Latest Art hints and tips Podcast Episodes
Ask an Artist - COVID-19 special no. 4
Ask An Artist - May 09, 2020 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThis episode was (obviously) recorded remotely and with a few technical problems. In this fourth special COVID-19 episode Laura and peter talk about some of the things they have done in response to the shutting down of what was planned to be a very busy year for both of them. Keeping busy, be...
Ask an Artist, making and selling Greetings Cards
Ask An Artist - May 08, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThis episode was recorded remotely (and with a few technical issues!) whilst we are all in isolation. Greetings cards can be a useful additional revenue stream if you are an artist whose work lends itself to being reproduced in this way. Laura and Peter talk through their very different respons...
Ask an Artist, Buying Art Materials
Ask An Artist - May 01, 2020 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsPeter and Laura give their views on buying art materials. What is important? is it the price, is it the service, is it the quality of the materials themselves? That might sound a little basic, but it really does depend on what you are doing and where your work is likely to end up!
Ask an Artist - Online Teaching
Ask An Artist - April 24, 2020 09:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsPrompted by the extraordinary situation during the Covid 19 pandemic Laura and Peter have explored different solutions to remain connected with their respective audiences. Today's podcast is not specifically about crisis management, it is more about how the crisis can be seen as a reason to thi...
Ask an Artist - Framing and Presentation of Your Work
Ask An Artist - April 16, 2020 23:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThis episode was recorded before the restrictions imposed due to COVID-19 Selling 2D art often comes with the additional responsibility of framing and presentation, adding that finishing touch to your work. It is so important that you get this right, putting an inferior frame around your pictur...
Ask an Artist interview with Steve Pill: Editor of Artists and Illustrators Magazine
Ask An Artist - April 10, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThis episode was recorded before the restrictions imposed due to COVID-19 Many artists will read magazines about Art and one of the most popular is Artists and Illustrators Magazine. Steve Pill has been working there for many years, most of that time as editor. Laura and Peter (both on their b...
Ask an Artist, COVID-19 special no. 3
Ask An Artist - April 04, 2020 09:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsIn this special episode Laura and the Talented Mr B chat about what they are up to during their enforced isolation. Peter is doing his best to wade through the mountain of government literature and will be taking a short break from these special updates, we miss him and look forward to saner ti...
Ask an Artist Taking on Commissioned work
Ask An Artist - April 03, 2020 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThis episode was recorded before the restrictions imposed due to COVID-19 Most artists will at some time be commissioned to do a piece of work, a particular view, a specific size, a portrait of a loved-one or something to commemorate an event. The kind of artist or craftsperson that you are wil...
Ask an Artist - COVID 19 special no.2
Ask An Artist - March 28, 2020 10:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsFollowing last week's COVID19 special episode Laura and Peter have decided to make a weekly update on what they are up to and how the special measures that have been introduced are affecting them as self-employed professional artists.
Ask an Artist Interview with Sal Shuel, Copyright Expert
Ask An Artist - March 27, 2020 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThis episode was recorded before the restrictions imposed due to COVID-19 Copyright is a proper minefield! There to protect intellectual property, it is misunderstood by the majority of people who seek its protection and by the majority of people who contravene its rules. Sal Shuel spent some ...
Ask an Artist Covid-19 Special
Ask An Artist - March 21, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsLaura and Peter are both professional artists, paying the bills by making art. At this hugely difficult time they discuss how the situation is affecting them and what measures they are taking to ensure that when things get back to something closer to normality that they will be able to resume t...
Ask an Artist - Creative Block
Ask An Artist - March 20, 2020 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsNearly all creatives will at some point encounter creative block, that inability to see what you should be doing. In this episode Peter and Laura discuss the different ways that artists can find themselves blocked and offer some ideas about how you might overcome obstacles to move you onwards
Ask an Artist - Photographing your work
Ask An Artist - March 13, 2020 00:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsWho hasn't at some point needed a picture of their masterpiece? Whether it is to show to a client or a gallery or a submission to a competition or just to post on social media there are time when an accurate representation of your work is essential. In this episode our sound-man, the talented ...
Ask an Artist Interview with Michael Harding
Ask An Artist - March 06, 2020 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsIn this episode of Ask an Artist Peter and Laura are in conversation with Michael Harding. Michael makes paints! Some of the finest on the market and is uncompromising about the quality of his products. He started to make paints whilst still at Art School because he wanted to be able to achie...
Ask an Artist, Competitions, Should You Enter?
Ask An Artist - February 28, 2020 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThere are many different ways to develop your career as an artist, exhibitions, art fairs, social media and so on. Another possible avenue is through entering competitions. Winning or being placed can mean prizes, inclusion in exhibitions and certainly some kudos. Is it all good? listen to Pe...
