How to Grow as an Artist
Daniel Grant
ISBN: 1-58115-244-2
Allworth Press
Book (Paperback)
6 x 9
240 pages
September 200
In
this definitive guide to resources, aspiring artists and serious
amateurs devoted to their art will find scores of time-tested
strategies to help them set up and work safely from a home studio;
learn where and how to acquire appropriate art materials; develop their
abilities with others as well as create art alone; explore
opportunities for education in a wide variety of forms; overcome mental
blocks; mat, frame, pack, and ship works of art; and much more. Artists
looking to show and sell their work will find no-fail ideas for
marketing, exhibiting, and entering the world of galleries. Filled with
entertaining success stories, this is one volume for the bookshelf of
every artist hoping to attain satisfaction and pleasure though his or
her art. Plus, dozens of well-known artists–as well as those successful
on their own terms–share their own success stories and sources for
artistic inspiration.
Daniel Grant is a contributing editor of American Artist magazine. A former art critic for Newsday (Long Island, New York) and The Commercial-Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee), he was editor of Art & Artists from 1978 to 1984. His articles and essays have appeared in such publications as ARTnews,
Art in America, New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science
Monitor, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Philadelphia
Inquirer, Newsday, The Nation, New York, Art & Auction, and Art
& Antiques.
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