Fiona I love watching your videos. I am an art teacher and sculptor that got sidetracked by life. It’s so refreshing to follow you and get a peek back into “my” world. In this video you mentioned other artists you follow. Could you give us a video listing or talking about artists you follow?
Aw I’m so glad you enjoy watching :) List of some artists channels I enjoy on here: - Katnipp - Sad Shrimps - Leigh Ellexson - Furry Little Peach - Annabelle Gao - Sandi Hester - Cheyenne Barton - Katie Mai - Uncomfy - Florian Gadsby - Jamie Griffin - From tree to sea - Monica Raznak - Paloma the peach - Apple Cheeks - Tiffany Weng Hope this helps :)
I name 7: Malcolm Dewey Ian Roberts Art School Life Christina Kent Art Phil Stark Bokeh Bushido Koosje Koene Hope someone else can join with there top 7 ?
This one is definitely a winner. Thank you! I'm off to clean up my studio as we are resetting the house for a more calm & easy to maneuver 2025 (where we can help it atleast!).
I love documentaries. Recently, I have been watching some videos about John Singer Sargent and that has inspired me to take a new direction with my work. Thank you for inspiring us, Fiona. If people only created for money, much of that work would not be in museums.
Sounds like you’ve had a similar experience to me watching Gerhard Richter. :) That’s awesome! Also, you are right about the museums!! Thanks for watching :)
2:20 Yes! The same is true for writers of all skill levels: If you write, you are a writer. If you write a novel, you are a novelist, even if you never share or publish it! Write poems? You're a poet! Publishing and selling your work is something completely different. You can be an artist AND a business owner, but you don't have to be one to be the other. ❤😍
Love this message! Just started my own YT channel (just now working on my 3rd video, lol), and I can already see how easy it could be for my own work to get lost, since I'm focusing on newbies & those that are just getting their feet wet. So, unlike my IG, I'm not even really focusing on my own work yet. So this is just what I needed. ❤
Welcome to the UA-cam community :) It is time consuming, but oh so fun! Please do continue making your own work as well! I’m glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching!
@@FionaCArt Thank you so much! Btw, I think I met you when you were exhibiting several years ago at The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn. I think it was like one of the 1st things I crawled out of my house to do once the pandemic started to let up. That's how I knew to look for you on YT. Love your work - - it's so joyful!
@@DaraHerring Oh that's awesome! :) Hopefully we will see each other at a future fair! Thanks for finding me after these years and remembering my work :)
Exactly the talk I needed! I was also thinking about throwing it all away. Maybe I'll do a deep clean and inventory first! 😆 Love your videos, and your beautiful art. Happy 2025!
You just made me clean my house. 😂😂😂😂 seriously though. Thank you for the pep talk we all didn’t know (or maybe we did?) we needed! I love you girl! ❤❤❤
Omg Fiona I finally get a notification about you, I haven’t seen you in a long time. Anyways, being an artist is a profession and being an entrepreneur is a different profession so, don’t bit yourself down is all about learning how to do biz. 💎🙏🏼
Hey there! Thanks for finding your way back here :) Absolutely there’s being an artist and being a professional artist! And then an entrepreneur! It’s all a learning process :) We also shouldn’t box ourselves in over labels. We should pursue what makes us happiest in this life :)
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What a beautiful story about collaborating with your mother
Thank you for your pep talk today. I live in a small town and I have sold several pcs of art but I feel like I can't keep creating if I'm not selling. I need to refocus and decide what's next for me.
Fiona, I LOVE THIS VIDEO! Every week I look forward too especially now that I am on vacation! This is a great video, chat and overall topic. I make art and sold a "small" piece a couple years ago. I actually give away a lot of my experiments and people really like them! I do not make art to sell exclusively but it makes me happy and in the flow! I actually took a short cut to my art journey which is very unique after my mom passed in 2021, I notice I heal through art and I keep going with it! I also started as an art-history person but I had to take 2 studio classes which I feel in love with oil painting and watercolors(which I paint daily with this medium).
Thank you for looking forward to my videos - especially on vacation! I appreciate being a part of your precious time :) I love how you found yourself healing through art and it helped you during a difficult time. Amazing you stuck with it afterwards too!! Oil painting and watercolor are very tough mediums to learn, so I commend you for trying those out :) I hope 2025 is filled with much more art for you! Big hugs, Maria!!
