Archive: Workshop your Elevator Pitch

[Anahata Ishaya]

So I posted this on the other Elevator Pitch thread but not many there so here goes:

I depict the spiritual essence of life in various modes from ancient tradition to contemporary using either gouache, acrylic or mixed media. I pull the heart out of the ordinary and make them extraordinary.

[Wanda K. Tyner]

strong pitch!

[Anahata Ishaya]

Thank you Wanda. However as I said it out loud it didn’t roll off the tongue too easily or maybe I just need to memorise it like Crista says.

[beverley.healy3]

Hi – like Anahata – I seem to have posted on the other thread!  – so here is my second attempt!

My work celebrates the colour of life and the beauty that can be found there. I create detailed portraiture and imaginative pastels – they are very different, but both embrace the light and colour of life.

[Wanda K. Tyner]

Great words — if you want to shorten it —  you could use

My work celebrates the colour of life and the beauty that can be found there through detailed portraiture and imaginative pastels.

[beverley.healy3]

Thank you Wanda – Yes – I can see what you are saying. I posted an alternative just at the same time as you sent in your comment. I’m finding it quite difficult to marry my 2 diverse styles – but its really helping me think about my aims and their similarities!  B x

[beverley.healy3]

or maybe this one –

I paint intricate portraits that hold a gentle beauty and imaginative pastels that burst with colour and hope. I would say that beauty and hope are my goals.

[Wanda K. Tyner]

Beverley,

I think you could use the 1st sentence on its own.  I like the change you made – its a stronger statement/pitch and marries your 2 styles.

[beverley.healy3]

Thanks – I have been thinking this through a lot and picked this one for now!  Something about it feels v true to me but I am not sure if this comes across?

I believe in the healing power of art – I paint portraits and imaginative pastels to bring more beauty and hope into the world.

[Wanda K. Tyner]

I really like this sentence –

I make sculpture out of bronze that gives form to the local familiar or the spirit that energizes a place.

I think it stands alone and makes me want to know more, see your art…

[Wanda K. Tyner]

for Doug…

I really like this sentence –

I make sculpture out of bronze that gives form to the local familiar or the spirit that energizes a place.

I think it stands alone and makes me want to know more, see your art…

[Michal Tkachenko]

“My work is about making a reason to go to the town square or the park – a touch stone and a meeting place.”

That is enough to get me to ask more.

[sherrihayter]

First kick at the can….

My mixed media installations explore the evolution of human consciousness.

[Shaz – EcoAlt]

Ah, still too long and wordy, but this is the gist of it, so far!

I’m working on ‘unique, individually-personalised‘ – argh.     (‘Bespoke‘ is so overused.)

I work with ethically-sourced precious metals and stones,
creating unique, individually-personalised jewellery and sculptures,
evoking natural patterning, and sacred geometry,
within a framework of deep-ecological principles and practices.

 

Any suggestions very welcome!     Thanks!

[Ailsa]

Hello everyone. Sorry to be behind in posting my elevator pitch. You have all done a great job developing your unique statement and helping each other out. Here is what I have come up with. Open to comments, thanks.

I draw and paint on canvas and clay. I magnify intimate details from nature to reveal one’s awareness of our interconnectedness with the sacred web of life.

[Memet Burnett]

To Ailsa– a suggestion to shorten–

Working on canvas or in clay, I magnify intimate details from nature to reveal our interconnectedness with the sacred web of life.

[mijwallace]

Michal your statement is really concise and invites me to find out more.

regards

[Susan Havey]

Hi everyone,

This is my simple “Elevator Pitch”:

I paint mostly impressionistic landscapes on location, from life-usually in Oil.  This is known as Plein Air painting, which means to paint in the “open air”.

I put “mostly” in, because I also paint Still-lifes and Portraits, but not sure if there is a better way to say that.

Thank you for your input,

Susan Havey

[Memet Burnett]

To Susan Havey-

Susan, I would exclude the definition of “en plein air” (this can be explained in a follow-up discussion), and talk more about what motivates you to paint, what you are trying to capture, or why you are paint.

[Memet Burnett]

To Doug– if you wanted to go even more minimalist:

My sculptures in bronze give form to the spirits that energize a place.

[Memet Burnett]

I work in digital art and in clay to create bursts of colour and delight that radiate love.

 

 

 

[Rhonda]

Hello fellow artists!

Please find my “elevator pitch” below –
Thank you once again for your feedback,
Rhonda

My work involves printmaking, in which I work with intaglio, relief, seriography, lithography and papermaking processes. My work is multi-discipline where I use drawing, photography, collage, and painterly methods to create original prints using a press or pulling by hand. I may also incorporate my work into assemblage sculptures, such as artist books, ornaments and the like.

[Ilana]

Hi

Here is my new attempt for the elevator pitch:

My pencil drawings are about the aesthetic, ecological and emotional meaning of synthetic layers in our surrounding.

Thanks

Ilana

[sandrajordan]

Playing catch up now I’m back in the land of internet!!  Here’s my elevator pitch. Any feedback most welcome 🙂

I am a visual artist. Using the medium of photography I create minimalist visual meditations that allow the viewer a sensory escape from our hectic world.