The Art Coaching Club Podcast
Copycats, Cowboys, and the Conversation We're Not Having
May 8, 202618 min · 4,199 words
Show notes
Posting this off-schedule because the conversation got too loud to ignore. An emergency drop on copycats in the art world — both flavors of it. The viral DIY-the-painting-yourself video that's been making the rounds, and the bigger, quieter problem of artists copying other artists.
Highlighted moments
you might also be influenced to paint flowers in a expressionistic manner, but that doesn't mean you also thought the daffodil should go on the left.
“if you just continue to rip off other artists, you're going to have no reputation and no connections in this art world.”
“I think there is a misunderstanding that like, if art is on Pinterest, it is free to take, which it's not”
“why would I play the long game and take the harder route and wait to find my own voice and my own style when I could just kind of do this thing that's already working, charge a little bit less, make it work for my audience and start selling it today.”
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