Ask an Artist, Writing as a Part of Your Practice
Ask An Artist - February 21, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsMaking art for an artist is very rarely enough to get you to the point where you are selling art. Nearly everyone in the creative sphere will also need to communicate too and in this week's podcast Laura and Peter discuss how writing is an important skill that is well worth learning. Both of t...
Ask an Artist, Should you have a Website
Ask An Artist - February 14, 2020 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsSo much of the on-line presence of a creative person these days is through social media, its immediacy and the way that you can gauge the reaction so quickly make it a very powerful tool, but what about websites? Should you have one of those too? Peter and Laura believe that you should and in t...
To Teach or not to Teach? That is the Question.
Ask An Artist - February 07, 2020 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsA career as an artist is not always all about making art, for some people it is also about making artists, teaching your skills to others so that they can make art too. It isn't for everyone, some see it as a chore and if that's the case then better to steer clear of it because you are unlikely...
Ask an Artist Interview with Michael Craine of Cranfield Colour
Ask An Artist - January 31, 2020 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsMost artists will have some relationship with colour, wether it be ink, paint, pencil or paper. The colours you choose are important for many reasons, for their colour for one, but also for their longevity, their intensity, their opacity, their sheen, their ability to work on top or underneath ...
Pricing Your Work - For What its Worth...
Ask An Artist - January 24, 2020 10:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsYou have produced a collection of artworks and the time has come for you to start selling them to the public. How do you decide where to pitch your pricing? Too low and you may not cover your costs, or you may be seen as too cheap and therefore not worth even looking at! Too high and you just ...
Ask an Artist Interviews Nick Bentley - Gallery Relationships from the Gallerist's Point of View
Ask An Artist - January 17, 2020 10:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsMost artists want to get their work on the walls of a gallery, at least until someone buys it! How do you get your work into a gallery? What should the relationship be between you and your gallery? Are there tings that you must never do when dealing with a gallery - and are there things that ...
Using Social Media as Part of your Artistic Journey
Ask An Artist - January 10, 2020 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsSocial media can be a huge benefit to any creative person wanting to promote what they do, but it needs to be used intelligently and it should be the artist using it as a tool, rather than being an end in itself. In this Podcast Laura and Peter talk about their own experiences with Social Media...
Finding your style.
Ask An Artist - January 03, 2020 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsOriginality in art is certainly to be admired, you don't want to be seen to be derivative, but it is also important to have a recognisable style so that, in time, people can look at your work and see it as being yours. In this episode Peter and Laura talk about finding your own voice as an art...
Criticism, dealing with the inevitable
Ask An Artist - December 27, 2019 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsAll artists will experience critcism, it goes with the territory. Tastes differ so much that making art can only ever appeal to a segment of the audience, so sometimes people will tell you that they do not like what you do. Peter and Laura talk in this episode about how to deal with this criti...
Festive Special - Payback-Time!
Ask An Artist - December 20, 2019 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsBeing a professional artist is a job, it brings in income (hopefully) and, if all goes well brings a degree of satisfaction. It is inevitable that people will help you in your artistic journey: giving you opportunities, buying your work or attending classes that you are teaching. from time to t...
The Artist's Statement
Ask An Artist - December 13, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThere are certain expectations of you when you are an artist and one is that you will be expected to supply information about your artistic practice. in this episode Peter and Laura talk about the 'Artist's Statement' the brief description of your motivation and your process: what makes you tick...
Ask an Artist Interviews Nick Bentley: Gallerist and Art Dealer
Ask An Artist - December 06, 2019 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsIt's great to hear what artists think about galleries, but that is only one side of the story. Today Peter and Laura talk to Nick Bentley, owner of Bils and Rye, a wonderful gallery in the North Yorkshire town of Kirkby Moorside. Bils and Rye have a great portfolio of artists including sculpto...
The Artist's Persona
Ask An Artist - November 29, 2019 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsAs an artist it is likely that you will have to interact with your customers and the persona you adopt when you do this can have a huge effect on your success. Confidence in your work inspires confidence from your audience so developing and maintaining a comfortable, confident attitude (even if...
Art Fairs
Ask An Artist - November 22, 2019 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThere are lots of ways of putting your art in front of prospective buyers, but few are quite as good as art fgairs. Displaying your work among your peers and having the opportunity to talk to your audience make art fairs an invaluable outlet in the journey to making a commercial success of your...
Galleries - value and etiquette.
Ask An Artist - November 15, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsSo, you have some art you would like to sell... Working with a gallery can be hugely beneficial, but only if it is the right gallery for your work. Peter and Laura talk about the business of negotiating your way through the minefield of gallery relationships and the etiquette of approaching a g...
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