Success For Self-Taught Artists: From Proficiency to Prosperity

By Janet Glatz

A convenient handbook for artists with no formal training that will guide them in achieving their career objectives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781495103476

Book preview

Chapter One

What to Call Yourself

Are you an outsider? A maker of Ars Brut? An Autodidactic?

Well, guess what—you are all of the above.  Personally, I prefer the adjective self-taught.  It’s simple, yet succinct.

Some art writers and critics are of the opinion that if an artist has no formal education he or she should not be considered a true member of the art world’s elite.  Hogwash, I say.

Success and acceptance are the result of more than formal education, belonging to the right cliques, and showing your work in the best places.  To be a successful artist, you must have more than talent, more than education, and more than friends in high places. You must be driven to create and determined to make a living doing it. Even the most highly skilled master artist will not have a successful career if he is not willing to learn the basics of the art business and how to market himself and his