Creative Arts Management

By Eli Jr

 

Are you ready to unlock the secrets of the creative arts industry? Look no further than "Creative Arts Management: Music Business, Writing Business & Acting Business In One." This groundbreaking book is your ultimate guide to navigating the multifaceted world of creative arts.
In this comprehensive and persuasive book, you will embark on a journey through the various disciplines of the creative arts. Begin with an insightful introduction to the world of creative arts, exploring the depths of Visual Arts, Performing Arts, and Literary Arts. Gain a deeper understanding of these art forms, their history, and their significance in our society.
Delve into the fascinating realm of MUSIC BUSINESS, where you'll uncover the secrets of Music Production, Music Distribution, and Music Marketing. Discover the intricacies of bringing music to life, from the recording studio to the global stage. Unleash your inner entrepreneur as you learn about the inner workings of Record Labels and how they shape the music industry.
But that's not all – the journey continues into the realm of WRITING BUSINESS. Unleash your creativity through the written word as you explore the art of storytelling, publishing, and marketing. Learn how to transform your ideas into captivating narratives that captivate readers and leave a lasting impact.
And finally, immerse yourself in the captivating world of ACTING BUSINESS. Discover the art of stagecraft, character development, and the business side of the acting industry. Uncover the secrets to success in auditions, casting, and building a long and fulfilling career in the performing arts.
"Creative Arts Management: Music Business, Writing Business & Acting Business In One" is not just a book – it's your passport to success in the creative arts industry. Packed with practical insights, expert advice, and real-life examples, this book is the ultimate resource for aspiring artists, entrepreneurs, and industry professionals alike.
Whether you are a musician, writer, actor, or simply a creative soul who wants to understand the inner workings of the creative arts industry, this book is for you. It's time to take control of your artistic destiny and unlock the full potential of your creative talents. Get ready to embark on a transformative journey with "Creative Arts Management: Music Business, Writing Business & Acting Business In One."

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eli Jr
• Release date: Apr 18, 2024
• ISBN: 9798223454779

Eli Jr

Elias Zeferino Manhiça Junior, known simply as Eli Jr is a force to be reckoned with due to his multifaceted talents and entrepreneurial spirit. Born in the beautiful landscapes of Mozambique, Africa in 2001, Eli Jr wears many hats and is committed to using his gifts to generate wealth and eradicate poverty. He is a gifted wordsmith whose soulful vocals earned him a contract with Platinum City Music Group, and a skilled composer crafting musical tales that have captivated hearts across borders. Eli Jr's melodic journey began in 2010, sparking a fervor that would soon enchant listeners worldwide. Raised amid the bustling rhythm of Maputo and culturally flourishing in Lichinga, his music displays the richness of his experiences. He currently has two acclaimed albums available - International Baby and Genesis - both produced in partnership with Platinum City Music Group. Beyond his artistic success, Eli Jr has unveiled his brilliance as an author focused on academic and business topics. His published titles to date include Wealth Management Skills Guide, A Treasure Of Ideas, The Excellence Blueprint, Information Technology For Business, Social Media Management, Business Affairs Management, Business Communication Management, Family Management, Facilities Management, Customer Relationships Management, Change Management, Health Management, Human Resources Management, Innovation Management, Investments Management, Knowledge Management and Environmental Management. Eli Jr is dedicated to using his multifaceted talents and businesses to generate wealth and alleviate poverty through knowledge and inspiration. He is sure to continue accomplishing great things.

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INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE ARTS

The Creative Arts Industry evolves many different branches such as Music,  Literature, Painting, Photography, Dance, Theatre, and Cinema among others. Creativity has a broad definition and so do the creative arts. The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media.

Creative arts play an important role in an individual's understanding of the world. But what are creative arts? There are many activities which are included within the term 'creative arts', but essentially they involve the idea of creating something.

This may be a story, a piece of music, dance, a play or a picture, and the value that children and adults of all ages gain from expressing themselves through the arts is huge. But the creative arts do not need to produce a finished product to be of value.

The process of engaging with an activity and making decisions in the course of creating is the most important part. This is when children and adults are using higher order thinking and learning the most. The arts involve a complex interplay of affective, imaginative, cognitive and physical processes which have proven to be of immense value to individuals.

