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Make Your Art No Matter What

Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles

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By: Beth Pickens
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 The Artist's Way for the 21st century—from esteemed creative counselor Beth Pickens.

If you are an artist, you need to make your art. That's not an overstatement—it's a fact; if you stop doing your creative work, your quality of life is diminished. But what do you do when life gets in the way? In this down-to-earth handbook, experienced artist coach Beth Pickens offers practical advice for developing a lasting and meaningful artistic practice in the face of life's inevitable obstacles and distractions. This thoughtful volume suggests creative ways to address the challenges all artists must overcome—from making decisions about time, money, and education, to grappling with isolation, fear, and anxiety. No matter where you are in your art-making journey, this book will motivate and inspire you. Because not only do you need your art—the world needs it, too.

• EXPERT ADVICE: Beth Pickens is an experienced and passionate arts advocate with extensive insight into working through creative obstacles. She has spent the last decade advising artists on everything from financial strategy to coping with grief.
• PRACTICAL AND POSITIVE: This book is both a love letter to art and artists and a hands-on guide to approaching the thorniest problems those artists might face. Pickens offers a warm reminder that you are not alone, that what you do matters, and that someone out there wants you to succeed.
• TIMELESS TOPIC: Like a trusted advisor, this book is an invaluable resource jam-packed with strategies for building a successful creative practice. From mixing business and friendship to marketing yourself on social media, this book can help. And it will—again and again.

Perfect for:

• Visual artists and makers
• Writers, musicians, filmmakers, and other creatives
• Art and design school graduates and grad-gift givers Art Creativity Personal Development Celebrity Art Motivation
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My finding and reading this book couldn't have been more well timed. I've been struggling to create/write, of late, for various reasons that are also been explored in the book. Pickens' counsel is exactly what I needed. I highly recommend the book to any artist, who needs some support.

A must-have book for every creative

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one of the best books for artists and people in creative industry - must read

amazing

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I loved it because it gave me so much encouragement to make art no matter what is going on in my life.

loved it

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If felt a bit to wish washy self-help.
There were some parts that I found interesting and it's worth a listen for the goods bits.

I'm not sure what I was expecting or hoping for bit this didn't leave me feeling like I'd got it.

Not what I was expecting

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I wish someone had mentioned the intended audience before I bought this book as I don’t fit into any of the categories of people that, as the author makes clear throughout, are her demographic. The book is specifically targeted at women artists, LGBTQ+ artists, black artists, and artists from minority ethnic or religious backgrounds.

Though the book contains some great information and ideas that would be helpful to artists of all backgrounds and identities the author makes it plain from the start that, unless you are in her target audience, you are the problem and the dominant reason that her preferred readers are held back from ‘making it’ in the art world. I do totally agree that these groups of artists have historically been (and to a significant extent still are) underrepresented in and discriminated against by the mainstream art world and this must stop but by the happenstance of my own birth and background I felt consistently pushed away from the book and purposefully alienated by the author.

Anyway, as I mentioned earlier, this book contains lots of useful ideas if you happen to be part of the authors intended congregation. I just wish this had been made more clear in the audible description.

Lots of good ideas but certainly not aimed at everyone

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