Another bitesize portion of treats from around the web. This month, lots of tips on how to become more creative.

Mind Wandering Can Boost Your Creativity – But Only After More Intense Brainstorming

Lifehacker

A new study has shown that if you work on a creative task, then take a break and let your mind wander, when you come back to the task,...

Read more: Right Brain Roundup – May 2012 – Boost Your Creativity

Looking back at the findings from the 2012 Enterprising Artist Survey, one of those that most surprised me is that only just over half of the 954 respondents use blogging as a method of promotion for their art.

Of all the ways to bring more targeted traffic to a website, I would rate blogging as the number one strategy that everyone should be using...

Read more: Make Your Art Blog Matter

A couple of months ago we hosted The Enterprising Artist Survey here on Right Brain Rockstar, and now I’d like to share some of the findings with you.

I must apologise for keeping you waiting on this. I had intended to share these findings soon after the survey was completed. The reason it has taken longer than anticipated is because an...

Read more: Key Insights From The Enterprising Artist Survey

If you’re a regular reader, you may remember when I posted the story of how Sylvester Stallone got started as an actor. Sly was definitely the ‘all-or-nothing’ type, not wanting to do any work except acting, for fear of losing his passion for it.

But that’s not necessarily the right way for everyone to go about launching a...

Read more: Is a Full-time Creative Career Really What You Want?

Right now, there are a lot of people (myself included) talking about how the Internet is making it easier than ever for artists and other creative individuals to promote themselves online to a global audience.

While it’s true that getting your art online can be a great way to market your work, it’s all too easy to get stuck in the...

Read more: Getting Back to Reality

Here’s my pick of the best art and creativity articles from around the web this past month:

Lessons to be learned from Thomas Kinkade

Art Licensing Blog

Sadly, the successful licensed artist Thomas Kinkade died earlier this month, aged just 54. Kinkade built a very lucrative career from licensing his artworks, and in this article, Tara Reed...

Read more: Right Brain Roundup: April 2012

This is the fifth and last in a series of posts looking at the Five Basic Skills of Drawing.

We have covered the perception of Edges, Spaces, Relationships, and Light & Shadow. Today we’ll bring them all together with the final skill - The Perception of the Whole or Gestalt.

The previous skills have focused on identifying and drawing different...

Read more: Perception of the Whole or Gestalt – The Five Basic Skills of Drawing – Part 5

eBay is the world’s biggest online marketplace, with over 100 million global users (as of Q4 2011), where (they claim) practically anyone can buy and sell practically anything.

So what about artists? Is it possible to successfully sell your artwork on eBay, or is there just too much competition to make it a viable solution?

eBay offer their...

Read more: Could You Earn up to $7000/month Selling Your Art on eBay?

A couple of weeks ago I was on the phone to a customer who was interested in commissioning a portrait of one of her dogs.

I had spent a few minutes going through several available options for the style, colour, and print surface of the portrait, and when I asked ‘what size canvas do you want it on?’, her reply was ‘Oh, don’t...

Read more: Increase Sales by Reducing Choice

When I posted 101 Great Reasons to Be an Artist, one reader wrote to me personally, and said that the question of ‘what motivates people to create art’ raised a whole new question for her – What do you consider art?

There is no objective definition of art. It means different things to different people. So I’d like to open...

Read more: Ask the Readers: What Do You Consider Art?