The Working Artist Gatherings

I'll see you on September 13th

If you have a question, do call in and ask Crista yourself.

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Comments

  1. Michael Pierre Price

    Hi everyone! The number of AI text-to-image platforms keeps growing. If you are interested in experimenting with AI, here are a few of the platforms that are worth checking out:

    (1) Midjourney
    (2) Dall-E 2
    (3) Playground AI
    (4) Dream by WOMBO
    (5) NightCafe
    (6) Canva (this is integrated into their overall site)
    (7) Dream Studio (Stable Diffusion)

    There are a number of other platforms beyond this list, but I am most familiar with the ones I mentioned.
    Finally, remember that YouTube is your friend when it comes to tutorials. There are many good tutorials
    explaining the ins and outs of most of the major AI platforms, advice on how best to use prompts.
    Feel free to email me if you have any follow-up questions that might want to discuss. Good luck…..

  2. Stevie ( Stephen Lewis Gilmore in the Art World)

    Hi Crista and everyone. Sorry I can’t be with you in person ( I’m performing at a jazz concert!)
    My question is……..
    “I have developed two distinctive styles both based on the landscape but one is a more conventional style and the other a really ‘weird style’ BUT…amd here’s my dilemma…I get equally good and enthusiastic responses to BOTH.
    I’ve tried doing a census of opinion and it’s literally split down the middle! I’ve made good sales, top sales, from BOTH styles.
    Therefore I am in a quandary and hence my question to you.
    “Do I just be the Artist who just did that? Or should I not confuse the public and galleries and stick to one?
    The ‘weird stuff’ has a lot more expenses involved in that I need to pay sitters and models as well as Actors.
    ** NB re; actors, I have had the best One Man Show ever and people still talk about that and it made one of the best profits ever in my career.
    But then I’ve ‘knocked em dead’ as we musicians say with the more conventional style.”
    So my question is….
    Do I stick to my guns with the conventional but successful and just do the weird stuff privately?
    OR
    Do I switch to the mainstream ‘weird’ stuff and have the conventional as ‘prep work’ ?
    Or as I say above have a ‘side room’ where the weird lives?.

    I should point out here that two well known Artists have blatantly stolen my very original ideas
    ( Andras Kalman ‘Crane Kalman Gallery’ publicly championed my ‘very original eye’ ) for the ‘weird stuff’ in the past!
    Hence me worried that I should choose??????
    Or do both
    Or not
    HELP????
    Thank you. Yours very distressed Artist.

  3. Mrs A M Brody

    I cannot make that date. Are the session recorded to watch later?

  4. Crista Cloutier Post author

    Always! We always record the sessions. You can find all of the past sessions on your dashboard. If you hover over the coaching call link on the left, it will show the page with the past recordings. Lots of artists like to listen to them while they work!

  5. Rick Dubov

    Hi everyone. I have several things im focusing on. First- I want to increase the number
    of people on my email list, and find my prime audience.. collectors etc. I have a website linked to mail chimp
    and i send out a blog. I have about 100 people on my contact list. I average about 45% open rate,
    The latest blog i had 57% open. There is a buy now button in the blog. I have only 3% who click on..
    The first suggestion ive come across is to go to gallery openings and meet people. Impossible for me.
    I am living in a small village in the Philippines! no galleries, no nothin! My original paintings are back in
    L.A. with a good friend who will handle the shipping when i make a sale. Another suggestion i came across
    is to email my website to friends and ask them to forward it to people they know who might be interested.
    Another suggestion- submit pictures of my work to online Art magazines. I’m also doing a worksheet from
    Samantha Kaplan to detail who my ideal buyers would be. I am open to any good suggestions from you
    guys!

  6. Rick Dubov

    I have a question for all of you- How can I build my email list from the Philippines
    without Gallery access?

    1. Vanessa

      Rick, I don’t know if you listened to Crista’s zoom this month, but you could also try printing some business cards, flyers, or postcards on Moo.com (as suggested by David) – and put those out in any place you can. I know it seems like a loss leader, because of the cost, but considering everything comes with a cost, it’s worth a try, especially in these remote areas. Maybe your friend in could put some cards out in LA too.

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