man, that cracked me up. I needed that, haha.

I used to work an art school gallery where we showed student work. A person came in and said "why are people still painting when we have photography now?" And I was so caught off guard that I didn't really have an articulate answer. So that night I worked out about a dozen good reasons, but no one ever asked that question again😮

This was a very helpful listen, so thanks to you both. I am in the process of reestablishing myself after having moved 700 miles away for work. A new regional culture, a new set of series to paint and plenty of new faces to meet. There's quite a mountain for me yet to climb but this video provided me a wonderful amount of inspiration on how to approach this whole new situation that I am facing. Next year is going to be an exciting one , that's for sure!

love your podcasts. always very interesting and love that interaction aspect witj your rouges. I want to add my thoughts to one topic that was brought up "should you remove older pieces from your website" and I personally think it depends what you want. I hear that advice most often aimed at illustrators that habe their website to show their skill and style to get illustration jobs for books etc. and i think for that it totally makes sense to chose the best and newest art because its like a job application and you want to show them the "best you". But if you want to sell your individual pieces as is, i totally agree with you and would show everything! (and no, i dont think one art form is more worth than the other! I only chose the terms I used to make clear what I mean. I totally think art is art - the world would be so boring without people making art for packaging, furniture, docoration etc!)

As a 25 year old, your suggestions about making social connections would've terrified me! But for many years I fought against my timidity and was able to develop social skills. I now love talking and connecting to others. Introverted shyness ISN'T written in stone- every person has the ability to learn those skills, if you want it.❤

When trying to relearn portrait/drawing after having putting it aside for a looooong time will it take as long to get back to the level I was at when I taught myself the first time, ? Funny how you can lose it if you don’t use it. What’s your opinion?

I most always do an impressionist landscape along side of my abstract expressionism to keep me balanced. Impressionism is old hat relaxing for me, while abstract is fairly intense study. Folks are quick to make nice comments on liking my impressionists and I get "undecided" from their remarks about my abstracts. I'm always breaking rules and flirting with disaster with my abstract work, picking subjects like "homeless camps" and the "peregrine falcon" that no one really thinks about abstracting. For me, the undecided remarks are a good sign it is working. Folks use previous life experiences and experiences with previous arts in attempts to understand art pieces. Opening their minds to new concepts and new world thinking is very difficult. To stay in old world art thinking is not justifiable. Discovery is what drives artist, not the old adage "creative" Humans love to discover new. Love your new studio look. That is an massive amount of large drain pipes for that size 2story. Ha Ha I'm glad you left them exposed instead of trying to cover them up. They fit right in. Even wearing the color on your wrist bracelet, cool as hell!

Thank you❤

Cricut is a major scam in itself.. DO NOT buy any of their machines.. even the sillhouhet isnt the best deal either.. its better to save up for a proffesional machine like the Graftec CE7000 plotter. I actually bought a cricut maker 3 and returned it 3 weeks later.. it sucked.. I even made a rant video about it a few months ago. again, its NOT worth you money!

Always enjoy your learning and processing. 🎉

Omgggg Heyyyy Seeing you for the first time I kid you not I really thought how did Scott Christian Sava's eye color change 😅 He too is an artist You both look so alike 😮

Bats and asbestos were minor compared to plumbing and foundation. The choice to move north was a smart move in consideration of future global warming weather changing predictions. The taller ceiling height of the older home is what artist need. Also the steam radiant heat is much better than forced air blowing dust on everything all winter, much healthier for the lungs also. The steps can seem cumbersome at times but better for one's overall health. All one needs to do is maintain the roof gutters, proper water drainage away and these old historic homes will continue to last forever. Electrical fires are fairly common only because modern people tend to overload old wiring circuits. Maintaining fire alarms moves to a much higher level in the old homes.

I'm also a fan of experiments, how it's made and failures. Had an artist suggest I not explain how a piece evolved or what I really thought. That's inspiring me to do the opposite.

I wish I could get over my social anxiety to approach local businesses. I feel it every month that I'm missing opportunities for people to see my work, but when the moment comes to talk to another human about it, my anxiety is absolutely paralyzing.

Just get a job.... MY ARTS NEXT LEVEL and still cant sell it... Not what you know its who you know ❤

So I painted a shirtless ghost face piece, and I had a young boy yell out loud "eww gross", but then the mom passed by and was like "mmMMMMmm" - clear indication of how critiques don't matter.....and I learned that mothers may be my new demographic. 😂

This is really helpful Rafi and Klee ❤

am i having a deja vu experience? just what I need !

What about approaching a country club with doing a little demo or a little show? Stand in the river where the money flows.

I too love the idea about also selling your artistic experiments. I'm still in the process of setting up my online shop. But, I think often these experiments are looser and more expressive. When we are just experimenting and not over-analytical, I think often you can see that energy in the paint strokes and marks etc. I call mine "explorations" and am putting them in a website section called that. Also I found when I was selling t-shirts, I would make a t-shirt that I spent a while making, thought was cool and would sell well. Then it was often the ones I made quickly that people bought the most of. So you never can tell what people are going to like.

