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Cheryl Johnson-Managing Creativity

Cheryl Johnson is a Fine Art—Abstract Expressionist painter. She has been gifted with renowned artistic talent. Johnson primarily works in oil and mixed media. Her work has transitioned from being a noted portrait and realist painter to her current Abstract focus. She is also an accomplished sculptor and photographer. Her work is exhibited in corporations, galleries and personal collections across America, Canada, and Europe.

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Building Blog Traffic and Selling Art



Tell me: Where do you go to learn about a particular idea or problem you have?



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If you are like me-- bet you first find out what the experts on the topic have to say about it.  I am no expert. Well maybe I am. I used to be an IBM Maven-website manager and managed over 25 sites for IBM Talent Organization.

So what did I learn.  Being creative for yourself is alot more fun. 
So now I want to sell my art. So what should I and YOU DO?

  • Create, Create, Create- Build something to sell:
  • Generate awareness of your site,
  • Create more art,
  • Drive relevant traffic that have iterests like you do but also,
  • Position your art and paintings and any product in a highly favorable light.
FACT: We humans have a shorter attention span than an oversexed guppie or a goldfish.

I day dream and drift. I guess we can concentrate on web content only for about 8 seconds or so. 
In comparison, a oversexed guppie focuses longer and a goldfish’s attention span is probably a second longer.

I have read that: "There’s no better way to drive traffic, or get people to come and build your art or painting products awareness and connect with potential buyers online than by guest posting on popular and reputable blogs your audience frequents. So I have not idea how to do that. Maybe go look at other artists who would welcome your comments or thoughts and leave a comment or even sent them an email asking them to write an article on your site and hope they in turn ask you. Just an idea!

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http://cheryljohnson.co/
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Owning art is better than money in the bank


For centuries, all over the world you will find people of means who have acquired fine art and other collectibles. 

 Who buys art?  Sometimes the buyer is impulsively making a purchase of a painting or sculpture after falling in love with it. Other times the art purchase is a major acquisition and is quite deliberate following an extensive search for the perfect piece to compliment a carefully constructed collection. 

 Art can be for personal or business use. Increasingly, fine art is viewed by many as an alternative asset class for investment purposes. Though generally considered not really an illiquid asset, art and collectibles may provide portfolio diversification and, under certain economic conditions, may have the potential to outperform equities and other investments.  





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Make Money in Art

"Your work is really important. Even the smallest job has such a definite place it might be likened to a piece in a jigsaw puzzle; the puzzle would not be complete without it." --Francis J. Gable

I guess at 68 I have found that there is no formula for making money as an artist.  First, you have to love it and you need to be creating because it is your passion.

If you can find and outlet to sell, well all the better.  

But do not stop creating.  

I have heard artists say. "When you say that you enjoy the process of thinking about, creating in your mind and then making art, you have hit the nail on the head. Art is a journey. There are some successful artists who still do not call themselves artists. However, they enjoy the process of making art which makes them unique no matter what others think. 

Keep trying, Keep learning. Keep going. Art is a form of communication. You've got to have something to say >> content.  Too much emphasis on the $$$ign too soon is going to get in the way of the core relationship between you and your art.  

Another way to look at is that in art it's better to do what you believe in and then find your audience, instead of taking a survey and then delivering the product you think your audience wants.  

The online art scene is a vast like a universe of creativity. Everywhere you look you will find beauty and boldness. There are many many companies or sites on the net for  illustrators, painters and artists of all kinds. Everyone has different tastes. So search until you find a platform to create an online portfolio that fits you. 





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Forer effect

Forer effect


 Time passes and we grow and learn and continue to be ourselves. I pray my best self.  For the past month while caring for my partner who clings desparetely to life. During this time I have stolen moments to paint.  A dragonfly landed on my work. One of her wings was caught in the varnish. She somehow managed to keep flying, but left her wing to remind me. Keep flying no matter what.

 Work in progress: 
This article is from: http://skepdic.com/forer.html

The Forer effect refers to the tendency of people to rate sets of statements as highly accurate for them personally even though the statements could apply to many people.
Psychologist Bertram R. Forer (1914-2000) found that people tend to accept vague and general personality descriptions as uniquely applicable to themselves without realizing that the same description could be applied to just about anyone. Consider the following as if it were given to you as an evaluation of your personality.
You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself. While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for them. You have considerable unused capacity that you have not turned to your advantage. Disciplined and self-controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You also pride yourself as an independent thinker; and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof. But you have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, and reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be rather unrealistic.






