Price control
by TJ Miles, Spain
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Autumn morning
acrylic painting
artwork by TJ Miles

I have controlled my prices over the last 14 years as a professional artist. I have found it to be the best way to keep consistency in an otherwise volatile market. If for one year you sell exceptionally well, galleries and representatives can be tempted to raise your prices and profile to overly-inflated levels. This of course gets them the 'quick kill'... Continued >

Poorly prepared grounds
by Marilynn Brandenburger, Decatur, GA, USA
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Under the bridge
oil pastel
18 x 14 inches
artwork by Marilynn Brandenburger

I've been lapworking for years. I love the intimacy I experience by actually handling the work as I make it - the sort of tactile pleasure craft-workers experience. Lapworking also gets me up and moving more than when I'm at my easel. I paint, hold the work out to assess it, get up out of the chair to set it up and view it at a distance, pick it up and sit back down. Up, down, up, down. That keeps the blood flowing and the muscles from freezing up... Continued >