We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Myia Paige . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Myia below.

Alright, Myia thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

My journey to becoming a visual artist started in middle school and progress’s throughout my high school career. I was very involved in the art community. I took art classes, chorus, woodworking, sculpting, home economics, and the list goes on! Pretty much anything pertaining to art or working with my hands I took a liking to. During high school in 2012 /13 my art teacher Mr.Collier pushed me and inspired me to give art my all. After high school I pursued college and that didn’t work out so, YouTube became my best friend!

Knowing what I know now, the only thing I would’ve changed is my time management. Considering that I was learning basically online , I wasn’t spending much time practicing. Life was always moving so, skills that I could’ve leaned in two weeks took two months. Sustaining your practice is key.

Skills that I consider essential are definitely time management and knowing the business or commercial aspect of being an artist! Learning where and how to find resources is vital. Not knowing how to present yourself,promote,or do most of the groundwork can form obstacles that won’t expose you to the rig hit opportunities.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

My name is Myia Paige Richardson. I formally go as Myia Paige. I am a visual artist and have been an art lover since a child.

I decided I would be an artist 2013 straight out of high school! I started as an abstract expressionist and now I’ve ventured out into many other art forms like sculpting, resin, portraits, etc! I love for my art to strike emotions in people as I put myself into every piece. I draw a lot of inspiration from Willem De Kooning.

My work is unique in its own way because there is no one style I stick to but, people know my work when they see it! My focus is always to provoke emotions and make conversation pieces. I want the consumer to relate in their own way.

Looking back, are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

Absolutely, there are many marketing and online art selling resources I had NO idea existed! Selling online is vital as an artist. I prefer to sell original pieces and those can be costly, so finding the right collectors through sites made it much easier to sell. Before I was just posting art and praying to sell.

Alright – so here’s a fun one. What do you think about NFTs?

When people ask me this question I feel like a dinosaur! As young as I am , I am NOTTT up to date with the NFTs. I prefer to sell physical pieces of artwork. I think that NFTs are cool and maybe in the future I’ll get into them but as of now I’m sticking to the messy beautiful process of paintbrush in hand.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @thegreatadventuresofmy

Image Credits
Myia Richardson