Habits of Creative Painters With Kate Burridge

Explore Amazing Places is excited to bring you a series of posts from some of our incredible faculty that will assist and inspire you in your painting/workshop pursuits. For this first installment, we are please to present to you, Kate Burridge.

Kate Burridge, a career manager for Visual Arts professionals, has over 25 years experience in international marketing, promotion, and professional presentations. Besides managing her husband Bob Burridge’s art career, Kate is also an author, lecturer and consultant to a long list of art associations and agencies in the United States. Kate developed “Art Marketing: The Business of Selling Your Art,” an eight-week course that she and Robert Burridge teach at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California. She also authored “News Releases: Getting the Media to Work for You,” published by Art Calendar Magazine. Kate and Bob have written for Art Calendar magazine, Fine Arts Magazine and the ISAP (International Society of Acrylic Painters) Newsletter. She currently is a writer and editor of the BobBlast, Robert Burridge’s free, weekly online videos.. She runs her own business as an Artists’ Advisor and is on the Board of the ISAP. 

KATE BURRIDGE

Staying in your studio… where you can think, write, doodle, draw, paint, create. Even when you are not feeling very creative, it is important to just show up.

To create something…isn't that what we all want? We are all about creating habits - we can’t help it. And these habits involve creativity!

Habits of Creative Painters

All creative painters, producing new works, have these six habits in common. First, you have to want to paint more creative works. It’s a choice.

1. Confidence comes from determination. You really want this.

2. Humility comes from knowing you don’t know it all.

3. Mindfulness. Being ready for all information.

4. Curious. Exploring, experimenting and expecting lots of unsuccessful paintings.

5. Energy. This is not the time to be lazy, but instead to goof around with all your ideas.

6. Action. Now do it!

And… Original, creative works of art aren’t guided by a conservative committee of old-school opinions… or jurors. I like to say, "Decide what you want, then make it happen."