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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Author: Lauren Panepinto
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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How to “Leave Room” for Type
Hello everyone! This month I’m shooting down a myth many illustrators have about...
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Should You Go To Art School: A Flow Chart
The question of whether someone should go to art school or not is a smaller conversation in the bigger “Is Higher Education Worth the Cost” debate raging everywhere (especially in the US). Student debt can be crippling to someone starting out in any field, but it is often extra hard to bear as an artist because most artists will not come out of school able to pull in enough money to support themselves solely off…
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Cultural Appropriation vs. Appreciation
I want to bring up a complicated issue here that has been coming up very often lately in my conversation with artists, and which I deal with often in my role as a creative director in publishing: What is cultural appropriation, and how does it affect what artists make? As media becomes more and more diverse, the question comes up: who has the right to tell which stories? Can an author write a character that…
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