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Q: How do you decide how much to charge for your paintings?
Barbara’s studio A: What to charge for my work is a complex question. The prices of my pastel paintings take into account many tangible and intangible factors. Here are a few: Sales history. My...
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Q: Besides your art materials is there something you couldn’t live without in...
Barbara’s studio A: I would not want to work without music. Turning on the radio or the cd player is part of my daily ritual before heading over to the easel. (Next I apply barrier cream to my hands...
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Pearls from artists* # 254
“Survivors,” soft pastel on sandpaper, 20″ x 26″ image, 28 1/2″ x 35″ framed * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the...
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Q: How do you feel about donating your work to auctions?
Studio with work in progress A: Generally, it depends on who is doing the asking. If it’s an organization that has been supportive of my work, I am pleased to help with fundraising. If the...
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Q: Do your materials have properties that allow you to maximize what you...
Barbara’s studio A: I work exclusively in soft pastel on sandpaper. Pastel, which is pigment and a binder to hold it together, is as close to unadulterated pigment as an artist can get. It allows...
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Q: Would you speak about the meaning of your work and the different materials...
About half of Barbara’s pastels A: It is as difficult to explain the meaning of my art as it is to interpret the meaning of life! I am invested in and concerned with process: foreign travel,...
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Pearls from artists* # 390
In the studio. Photo: Izzy Nova *an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. What made their...
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Q: Are pastel paintings easy to care for?
With “Poseur,” 70” x 50” Framed A: Yes, they are. I have used only the finest archival and lightfast materials to create and frame them because I want them to last. Here are some instructions....
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Pearls from artists* # 482
One of Viscarra’s masks at MUSEF La Paz *an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on....
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Q: What advice would you give to a young artist with potential?
Barbara’s studio (since April 1997) A: I last answered this question in my blog more than ten years ago and I would say similar things now to what I said then. Be sure that you love your process...
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Pearls from artists* # 585
Barbara’s Studio *an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. Improvisation, composition,...
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