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I got a fantastic compliment yesterday! :)
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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 350309" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>It's a strange thing the first time you hear this from someone. It's even stranger when you thank them, forget about it and then they say it again. It's even stranger when they own a gallery and offer you space to hang your work, and when you do someone actually gives them money for it.</p><p></p><p>My advice? Say thank you, accept any offers to show, and then bust your ass to justify to yourself that you belong there - because most artists don't create with the idea to sell, they do it for their own love of it and see all the flaws, so the idea that anyone else would not only want to really look at it, but actually own it is so foreign that accepting it is a learned behavior.</p><p></p><p>Now, if and when you do start showing/selling, you'll want to start <em>really</em> looking at your work and focus it down to things that are both pleasing to you and pleasing to others. We all have our own "style", we just need to focus it. But that comes later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 350309, member: 9240"] It's a strange thing the first time you hear this from someone. It's even stranger when you thank them, forget about it and then they say it again. It's even stranger when they own a gallery and offer you space to hang your work, and when you do someone actually gives them money for it. My advice? Say thank you, accept any offers to show, and then bust your ass to justify to yourself that you belong there - because most artists don't create with the idea to sell, they do it for their own love of it and see all the flaws, so the idea that anyone else would not only want to really look at it, but actually own it is so foreign that accepting it is a learned behavior. Now, if and when you do start showing/selling, you'll want to start [I]really[/I] looking at your work and focus it down to things that are both pleasing to you and pleasing to others. We all have our own "style", we just need to focus it. But that comes later. [/QUOTE]
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