Im in the same situation I haven’t made art because I’m moving soon and it’s stressful to think about

The one I get most is: "You're not contemporary enough" - a lot of gallieries say that to me and when I asked them what they meant, they got rude. After looking up the word, I realized they didn't know what it meant - it was just a term retailers learned to hide the fact that they didn't know much either, that they are just looking for art from established artists that sell easily because they are to lazy to sell anything that soesn't sell itself, and they were just buying and selling stuff, which happened to be art at the time. Some say I try too hard, or put too much into it, which ruins the sponta-blah-blah... Then there are those who get technical: measuring to see if I got the "rule of thirds" right, or the colour right, or the light. I think people who try to turn art into science don't understand it, and try to understand it by quantifying everything, which isn't art. The one I hate most is: "May I see the photo you painted it from?" I use any reference material I can get my hands on, and sometimes it is a photo, and I can save everyone a lot of time by just saying: "it is very different from the photo, whether is be lack of detail, my poor skills, or just me deciding to change the picture, so if you want the exact photo, then go google it, download it, print it, and stick that on your wall". One art store owner (I don't see them as curators of proper galleries) took a painting of mine next door to a hair salon and asked the first hair dresser inside if she'd buy it. She said "no", then he turned to me and said: "see: no one will buy this!" - his "gallery" closed a month later.

I LOVE “if u don’t have paint on every piece of clothing u own…” 😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Always appreciate and enjoy your awesomeness!!!💐

I am an artist (painter) .....am also receiving such messages

100% agree with the inner critic concept. I would never be so mean to anyone else, it would be considered abuse. I'd get punched a lot. I'm "lucky" that I'm my own harshest critic, outside criticism is never as bad. My favorite dumb criticism: "you should do more feminine paintings, these are too morbid". I took it as a challenge, grabbed pink and white oil pastels and angrily drew ballerinas with severed limbs. Twisted Degas, 'cuz I'm a clever lady. Sugar and spice, and pain and torture. It sold quickly because the person who bought it thought it was so sweet, completely ignoring the mutilation parts. Blinded by pink. Artworks are like Rorschach tests. What people see tells more about themselves than the artwork. The same drawing upset different persons for different reasons: "there are vulvas everywhere! Why??? It's disgusting!", "I don't support drug use, this shouldn't be on a wall",... it was a drawing of Ents coming out of a forest. 😂 Someone saw demons in every single artwork. I don't draw demons. Sometimes a goat hanging out in a field is just a goat hanging out in a field. Goats are cute.

"The world is full of people, and people have opinions." Yep.

Hi , ive been off line for three weeks. Missed a few.

Yrs and yrs ago I decided to join an art class with an elderly lady, not too old but when I went back a second time for a class she was correcting her own lines she drew on my paper like I made the mistake. Well, needless to say I never returned after that. Lol😊😊😊

Love that yellow and turquoise, and your art

great tips...its all about the story...someone else told me as well, that the artists story is everything...:-) thanks

Thank you for the subtitles, I really appreciate it 😊

Everyone has an opinion. That’s fine. Critiques are for art schools and workshops i’m not self important enough to give unsolicited advice and opinions. Especially outside of our school.

I think there's a reassessment happening with younger creatives, art school closings and excessively high tuitions to attend these schools. What are they getting out of it, art school's attitude regarding the 'career track', what's valid art, etc. Only a very slim margin of artists career's track like Damian Hirst. The rest of us- we do alright but the criticism tied to that Hirst like career track I can see fading away. I don't like or want my work used for tax dodging. I want people to enjoy and see the work in their homes.

I just did, I almost put in a fortune of gas money, luckily transaction denied

Prolific artists are deep wells of inspiration to me. I love seeing people who have the time to really let their creativity blossom. They're my super heroes.. Like Clive Barker, of Hellraiser fame, who is now a very prolific painter I've come to admire. You two are in that category as well. These videos alone are numerous and invaluable resources for artists which many of us are grateful to have access to.

Digest constructive criticism. Laugh at negative criticism. Unfortunately a lot of folks out there really are hardwired to spread misery and no one should let it get to them. Sticks and stones, and all of that.

My favourite response to those really hateful, personal comments is: "thank you, you're too kind". Takes the wind right out of them. I also like Sandi Hester's response to the "a kid could do that" comment (she works hard at achieving a childlike quality to her work). Her go to retort is "yeah, you're right, a kid probably could it, but you couldn't" (buuuurrrrnnn!). The fact is that half of the things Rafi listed don't even qualify as critique, but rather stupid, uneducated and unhelpful and most importantly, unsolicited opinions. Real critique should always be a) solicited and b) constructive. Everything else is just noise.

I find a lot of critics, many not too familiar with the art world just think it is their duty to try and convince artists they think "suck" to stop wasting their time making bad art. Those are the ones I dislike the most.

real art... so as a former physical media artist who now paints exclusively using corel painter it is not real art.

My lord , I have no idea whom you are but you saved my mother from being scammed , I am thankful to you.

As a fan of terrible movies, I'm ok with bad criticism. Rather my art be hated than ignored. That said, self criticism can be a monster.

I so needed to hear this , thanks for the positive mojo ! You always know someone is coming from a place of toxicity when they can't balance the feedback with anything positive, at all, and they're always like that. They literally grimace if they have to think of something positive to say its so unnatural for them

Deeply familiar with the meaningless comment, "interesting." I try not to be irritated by that one. Looking forward to your house tour video. I know videos take a lot of work, and I hope they do cut in too deep to your creative time. I sure would enjoy more videos of you guys making artwork and jewelry. I would also love to learn more about your "scrappiness". My wife and I are constantly scrounging used junk for repurposing - sometimes for art , sometimes for more "practical" uses. Perhaps you could do a video telling us about your own adventures in "recycling" debris?

A teenager walked in my booth and said dramatically "this - is - pure - evil". I lost zero sleeps over that. lol