Welcome to Xanadu Gallery and Art Business Academy’s Online Critique Group.
In each Critique Group meeting, we will examine a member artist’s artwork. We will review the quality and consistency of the work, talk about strengths and weaknesses in the work itself, and discuss the pricing and marketability of the submitted artwork. This is an opportunity for the featured artist to get feedback on his/her art and art career, and for everyone participating to gain insights into what makes great art.
Participation in the group is completely free, and you can either join our meetings live from your computer or mobile device during the broadcast, or watch the recording after the broadcast is completed. Just return to this page at broadcast start time to join live, or come back to this page anytime and scroll down to view archived recordings of past sessions.
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The Online Critique Group is on Hiatus
Watch for an email announcing the resumption of weekly session during the summer of 2022
(View the start time for your time zone in the chart below)
Provide Feedback About the Featured Artwork
You can provide feedback about the artwork using the form below. If you join us in the live broadcast, you will also have an opportunity to provide impressions and feedback during the broadcast.
Broadcast Start Time by Time Zone
Broadcasts are held on Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time.
| Pacific Time | 9:00 AM | |
| Arizona | 9:00 AM | |
| Mountain | 10:00 AM | |
| Central | 11:00 AM | |
| Eastern | 12:00 PM | |
| Alaska | 8:00 AM | |
| Hawaii | 6:00 AM | |
| London | 5:00 PM | |
| UTC | 4:00 PM | |
| Berlin | 6:00 PM | |
| Sydney, AUS | 2:00 AM | (Thursday) |
Submit Your Art for Review in a Future Online Critique Group Session
Would you like to have your art reviewed in a future broadcast? Submit your art by clicking here.
Please note that due to the volume of submissions we receive, we are not able to feature every artist who submits their work for review.
Archive of Past Broadcasts
Video of past broadcasts will appear here shortly after the live broadcast ends
2022-04-27
Featured Artist April 27: Jan Dale, Allen Park, MI
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Title: Perseverance (SOLD January 2022) |
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Title: A Well-Earned Rest |
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Title: Cool Beans (SOLD summer 2022) |
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Title: Studio In Spring (SOLD summer 2021) |
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Title: Balancing Act |
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| What Questions Would you Like to Have Answered About Your Art During a Review Session? | 1) How diverse can the subject matter be and still read as a cohesive body of work? 2) I recently started to prefer a rigid surface as opposed to gallery-wrapped canvas. Right now this represents a little over half of my work. Should I wait to approach galleries until I have more of my work on my preferred surface? 3) This past March, I challenged myself to paint 30 miniature works in 30 days and offer them on Instagram as a way to raise funds for an artist residency scheduled for this summer. I sold more of them than I expected. It attracted a wider audience and sparked a new series of very small works. So….. How might a gallery feel if I reserved that new section of my art for my subscribers and offered the gallery only the works over a certain size/price range? 4) As I researched other artists’ pricing practices, They were all over the map. I settled on a method and structure that seems to work. However, my profit margin may shrink significantly with the addition of gallery commissions and shipping. How can I keep myself, my gallery, and my private collectors all happy? |
2022-04-20
Ask Me Anything Session
2022-04-13
Featured Artist April 13: Darryl Erdmann, Farr West, Utah
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Title: Collecting Mirrors |
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Title: Defining Moments |
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Title: Silent Metaphor |
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Title: Random Flying |
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Title: The Desert Laughs At US |
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| What Questions Would you Like to Have Answered About Your Art During a Review Session? | Open to all comments and questions. I am currently trying to expand beyond local boundaries and reach out to new patrons, customers. |
2022-04-06
Featured Artist April 6: Rick Bogacz, Toronto, Ontario
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Title: Winding Fence, Schomberg, Ontario |
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Title: Ice Covered Rocks, The Beaches |
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Title: Pier Remains |
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Title: Trees in High Park |
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Title: Windswept Pine |
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| What Questions Would you Like to Have Answered About Your Art During a Review Session? | Would like to get more information about pricing art and approaching galleries. |
2022-03-30
Featured Artist March 30: Thomas Moran
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Title: Under the Trees, 1865 |
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Title: Yellowstone Canyon, 1872 |
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Title: Colburn’s Butte, South Utah, 1873 |
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Title: The Golden Hour, 1875 |
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Title: Shoshone Falls, Idaho, ca. 1875 |
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2022-03-23
Featured Artist March 23: Linda Wren, Henrico, VA
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Title: Irene |
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Title: Marybelle |
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Title: Broken in 2020 |
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Title: Inertia |
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Title: Dream State |
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| What Questions Would you Like to Have Answered About Your Art During a Review Session? | New to selling and showing. And many shows were postponed during Covid. Any advice on ways to market or all advice welcome |
