How Not To Talk About Art As An Artist Or Anyone - Tips For Artists

[@manicoquita]

My advice: 1.Go into the gallery 2.choose a piece of work 3. Stare, long and hard (that’s what she said) 4. After staring shout, Aha!! (Make sure you look around as if you’ve discovered sliced bread. 5. Slowly clap and exclaim, Magnifico!!! 6. Walk out

[@kbowler9266]

The best thing anyone said to me about my drawing was when I was younger "Only one person has to like it, don't let other people control your emotions." I started drawing again but I never took that advise....till lately.

[@lynromero8002]

A couple ventured into my booth at my last art festival, admired my work and asked the inevitable, "how long have you been been doing this?" I like to answer that I'd been drawing since a child copying Archie comic books, took as much art in school as I could, then got married, had 2 kids and a muggle career for 30+ years. The man did one of those involuntary snorting laughs and wagged his finger saying he was gonna steal that. So fun when they get it!

[@terrysmith1942]

You guys hit it out of the Park today. Love Klee's background comments, it adds hilarity to the seriousness.

[@m.carl.lunden]

All art is subjective. I appreciate your humor, authenticity, and human kindness.

[@MrJimkg]

I really love this art team. I watch your posts over and over. So upfront and spoken with real feelings...so refreshing and uplifting. Thanks so much!

[@gumbicoles2841]

Heyyy beloveds...I absolutely loved you two the first video I viewed... she is a joy to hear...you guys are right on time in my life...not to go off subject my youngest son was brutally murdered by a violent convicted felon...after my beloved son's murder I was so shattered with pain and grief...sooo I know it was ALMIGHTY GOD who help me not to die from grief...I started painting and if helped me sooo much...it has made it alot easier to cope with my pain of my loss...now I am stronger and have painted many, many paintings...I truly thank you beloveds for the compassion and time your souls has choose to share with me and all of the community of artists... Thank you...😇💔😍

[@normapadro420]

Hi. I stopped listening to reviews a long time ago. They began cursing at me calling me all types of names. I had to close the account, and reupload my work all over again. Now those people don't bother me anymore. Anything else they want to say it's not going to mean a thing, because it doesn't stop other people from engaging with my work. I learned a great lesson. Stop reading reviews. Keep creating work, and have a great time. You are the artist, not them.

[@PourTheLoveofArt]

Great points. Thank you! And Klee made me spit my coffee out with “. . . just run.” 🤣

[@10kCrows]

😂😂😂

[@darrenmanning6659]

Another great video.Thanks Guys. who the hell is disliking your video's may they be thrown into the bog of eternal stench.

[@glensande2801]

You two crack me up, this is a great channel!

[@angeliquem.j.simard8437]

This is hilarious! Thanks for making me have a good laugh. Klee is a natural born comedian.

[@Saffirance]

Ah, ha ha, love the art critic generator. So funny. I'm going to have so much fun with this. Thank you so much for sharing. Thanks for making this video.

[@georgewallace6525]

The best advice I received while I was in college was.... Make art that leaves the viewer speechless. If the viewer is captured by your creation, you have said enough.

[@alisamiller5131]

I’m so thankful for this discussion! I’m jumping off for the first time on Tuesday

[@GabrielStocktonWatercolors]

Best Laugh of the day!!! Thank you “Run away!” Where do you get you art supplies now?

[@VeronicaRussek]

Best advice: "if you find someone that actually gets that and argues back, just run..." Brilliant!!!! That website is just too good.... You do have to have a pretty good bullcrap generator to be able to survive in this stuffy art world... But then, I have created artworks around a song or even a song title. But also, JUST RUN!!! LOVE YOU GUYS.

[@billb4338]

I had a disjunctive perturbation once, I took some antacid and it went away. Great vid!

[@liezelhaupt7172]

That website is brilliant! I had a good laugh. 😂

[@ReviewsAndMore9]

You guys are too funny! Thanks for the tips. I was a corporate art consultant for 20 years. There’s always something to say of value: I love the composition on this piece or this artist really knows how to work with color or I like the ethereal quality of this work - there’s always something one can appreciate.

