Heather James Pond Blog: Creativity, Resilience, and Transformation

Financial Manageability  + Selling Art + Real Life

Financial Manageability + Selling Art + Real Life

So how did I, the most financially unmanageable and irresponsible person I have ever met - learn how to balance everything for my own art business and still make a...

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Financial Manageability + Selling Art + Real Life

So how did I, the most financially unmanageable and irresponsible person I have ever met - learn how to balance everything for my own art business and still make a...

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What it feels like to launch a collection (not what it looks like.)

What it feels like to launch a collection (not ...

(Social media and captions just don't portray this whole part very well, so I’m laying it out here like this.) 

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What it feels like to launch a collection (not ...

(Social media and captions just don't portray this whole part very well, so I’m laying it out here like this.) 

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How To Price Your Art (And other Fables)

How To Price Your Art (And other Fables)

18 months ago I couldn’t do anything that made up the ability to sell my own art. The only thing I knew how to do was make the art -...

How To Price Your Art (And other Fables)

18 months ago I couldn’t do anything that made up the ability to sell my own art. The only thing I knew how to do was make the art -...

Fuck Ups

Fuck Ups

As it happens you can’t mix acrylic paint with resin. It won’t set. In 2016 I didn’t know that, let alone what “won’t set” would even entail. I remember with...

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Fuck Ups

As it happens you can’t mix acrylic paint with resin. It won’t set. In 2016 I didn’t know that, let alone what “won’t set” would even entail. I remember with...

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Shipping Hacks

Shipping Hacks

The very first time I was commissioned to create a custom 48x48 canvas I was almost hyperventilating. Actually, I was. I remember my husband Kevin going to get my inhaler....

Shipping Hacks

The very first time I was commissioned to create a custom 48x48 canvas I was almost hyperventilating. Actually, I was. I remember my husband Kevin going to get my inhaler....

Heather Pond Art

What is it to be a successful artist anyway?

The fickle thing about success is the way that there is always someone better to compare myself to. My perceptions are like an ever changing puzzle depending on what mind...

What is it to be a successful artist anyway?

The fickle thing about success is the way that there is always someone better to compare myself to. My perceptions are like an ever changing puzzle depending on what mind...