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Forer gave a personality test to his students, ignored their answers, and gave each student the above evaluation. He asked them to evaluate the evaluation from 0 to 5, with "5" meaning the recipient felt the evaluation was an "excellent" assessment and "4" meaning the assessment was "good." The class average evaluation was 4.26. That was in 1948. The test has been repeated hundreds of time with psychology students and the average is still around 4.2 out of 5, or 84% accurate.

In short, Forer convinced people he could successfully read their character. His accuracy amazed his subjects, though his personality analysis was taken from a newsstand astrology column and was presented to people without regard to their sun sign. The Forer effect seems to explain, in part at least, why so many people think that pseudosciences "work". Astrology, astrotherapy, biorhythms, cartomancy, chiromancy, the enneagram, fortune telling, graphology, rumpology, etc., seem to work because they seem to provide accurate personality analyses. Scientific studies of these pseudosciences demonstrate that they are not valid personality assessment tools, yet each has many satisfied customers who are convinced they are accurate.
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From tai ho's blog lessons from a painter

Here are four key lessons I learned from  Lim Tze Peng.  http://woontaiho.blogspot.com



Lesson 1: Value the kind and generous – In the early years, Tze Peng, a self-taught artist, took part in group exhibitions to ride on better-known names.  In one show, organised by the famed artist Lee Man Fong, he didn’t sell any works.  One the last day, Man Fong told him one of his paintings had sold and gave him $300.  “It was a lot of money at that time and God knows I needed it.”  A year later, he visited Man Fong’s home and saw his painting there.  He paused and looked up at me.  “Lee Man Fong is a good man,” was all he said.

Lesson 2: Believe in yourself – Tze Peng once reluctantly submitted a painting he had done on a trip to Bali as one of 20 local works Singapore would be sending for a competition in England.  The Singapore authorities rejected it.  They found it “neither Eastern nor Western”; it did not conform to any artistic tradition.  Well known artist Cheong Soo Pieng fought hard for it to be included, asking the authorities to give the new artist a chance.  The piece eventually made its way to England together with the other paintings.  One morning about three weeks later, a doctor friend of Tze Peng called.  He said he had heard on the BBC the night before that a Singaporean artist who painted Bali had won a special prize in England.  Tze Peng rushed to the nearest newspaper stand, and there it was, a small article with his name wrongly translated.  But there was no mistaking it, Lim Tze Peng had won his first international award.  “They did not know who I was, did not care if it was Eastern or Western.  They saw my talent…what has not been accepted as tradition, what was considered neither East nor West, is now my hallmark.”

Lesson 3: Be true to yourself – Commissioned by a Japanese collector to do a painting of a plum – for a considerable fee – Tze Peng tried and tried but was not satisfied with the results and gave up in the end.  He passed the job on to an artist friend who did the work and got the money.  “He bought me coffee.  He was happy and so was I.  I will not sell something that I think is not good.”

Lesson 4: Perseverance will be rewarded – A painter all his life, Tze Peng won recognition only in his 70s and was conferred the Cultural Medallion, the highest artistic honour, at 83.  But he was not bitter.  Two years ago, he became the first Singaporean artist to exhibit his works at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, his life-long dream.
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Stream of conscious thought

Life sometimes get so busy that we forget to take time to breath. Then our bodies remind us that we are tired because you begin hurting somewhere. Usually it is a backache or a headache. Often you are Today I am so tired I have trouble moving easily. It is time to take a break, go for a walk or the beach.

Ah, better now. breathing.
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I think of myself as a an artist- painter, sculpture, photographer.

I long for feelings to be creative. When I begin creating my tension dissipates. The process is often labour intensive, however, I do want labour to be invisible. I want my work to have emotional intelligence and become visual poetry.  All of life is like playing with building blocks, adding, stacking, removing, sometimes falling, then building higher and higher...random shapes become forms and objects. Geometric melts into curves. As a visual artist I communicate through the materials I choose.