Arts provide a unique way of developing and conveying understanding that cannot be done as effectively in any other way. This is not to say that the arts are exclusively for the expressive and creative. All individuals can engage with the arts in a way that is suitable for them. This may involve learning skills and techniques in a particular art form, developing ideas and personal meanings from creative activity, or engaging in arts advocacy and promoting the importance of the arts in culture and learning.

Creative arts are an essential part of everyone's lives. During childhood, the creative arts seem to be of particular value. Almost all children enjoy drawing, cutting and pasting, activities which are not only enjoyable but also crucial for the development and coordination of their fine motor skills. Children's attraction to the visual arts from a very early age is evidence that it is a natural and inborn way of learning and making sense of the world. The same can be said for music, movement and dance, and drama. The ways in which children engage with the arts are of great value and benefit to their development.

One of the common themes from various resources was the notion that creative arts is an area of education that supports the development of the whole child.

It is particularly important that experiences in the arts be varied, of high quality and obtained across the years of schooling to permit the fullest satisfaction of basic human needs to know, to do, to understand and to create. This relates to the concept that the arts offer content and experiences which are of value to all students and gives each child opportunities for success and challenge.

Creative arts is an area of knowledge which has a focus on the application of the arts in a range of media forms and functions that people engage with aesthetically and culturally.

The connection between art and science was inescapable: the landscape artist has to grasp the geology of his country; both the animal and human artist should master anatomy. Yet, there may be a possibility for unity in the numerous philosophies of art. Compact and self-contained, these packets provide the necessary core to help resolution in isolation and are perfect for those with a concentrated interest in the given topic.

Visual Arts

Visual arts are forms of art that concentrate on the creation of pieces of work which largely depend on the use of the artist's imagination. These include ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, film making, and architecture. Many of these pieces of work are created to stimulate us through a visual experience, often found in nature, or even made to create a dramatic sense of reality that only the creator imagines.

Visual arts are a form of art that is visually seen like drawing, ceramics, printmaking, sculpture, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking, and architecture. In art forms that involve a material component, some of the data about the visual arts is dependent upon the material of the work.

The most recent material, information, and research on the brain and learning provide an extraordinary window through which to view visual arts learning and its impact on learning underlying core academic subjects.

Science continues to add to our understanding about the function of the human brain, including vision and visual perception, cognitive functions such as memory, and how various brain regions support different aspects and processes of learning. Artists, like scientists, experiment and learn about many possible theories and methods. Both artists and scientists also learn to discern and weigh evidence.

Again, art is a way of expressing what one feels or thinks, through something that person has created. Most of the art that we are familiar with is through painting, drawing, and sculpture. Visual arts can be considered an important aspect of everyday life. This is because there are people out there who make a living through creating art, besides their daily jobs.

It helps the economy through small businesses as people who are artists might do something on the picture which gives them money. Besides, visual arts also help in building the social health in the society where people can view it, the hard work of others that reflects the true feeling of them helping in giving a positive aura to the society. It also gives a sense of relaxation and comfort and over a period of time this will develop into an art-viewing culture.

Visual arts are essential to education in the intellectual aspect. Students who are in visual arts will do a lot of thinking and brainstorming as opposed to those who are not in it. This is because most of the art that one creates reflects what one truly feels. The most common way of expressing it is through abstract and non-objective where the art is made has no specific definition and can be interpreted differently by each person.

These people are also trained to possess a sense of good criticism – something which is close to good decision making where one will decide on the best option from a list of possibilities. This decision making will be useful when these students are applying it to their academic or work performances in the future. High order thinking is also trained during the brainstorming where the students will think at the maximum through planning and creating the art piece. This will also be useful for decision making. All these will help in problem solving and decision making level of an individual.

The infancy of the modern era is known as the avant-garde, which means the advance guard. This era is from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. This is when many art movements are at their height, and when there is a high degree of overlapping between the ideologies of the various movements. This is an era of new technologies; people are now discovering the capabilities and constraints of new materials such as photography, filmmaking, and plastics.

All previous eras are most well known for the styles of art which were dominant. The modern era, however, is characterized by a pluralism of styles. For the first time in Western history, the 20th century was a period in which art was not tied to any particular cultural or social climate. Economic constraints make it increasingly difficult to be an artist of any kind of quality and make a living; however, the plethora of art movements in this age and the rich diversity of these movements give this era a high degree of importance in the art historical context.

Pencil drawing is a method of visual expression of a form on a surface of paper. It was initially made with metalpoint, then making a stroke with a metal tip into a ground that produces small particles of metal which adhere to the surface. Then it was developed by using graphite as a tool.

