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4 Easy Ways To Use Personal Productivity to Guide Your Artistic Career

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Using personal productivity to guide your artistic career can be accomplished in 4 easy steps

As you scurry about trying to find the most productive path, take into consideration that there just may be a simple, organized path to reach your destination.

I know that your life is probably like mine, in that I have a family, belong to several organizations, love to garden, and travel as well as paint pictures of places I’ve been. The list goes on and on and makes the use of a personal productivity guide even more important.

For instance, I’m inspired to paint in several different mediums. Each medium needs a different set up. Oils are usually painted while standing at an easel, Watercolors can also be painted while standing but the paper should be lying on a flat surface. Pastels call for a totally different set up as they require a very smooth surface and much prepartion.

To promote your personal productivity, arrange your studio to accomodate each medium you want to be creative in. Always having the right supplies at the right table greatly increases your productivity.

Another helpful way to increase your personal productivity is to have an overflow space

. An extra room with shelves that are organized is a great help. This serves you well in that when there is time to be creative, the supplies are ready.

You may have the idea that artists with few personal productivity goals paint pictures as beautiful as the artists that are truly structured and productive. This would be a correct assumption but having these guidelines will benefit you in the following ways…

keys to personal productivity

Keys to personal productivity


*No more rushing here and there finding supplies when you only have a short period of time to create.

*Know in advance additional supplies are needed.

*No more missed club meetings because the date was forgotten.

*A neat work space = greater creativity.

Create special personal productivity goals to benefit your artistc career

When traveling about in your car listen to information that motivates and inspires. In the studio listen to music as you create. One suggestion is that you make your own personal productivity MP3 to reinforce goals you’ve set and new ones recently added. There are many free teleseminar sites that record as an MP3. Making your productivity guide easy to listen to wherever you are.

Being organized begins by making a schedule of the artistic items that need to be done and set a deadline for each of these goals. You’ve learned the importance of knowing where your materials are and a good idea of how long it will take to complete this project.

Successful artists have good time management skills to use along with their personal productivity guide. Think of the opposite of using your guide and it will be easy to see that your artistic career seems to stall. Not having a productivity plan may slow you down so much that your goals seem to be just beyond reach.

Taking the time to work through these suggestions, gives the basic principles of your personal productivity guide.

To help you on your artistic journey I’ve recorded a MP3 which can be downloaded from the upper right corner of this post. I invite you to leave your name and email address, download and listen as you learn more about your personal productivity guide.

Another post that will be a beneficial guide to your artistic career is bit.ly/vq7tjz
Read it and let me know how these posts have benefited you.

Ellene
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Learn to Set Artistic Goals for Personal Improvement

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Part of life is making changes and setting artistic goals.

That is how you grow and become the artist you have always dreamed of being. However, it does not have to be a dream any longer. Learn to set artistic goals that will bring the achievements you want from life.

It is easy to become caught up in your dreams. Just thinking of the possible outcomes can lead to unrealistic avenues for achieving those intentions. While a bit of wild dreaming is expected and can motivate you to continue to pursue your dreams, they can also bring about disappointment, depression and discarded goals if you are not careful.

Road to...Artistic Goals

Road to...Artistic Goals

Here are some practical steps for achieving your artistic goals.

Who is your target market? – Many artists fail at determining a clear destination for their artistic goals, because there is no mental picture of who your targeted market really is.The goal is yours alone so be honest with yourself. A common goal is to paint and show your work more, but this is too general to be an artistic goal. Instead, define what you actually want: I want to exhibit in 6 shows and paint 2 pictures a month in 2012. This is an achievable and measurable artistic goal.

Set short and long-term milestones for your artistic goals – The purpose of milestones is not only motivation but also a sensible breakdown of a larger overwhelming goal into a smaller manageable one. Start from the end and work backwards, the next step is to develop weekly goals. Working backwards helps you achieve your goals by seeing the big picture first.

Small artistic goals are seen as doable and you are less likely to become discouraged.

Expect setbacks –. To expect that you will not experience any disappointment during your journey is unrealistic. Determine how you will handle interruptions, unexpected events and low creativity, before they come to take a bite out of your productivity.

Have confidence in your dream – It would be nice if everyone could be happy for you but that again is unrealistic. Each person has their own dreams and may not understand the time and energy needed for you to experience your goal.

This person may not have the time or energy to be fully into your dream. That is okay. The one who needs to be going full tilt about your dream is you.

Reevaluate your intention – It is okay and often necessary to stop and reevaluate your intentions. About once a month is a good time to stop and determine if this goal is still valid to you? Has your goal changed? When situations in life change, your overall goal may not change but your steps to achieve it will probably need adjusting. Should this be true find a new course to reach the same destination. Artistic goals are yours to do with as you wish. There is no obligation to stick to one if your heart is no longer in it. Step back and take a moment to reevaluate where you to spend your passion.

I invite you to enter your name and email in the box in the right corner of this post and listen as I talk with you about your goals. I’ve also included a link to a post that will encourage you in setting your artistic goals, http://www.valleofyellowcreekartstudioblog.com/how-to-make-artistic-goals-and-accomplishing-them-a-top-priority please check it out.

Ellene
Ellene Breedlove

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Mixing Greens For Watercolor Landscape Paintings

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In my art library, I have a book “Blue and Green Don’t Make Yellow” written by Michael Wilcox, this is my reference for mixing greens.

mixing greens

mixing greens


Mixing greens for watercolor landscape paintings is fun and exciting,

and if you have been following along in our color study, you know by now how important the color of green is. It’s not always easy to combine the right colors to make the perfect shade of green we need. Exciting because in nature there are so many different greens and to make

our watercolor landscape paintings look somewhat real, we must learn to mix greens.

The focus in this post is mixing greens on your palette and watercolor paper to create a perfect color for your painting.

My students know that I like to chart colors used in a painting. I recommend that you do the same and I’m including colors to make green. To achieve the best results from this post, please take a sheet of watercolor paper and lay out the following colors…

Lemon Yellow
Sap Green
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cerulean Blue
Thalo Blue
Thalo Green

All these pigments when mixed together give a different shade of green. For example
Lemon Yellow leans toward green and Sap Green leans toward yellow, so when you mix these two colors you have a beautiful green.

Cadmiun Yellow Light, an orange-yellow mixes with Cerulean Blue, a green-blue of mid-intensity is created. This color is neither bright or dull.

Lemon Yellow and Thalo Blue mix to a range of clear, very bright greens. These colors create a semi-transparent yellow green to a very transparent blue green.

Thalo Green and Lemon Yellow mixes to a very strong intensity.

As you use these pigments and paint them on your watercolor paper, you will be so excited to see the beautiful colors these colors create when glazed one color over the other.

How are these colors used once they are mixed? By using an Analogous color scheme. Take the color wheel and begin with the yellow block, go right and include at least the 3 colors beside yellow, which are Yellow-Green, Green, and Blue-Green.

As you go around the color wheel find other colors that can be used in a painting in the same way. Continue turning and look for harmonious color blocks that could be used to describe your feelings as the picture is painted. Using this method of mixing greens for your painting will give a harmonious color scheme.

A word of caution, when mixing greens,

go slowly, if too many colors are introduced they begin to over take the compliments in your paintings.

Mixing greens from your own palette brings a sparkle to your work and speaks volumes about you as an artist.

Ellene
Ellene Breedlove Davis

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http://Twitter.com/ElleneBDavis
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yellowcreekart@gmail.com

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