[@jennyannartmixedmedia]

A few days ago I stumbled across your channel and today I realised how terrible it is and that it leads to a very unproductive day well not totally but yeah I don't get much done while I am binge watching you and Klee banter on and laugh I can't do that and draw a straight line at the same time. You guys simply crack me up you have made my day please don't stop doing what you do.

[@emmanuellerivard756]

AHAHA! I actually tough ''I would run away'' when you said ''RUN!'' It's so good to hear artists think like me… Thanks for the website… I would have passed my art degree if I had it 10 years ago!

[@seapossumsforrest8162]

Helpful and hysterical! Love it! I love the helpful jargon, reminds me of Vogon poetry... "underlying metaphor.... " (Hitch Hikers Galaxy reference). Or the most elegant web design rule: Kiss 'keep it simple stupid'. My husband said he was going to barf the next time he heard someone say, 'that color just makes it pop'. If you watch home fix it up kind of shows there is a top ten list of descriptions. Works for Art too. "it is warm and inviting', 'the design is open', 'I love the light', 'I love the color', 'The color palette is ____', ... not going to list all 10, that would be boring. Or to make it interesting, create 'false' crisis like they do in the shows. Drama sells even for shy persons. LOL. Yep, like you said just be yourself, practice if you have to...

[@attheranch873]

S Wil i’d like to hear the whole list of 10.

[@seapossumsforrest8162]

@@Rafiwashere Lately I have been watching 'Sky Artist of the Year', there are shows under the Sky Network (British Channel). A KZbin channel called "Art Lover" keeps posting the episodes of the show. Loads of inspiration and 'commentary' that is sure to please the untrained ears and skeptic. Great show and it doesn't 'pit' the contestants against each other like a lot of American shows. No Jerry Springer artist fighting and back stabbing or wrestling brush manuvers. There are 2 contests each year: landscape and portrait. What I have learned is that the more 'realistic' the painting the least likely the artist will win. They are looking for 'different' styles and watching the artists is really inspiring. And keep a notebook for the judges comments. LOL. You should enter Rafi. I love the self portraits of you and the ones you do of Klee. 10,000 pound commission for the winner.

[@suegardner]

I love the giggliness of this video. Haha! It's brilliantt💖

[@sarahafterdark2453]

OMG you guys crack me up. Love the fun of the number fancy word generator, like the random number generator... or online I ching with nonsense words XD. Love the advise as always. Best statement "Use your imagination, don't let your imagination use you" awesome words.

[@samanthalesan1984]

Yes! So glad I found you guys, keep it up! 🙌

[@Vixtronic]

Another few tips for shy people is remember that if your attending a show, people focus more on looking at the art. Also if you are the artist, remember you have control of the conversation. Most people (Not art critics) get a little star struck, even if you're not famous or anything, so when they talk to you they are probably more nervous than you. And if you still feel nervous just find something to do to be "Busy" so you can politely refuse to talk, like eat appetizers, or head to the bathroom, or have a friend bring along a camera to take photos of you around the venue, these were things I did at one of my collage art showings and it helped me not be a nervous wreck and also made me seem more "professional". Lol

[@pony3284]

I now imagine myself stuffing my face, spewing cracker crumbs out as I tell the person trying to talk to me that I'm a professional

[@ziziart137]

I'll write this as a comment here, but it is relevant for every video of yours, that I watch: Thank you for doing this - both of you!!! I am one of those shy, introverted, insecure, without-formal-education-in-the-field-of-art, artists who came to realization I have to do something and the time is NOW (as you said in one video: if you're breathing, it’s not too late)! 😊 So, yeah, thank you guys for doing this, for sharing your experiences, struggles and ideas in very humanly, non-pompous ( :D ) manner - sometimes this is all someone like me, needs! :) :)

[@thehappypotter9612]

I recently ended an explanation of what inspired me to make a colourful painting with the words: "Splash, ahaaaaa!!!!!!!!!"

