Unknown Artist?

Any Artist who thinks they can build a successful career without becoming a personality is naive.

I understand you are shy, I understand that you are quiet and timid but you cannot let these things stop you from becoming the Artist you are destined to be.

The thing that stops most from stepping forward is fear.

What will people say about me?

Also shame, “Who are you to think you can do that?”

And peer pressure, what will my friends say and think?

Peer pressure is not just for school children, I know many older Artists who are so worried about what will their group think and say if they step out and do amazing things.

It is easy to agree that we need to promote ourselves, but hard to do because that negative voice inside our head the ‘Thief” will steal your success from you if you let it.

It wants safety and security and it does not want to to step out from the crowd and be noticed and it will use shame and peer pressure and fear of failure to stop you from doing it.

To be successful your face needs be better known than your paintings.

Look at Picasso, Dali, Andy Warhol and Frida Kahlo, we know these people even if we don’t know their paintings, why because they promoted themselves shamelessly and you need to do the same.

It is very easy not be noticed and takes no effort.

It takes hard work and effort to become known, and you will have to walk against the “Thief,” if you will not do it for you, no one else will.

If you love your paintings and want people to see them and buy them, then you need to become known.

An unknown Artist, is an unknown Artist.