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If you can afford it, do it.... they are great and very professional and have a gorgeous product and a relentless sales stuff. :wink: You won't necessarily get tons of commissions, but you get good national name recognition exposure. My sense is that you have to advertise with them for at least five...

I take everyone's critique seriously even though it may be dead wrong.... it's worth the time to peruse. That's hard to do if your ego is attached to your work.... if you want to do this for a living, you listen to your "audience" and take them as seriously as your own voice. Even the hars...

Go for more than just honest criticism.... go for *good* and knowledgeable critique. You'll learn more. My mother is honest when she goes gaga over a piece.... she doesn't know diddly about art.

A little slow, but better late than never!

Thanks for the feedback.... I'm really more curious than anything. I get such mixed feedback and I can only speculate that it's because each museum gift store is so different. For example, several of the museum stores near me have very high-end work and buy quite a lot from local artists. When my hu...

It's a visual thing for me..... for example, if your Artisan signature were a link, I'd be more inclined to use it.... the icons below I overlook for some reason; they are just part of the design-y stuff on the page, if you know what I mean.... the same on every page, nothing to grab the attention. ...

Actually, we're probably just missing the hidden tricks! LOL. And I'll bet lots of other folks did, too! Thanks for pointing it out.

I got some awesome magnets a couple of magless seasons ago from.... who was it? Bob Gent maybe? Where did you get those? I haven't found any as good since.... I used these magnets to hold my dishcloths and potholders onto fridge and stove, they were so secure. I want more!!

And just for the record, Ms. Toot-Her-Own-Horn-NOT put together a very nice website worth visiting..... but, didn't post a notice of it here. So, I'm doing it for her. Toot-Toot. :D While your visiting, go see Jody Walker's website, too. Also worth the time. One thing I do miss about the old board i...

Has anyone participated in shows geared toward the museum industry? Gift shows that sell to museum gift stores is what I'm thinking of. What are the best shows? Are they worth the price? Thanks. Any comments welcome.

I have a studio biography that includes education and work experience in art for both of us.... this gets modified as life happens, usually on an annual basis. My artist's statement is a spontaneous and short paragraph that expresses a sentiment of the moment.... related to my art and usually for a ...

These are comments I dug out of the archives from industrial hygienist, Monona Rossol: "Glass paints and melting glass also release metal fume. Kilns should be vented. The best systems are negative pressure systems such as the ones Skutt sells. If you are a big studio with employees, you may al...

I'd also like to add something about sublety in design to Deb's comments. We live in a society that literally screams all the time in almost every arena including the arts. Art is valid if it jumps up and slaps us in the face, makes us take notice. That's more a commentary of the society we've becom...

New colors? I haven't noticed a lot of new ones in years. New textures sure. New cominations of existing formulas. But, new colors? Tell me who/where/what they are. I'd love something new and fresh if not thrilling.

I didn't find the work all that bad either..... had the same sorts of ideas that maybe the artist was pushing for ethnic or primitive or rustic contempo (whatever that is!) .... with the hand of the artist clearly evident instead of the over-polished glitz that can so easily happen with glass. I don...

Yes, I used a torch- oxy/acetelene with a very fine tip. You can get special fusion welders for around $500 that will do precision jewelry joints, like jumprings in a matter of seconds. I've never used one of them, but for those who do lots of jumprings it would be a great thing. I have a Little To...

Thanks, Dave.... that's got to be the tip of the year! Still trying to figure out why thermocouples cost as much as they do.

Yep.... pyrometer and egg timer... you are a person after my own heart! AND my most valuable tool now..... a notebook of every firing that I refer to time and time again. If you have glass and a kiln that melts it, you have art! Or at least you have the opportunity to make art. Don't forget the note...

Now, Cynthia, you could have said that *before* I bit my tongue so hard, you brat! Or was that my tong??

Your set-up is exactly what I have on several kilns.... and I don't feel one bit limited by it. In fact, I still haven't purchased a controller because I seem to be able to do what I want without one. Most of my fused work is under 16 inches and under six layers and almost always painted. Often it i...