Moonvoice on the Business of Art

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Moonvoice describes some important steps for turning your art into a business.  If you mix art and money, or want to, you need to read this.  Much of it has relevance for other creative business endeavors too. 

meeksp tipped me to this post, but I follow Moonvoice pretty avidly.  I haven't bought anything from her, largely because I'm broke, but I'm a serious fan.  I echo links for a great many of her posts.  I admire her technical skill and speed; I've seen her post a sketch one day, ink the next, and finished painting the third.  (Other projects take forever because she'll do something like render a desk-sized picture in tiny dots.)  She has an amazing ability to make colors go together, when normally such a combination would only work for God in a sunset.  That ties into the numinous side of her work; she specializes in totem pictures, and the animal spirits tend to specify the colors and certain other details.  If you haven't seen her work, go look.  It is absolutely worth the trip.