I have recently had a ridiculously busy time of painting where I ended up with upwards of forty new paintings, pet cartoons, tshirts and UNvalentines greeting cards-after this great manic production period I am left with the interim of creativity. After a few weeks of not knowing what to do with myself mixed with a bit of paintings being debuted, I have decided to reboot my processes. To be successful in a business that stems from a manic stream of creativity, we creative types must find a bit of order. Creativity without some sort of discipline is scattered paintings and madness with nothing being sold and needing instead to hire a person to handle marketing procedures.

I don’t believe each can be done together as effectively as one professional handling the marketing and the artist handling the creative work, I do believe there needs to be and can be a happy medium. My first step was to cull an email account from 10,000+ emails down to less than 500, an amazing and daunting task in itself. I have gone through old files and paperwork and literally dug myself out of a mound of paperwork. I believe that once I am not under a mountain of confusion and disorder the discipline and order of marketing will be able to coincide with the manic state of creativity.

I am excited about the prospect of getting to read emails, assess multiple galleries where I have my work and plan for the next step of marketing when the creativity is reignited. So how do you find organization? How do you maintain a balance between creativity and production and the principles and objectives of marketing your work. Would love to hear your input and comments on rebooting for organization and balancing art with marketing.