[@Police644]

You really have a gift... Not only do you have knowledge that helps ppl you know how to explain and break things down so ppl can absorb it and apply it. If that makes sense... lol Thank you , just from everyone like me..♥️😊

[@Никодя]

Rafi and Klee! You've motivated me to put myself out there. And I've put two of my stories on the different websites and created my writer's page on russian social media, where I share my feelings, thoughts on art and other stuff. 17 followers. I adore my results so much 😍 I'm shy, but still, I'm doing brave things and starting my journey as a writer! Thanks a lot!!!!💕💪👂👀👂💕💕💕💕💕

[@susanc.houghtondogandfolka3163]

I love how you two make me laugh! 💙

[@sylviapineda6717]

Mmmmmmmmmm, thanks, you &your lady . Thanks palm 🌴springs, calif.

[@tammytjfordart5732]

Oh my. So glad you call out the ridiculousness of these online what's its!!! LOVE you guys! 🖌️🎨

[@babyblue61549]

U guys r awesome. U make me laugh and I just so appreciate your vids. Thank you!🙏

[@deborahhunter8126]

I love those art statement generators 😀

[@artistrywithbela8238]

Ya are great... I feel a lot better

[@rainbowfox1934]

You guys made me burst into laughter. Personally, I really dislike pretentious people and am not shy at all. If they get too obnoxious, you can always say, "I am sure that makes you feel better to put other people down." and walk away. Courtesy is the ultimate weapon.

[@eliciaburton4862]

LOL...I love you guys...so much fun!

[@brendabarillaro5070]

simplicity makes the art work

[@omoladeogundimu8309]

lmao this is the most apt and hilarious video ever! How am I just finding it. Also i am at peace knowing that that's not how real people think, I was confused when I became an Artist and heard other artists talk about their work with such a difficult tone, like whyyyyy

[@DMPaul]

You guys made me laugh so hard in this video!💖💕 Run! Or hide...

[@margierasmussen4385]

I absolutely LOVED every single time you said to just run 🏃‍♀️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 awesome! Love your videos thanks for the excellent content!

[@JadeDRail]

I tend to talk about my process and inspiration.

[@JadeDRail]

@@Rafiwashere I discuss technique if I think someone wants to try and make it!

[@KateColors]

Absolutely true.

[@elupitasd1]

I'm the kind of person who is anxious when there's silence

[@Rain_theGamer]

Same! I'll say the weirdest shit to fill the silence

[@jaedo71]

i am not shy! I am never afraid to expose myself....

[@dawnnathiel7775]

Lol I don’t have a shy bone in my body! But this was hilarious! My problem is I’m all too happy and eager to go out talk to people and almost always say the dumbest stuff! You’d think over time I’d stop talking to people... nope. I cheerfully show my knack for saying stupid stuff at every opportunity! lol

[@attheranch873]

Dawnna Thiel same here🤣

[@attheranch873]

Dawnna Thiel I am the same way, I think I’m gonna learn but I never do.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

I actually take a fair deal of pride in some of the STUPIDEST crap to fly out of my mouth... It's liberating to find a modest crowd of people raising the tension with their expectations of some expertise (consider in a show at MY booth... for instance) only to let the disappointment come crashing home as something remarkably silly or self deprecating blasts out of my mouth at above normal speaking volume. "Yep, painted this with a rubber spatula and a paint roller wrapped in rope... until there was enough to get an image in my head..." "That!?! er... oh... well... I'll give YOU a dollar to take that f***in' thing." "I just decided to make a mountain out of a garbage pile that day... seemed like a good idea at the time." "Sometimes I just bash my head into the wall repeatedly, waiting for an idea to pop in there. It doesn't usually work, but it feels SOOOOooo good when I quit!" AND myriad other remarks have been known to make regular contributions to an otherwise overtly pretentious atmosphere, or to destroy the silence. I'm not picky. ;o)

[@diana3599]

Practical good advice. I think it goes well with the advice from earlier video regarding some introverts need more practice socially. Have not had the same opportunities to interact, bs with others. Talking to people one-on-one about art is good practice.

[@melenaschneider7652]

This was great! You 2 had me laughing so hard. Here on the North Coast of California there is a pretty good group of arty folks. Everyone seems to just have fun with it all. In the spring and in the fall there is a studio open house here in Sonoma County where people drive around and go to the different artists' studios to see their art and buy if you want to. It's a great way for the artists to get their art shown without leaving home or setting up in a group studio and I've met lots of very cool people - the artists and the ones looking. I'm a bit shy, but I do have fun chatting with people once I start relaxing and enjoying the art. I don't recall meeting any hoity-toity nose in the air type people here. I just make comments about the art pieces I like - "That's a cool piece" or " I love the colors in this one". I think Mendocino County is the same. Thanks for your fun videos!

