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Books for Artists and Other Creative Folks

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Pricing Your Artwork with Confidence front cover
Creatively Unblocking Creative Blocks front cover
Imagine never suffering another
creative block again!

For less than the cost of one workshop,
that might cover just a small fraction of the valuable information in this book, you could have years worth of creative exercises to follow and a lifetime of understanding for developing your own creative ability.

Creatively Unblocking Creative Blocks

Over 300 fun ways to get your creative motor going again!

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Pricing Your Artwork with Confidence

An extensive step-by-step guide to pricing artwork and fine craftwork

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Stop losing money with each sale!
Finally! A detailed guide
to understanding and calculating
the actual cost of creating your artwork!
Why just survive, when you can thrive?
Become a well-informed
and self-confident artist!
Pricing Your Artwork with Confidence is a 144-page guide for artists about developing a solid pricing structure, using simple calculations to find the actual cost of creating artwork, plus many other apects of pricing. Artists will also be informed about gaining confidence, knowledge and self-respect no matter which mode of artwork they do, including craftwork, at any level from professional to beginner. Topics include raising prices, growing career, business and self as an artist, being comfortable with money issues, and separating creativity and business when necessary. Written by an experienced artist who believes that knowledge is power.
In 204 pages artists will find valuable information, new ideas to use, different ways of seeing things and step-by-step processes, with over 300 ideas designed for the purposes of seeing, thinking, doing and/or awakening creative potential, giving the reader years worth of creative exercises to follow and a lifetime of understanding for developing one’s own creative ability. This book is based on the premise that visual inspiration can be found anywhere; in nature, though sound, using raw visual elements, dreams and even from being uninspired. Written for artists, in any medium including crafts, and at any level from professional to beginner.
Both books make great birthday, graduation, holiday or anytime gifts for artists, artisans, hobbyists, students, or anyone interested in creative and professional growth.
Author Alexandria Levin has been painting since 1975 and exhibiting since1981. Over the years, she has been deeply involved with most phases of both the business and creative ends of being an artist. Hopelessly organized, outrageously creative, naturally perceptive and always ethical, her main goal in writing this and other books is to change and improve things in general for all artists.