Emma
What's a Day in the Life of an Artist?
I want to be a glassblower when I grow up but can it really be all fun and easy? Is it hard selling your art? What are the best and worst things about being a professional artist? #career #art #career-choice #career-path #self-employed
2 answers
David Broer-LeRoux
David’s Answer
The best "thing" is when your work is appreciated and you are able to make some sort of a living. The worst is when people think your job is all fun and play.
All careers, art included, are jobs. Some days are fun and others are not so fun. It takes years to learn how to feel the medium. That requires knowledge of how the medium acts and reacts in different circumstances. You will fail and you will achieve.
The best days are the ones that encompass fear, failure and triumph simultaneously.
I had the honor as a young painter to be invited into the studio of a renowned painter. Other than his manager no one, including his wife and children had been in the studio. When he showed me a piece he had just started I was amazed that it looked just as bad as my own paintings did in that stage. The difference? He had 30 years of knowledge and experience I did not posses.
Ken Simmons
Ken’s Answer
This will help!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO__GOPUItY
http://www.unc.edu/spotlight/day-in-the-life-interdisciplinary-artist-a/
Look up glass blowing studios in your community to get more information about what they do and how they got there!
Thiese will help also: http://www.graphicdesigndegreehub.com/30-most-amazing-glass-artists-alive-today/
http://www.chihuly.com/learn
Ken Simmons
Here is an interesting opportunity: http://www.cmog.org/glassmaking/demos/hot-glass-show/sea/glassblowers-needed
This might also help: http://www.theartcareerproject.com/glassblowing-caree/411/
Ken Simmons