[@pedrorivas9383]

Thanks for all the useful advice , humor and wisdom that you put and your videos, you guys are great. wwwrigo rivas.com

[@rogerd3051]

Love u guys great clip , I think a lot of artists have this problem. And so this might end up being a big clip for u

[@jaedo71]

Will you please come to the Des Moines Art Festival???

[@daniellekelso5392]

No doubt!! Maybe next years!!

[@Astavyastataa]

I didn’t realize this was supposed to be bad advice until #4 and I actually looked at the screen.

[@CharityS-Minnesota]

I’m an oooooher an aaaaaaher person. If I like something a lot, words like flippin cool, fantabulous, freakin beautiful, awesome or amazing Will fly out of my mouth. If I don’t like something, I usually don’t say anything. Because my grandma taught me if I didn’t have nothing nice to say not to say anything 😊 and I’m a middle finger person also 😂 And I agree, if all else fails... run!

[@carolinefortinart4989]

thanks for the answers! basically, I have to get in shape to RUN!!! LOL no seriously, I found it exhausting doing events, but every time, I run into very interesting person.

[@CaramelSunflowers]

You guys are hilarious. Love your channel.

[@toddclarke7889]

I got my pop into art,. And have a show with pop. his first show.

[@fineartforsmallspaces4007]

I loved this! Is the random phrase generator still around? I didn't see the link.

[@Rafiwashere]

They closed the site 😕

[@fineartforsmallspaces4007]

@@Rafiwashere drats! It was epically hilarious! Even my art career neutral hubs broke out after he overheard you! Thanks for sharing!

[@spydaman71]

you guys are entertaining and very helpful. thanks

[@petraterslova4738]

This was hilarious! 😄 thanks for great advice!

[@sharonbattaglia1141]

As an introverted artist I've always had insecurities at art shows. Viewers say "fancy words" to me and I have zero idea what they are talking about. I am an "Outsider" with no education. But I can art so...I just let them talk and try to make appropriate sounds back. 😂

[@africaart]

1:52 😂🤣 You can't disagree with what you don't even understand. 🤔 Hmm yes, I don't know what you are saying but I feel you are right.

[@heatherjohnson8022]

Eu de toilette! 😂😂😂 that was awesome Klee!

[@heatherjohnson8022]

Hey you too I have great news! A local doctors office just purchased for prince from me to hang in their waiting room! So excited so happy wanted to share my joy and success with you too! Thank you for the wonderful videos and keep them coming!

[@SssvcreationsAu2015]

I lack the confidence to go out there. The main reason is English is my second language and there are times I struggle to get my point across, so the only way I would go is with my husband which is not possible as we are full time carers for my mother in law who has dementia. I know I need to snap out of it and just do it, I haven’t sold any of my art due to fear factors. Not all is lost as there is a Sunday market close by and I bit the bullet and I will be setting up a table every Sunday. Time to get my stuff organised for next weekend 🙂

[@SssvcreationsAu2015]

@@Rafiwashere honestly you couldn't tell that I was German if you heard me talk as I sound like an Aussie it's that I struggle at times with words and what I try to say comes out completely wrong and most times I don't realise and that is where hubby comes to the rescue and says to the person " What Sylvia is .........." I only done 2 years of schooling in Australia and pretty much just battled thru everything. I was 13 when my parents came to Australia and I am 48 now, you would think that I would have mastered it by now lol

[@timclemons8719]

I just realized that you answer or at least like 👍🏻 or love ❤️ every comment. I am conducting an experiment. Will this get a response?? And can we communicate only through the comments? I love you guys!! Keep it up

[@markcaselius5993]

Dazzle "em with your footwork or baffle "em with your bullshit. LOL! Could I borrow Klee for my next show? She has to be the greatest frontman ever. LOL!

[@Saffirance]

I want to borrow them both for my art show. They are a blast

[@hopebearden9153]

“Fluff Monger” I’m dead!