2022-03-16
2022-03-02
Featured Artist March 2, Joshua Pass, Nederland, Colorado
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Title: Explorer |
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Title: Perception |
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Title: Encircle |
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Title: Infinity Bell |
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Title: Between the sexes |
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| What Questions Would you Like to Have Answered About Your Art During a Review Session? | My strengths and weaknesses? Does it grab the viewers attention? Does the story or meaning come across? How do you react as the viewer? What could make the work stronger in your opinion? |
2022-02-23
Featured Artist February 23, Julia Veenstra, Hamilton, Ontario
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Title: Suspension |
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Title: Look What I Found |
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Title: Tofino Beach |
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Title: Fury |
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Title: Butterfly Affect |
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| What Questions Would you Like to Have Answered About Your Art During a Review Session? | Am I too regional? Should I paint a broader subject, ie beaches, palm trees etc to reach a broader audience? If I have not been to a region but love photos of it is it authentic? When is it time to raise prices? |
2022-02-16
February 16 Session: Ask Me Anything
2022-02-09
Featured Artist February 9: Dorian Scotti, Tubac, AZ
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Title: Orange Wrap |
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Title: Red’s Back |
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Title: Journey |
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Title: Taos Pueblo |
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Title: Woman with a Pearl Earring |
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| What Questions Would you Like to Have Answered About Your Art During a Review Session? | What would improve my painting? Are there common deficiencies you see in the 5 provided samples? Thank you. |
2022-02-02
Featured Artist February 2nd: Joanne Guthrie, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada
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Title: Autumn Redemption |
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Title: Compassionate |
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Title: Waiter where’s my drink! |
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Title: Reliance |
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Title: Fire |
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| What Questions Would you Like to Have Answered About Your Art During a Review Session? | I would like to know about the pricing, as well a the names I’ve chosen. Thank you |
2022-01-26
Featured Artist January 26: Gay Cox, Millersville, Pennsylvania
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Title: Breakfast with the Dawn 7 |
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Title: Gardens of Eternity: Shade and Water |
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Title: Gardens of Eternity: Seeds of Infinity |
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Title: Song 50 |
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Title: In a Persian Garden |
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| What Questions Would you Like to Have Answered About Your Art During a Review Session? | 1 How to make my large body of work accessible and not overwhelming? 2 Is my website too large? 3 Can a consistent flow be seen as I introduce my newer mixture of figure and more abstract natural scenes. Any feedback would be helpful. |
2022-01-19
Ask Me Anything
2022-01-12
Featured Artist: Tony Seker, Fort Lee, NJ
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Title: Different Paths |
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Title: Tiki Paradise |
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Title: Sailing |
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Title: The Ocean of Us |
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Title: Splash of Love |
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| What Questions Would you Like to Have Answered About Your Art During a Review Session? | I plan to start approaching galleries in 2022 and I’d appreciate any guidance on how to present my work most effectively – stick with one style for example? These questions relate to this goal. 1. The last couple of paintings incorporate different methods than the first three. I don’t like to be restricted to one look but is it a disservice to present them together in exhibitions? 2. What aspects are visually more appealing to you and where can I improve? 3. Is less, more? See “Sailing” v others… 4. I struggle with whether to add a signature on the front? I’ve been playing around with Krink graffiti markers which would add more of a street art look and be fairly prominent. A big change. |
2022-01-05 Holiday break
2021-12-29 Holiday break
2021-12-22 Holiday break
2021-12-15
2021-12-08
Featured Artist December 8: Cyndie Rauls, La Farge, Wisconsin
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Title: Dream Mechanism I |
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Title: Phantom Limb III |
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Title: Fragments of the Imagination |
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Title: Sentience II |
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Title: An Artist Walks In |
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| What Questions Would you Like to Have Answered About Your Art During a Review Session? | PRICING is my BIG question… what I create is unique in that I’m having a hard time finding comps for price comparison. How does one get over the self-imposed obstacle of not having artistic pedigree? (ie: I didn’t study art technique… my parents weren’t artists.) I live in an extremely rural area and know I must reach out to a bigger market such as Minneapolis/St Paul… I see this as a really tough sell. |
