Here are some clips from the very first organization of ideas that became the San Diego Finishing School.

I often hear about artists that don’t follow through, don’t understand business basics, don’t show up on time, don’t show up at all, and generally don’t meet expectations.

Usually this is because of some mismatch between an artist’s ability to realize his or her ideas and the artist’s ability to organize a job, and subsequently, a business. I wasn’t as clear on this impportant distinction then as I am today.

In the same context, I also wrote:

One of my goals is to build your confidence with thorough fundamentals and relevant hands-on practice in a low pressure environment. Your confidence in your own eye and your own skills is an essential component of your success in creating anything beautiful with paint.

Today I include a new goal in the mission of SDFS, which is to build confidence in the business side of a faux painting business.

I realized that an obstacle for some of my students and for myself has often been stress about the business side of a job, sometimes to the point of spoiling the fun/creative/artistic/satisfying side of the job.

So I have dedicated myself to making artist business development a more fundamental and more specific component of this year’s program at SDFS. A schedule for the coming school year will become available starting August 27, check the latest edition of the News or register for this feed by clicking on the large icon at the bottom of this page.

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