In a short amount of time, I’ve pivoted into a full time art career. It didn’t come without some planning, but it mostly did. I’ve learned a lot of stuff leading up to it, and have learned a lot since then. I want to share it with you because I want you to have an excellent art career.
Maybe you’re like me and you feel stuck in a dead end career. Maybe you’re well into your art career, but know that you need to know more. Maybe you love my newsletter and you want to know all my secrets. I’ll share everything. I love sharing. It’s caring. And I care. I care to make a robust community and to help people make the bst out of their work.
The Society of Excellence is a community of artists – sharing our collective knowledge & insight – helping each other grow.
Would you like to learn more about watercolor? Do you want to know more about the business of starting up a business? [1]
The community will ALWAYS be available in our private WhatsApp chatroom. I hope you get excellent advice, make excellent work, and get excellent joy from being a part of this Community. This Society. A Society of Excellence.
What do you want to get better at?
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Social Media
Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook. Reels, posts, stories.
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Newsletters
Why to write them, what to write in them, when to send them.
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Branding & Design
Photoshop, Illustrator, Logos, brand guidelines
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Video Editing
Motion Graphics, Aftereffects, Premiere
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Art Markets
What to bring, how to display your stuff
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Websites
Squarespace, Wordpress, Strategy
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Watercolor
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Photography
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What you’ll get
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Live Online Lessons
Tune in. Paint along. Show me what you’ve got. I’ll be there to answer all the questions & conversation I can keep up with.
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Support Groups & Art Sprints
Monday morning mastermind sessions, followed by an hour of focused work activity. Thursday 1 hour work sprints bookend the week with productivity. Eye of the Tiger!
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Video Tutorials
Pre-recorded watercolor tutorials you can watch on-demand, at your own pace, any time of day, any day of the year.
BEST VALUE!
Video Tutorials
Baby Chick - full length watercolor tutorial
Owl - full length watercolor tutorial
Orangutan - full length watercolor tutorial
I’m here for you no matter where you are.
I mean this geographically and psychographically [3]. You could be in the middle of Montana or in Downtown LA or just down the street from me in Maplewood, New Jersey.
With a 20 year career in Graphic Design, I’ve built up tons of skills that make my art career much easier. I’m here to share a load of pro tips with you. I’m also an experienced event organizer, and really thrive within communities. I’ve done some research, I’ve done some wild experimenting. I’ve tried & succeeded, and I’ve tried and failed. It’s kinda fun.
Here are some more credentials and/or brags:
Chair of the SOMA studio tour
Organizer of Cranksgiving NYC for 12 years
Co-creator of Soma Affordable Arts
Pretty good cyclist
Runs the Bike Bus for Tuscan Elementary School
Teacher at the Baird
FAQs
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As with everything, you get out of it what you put into it. My hope is that you tune in to a little bit of everything - not every single time, but it’s all available for you when you’re ready for it.
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That’s right, just $15 a month. I want it to be affordable, and you get GREAT value out of it. There are lower tiers for just mastermind access or just video tutorial access, but the Complete Excellence level is a really really great value at $15/mo.
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With a 20 year career in Graphic Design, I’ve built up tons of skills that make my art career much easier. I’m here to share a load of pro tips with you. I’m also an experienced event organizer, and really thrive within communities. I’ve done some research, I’ve done some wild experimenting. I’ve tried & succeeded, and I’ve tried and failed. It’s kinda fun.
Here are some more credentials and/or brags:
Chair of the SOMA studio tour
Organizer of Cranksgiving NYC for 12 years
Co-creator of Soma Affordable Arts
Pretty good cyclist
Runs the Bike Bus for Tuscan Elementary School
Teacher at the Baird
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Oh, not really. Just figured you might want to know who I am before jumping into this. You know what’s fun? I can just make up FAQs like this and tuck dumb jokes literally everywhere.
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Chat GPT, our friend, says this:
A mastermind session is a meeting where a small group of people with shared goals or interests come together to brainstorm, share ideas, solve problems, and support each other's growth. The concept is rooted in the idea that collaboration and collective thinking can lead to better solutions and more significant progress than working alone.
In a typical mastermind session:
Members share their challenges, goals, or ideas.
The group offers feedback, suggestions, and resources.
Each member is held accountable for taking action on their goals.
There's often a rotating "hot seat" where one person gets focused attention on their issue or project.
Masterminds can be especially useful for creatives, entrepreneurs, or business owners looking for fresh perspectives, networking opportunities, and accountability. Would you be interested in joining or starting one related to illustration, teaching, or your art business?
FOOTNOTES & GLOSSARY
Mastermind: A mastermind session is a meeting where a small group of people with shared goals or interests come together to brainstorm, share ideas, solve problems, and support each other's growth.
Art Sprints - get on zoom, tell us what you’re planning to do for the next hour, then do it. It’s an accountability thing. You and I both need to block out time to keep ourselves accountable.Except when I’m not, in which case I’ll get back to you as soon as possible. Like, you know, when I’m sleeping. Stuff like that.
This probably isn’t really the right term, but I mean “your state of mind. Your position in regards to art in your life and career”.
OK fine. Most of them. A lot of most of them at least.