[@gabrielaonate5637]

Vaya, vaya... con que video me acabo de topar! Hummm... me gusta! Además, it´s like Awesome, because... i mean... I use the words of the art language. Awesome piece of video! These are many words... so run. I disappeared in the comment section, or not.

[@bostrickland4970]

thanks !!!

[@attheranch873]

“Just run”!!!!🤣🤣👍

[@Imhotep397]

Whew...lol. I didn’t realize these were a response to my question. Staying in the feeling zone is the best thing. I guess too that I prefer “talking shop” with other people in the art struggle and feel like most discussions with non-artists will be in the small talk arena or someone trying to haggle me into selling a piece of art for offensive price and I really don’t want to be the artist that clobbered a prospective customer. What do you generally do when someone says “Can I get a better price?”

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

In any project, I consider my time at an average of around $10/hour. Then calculate the material costs approximately (you want to be at least within 10% of accurate, though)... and that gives me "cost"... SO for a "price" quoted to a customer, I double it... That's where I start a "basic" asking price. The "basic" asking price is for just about anything I deal, with or without any real effort involved. Things like replacing a lamp-cord and just flipping the lamp fall into this category, even if the lamp came from a dumpster, I consider a "lamp's worth" of value as if I bought it at WalMart... for "market value" of the material. Customers DO NOT NEED TO KNOW THIS! ...For anything I consider "questionable"... I can default to this "asking price method" at least until I get a better idea what I actually WANT for the thing. For stuff that I'm particularly proud of, I often default to more like 250% of "cost" (figured the same way) or even 300% (just triple it)... and go on with my day. I put prices on tags, too. It's less hassle to remember what things cost when I know just at a glance and some "backward math". If I'm proud of a piece this week, I'll be just as proud of it in a year or a decade... so I just "know" my math. That is generally easy to keep consistent, but if you struggle with the pride thing... It comes with practice. SO... Now that we have the "asking price" I KNOW how much "room" I have to cover the things like rental space, fuel, food, etc... consumables around shows and shops so I can let customers "get a deal" through their demonstrable skills at haggling. AND I DO mean "Skills". There are ways to politely express or suggest a deal in the haggling process without showing yourself up as "too cheap to get along with" or "being a jerk" about the prices at art shows. I require customers to do a bit better than "Can I have a better price?" though. That's not how it works... talk shop a while, visit, and try to pretend you have a vested interest in either me, my booth, my genre of display, or something... THEN try a counter offer or even suggest that you know the market a bit. Of course, I can challenge that notion, so a demonstrable skill in estimates around what something costs to make will provide a context, not only for your respect to the craft, but to my workmanship. It can also demonstrate a customer's lack of knowledge or even insult the work... so customers be careful about phrases like, "you just slather it with..." or "a dab here and there..." off hand. A serious counter offer, usually within 20-30% of asking is something I rarely walk away from. If I've JUST setup or arrived for morning, I do have the whole day ahead, so that weighs on considerations. At the same time, customers CAN understand that after most of a day broiling in sun or non-climate controlled buildings and dealing with the usual traffic of ass-hats and characters, I'm probably a bit softened up for the picking... and a cash offer at even 35% or so below "asking" is feasible. It's worth pointing out here, that I've been intimately involved and relatively active in open air markets of all manners for more than a decade. To my knowledge, and practically speaking, just about anyone with experience in flexible pricing environments practices a pricing system like this. It's why you rarely go to a fair-ground or flea market without seeing at least half the booths "priced all to hell" (as we say around these parts). It's because almost NO body pays "full asking price" as opposed to socializing a bit and then making a counter-offer. It's exhausting, dubious, and occasionally mistakes WILL happen. It's part of the charm. I let the mistakes and misquotes go. I screwed up, and a customer got the better of me. I can laugh at it, and motor on. Why??? I don't let it happen often for one. Most of the time, I may not make a fortune, but I do well enough to "beat break-even" and all things considered, that's enough to continue doing this. For another (finally?) I let it go, because it ATTRACTS attention to being deliberate. "A deal's a deal." is one phrase that brings customers back, even if it's because they have that hope of "beating you out" again... don't let it happen too often, but sticking by a price BY FAR outweighs trying to redact it later. ;o)

[@overthinkink]

Haha great video. I'll get my note cards ready:p

[@sarasmile4666]

If I were a wearer of t-shirts, I'd totally want one that says, "Overboisterous Fluffmonger."

