Art Lessons From God

3 Questions that Reveal the Awful, Ugly Truth About You

tsnipes — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:58:14 +0000

Sometimes the truth can be UGLY…that’s why we don’t confront it. Julia Cameron is the author of an interesting book some of you may be familiar with called “The Artist’s Way”. Now, I don’t necessarily agree with everything in the book, but what I do like about it is that it is filled with hands-on exercises that allow the artist to confront real issues and hindrances to your creativity. I want to challenge you to do a version of one of those exercises. It is designed for you to pause for a ...

Project of the Week: by Charlene Rice

tsnipes — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:05:29 +0000

Artist/entrepreneur Charlene Rice does it again with her latest series: “Project of the Week”. Charlene does her version of a how-to video, demonstrating the project as well as selling the “kit” that makes the project happen. What I like about what she’s doing here is the following: Charlene has expanded her core artistic gift and uses multimedia to reach others (artists and non-artists alike). Charlene has put the notion of the “starving artist” to shame and has tastefully created yet another revenue stream that also blesses those that it serves. Not only can the viewer ...

Is Contemporary Christian Art Second Rate?

tsnipes — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:44:11 +0000

I’ve recently been reading “Imagine- A Vision for Christians in the Arts”; a book that many of you may be familiar with by Steve Turner. Steve comes out of the gates with a concept that unfortunately is not uncommon: that a lot of Christian contemporary art is of poor quality, yet a great deal of art created by non-Christians is of good quality. His point is that many Christian artists use their redemptive experience as the sole driver in their artistic expression, forsaking basics like training, exploring creative culture and ...

4 Tools You Can’t Neglect From Our New TOOL KIT

tsnipes — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:45:54 +0000

Many of you have expressed a need for an easy website solution, or you want to professionally publish your comic, graphic novel, poster or print. We’ve just launched our new TOOL KIT PAGE so that you can have access to the same easy tools that we’ved used to make ArtLessonsFromGod.com successful. Here are a few recommended resources from the new TOOL KIT PAGE that we’ve used and have recommended to others. We thought it would make sense to gather these key resources in one place for you to consider: NEED AN INSTANT WEBSITE/ ...

Why Do Many Artists Still Go Without a Website?

tsnipes — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:43:43 +0000

From my post 5 Mistakes Many Artists Make, I always harp on the fact that visual artists hurt themselves by their lack of having a website that showcases their work and their background as an artist. I would leave the issue alone, but the irony that I see is that many of these same artists use the internet a great deal every day, visiting social networks, email and websites but still have no site of their own. These artists have admitted their need for a website, want to eventually have one, and ...