An Eye for Beauty

It’s a fabulous career move to go from gracing the canvas to painting the canvas with grace. That’s what this week’s feature artist on the Affluent Artist, Wanakee Pugh, has done. Wanakee was a top fashion model in the eighties, and after stints as a hair care product mogul and preacher, she is now a [...]

“True to Your Core Values”

In my last post about motivation and education, I threw a line in that deserves its own post. “Ultimately, it’s about personal responsibility, having goals that are true to your core and determination.”
After a half a century on the planet, I’ve come to the conclusion that everything from diabetes to irregular heartbeats can be caused [...]

You Don’t Need Motivation, Do You?

Creative people are really, really interested in selling their work and being successful. The idea that someone like me is going to write a column and motivate you to be the Little Engine That Could is pretty silly on a lot of levels, isn’t it?
You had the motivation to create a unique and personal work [...]

What I Did For Love

It’s Friday, the day I usually spotlight an individual creative person here on the Affluent Artist Blog. This week, a twist; I’d like to celebrate the miracle that is creation itself. Like they said in Chorus Line: “What I Did For Love”. The juice that fuels us: inspiration.  I Sing the Body Electric.
I’ve had so [...]

What? You Don't Have a Blog?

I have been studying this stuff pretty closely for a few years now and I’ve come to this conclusion:
“It’s all about your blog.”
If you plan to do any business at all on the internet, your blog needs to be your business’s front door. In fact, I’m pretty convinced that almost ANY business needs to blog. [...]

The Ketchup Kountry Klub

Before I knew about Don Henderson, I wrote about him in The Affluent Artist. Actually, I wrote about artists who keep day jobs in the arts to pay the bills so they could pursue their own artistic ambitions “off the clock”. Keeping a job to pay the bills, keeping your day job, is a real [...]

The Loneliness Factor

Robert Genn,  a successful working artist, writes a remarkable  “Twice Weekly” newsletter. On Monday morning, his post hit me right between the eyes: “Are You Lonely This Morning?”.  Because, as it happened, I was.
Pulling work up from the inside puts you in a place where it is really easy to feel isolated from the rest [...]

Unmarried Couples

Yesterday’s news wire said that a gay couple was handcuffed after a kiss on the cheek in:
A. China
B. Saudi Arabia
C. The United States
D. Afghanistan
Click Here: The Answer: C  (Hint: I’s almost always C in multiple choice and of course, it was in Salt Lake City)
So todays blog is a little different because I’m going to give [...]

Ryan Seslow: Web 2.0 and the Modern Artist

We’ve been talking about Web 2.0 and how creatives can use the new tools of social networking to get the word out about their work and to meet interesting people along the way. One of the principals of the Affluent Artist is the concept of a new Renaissance; an idea that the new tools available [...]

Procrastination II

We’ve had a wonderful response to Monday morning’s post on Procrastination and I thought I’d share a few things to do to get out of “Stuck”. I wrote about my “vileness” of putting things off, and, as I discussed in my book, there are some things you can do to get going. As I mentioned, [...]

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