What Good is Art?
2020 is shaping up to be the most difficult year the world has seen in a long time. And what...
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Author: Lauren Panepinto
Pandemic Productivity
Last month, I was not ready to talk about the pandemic and quarantine, except to offer artistic...
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Jodorowsky’s Dune & Memory: The Origin of Alien
I’ve been in quarantine for 41 days now, which means I just beat Noah’s biblical quarantine, and I really wanted to write something deep, and meaningful, and about our collective mental health as artists. But I have to be honest with you, I am burnt out right now. Luckily SFF publishing is doing quite well right now with everyone in quarantine — and I am thrilled to be sending out work steadily to artists through…
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Art Business in Crisis Times
Muddy Colors is not just a blog, it’s a community, and it’s been wonderful to see how...
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How Does an Art Director Pick an Artist?
As an Art Director, I get a lot of questions about why certain artists get hired over others....
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5 years of Dear Art Director
As some of you may know from previous posts, I feel very strongly about art education —...
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You Can’t Hit What you Don’t Aim At
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Have you slept off the food comas, hangovers, and tense family...
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Dealing with Color Blindness as an Artist
This month I have two guests, Paul Canavan & Ben Zweifel, talking about how being color blind...
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Raising an Artist: Art School Admissions
Very frequently I get asked for advice from artists and non-artists who are parents of children...
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World Mental Health Day
Since my column this month falls on World Mental Health Day this year, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to address it. As you know if you’ve been reading my columns, I’ve been doing a lot of research into how mental health affects an artist’s ability to create — a topic I always knew was critical to our community, but didn’t quite know how critical until we opened up the Dear Art Director website. Easily…
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Results of the Artist Income and Goals Survey 2019
If you saw my column from last month, you’ll remember I started a quick poll on twitter that ended up expanded into a larger more in-depth survey, focused on not only how artists are making their money, but also a bit about what their goals are. I’m back, a month later, to report in on the data we collected. Now before we dive in, let’s remember a few caveats: 1 — This survey is…
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Artist Income and Goals Survey 2019
As you know from all my posts about Art Business and Art Careers and all my work with Drawn +...
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Productive Procrastination
Some months I know exactly what I want to write for Muddy Colors. I’ve written notes down,...
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The Big Picture of Copyrights and Trademarks
Here on Muddy Colors, we’ve talked about copyright a few times, but I wanted to bring it up...
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Mental Illness and Artists
There is a myth that pervades the art world that I think is very harmful and would like to address...
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