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Art Licensing - Creating Your Own Market Through Education

11/8/2011

Lordy, I'm tired.

I'm tired of my own nonsense. What is this junk I hear in my own head??? "They accepted me! They rejected me!" Nonsense! I am walking through a field of flowers, and some of them will spray me with yellow gunk, so I avoid those; and some of them look nice but have hooky thorns - so I disentangle, put on a band-aid and keep on a'walkin'; and some of them caress my face as I lean down to smell them. It's my good fortune to be honing my skills around discrimination, judgment, and plain ol' horse sense.

In fact, there's something else in the field: brand new, never-before seen plants, and I'm just the girl to plant 'em! I'm bringing the seeds of Art Licensing Awareness to those who didn't even know they needed me, or that they could need me!

I'll be at an Entrepreneurial Fair in a few days, and while I'm hawking my cards, I"m also hawking Art Licensing - which means I'm going to be educating some folks! (The nice extra in this is that to some of them I'll look like a brilliant goddess of knowledge. Won't that be fun? Why yes it will!) I'm printing out some pages with art shown on products (no, I have not had any products actually created yet, but I have put together images of what shower curtains, and mugs, and clocks and all kinds of things will look like with my beautiful artwork on it!). I will have those pages at my table, and I will have them tabbed: Cards, Art Licensing for Your Business, Wall Art. And people will stop and look and say to me, "What is Art Licensing?" and I will say, "So glad you asked!"

And since I will have these sample pictures in my book (alongside my designs for wall art and cards), even those who can not imagine how they could make good use of what I have to offer - personally,or professionally - will be helped to think outside of their normal ruts! I will see the little light bulb go on over their head, and hey presto! they will fill out my order forms like rabbits creating lots of smaller rabbits!

It should be fun, and I'll bet you it turns out to be lucrative!

So...Keep creating - not just the artwork of your hands, but the artistry of your fine minds - and I'll meet you on the flip side of this one and let you know what happened!

Cheers and blessings!

Lori

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Art Licensing - Making Your Own Magical Way

11/5/2011

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Thinking outside the box is something that madly successful people do - not following the rules, but making new ones that work.

That sounds good, doesn't it?

I've been thinking about how often I've subscribed to "the rules" - you know, those rules that someone or everyone teaches you that you blindly follow the rest of your life. In my life, that has translated to thinking that there is a Point A and a Point B, and there is only starting at Point A and winding up at Point B. Which has gotten me roughly...nowhere.

In other words, (A) In order to be a successful licensed artist, (B) I must be licensing my art. What if there is a "C" to that one? What if the "C" is the art of living your life for the joy of it, and letting the Truth of yourself - you are a successful artist - come to fruition and reveal itself to you, beautifully?

I am opening up to being a full-time artist and actor, and I am more than happy to let that begin (and continue!) in even the most unexpected of ways. And that is exactly what is happening.

I started an art project a year ago that I put down because I thought, "Well, that's not art licensing!" But I just picked it up again and when complete I'm going to use it for a webinar which is going to help both the artist and the non-artist with freer self-expression! And I don't have to worry about whether that is Point B on my path - you never know who will see your work.

And as for the webinar, what could be lovelier than to talk and work with others about art, and have the work go deeper than the art itself, into that upon which we all build our artistic expressions: instinct, intuition, intention, and release?

When I began my look into art licensing, it was from a purely financial perspectivce. But as I delve into this path, more and more I find all that I love is finding its place in the work: mystery and magic, joy and wonder, spirit and fun.

It seems that in leaving the myopia of "I'm going to be a licensed artist only" behind, I continuously float closer to that artistic goal - and have a grand time as I go along. And that is an artistic life.

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Hi! I am a licensing artist, professional actor, and ardent lover of just about anything creative. My motto is "Enjoy! Succeed! Share!" This blog is a window into art licensing as well as my artwork and the creative process that feeds, delights and sometimes pummels us all. Here's to the artists!

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