Thank you for this video! I always hesitate to refer to myself as an artist since I have no desire to sell what I make and generally just noodle around and experiment in sketchbooks. I am thinking of approaching a local arts centre about hosting a sketchbook project similar to the one you participated in last summer. I really think it would be well received in my community which is full of artists.
You are definitely an artist :) And that sounds amazing about the sketchbook project! I think that would be a great fit for your community! Let us know how it goes and let’s make 2025 an art filled year! Stay well and stay inspired as always, Kathy ❤
i got out of drawing for so long, that now i am no longer as good as i was. so its harder to see my vision. i consider myself to be an artist. but pretty much all the art comes out opposite from what is in my head. i never really learned fundamentals. i just always had a certain way of drawing and was good. Now none of that is true really. Things just dont magically flow and somehow be correct. So i am stuck at the beginning i think. and also questioning if i am an artist because my vision won't come out.
If you are making then you are an artist :) A lot of the time I also have an initial vision, but the work goes where it wants to. Sometimes to amazing unexpected results, but also a lot of the time it doesn’t amount to much lol But hey it’s a part of the creative process: make lots of bad art to make any good art! In regard to technique, that can always be learned but takes practice. You got this!
I'm getting ready to go pro. I'm relishing every second of this time of being non professional. From what I've gathered from artist videos, I'll never get this time back.
That’s true! Things were different before I went pro. But with that said, there’s no greater fulfillment and I wouldn’t trade it back :) You’ll enjoy both phases, friend! Best of luck - you got this!
Great tips! I hope I can find a new friend like you as I've moved to a new town recently. Thinking of starting a meet up for casual art making at my house so I can meet other artists. New subscriber!
EU here sometimes see videos by Contemporary Art Issue belgian he explains very good about how many artists and art there is and about buyers, selling etc. Another EU videos is Dries Ketels he has more informal advice about selling art in alternative modern ways. UK JacksonsArt competition last year 2024 was more than 13000 entries in 2023 was over 8000 entries. Everybody can participate but I noticed it is established artists with a studio that win been following the competition since it first started. Where I live is over a million hobby painters. Many just gift their paintings etc.
Is an Artist and a Creative the same thing? I make art everyday as a practice of being creative. I have no desire to sell. I only make it for creating and getting others involved in the process of reconnecting with themselves and creating too. For me an Artist is a person who is dedicated to their craft, getting better at that medium every single day. Honing it to that 10K hours in Mastery. Often on just one thing or one simple idea done over and over and over again. For me a Creative, is a person who looks for multiple vehicles to express themselves. Maybe it's art, and in that medium it's many things. Or maybe cooking, gardening, problem solving in their business or even organizing may be the creative process. All these are creative acts, that have some artistic flair about them and that person may even be an ARTIST. Though for me at the core, an Artist is that person who has 10K hours in mastery. It can be in any field and that person I consider an Artist/Master in their craft. I would love to hear your feedback and what your thoughts are. I always appreciate expansive conversations. Great video BTW, going to share this with some folks who I know are Artist's. I know that because their whole livelihood is based on what they create. That too for me is a solid artist. Thanks for a brilliant intelligent and very cogent delivery. I always appreciate great insight and perspective.🧡✨🧡
Hey there! Wow - thank you for the amazingly thoughtful comment and for watching/sharing the video. It’s really appreciated. I think of being an artist and being a creative as the same thing. I do agree that referring to oneself as creative can be a bit more expansive, like your example of problem solving in business. I would refer to the person who is mastering a particular medium as a “craftsman” perhaps or maybe just by the particular medium, like “an illustrator” or “potter”. For me as an artist, I focus on painting, ceramics and public art as all a part of my art practice. I know plenty of multidisciplinary artists who use several mediums. But as you mentioned, I could use the artist label per your definition because it’s often one simple idea done over and over (bright, bold, colorful abstracts in my case). With that said, I don’t think anyone has to fit themself into anyone else’s label and definition of things. If you believe artist’s are only artist’s if they make a living off of it then that is totally fine! Personally, I think you can be an artist who makes things without having to sell those things. But if you want to be a “professional artist” or as I say in the video, “have an art business” then selling is a piece of that. Thank you again for taking the time to share your thoughts and opinions :) Wishing you an art filled 2025!
