If you’re an artist who is trying to sell their work, you need to know what is available to sell. Keeping track of your art inventory is essential so that you’ll be ready for future opportunities and you can evaluate your sales history at the end of the year. I’ll give you ideas of how to keep track of your artwork, what details you should keep track of, and how you can benefit by this.

Southern Oregon artist Roxanne Evans Stout calls her business River Garden Studio, as she is inspired by the Klamath River and the nature that she can experience so close to her home. Her artwork is a collage style that incorporates paper, fabric, stitching, and found objects. She shares her techniques and artistic talent through workshops and online classes. Roxanne truly has a well-developed left brain, because she intuitively knows how to pursue art opportunities and is not afraid to create her own.

Showing your art locally is all about opportunity. It’s certainly an opportunity for a sale, but it’s also an opportunity for the community to get to know you. Your goal should be to build relationships with potential buyers. In this episode, I tell you how you can find and get into your local art scene, by looking for art councils, joining artist groups, and showing your art at local venues.

Artist Carin Wagner makes these amazing paintings of outdoor scenes, often beautiful Florida trees, and lately she’s been making paintings of the sky. Her oil paintings are so realistic, you’d think they are photographs.

Outdoor art shows can be quite lucrative for many artists, and they may sell hundreds or thousands of dollars of their art over just a weekend.  They’re also a lot of work, so you need to carefully evaluate whether this type of show would be best for your business. In this episode, I will give you tips on how to find these shows, how to apply, and how to make them successful, so that you can decide if outdoor art shows are right for you.

Artist e’Layne Kelley has sold hand painted clothing, jewelry, run an art district, opened galleries, and created many businesses. Today she is writing a book, Crafting Your Creative Life, and teaching people how to remove the obstacles of obsessive thoughts blocking the light of creative flow. E’Layne is a woman who is filled with ideas and always busy and creating something new.

Artists need to find opportunities to show their art, and they do that by finding and responding to a Call to Artists. These calls can be found online and through local artist groups, galleries, and cities. In this episode, I’ll tell you what is included in a Call to Artists, and how you respond to it to increase your chances of being accepted into a show.

After receiving a BFA in Interior Design, and working many years in that field, Jen Fisher connected with a local art school where she started teaching. Eventually she developed her own style of painting, incorporating her love of technical drawings with a palette painting technique. Her artwork is now in demand by local museums and galleries.

Have you ever dreamed of taking a destination art class? These can be wonderful crafting vacations, where you learn a new skill, meet new people, and visit a new area. They can last anywhere from a day to a week, and they can be held at rustic farms, exotic beaches, hotels in cool cities, as well as art stores and artist studios, all over the world. Today I’ll tell you all about these workshops, and I’ll have lots of links in the show notes so you can find one that will look fun and interesting to you.

Stephanie Lee is a painting and jewelry artist who has a long history of teaching incredibly interesting classes. She has taught many live workshops, as well as online classes. She’s very generous with her teaching, giving so much more content than you’d expect. She gives you art, words, and courses, that come straight from her heart.