{"id":917,"date":"2017-04-07T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T15:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/?p=917"},"modified":"2017-04-21T06:58:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T05:58:17","slug":"the-many-faces-of-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/2017\/04\/the-many-faces-of-an-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"The many faces of an artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Atamayka-Faces-Artist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-881\" src=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Atamayka-Faces-Artist-585x784.jpg\" alt=\"Atamayka-Faces-Artist\" width=\"585\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Atamayka-Faces-Artist-585x784.jpg 585w, https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Atamayka-Faces-Artist-93x125.jpg 93w, https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Atamayka-Faces-Artist-187x250.jpg 187w, https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Atamayka-Faces-Artist-768x1029.jpg 768w, https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Atamayka-Faces-Artist-624x836.jpg 624w, https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Atamayka-Faces-Artist.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a>At night, my very vivid dreams fuel the projects I have in my mind. I remember working on a piece of clay, all night, to make a sculpture&#8230; in my dreams. I woke up and ran to make the lady of my dreams before I would forget her. Too bad I didn\u2019t even make a picture of her, as she sold immediately. So you see, <strong>I really am working all day and night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I could be doing this forever without selling a thing. But don\u2019t get me wrong, I do want to sell all of my art pieces. <strong>But if I didn\u2019t sell them, would this whole urge to make art be worth it? Yes! Sustainable? No!<\/strong> My basement can only hold so many pieces.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Being a sustainable artist means that you will also be a business woman, a marketer, a salesperson, a writer, an accountant, an archivist, etc. I\u2019ve been making <a href=\"http:\/\/atamayka.com\/art\/videos-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\">short funny videos <\/a>lately, how about adding musician to the mix?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(The painting above is available at the gallery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glasschneider.at\/de\/partner\/4133\/praesentation\/kunstraum-hopfgarten\" target=\"_blank\">Kunstraum Hopfgarten from Peter Ainberger. <\/a>If you are interested in other paintings you see on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/drawingserendipities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> feed or <a href=\"http:\/\/atamayka.com\/art\/100-urban-faces\/\" target=\"_blank\">my website<\/a>, please contact me at <a href=\"mailto:art@atamayka.com\">art@atamayka.com)<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At night, my very vivid dreams fuel the projects I have in my mind. I remember working on a piece of clay, all night, to make a sculpture&#8230; in my dreams. I woke up and ran to make the lady of my dreams before I would forget her. Too bad I didn\u2019t even make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,35,39,11,41,10,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acrylics","category-artist-process","category-collage","category-creative","category-iseefaces","category-living-with-art","category-painting","category-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}