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Opere di Beth Pickens

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While this was more aimed at a professional artist or someone looking to break into professional art it was an interesting look at how you should carve out time for yourself and for your art in your life. This is one to remind you to feed yourself with more than just food and work.
 
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wyvernfriend | 1 altra recensione | Mar 27, 2023 |
This was a little underwhelming, although it’s hard for me to figure out exactly why. The author at the start very specifically breaks down how she defines an artist (any type of creating makes you one), but then the entire rest of the book really seems to be for visual artists only. I think from the title I was hoping for more encouragement on making, but it turned out the book felt more career focused as far as how to survive as an artist.
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spinsterrevival | 1 altra recensione | Mar 26, 2022 |
Make Your Art No Matter What by Beth Pickens
Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles

With personal anecdotes, examples and stories taken from people she has consulted with, information she has gleaned from life, and issues she believes are important to artists this book provides case studies, suggestions, activities, meditations, list making, work to be done and more as it identifies twelve areas that might cause difficulty and how to overcome issues that might arise.

The Twelve areas covered:
* Time
* Work
* Asking
* Money
* Fear
* Grief
* Other People
* Education
* Thinking and Feeling
* Isolation
* Marketing
* Death + God
- additional reading suggestions a

As an amateur artist, I have gotten away from the practice of creating and thought this book might assist me in returning to art, but it did not provide that stimulus or ideas that I was hoping for. Instead, it is more of a friendly consultant-like exploration of the topics listed above, the author’s thoughts and suggestions and beliefs on each topic, and a bit like a manual and self-help for artists with the above specific issues to address. If you do have such issues then this book might help, but it is not the book that I need right now or the one I was hoping it would be.

Thank you to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for the ARC – This is my honest review.

2-3 Stars
… (altro)
½
 
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CathyGeha | 1 altra recensione | Apr 6, 2021 |
Sent to me by a sweet friend who read a review and thought it would be right up my alley. It was to an extent, as it was a useful self-help book for artists giving good and practical advice about how to get by in the real world, to be able to make art and pay the bills too, and still have time to develop your practise and experiment etc. That bit was all good and actually quite practical and useful advice. That was about half of the book. The other half was a kind of extended wail of anguish about what a Trump governed America will be like for artists, LGBTQ people, people of colour and anyone else that somehow deviates from the norm. I get the pain, and I feel it too to some extent, but it dates the book to one very specific time and place and makes it a less useful document overall, I think. Still, it needed saying and I appreciate why this lady felt she had to say it.… (altro)
 
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HanGerg | 1 altra recensione | Nov 20, 2018 |

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3
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½ 3.4
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ISBN
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