As a new artist trying to sell your work, it can be tough to match what you make with what people want to buy. You will get a lot of unsolicited advice from people as you go to different markets, socialize with people, and post online. You may ask yourself “How do I make a …
Adaptability is one of the keys to running a successful business. Often times when we start a business we have a clear idea of what that business should be. After months of creating and you aren’t seeing your product move you may start to feel defeated. Sometimes, however, it is just that you are missing …
With the holiday season upon us, it is time we start thinking about what we want to gift our loved ones as we travel near and far to spend quality time with them. With the plethora of options of things to get for them, it is very easy to look for quantity over quality. There …
When I started out in pyrography I didn’t know much about woodworking. As a brand-new artist, I generally bought wood that was processed from vendors such as It’s David and Renee and Walnut Hallow. Now, to this day, I still buy a lot of my finer canvases from vendors but when you are at the …
We wrote a blog post last year on creating your own website as an artist. You can find that post here. This post is mostly about maintaining your site. This month we took a a look at our website, bzfurfur.com, with a critical eye and had to make some decisions about what works and what …
Creating a successful small business as an artist is hard work. So much has to go into creating your work, building an audience and managing the back of house. Now consider you have to do all this and still be profitable. As much as we, as artists, want our business to be about the art, …
As a small business you often have a vision. You want to create the things that you love and you want your customers to love them as much as you do. Honestly, I would love to just make the things I want to every day. In reality, though, this isn’t always how it is going …
I’m not going to sugar-coat things. 2024 has been a tough year. Prices on essential goods are going up, pay growth for most people isn’t matching the growing cost of living, and the first thing that most people need to sacrifice when going through these tough economic times are non-essentials. This includes art and home …
It being Independence Day here in the US it is a good time to reflect on how lucky we are to have the opportunity, as Americans, to run a small business and do the things that I love. Having spent the better part of my adult life working in retail and in the government I …
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” ― Andy Warhol I am an artist. It took me a long time to admit that to myself. Before making this realization …