There are two types of pencils being used, the graphite pencil and the charcoal pencil. The technique and expression of these two pencil types are the same, with the difference being the visual appearance that was influenced by the different reflectance levels of these two materials. The graphite pencil has a relatively high reflectance level, producing a shiny stroke on paper.

Due to this reflectance, proper gradation with a graphite pencil can be achieved by smudging the strokes, pressing with fingers, or using a smudging tool. Proper stroke skill and various gradation levels can also give a good visual appearance for a pencil sketch.

The first mass of graphite was discovered in the Cumbria region of England in the early to mid-sixteenth century. This area remains the only significant source of graphite to this day and is still referred to as pencil lead, mainly because solid graphite was previously inserted into wooden sticks. Pure graphite is a mineral form of carbon that results from the metamorphism of coal. Other trace elements may also be found in it.

A pencil drawing is a graphic representation drawn with graphite. That is, it is a two-dimensional interpretation that can be either unshaded (line drawing) or shaded. It is said to be the most versatile of all drawing media, and the variety of the drawing depends on the type of pencils used.

Pencils are made in a series of degrees of hardness, with the softer varieties obtained by mixing varying amounts of clay and other substances to create the soft, gritty quality of the pencil lead. Filling an area with solid color, without any value change (light or shading), is called a line drawing. This term is often associated with exploratory purposes, as a group of animated sketches can be an efficient form of visual note-taking. Drawing, as a fine art form, is done with a tool, which means that the invention of the graphite writing tool itself was a concept worthy of a work of art.

Charcoal is a dry, dusty medium that is particularly conducive to expressive marks. It consists of tiny particles of carbon and is usually bound with a gum or wax. It can be compressed into round or square sticks, or a thick pencil-like stick. The binder used determines the hardness. Vine charcoal is the softest and gives a smudgy mark because of its tendency to crumble. It is good for sketching and layout. Willow charcoal is stronger and more compact. It is used for general drawing and the wider sticks can be shaved to a point for linear work. Compressed charcoal is powdered, milled with a gum binder and extruded as a round or square stick. It comes in various degrees of hardness.

Charcoal is a very direct medium and because it can be easily erased and corrected, it is also a very flexible medium. However, particularly in its compressed forms, it has a tendency towards broad and dramatic statement. The capacity for dark rich marks also makes it a superb medium for developing strong and vivid tonal values. While charcoal can be used to make a tonally complete and detailed picture, it is particularly popular for its expressive qualities. Bold and sweeping marks and smudges that give a sense of smoky atmosphere are all very characteristic of charcoal work. It is an excellent medium for quick sketching the posed model. A strong, simple and rapid impression can often be captured more easily in charcoal than in any other medium.

Ink is a liquid medium which is most commonly used on paper to create a line. As with tools for pencil drawing, is suggested starting with a wide range of simple mark-making and line drawing tools to get a feel for the medium. A wide range of disposable technical pens are available with different types of points that give lines of varying width as well as fibre tip pens, brushes, dip pens and the reed pen. Many favorite reed pens are made from bamboo with a piece of razor blade fixed into the tip, which is then sharpened to a chisel edge. Reed pens give an expressive line with character that varies greatly with the artist's touch and speed of movement.

For a more subtle line, dip pens with a fine nib can be used. It might sound strange, but one thing that Richard sometimes likes to do with new dip pens is to dip the nib in a bit of soil; this takes off the thin layer of gum that can prevent the pen from flowing smoothly. Various types of ink are available, the most common being Indian Ink, which is good for line and wash. It is often best to use waterproof inks as many other types can be smudged by a wet brush. With the many different types of ink and ink tool it is worth experimenting with different combinations to see what works best.

Painting is defined as the process of applying color to a surface using tools such as brushes, a finger, a palette knife, etc. In first understanding how artists use tools to affect the look, texture, and even atmosphere of a painting, it is important to be aware of the different techniques used in applying paint to a canvas.

Oils have long drying times, which enable the artist to make large sweeping changes, and the paint lends itself to blending well. Techniques in oil painting range from the quick, broad brushwork of 'alla prima' to the slow methodical glazing with layer upon layer of paint. Water is even used to alter the paint for various effects.

