Artist Strong Blog
Enjoy interviews and articles about creative process and our inherent creative spirit.5 Different Ways to Frame Your Art
It’s a time of celebration: you’ve been accepted into that group show you’ve always wanted to be part of, or maybe you even have the fortune of preparing for your first solo show! How do you prepare that work so it’s “gallery ready?” Is there a right or wrong way to...
How to Be an Artist Creator Profile: Anne Ruthmann
Today in our series How to Be an Artist, our Creator Profile features multi-passionate creative Anne Ruthmann. Her work focuses on photography but she’s also about to take a hiatus to travel the world! In this conversation we talk about: what finding voice and style...
How to Kick Creative Block to the Curb
I deeply want to create and I also don't want to create... Can you relate to this? “With this time off I figured I would be creating non stop. But when I get to my studio I feel blocked. It feels like a chore and I end up doing anything else. I deeply want to create...
Creator Profile: Gabriela Warrior Renaud
Today in our series How to Be an Artist, our Creator Profile features documentary filmmaker Gabriela (Gaby) Warrior Renaud. She’s currently working on a full-length documentary called Hyphen, all about the experience of being mixed race in Canada. In this...
Does a grid help or hurt your finished art?
The grid method is a strategy employed by artists to help them create stronger compositions, and capture realistic scenes on their paper or canvas. Some people call it cheating. Some don’t. Hi my name is Carrie and here on Artist Strong I help artists like you build...
Is there a right way to store your paints?
Hi my name is Carrie Brummer and here on Artist Strong I help artists like you build your skill and develop your unique artist voice. Today we’ve got another question from our community. Donna asks, “I have a question to ask which is sure to be addressed somewhere on...
Ideas List for Visual Artists
Do you ever struggle to come up with new ideas for your art? Hi my name is Carrie Brummer and I created Artist Strong to help people like you build your skill and develop your unique artist voice. Today I want to give you something in the spirit of community,...
What is your Artist Archetype?
This past year I’ve received overwhelming feedback that it’s hard (or sometimes confusing) to access the many resources Artist Strong has to offer. (I also constantly hear from mentors and people inside the group I have A LOT of free things going on for people.) It...
How to Be an Artist: Caryn Beaty
Caryn attended Massachusetts College of Art and Design where she received her BFA in Art Education, and has a Master’s Degree in Art Education from Boston University. She spent several years as an Art Teacher in Newton, Massachusetts and on the island of Nantucket...