@@FionaCArt Expansive conversations are always enlightening. I agree, we don't need labels, just more ART!!😉🧡✨🧡 Wishing you more growth and new ways for expression in 2025!
I work on top of old work a lot and have revisited old paintings it is interesting to see your progression and update an old piece, love your coil vessels. Interesting video Pinterest is great for inspiration and cleaning art room. Let's see if I can create something new today.
@JanineHyslop that’s great! Working on top of old work is fun :) Thank you for the sweet comment about my coil vessels! Pinterest is wonderful!! Hope you made something new today :)
Fiona I love watching your videos. I am an art teacher and sculptor that got sidetracked by life. It’s so refreshing to follow you and get a peek back into “my” world. In this video you mentioned other artists you follow. Could you give us a video listing or talking about artists you follow?
Aw I’m so glad you enjoy watching :) List of some artists channels I enjoy on here:
- Katnipp
- Sad Shrimps
- Leigh Ellexson
- Furry Little Peach
- Annabelle Gao
- Sandi Hester
- Cheyenne Barton
- Katie Mai
- Uncomfy
- Florian Gadsby
- Jamie Griffin
- From tree to sea
- Monica Raznak
- Paloma the peach
- Apple Cheeks
- Tiffany Weng
Hope this helps :)
I name 7:
Malcolm Dewey
Ian Roberts
Art School Life
Christina Kent Art
Phil Stark
Bokeh Bushido
Koosje Koene
Hope someone else can join with there top 7 ?
Thank you for sharing your favs :)
@@FionaCArt these are fantastic. I’m off to stalk them!
@barbibarnum 🥰🥰🥰🎉🎉🎉
This one is definitely a winner. Thank you! I'm off to clean up my studio as we are resetting the house for a more calm & easy to maneuver 2025 (where we can help it atleast!).
Amazing 🤩 hope the reset helps you in all the ways you want and need :) Thank you so much for watching and I wish you a very art filled 2025!!
The vessels you made are so beautiful. It’s nice that you can collaborate with your mom ❤
Aw thanks 🥰🥰🥰
I love documentaries. Recently, I have been watching some videos about John Singer Sargent and that has inspired me to take a new direction with my work.
Thank you for inspiring us, Fiona. If people only created for money, much of that work would not be in museums.
Sounds like you’ve had a similar experience to me watching Gerhard Richter. :) That’s awesome! Also, you are right about the museums!! Thanks for watching :)
@ I love Gerard Richter too! ❤️
Thank you for the awesome inspiration! ❤
Thank you for watching, Nanette :) Let’s make it an art filled 2025!
@ cheers to making it an art filled 2025! 🥰
2:20 Yes! The same is true for writers of all skill levels: If you write, you are a writer. If you write a novel, you are a novelist, even if you never share or publish it! Write poems? You're a poet! Publishing and selling your work is something completely different. You can be an artist AND a business owner, but you don't have to be one to be the other. ❤😍
Absolutely! Thank you for watching and reaffirming my thoughts
Love this message! Just started my own YT channel (just now working on my 3rd video, lol), and I can already see how easy it could be for my own work to get lost, since I'm focusing on newbies & those that are just getting their feet wet. So, unlike my IG, I'm not even really focusing on my own work yet. So this is just what I needed. ❤
Welcome to the UA-cam community :) It is time consuming, but oh so fun! Please do continue making your own work as well! I’m glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching!
@@FionaCArt Thank you so much! Btw, I think I met you when you were exhibiting several years ago at The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn. I think it was like one of the 1st things I crawled out of my house to do once the pandemic started to let up. That's how I knew to look for you on YT. Love your work - - it's so joyful!
@@DaraHerring Oh that's awesome! :) Hopefully we will see each other at a future fair! Thanks for finding me after these years and remembering my work :)
Exactly the talk I needed! I was also thinking about throwing it all away. Maybe I'll do a deep clean and inventory first! 😆
Love your videos, and your beautiful art. Happy 2025!
Please keep at it, darling :) Happy 2025!
You just made me clean my house. 😂😂😂😂 seriously though. Thank you for the pep talk we all didn’t know (or maybe we did?) we needed! I love you girl! ❤❤❤
That’s a good first step towards creative time :) Thanks for watching friend! Love ya!
