Embroidered Collage

While I'm thinking about things that I read I thought I'd mention these two online sources, in case you haven't found them yet and one paper source.

Luann Udell, a fiber artist, writes a wonderful blog, primarily focused on philosophies and thoughts behind the making and marketing of art.  It is in regards to her personal journey, but she writes knowing that others will read for inspiration.  Recently she did a couple neat series on Exercises and Habits of Thin People in which she related losing weight to making art.  It's a little hard to work backwards with her entries, but I found it worth the effort.  If you look in the navigation bar you can see the dates - try typing in some earlier ones, up to about 18 months ago and then working your way forward.  She does revisit many topics along the way. 

Robert Genn, a painter, sends out a twice weekly letter and also publishes it to the archives on his website including "clickbacks" which are responses his readers send to him.  Sometimes the responses strike a chord even more than the letter itself.  He covers everything from other artists, to inspirational places he's visiting, to ways to think about art, to marketing the art.  He has a distinct point of view, but always an interesting one.

Both are worth it if you never want to sell a thing, but if you do, then I've also really enjoyed Art Calendar a magazine by and for artists.  A chunk of it is exhibition calls for entry, but an even larger chunk of it is articles that cover all sorts of aspects you might run across in pursuing art as a business.  I picked up about five months from the newsstand, then signed up for an online subscription, which was a pretty good price, and now get an email each month letting me know where the link to the pdf file of the next month's magazine, about two weeks before publication.  I just finished reading June's issue this morning and enjoyed every article.