Grandma Kernik: Davey, honey? Are you up? School will be starting soon.
Grandma Dolores: Well, David. Would you like some cold cereal?
Grandma Kernik: I don’t understand. How is that a school on your computer? You kids.
Me: It’s an online school, Grandma. You don’t even have to leave the house.
Grandma Kernik: Well, I wouldn’t go out in [...]

Dear Freelancing Artist,
Did you know there are hidden rewards in a freelance art career? Rewards that take you farther than the ability to buy tonight’s keg, that is. If you’re new to freelancing as an artist, you need to hear this. I wish they taught this stuff in art schools. It’s about sustaining your career in [...]

Clink. Clink. Clink. jeezzzhhhhhhhhhhhh… shunk!
Sorry, I was just grabbin’ up a quick snack. I needed an awesome web site header and just couldn’t get out of the office. This one looks okay. And, it was cheap.
I recently read something about “crowdsourcing.” It’s where a business throws out a project to a mass audience and reviews [...]

Guest Post by Lisa Braithwaite
Creative businesses are fun! But, like any other business, creative businesses still require a lot of hard work. Most of us start a business because we’ve found something we are good at and passionate about, and we want to make a living doing what we love – for example, turning a [...]

First, a heartfelt thanks to all my new visitors and regular readers. You all rock.
Over the past year I’ve moved into the tighter, cozier space that is my niche market: children’s educational publishing. It’s nice and uncluttered in here. I can breathe a little better. My posts here have followed suit, focusing on children’s book [...]

Have you ever used one of those online gig-finding sites to get more work? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out Elance.com or Guru.com.
I responded to a post on Freelance Switch yesterday about this and it prompted me to expand on the discussion.
In the past year I’ve used one of the bid [...]

What are you doing right now?
Besides reading my blog, of course. Please continue to do so; I promise I’ll be brief today.
Maybe you were doing some online shopping. Quite possibly you’re feeding a monkey or recaulking a friend’s bathtub. Waiting for your file upload. Whatever.
I hope you were doing something.
In an online artist and writer [...]

With apologies to my friends of other faiths and cultures who may not have heard this song or celebrate the Hallmark-sponsored winter holiday of Xmas, I wanted to share an epiphany I had today about a song that’s been rattling around my brain for 38 years. 
I never knew the untold marketing lessons lying beneath the [...]

Two things caught my eye recently and I had to share.
I’ve followed a few conversations lately on Twitter about spec work and working for free.
I can’t tell you how many times I hear artists who are trying to break into freelancing ask, “Should I work for free?” They’re understandably confused because they see others doing [...]

Small Business Trends posted an article on The Trend of the Artist as Entrepreneur (Anita Campbell, November 29). It reminded me that I really need to explain something about the title of my blog, “Art is Work.”
What I don’t mean is that creating the art itself is work. That’s pretty obvious.
What I mean is, the [...]