HELP! I AM ARTIST

What is the best way to sell your art?

How do you win an artist commission?

Is it best to sell your art online or through a gallery?

If you need answers to these questions then this episode is for you.

In part 2 Leonie E Brown, an award winning South African Fine Artist, shares more of her valuable insights about making and selling art.

In this episode you will discover:

• How she won and worked on a large art commision,
• The key to working successfully with galleries,
• What she loves most about being an artist,
• What she absolutely dislikes about being an artist,
• Why art is important,
• Why her art school and teaching style is so unique,
• Which present and past day artists inspire her,
• Her views on African art and what we can learn from it,
• And more about her life and art vision.

This episode comes with a Free ARTIST RESOURCE. This resource relays 5 principles that successful artists apply to their art and art business.

Click here to access the Artist Success Guide.

Leonie E Brown is an award winning South African Fine Artist.

Our paths crossed a few years ago in South Africa. I had seen a YouTube video of her explaining her fascination of colour, paint and art. I was hooked.

Her animated gestures and her expertise resonated and I decided to find out more about her and she agreed to be my guest.

In this podcast she shares more of her artist journey. And I can tell you it has been one big adventure. If you are an artist and you want to learn from an expert then stay tuned. Leonie shares many of her valuable art insights.

In this episode you will discover:

• why she decided to study art,
• how art saved her life and gave her words,
• that there was a period in her life that she was afraid to paint,
• the motivation behind her paintings,
• what techniques she loves to use,
• how she approaches her creative process,
• the key to working successfully with galleries,
• more about her favourite commissions.

This episode comes with a Free Artist Success Guide. This resource will help you get really clear and confident about your art and show you how to connect with your potential art customer.

Click here to access the Artist Success Guide.

Just making strong, beautiful or meaningful art is not enough. If your art does not get seen by your potential art audience you will never sell your art consistently or successfully.

I've written this 7- step Artist Success Guide for you to download.

This guide is a powerful system to help you get more eyes on your art and to help you start to sell it.

It is a step by step plan that will help you wherever you are on your artist journey. Maybe you're really want to make an income from your art, but you don't know where to start. Or maybe you've been creating for years but you have paintings flooding your attic that are not selling. You're getting no eyes on your art and you find it hard to make ends meet. Or maybe you've been selling successfully, but you've hit a dry spell and you just can't seem to get past it. The times have changed and what used to work in the past is just not so effective anymore. Wherever you are on this artist's journey, the Artist Success Guide is there to help you.

When you get specific and clear about what you do you can start to connect with your ideal art audience.

And invariably you'll start to get more eyes in your art and start to sell it. In this podcast, I will briefly go through what you can expect of this Seven Step Artist Guide to success.

Focus is a key ingredient you need to grow and develop in your art.

But in order to do so you need to face and acknowledge your fears. Share them and do whatever you can to get past them. What can we learn from them and how can we turn them into artistic gains and strengths.

Dare to embrace your artistic dreams

Decide what process you are going to put between your opportunities and your decisions. You can't do everything. Start making decisions based on your values and that will propel you towards your goals.

Develop a continuity and consistency in your life. You art goals won't materialize overnight but if you keep going even if it is baby steps you will get there.

Discover what makes you unique. What is your story. What you need to stay motivated and focused.

Don't hold back any longer but Start….just begin. What do you have to lose?

An Artist Statement is a valuable document that articulates WHO you are and the MOTIVATION behind your art. The ability to communicate clearly about your ART builds trust and draws potential art buyers into a more in-depth connection with you and your work.

To help you Write a Clear yet Compelling Artists Statement I have made a FREE RESOURCE for you to download. This insightful worksheet will give you the tools you need to start to articulate your art.

Swiss businessman and artist consultant, Philipp Döbeli, shares valuable insights about marketing and selling your art. He shares the three golden rules that will help you boost your sales and help you grow your art business. There is a special worksheet for you to download that will give you a better understanding about your art audience and how to reach them more effectively.

Download this on: www.sonjasmalheer.com/sellingart

Artist, author and teacher, Marion de Jong, shares her inspiring story of how she left her life as a secretary in pursuit of her passion for art and creativity.

Even though she took art classes for years Marion was never satisfied with the results and this left her frustrated and unhappy about her art

Something was missing and on a trip to Italy she realised what it was.

This trip and her new found insights set her on a new path. It not only changed the way she executed her art but also the direction of her life.

It lead her to start the Dutch Art Academy, an online school, where she passionately teaches art students the keys she discovered.

Marion has made this special FREE worksheet for you to download. This practical and insightful resource will help you take your art and art career to the next level.

There is no golden rule when is comes to creating successfully. You have to find out what works for you. In this episode I will share 10 practical things artist can do to find a steady flow in their creativity and set themselves up for success.

Finding motivation is part of an Artist's job description!

Only YOU are the motor behind your creativity and it takes courage to get up, show up and do the work.

Even though you spend many hours in your studio creating you are never alone. You take your past, your friends, your critical sibling, the art world and your own ideas and thoughts with you.

It is a crowded place. It is an art in itself and the challenge for every artist to quiet these voices and find peace with yourself so that you can feel motivated and get to work.

When we have a better understanding of the forces that drive us (or don't) we can get to work to finding and staying in our creative groove.

In this podcast I share more about the creative process and how artists can find and stay in their creative flow.

Have you ever heard of the starving artist syndrome? It is a romantic notion that artists are either desperate, destitute or despondent. Although this notion may work well in books or as a plot for a movie, in reality it is no fun!

In last weeks episode #005 we had a brief look at the role of the artist through the centuries and in this episode I will identify and expose 5 myths surrounding artists today!

These myths and misconceptions not only prevent many creatives from pursuing an art career but it also paralyses many working artists today.