[@Rafiwashere]

YES!!!

[@observerfx212]

When in doubt, ask a question: "What are your thoughts?" or "DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM??!!"

[@ashlee1847]

#00333 I'm troubled by how the internal dynamic of the spatial relationships endangers the devious simplicity of the remarkable handling of ljght.

[@DustyTeachesArt]

I need to find that generator to use on people who tell me to get a real job..lol

[@tonywelch8607]

I always wondered why those that Don't or Can't create art, critique about those that do & can, in short they're talking out their ar...... so feel nothing about a critics comments as it's all empty air, Big Love from across the pond

[@Rain_theGamer]

"There is always a reason to run" -Klee for president 2020. So me. Also is that an independent studio or your living room? My partner and I want our living room to be our workshop and the second room be the "living room" but people think we're crazy. But we're entrepreneurs

[@attheranch873]

Erika Rain B my living room is my studio. I don’t have a living room! When someone comes over we sit in the kitchen or on the porch.

[@alisamiller5131]

I can’t find the correct link, can you please spell the review generator?

[@cindydiel4324]

Hmm I should work on my klingon or elfish. If some one understands I know they are someone fun to talk to.

[@pouponcrazycat5987]

LOVE U BOTH....🐱😍🐴

[@BlackCat_2]

Love your videos as always. :) I perked up when you mentioned using songs or poetry to describe how it makes you feel. I actually wrote a poem based on a painting I found online. I had saved a picture of it with the title the artist gave it but then I lost the file in a HD crash so I don't have it anymore nor do I remember the title. This is the poem I wrote though based on the painting - www.postpoems.org/authors/blackcat2/poem/375344 - I hope I will find the painting again someday. :D Thanks again for sharing your thoughts on interesting topics. :D - Heidi

[@BlackCat_2]

@@Rafiwashere Aww thank you!! :) I have not written anything new in years. It just kind of fizzled out for some reason. I had been writing for over 2 decades so maybe my brain just ran out fuel. :P

[@attheranch873]

Excellent poem!!!!! I didn’t know of that website, I just joined it, thanks!

[@brookegartistry5477]

If my invisibility cloak is unavailable, I like to have a book (that I am actually reading 😉)...it can help start a pleasant conversation.

[@Feralfoundry]

During a critique we were all supposed to dress and speak as if we were having a showing at a gallery and the other students were our competition. So, that was fun. Watching the ones who had a lot of money stride through the doors, seeing those of us who hit the salvation army 2 towns over for our "professional attire" ....the couple who came in together in painted body siuts..... the one who came in the duct tape covered suit. We all knew each other, we all knew the teachers, it was fine... until all the Deans, and administrators showed up and started asking questions and we all had to pretend like we knew wth we were doing or saying with our art. I'll be completely honest and say right up front that duct tape suit dude had never appealed to me on a personal level and his art only ever hit the back of my eyes, it never got to my mind, heart , or nose. It didn't even stink- It was just meh to me. Others thought his work was amazing including 2 profs who wheeled the Deans etc straight to their favorite students while the rest of us stood by our works like the world's worst game show models, " Right this way! Please view my homage to "local fair goldfish that die after 1 day". and my sculptural interpretation of "midterms, caffeine and the illusion of a college degree." Basically, we let the profs run the scary people around, they asked a few questions or made one word comments and moved along to the next fainting goat. No, I was not brave, I fared no better than anyone else and my confidence in my swanky clothes (17.67$ with tax) was running like the sweat down my back. But the students who had been coached by profs and prepared to meet the scary people did reasonably well. I was recognized by the Dean of Students as I had lit a project on fire in the quad and there were threats of arrest a few weeks before, but he was only looking for free wine and the profs were not happy that the Dean made mention of my flaming art. In fact they brought over duct tape suit dude to critique my work. Aside from throwing a bunch of jargon and shade, he had nothing to say and the prof let it stand like a flag in the body of a curious native and set off on the next target. It sucked tremendously, I'll never forgive the prof, and duct tape suit dude can go eat every single pile of dog $#%! indefinitely. It's damn hard to know how to define art, how to respond, or how to discuss it with others. Just don't be a dick about it. If a piece really bothers you, figure out why and move on. Ridicule helps no one, blustering bull just makes art as a whole , and artist, look like beggars to society'smostand- poor laughable children that we are trying to do anything to make it onto the refrigerator door of approval. I agree, if you hear that critic talk and jargon, just run.

