I'd Rather Be in the Studio!: The Artist's No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion

7 best books like I'd Rather Be in the Studio!: The Artist's No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion (Alyson B. Stanfield): The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss, The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered, The King's Agent, Art Is a Way of Knowing, Craft, Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business, Inside the Painter's Studio

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

Author	Edmund de Waal
ISBN	0374105979

The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned like a comet” in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none...

The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success

Author	Jennifer Lee
ISBN	1577319443

Turn Passionate Ideas into Profitable Enterprises

Do you dream of making a living doing what you love but find the process of creating a viable business plan like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? Jennifer Lee knows what it's like to make the entrepreneurial leap -- and how to do it successfully....

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

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Austin Kleon

In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—getting...

The King's Agent

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Donna Russo Morin

"Russo Morin skillfully blends historical fiction and fantasy in surprising ways. She draws effortlessly upon influences ranging from Dante to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the authority of her presentation makes the world she’s created come alive. A wonderfully action-packed ride through the...

Art Is a Way of Knowing

Author	Pat B. Allen
ISBN	1570620784

Making art—giving form to the images that arise in our mind's eye, our dreams, and our everyday lives—is a form of spiritual practice through which knowledge of ourselves can ripen into wisdom. This book offers encouragement for everyone to explore art making in this spirit of self-discovery—plus...

Craft, Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business

Author	Meg Mateo Ilasco
ISBN	0811858367

"Craft, Inc." is the ultimate guide to turning what you do for fun into what you do for money.

Ready to start a craft business, but you'd rather wield a crochet hook than a calculator? Let crafter-turned-entrepreneur Meg Mateo Ilasco teach you the basics of starting your own company, from developing...

Inside the Painter's Studio

Author	Joe Fig
ISBN	1568988524

"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work."
Chuck Close

Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, but also plenty of physical and logistical details. It is...