Amanda McLeod Art
  • New Year's Resolutions Dream Big
    Blogging,  Lifestyle

    New Year’s Resolutions

    A New Year a New Start. We all have big dreams for the upcoming year. You want to find your dream job. Build new and better portfolio. Get into an art gallery. Create more art. Try out a new technique. Attend more conventions or festivals. Sell more art. Form better habits. Get rid of bad habits. The list goes on and on. We tend to make these large resolutions for ourselves. There’s nothing wrong with that. In fact we need a few large goals to aim for. It’s just we shouldn’t forget about the small ones too. The small building blocks is what makes up the larger goals. My large…

  • Blog for Artists
    Blogging,  Lifestyle

    A Blog for Artists

    Why Start a Blog? I admit it. I’ve tried in the past to start a blog and failed miserably. I’d have good intentions, set myself up with a plan. I read all these various posts and tutorials on how to start a successful blog. I even wrote out a few posts. Each attempt would fall flat. I got bogged down on everyone else’s thoughts on how to run a blog. It felt like I was wasting too much time writing or didn’t have enough content to post. I tried following the 80/20 rule. Eighty percent of your time should be making art while the twenty percent should be marketing. There…