Omg Fiona I finally get a notification about you, I haven’t seen you in a long time.
Anyways, being an artist is a profession and being an entrepreneur is a different profession so, don’t bit yourself down is all about learning how to do biz. 💎🙏🏼
Hey there! Thanks for finding your way back here :) Absolutely there’s being an artist and being a professional artist! And then an entrepreneur! It’s all a learning process :) We also shouldn’t box ourselves in over labels. We should pursue what makes us happiest in this life :)
What a beautiful story about collaborating with your mother
Aw thank you ☺️ It’s really special to collaborate with her - she’s the best!
So true. Thank you for your perspective.
Thank you for taking the time to watch :)
Exactly!!! Thank you for communicating this!
Thank you for watching :)
Thank you for your pep talk today. I live in a small town and I have sold several pcs of art but I feel like I can't keep creating if I'm not selling. I need to refocus and decide what's next for me.
Of course - thank you for watching ❤️ I wish you luck on your artistic journey!
Fiona, I LOVE THIS VIDEO! Every week I look forward too especially now that I am on vacation! This is a great video, chat and overall topic. I make art and sold a "small" piece a couple years ago. I actually give away a lot of my experiments and people really like them! I do not make art to sell exclusively but it makes me happy and in the flow! I actually took a short cut to my art journey which is very unique after my mom passed in 2021, I notice I heal through art and I keep going with it! I also started as an art-history person but I had to take 2 studio classes which I feel in love with oil painting and watercolors(which I paint daily with this medium).
Thank you for looking forward to my videos - especially on vacation! I appreciate being a part of your precious time :) I love how you found yourself healing through art and it helped you during a difficult time. Amazing you stuck with it afterwards too!! Oil painting and watercolor are very tough mediums to learn, so I commend you for trying those out :) I hope 2025 is filled with much more art for you! Big hugs, Maria!!
The pep talk i didn't i think need, very essential. Thank you 🙏
It was for me as well :) We got this! Thanks for watching :)
Thank you for this video!
I always hesitate to refer to myself as an artist since I have no desire to sell what I make and generally just noodle around and experiment in sketchbooks.
I am thinking of approaching a local arts centre about hosting a sketchbook project similar to the one you participated in last summer. I really think it would be well received in my community which is full of artists.
You are definitely an artist :) And that sounds amazing about the sketchbook project! I think that would be a great fit for your community! Let us know how it goes and let’s make 2025 an art filled year! Stay well and stay inspired as always, Kathy ❤
i got out of drawing for so long, that now i am no longer as good as i was. so its harder to see my vision. i consider myself to be an artist. but pretty much all the art comes out opposite from what is in my head. i never really learned fundamentals. i just always had a certain way of drawing and was good. Now none of that is true really. Things just dont magically flow and somehow be correct. So i am stuck at the beginning i think. and also questioning if i am an artist because my vision won't come out.
If you are making then you are an artist :) A lot of the time I also have an initial vision, but the work goes where it wants to. Sometimes to amazing unexpected results, but also a lot of the time it doesn’t amount to much lol But hey it’s a part of the creative process: make lots of bad art to make any good art! In regard to technique, that can always be learned but takes practice. You got this!
@@FionaCArt I guess then I have to learn how to tell the art what I want it to do as well as techniques. Thank you. I will keep trying.
@devernepersonal3636 yes, please keep trying! :) thanks again for watching!
Thank you for this video! It’s just what I needed to hear today ❤
You are so welcome :) Happy Art Making, friend!
I'm getting ready to go pro. I'm relishing every second of this time of being non professional. From what I've gathered from artist videos, I'll never get this time back.
That’s true! Things were different before I went pro. But with that said, there’s no greater fulfillment and I wouldn’t trade it back :) You’ll enjoy both phases, friend! Best of luck - you got this!
Love your videos, look forward to them every Friday!
Thank you so much for being here every Friday :)
Great tips! I hope I can find a new friend like you as I've moved to a new town recently. Thinking of starting a meet up for casual art making at my house so I can meet other artists. New subscriber!
Thank you for watching and subscribing:) If you need an excuse for a meet up, try a sketchbook club! You could even meet a local library :)
❤❤❤thank you for sharing and being so positive. I needed this video. ❤😊 love your work and videos. ❤ keep going!!!🎉
I’m so glad you enjoyed the video, friend :) Stay well and stay inspired in 2025! Let’s do this!
