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  • Make Your Art No Matter What

  • Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles
  • By: Beth Pickens
  • Narrated by: Beth Pickens
  • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)
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Summary

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
©2021 Beth Pickens (P)2021 Chronicle Books

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amazing

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

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A must-have book for every creative

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.

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Not what I was expecting

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.

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Too self help-y. Very little art in it.

Started well, then became a repetition of all the coaching /self-help stuff we are all too familiar with. Adding "art" or a list of artistic jobs at the end of every second sentence doesn't make a book be about art. The self-promotion is also tiring.
One good part was the considerations for non-mainstream people and their challenges in art. But just a superficial mention of it, sadly.

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General Therapy & Self Help

A general therapy and self-help book with artist references shoehorned in throughout. Disappointed 😞

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