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Art History, museum musings -

The Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings and Prints from the Clark

Sunday Art Date by Miriam Schulman, @schulmanArt

Édouard Manet (1832–1883) At the Café, 1874
Gillotage on beige wove paper Sheet: 12 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.
This sheet is one of very few known impressions of Manet’s gillotage of a scene in the Café Guerbois, a Parisian establishment frequented by artists and writers. Gillotage was a new photomechanical process capable of conveying painterly effects. 
If...

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art class, online art classes -

Getting the Happiness Quotient Right in Art Class

Focus on your own progress and praise others on theirs!
by Miriam Schulman, @schulmanArt


butterfly art
Butterfly art by SchulmanArt
In my weekly art classesI always like to end each class with a "group discussion" I used to call these critiques, but now I call them discussions. I want to encourage the students to praise each other and find the good things in each others art. That doesn't mean that I won't make the...

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insect art -

Transformations


Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?~ Mary Oliver  

new blog post by @schulmanArt, Miriam Schulman

bug art for sale
The Summer Day, 11x14" art by Miriam Schulman
As my art evolves, sometimes I have paintings in my studio that no longer fit my style. For example, I did a grasshopper and although I really liked the grasshopper itself, the painting was no longer speaking to me.I...

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art for sale -

Dear Winter, I have found someone else

Dear Winter,
winter paintings
The RideSize: 7.5x11" Original Watercolor Painting ©SchulmanArt
I have found someone else whom I think the world of and his name is Spring. I have been flirting with Spring for a while now, so I think it is best if we stop seeing each other for a while. I really enjoyed our relationship. I have memories of our dates together. Like the time we took our family sledding. I pulled my...

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art marketing tips -

Drive traffic to your etsy shop using Etsy Finds

Hot links or Hot dogs?
by Miriam Schulman, @schulmanArt

Floral Handbag appearing on first page of etsy search.
My artist friends and I were having a little discussion online about whether it pays to advertise their listings in etsy. Most agreed that it was more important to use really good keywords and renew a lot. I've learned that some of the best ways to get traffic and sales to my etsy shop is to...

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