The paints themselves also develop a particular consistency depending on the medium. The amount of time required for an oil painting to dry can vary depending on an array of factors, though generally speaking, they will take much longer compared to other types of paint. During this process, the paint will be separating into different layers, 'fat over lean', and it will be workable for quite some time. The end result is a painting with a depth and richness of color. Due to this versatility, oil painting has been the dominant medium for hundreds of years.

Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil—especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body and gloss. Different sheens and consistencies can be achieved depending on the varnish used. The choice of oil imparts a range of properties to the oil paint, such as the amount of yellowing or drying time. Certain differences are also visible in the sheen of the final product.

An artist might use several different oils in the same painting depending on specific pigments and effects desired. The paints themselves also develop a particular consistency depending on the medium. The oil may be boiled with a resin, such as pine resin or frankincense, to create a varnish prized for its body and gloss. Use of a solvent such as turpentine can be used to alter the degree of thinning.

The artist will then begin to fill in the composition with paint, beginning with the areas that are furthest from the viewer. This is called the fat over lean method. The initial layers are applied thinly with the use of turpentine for faster drying. Subsequent layers are added with more pigments for brighter colors.

The artist prepares a ground upon the canvas with a layer of gesso. This provides a smooth surface if applied with a knife or a textured surface if applied with a coarse brush. The artist may also apply the gesso mixture to a linen canvas for a smoother finish. The artist will then sketch his composition onto the canvas with paint or charcoal.

Oil painting is the process in which pigments are bound together with a medium of drying oil. Oil paint is the perfect use of expression for use with various techniques from the more expressive use of thick impasto to the finely detailed alla prima method. In the past, painting with oils began with the artist sketching his idea onto the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint. However, in the 19th century with the works of the impressionists, oil painting technique developed into a more spontaneous process. The traditional method is outlined as follows:

With the invention of the printing press, watercolour found a new use in facsimiles, which were tools for the artist rather than the viewer. This is often seen as a 'golden age' for watercolor. Watercolour has been widely used throughout history; evidence of this can be seen in early Egyptian, Chinese, and Japanese wall paintings. Manuscript illustration and easel painting in the Middle Ages also used small brightly coloured illustrations, and these early examples often featured animals and various scenes from the Bible.

Watercolor, a medium which consists of pigment in a vehicle of water and gum arabic. The traditional and most common support for watercolor paintings is paper; other supports include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum, or leather. Watercolors are usually transparent and appear luminous because the pigments are laid down in a relatively pure form with few fillers.

Acrylics are a type of paint that has only been available commercially since the 1950s. It is a fast-drying, versatile medium that can be used to mimic both oil and watercolor painting techniques. It consists of pigment which is suspended in an acrylic polymer emulsion. Because it is a polymer, the paint film dries from the inside out. As the water is lost due to evaporation, the paint becomes thicker and finally skins over. At this point it is somewhat water resistant, but it is not fully bound until it has cured for a few weeks. Acrylic is very soluble when wet, and can be thinned and cleaned up using water. Because it is water soluble, it is also an incredibly flexible medium.

Acrylics can be used thinly in a manner similar to watercolor, while watercolor cannot be used in an impasto manner like acrylics and oils. Uniformity in the thickness and sheen of the paint once it has dried is another characteristic of acrylic paint, as water will not greatly change the sheen of the paint once it has dried. Acrylic paint is also very permanent. It has great resistance to direct light, and color retention is excellent in acrylic paintings. This is due to the fact that acrylic is a plastic, and plastic does not yellow. It has proved to be an excellent medium for use in exterior murals and in the modern restoration of frescos.

In terms of surface preparation, acrylic is very versatile. It can be used on almost any surface, from canvas to paper to wood to stone. A layer of Gesso is recommended when painting on canvas or wood, because these surfaces are more absorbent. Gesso will not only render a more economical paint application, but the use of a layer of a neutral color will help to accurately judge the values and colors in the painting. Acrylic colors are quite a bit thicker than watercolors, and are comparable to the viscosity of oil paints. This means that acrylic paintings need not be framed with a glass front in order to protect the work. This can be an advantage when compared to framing a watercolor, where the color and detail of a painting may be greatly altered when placed behind glass.

An experimental technique in pastel is creating a pastel wash using a Turpenoid solution. This can be achieved by soaking a cotton ball in Turpenoid and sweeping it across the pastel, which dissolves the pastel particles and creates a color wash. This method should be used with grasses of different textures to avoid an excessively wet surface which will be impossible to fix.

Pastel techniques can be challenging because the medium is mixed and applied using various methods. It requires