"I think some artists don’t get the best out of Twitter or other social media because they mostly write about their own work. I talk about everything – art and science, sure, but also football, music, politics, kids, cats, whatever. If you think of it as a great free-flowing conversation that you can jump into any time, and you both listen and respond, then it’s amazing. If you just talk about yourself, then you’re that guy at the party that just talks about himself, and you’re not going to be very popular."
~ The single best piece of advice on how artists can make the most of Twitter, courtesy of artist Michele Banks in an interview on Scientific American. Her biological watercolors are a gem. (via curiositycounts) Yes. (via curiositycounts)