Watching people struggle to create and sell has given me a basic set of instructions for an artist's life.
1. Don't think selling cheap is a good thing. You undervalue yourself and devalue others.
2. Stop eyeballing others. Their success, skill or talent is theirs. Develop your own.
3. Be confident.
4. Be honest.
5. Don't buy into everything that shows up, glass, tools, toys. Look at what people made with sand and fire and work up from there. Kit doesn't convey skill.
6. Don't rely on others to do your thinking.
7. Something once said by Kandice Seeber, and the truest words ever spoken by an artist.
Never sell anything but your best work.
Ok, that's it. Go on and work on it, make beads that are the best you can and don't be bothered by ones that fail, you learn more from failure than success.
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