[@JadeDRail]

Je ne sais quoi would not at all be impressive since I live in Quebec, where French is one of the official languages. XD

[@amandawagers4462]

I HAVE A QUESTION! Have you ever experienced a GALLERY stealing you work? I have 7 pieces displayed in a local gallery, some of them have sold, they're being released to the buyers and the gallery is basically refusing to pay me for the my art that they're selling. It's become some weird "American Greed" scenario where I and some other artists are pulling up next week and pulling our remaining work without letting the owner know we're coming so we won't be denied access to our artwork................................................ it's like a nightmare

[@amandawagers4462]

@@Rafiwashere basically we all converged, and through some pressure from all of us contacting her at once, she paid me out of her personal funds and she's paying the others on Friday? Also out of her personal account, she evidently used the money from our actual sales for other reasons and got behind trying to cover it up, it's still a sketchy situation, but I have an agreement to keep my art up until the 19th, I'm just driving over there a couple times a week to check on my work, as are the other artists. Probably won't be showing my work there again.

[@ArtistRebeccaLS]

I was thinking of just grabbing my portfolio if I had one and hand it to someone arty 😂😂😂😃 Phrase generator 😂😂😂😂😍😍😍

[@alisamiller5131]

I’m not scared anymore, just worried I may say the wrong thing because it’s a skill I have

[@anonymousjedi7063]

I gotta do that and use a British accent whilst giving a cluster fuk critique.

[@Rafiwashere]

LOL! YES!

[@universeturtle]

THis video had me busting up so much

[@sageartchannel3363]

Play the game even if it doesn't make sense. 🤣 Like if we can remember those brain crashing wordy junks. Nope. So realism works from me, this is a nose, love the expression in the eyes. Boom here is the perfect comment 😂. I am shy can't even introduce myself in a crowd

[@OVRQT]

My college professor used to always tell us "Don't prostitute your work! Making art for money is prostitution!" Lol!!!

[@ReviewsAndMore9]

OVR30QT 3.14 mine said it was “kitch” and she hated kitch. Hope I spelled that right. But then she taught art and wasn’t doing art so I took it to mean she failed to sell her art and hated those who were successful in selling theirs as a result. Snobbish. Sour grapes.

[@JirosWorld]

How many artists actually like the art world? Not many.

[@joannahigginsartenchantres1902]

But I am an overflufferous boister-monger! I have to overfluff!!! And if someone said to me, "THAT'S not how you talk about art!" I would say, "Um, yeah, it IS how *I* talk about art! Begone foul fiend!"

[@joannahigginsartenchantres1902]

And yeah, TOTALLY stealing the mumbo-jumbo generator...

[@joannahigginsartenchantres1902]

@@Rafiwashere Doooooiiiiittttttttttt! :-)

[@mikeperreault8939]

Helpful you say - Try Funny instead - Loved the silly answers with Nonsense phrases - Just don't use "Eau de toilette" you 2 gave me a good laugh tonight. Thanks ~~~This painting does not resonate clarity with the juxtaposition of these brakish colors!~~~~~

[@theencouragingartistaiyann7002]

💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

[@mcqueenartistry2.0]

From now on, instead of telling people gracias (thank you) in Spanish I'm going to say, "Grassy ass". Just to see if they catch it. Who knows, they may not! 😂

[@chemicalbarista3189]

Did I hear a niner in there? Lol

[@CupcakeCottage]

I find most artist’s statements very pretentious and trying to sound like they are on a different level from other artist’s because they use big words. Just speak like a normal human being. Blech!

[@dairinnphoenix1312]

Over-boosterist fluff monger. I am putting that on a t-shirt. If its ok with you guys.