Thank you for sharing this, I had no idea that I needed to hear this❤
You are so welcome :) Thank YOU for watching!!
Great message thank you!!!
You’re very welcome :) thank you for watching!!
You are so on point💖
Thank you for watching :)
Great discussion!
Thank you for watching :)
Excellent thoughts on art!
Thanks for watching, Anne :)
I was on Myspace to meet women. LOL Good insights! Thanks for sharing. SUB'd.
LOLLL you put your favorites in your top 5 I hope?!?! Haha Thanks for watching and joining the fam!
This was really interesting, thank you!
Thank you for watching :)
EU here sometimes see videos by Contemporary Art Issue belgian he explains very good about how many artists and art there is and about buyers, selling etc. Another EU videos is Dries Ketels he has more informal advice about selling art in alternative modern ways.
UK JacksonsArt competition last year 2024 was more than 13000 entries in 2023 was over 8000 entries. Everybody can participate but I noticed it is established artists with a studio that win been following the competition since it first started.
Where I live is over a million hobby painters. Many just gift their paintings etc.
Thank you for sharing :)
26:05 drawing pen pals
Exactly :)
Is an Artist and a Creative the same thing? I make art everyday as a practice of being creative. I have no desire to sell. I only make it for creating and getting others involved in the process of reconnecting with themselves and creating too.
For me an Artist is a person who is dedicated to their craft, getting better at that medium every single day. Honing it to that 10K hours in Mastery. Often on just one thing or one simple idea done over and over and over again.
For me a Creative, is a person who looks for multiple vehicles to express themselves. Maybe it's art, and in that medium it's many things. Or maybe cooking, gardening, problem solving in their business or even organizing may be the creative process. All these are creative acts, that have some artistic flair about them and that person may even be an ARTIST. Though for me at the core, an Artist is that person who has 10K hours in mastery. It can be in any field and that person I consider an Artist/Master in their craft. I would love to hear your feedback and what your thoughts are. I always appreciate expansive conversations.
Great video BTW, going to share this with some folks who I know are Artist's. I know that because their whole livelihood is based on what they create. That too for me is a solid artist. Thanks for a brilliant intelligent and very cogent delivery. I always appreciate great insight and perspective.🧡✨🧡
Hey there! Wow - thank you for the amazingly thoughtful comment and for watching/sharing the video. It’s really appreciated.
I think of being an artist and being a creative as the same thing. I do agree that referring to oneself as creative can be a bit more expansive, like your example of problem solving in business. I would refer to the person who is mastering a particular medium as a “craftsman” perhaps or maybe just by the particular medium, like “an illustrator” or “potter”. For me as an artist, I focus on painting, ceramics and public art as all a part of my art practice. I know plenty of multidisciplinary artists who use several mediums. But as you mentioned, I could use the artist label per your definition because it’s often one simple idea done over and over (bright, bold, colorful abstracts in my case).
With that said, I don’t think anyone has to fit themself into anyone else’s label and definition of things. If you believe artist’s are only artist’s if they make a living off of it then that is totally fine! Personally, I think you can be an artist who makes things without having to sell those things. But if you want to be a “professional artist” or as I say in the video, “have an art business” then selling is a piece of that.
Thank you again for taking the time to share your thoughts and opinions :) Wishing you an art filled 2025!
@@FionaCArt Expansive conversations are always enlightening. I agree, we don't need labels, just more ART!!😉🧡✨🧡 Wishing you more growth and new ways for expression in 2025!
I have never felt more blocked than since thinking about making money with art
Facts!!!
Im a creative artist with design tendencies haha and I need to express my creativity
Yes - love it!! :) Please continue to express your creativity!
I work on top of old work a lot and have revisited old paintings it is interesting to see your progression and update an old piece, love your coil vessels. Interesting video Pinterest is great for inspiration and cleaning art room. Let's see if I can create something new today.
@JanineHyslop that’s great! Working on top of old work is fun :) Thank you for the sweet comment about my coil vessels! Pinterest is wonderful!! Hope you made something new today :)
This is exactly the message I was looking for ❤ thank you for sharing 🙏🫶
Thanks for watching :) Stay well & stay inspired, friend!!