Tom Ray's Art Podcast

On this episode of the podcast, I meet Amie Waters. Amie has been making music and videos on YouTube for years and has turned it into a career. After going to school for music and putting out several albums Amie decided to dive in one year to really try and make music a career. After doing that for a time, Amie thought it wasn't going to happen and was about to give up when one of the releases did something big! 

Links

Amie Waters on YouTube 

https://www.youtube.com/AmieWaters

Amie Waters on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/amiewatersmusic

Amie Waters on Twitter

https://twitter.com/amiewatersmusic

Tom Ray's Art Podcast website - https://www.tomrayswebsite.com

On this episode of the podcast, I meet Jason Lambeth. Jason is an artist and musician here in Madison. Jason paints, draws, and makes music. I actually heard about him from a video suggestion on YouTube he was on a podcast about running a cassette tape music label. We talk about his music background, running a label, and the inspiration behind what he makes.

Links

Jason Lambeth's website 

https://jasonelambeth.com

Jason Lambeth on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/jasonelambeth

Visit Tom Ray's Art Podcast website - https://www.tomrayswebsite.com

On this episode of the podcast, I meet Xizhou Xie. Xizhou is a painter that lives here in Madison WI. We talk about finding her art style, getting work hung in galleries, and even turning her own home into a gallery for her artwork.

Links

Xizhou Xie's website https://xizhouxie.com

Xizhou Xie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/xizhouxie

Podcast website - https://www.tomrayswebsite.com

On this episode of the podcast, I meet Tiffany Babb. She's a regular contributor to many online publications and writes about the comics and not just that but how the comic stories have cultural relevance. 

Tiffany also just released her first collection of poetry "A LIST OF THINGS I’VE LOST" that was published by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. Plus Tiffany also makes a diary webcomic called "All About Me".

Links

Tiffany Babb's website 

https://www.tiffanybabb.com

Tiffany Babb on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/explodingarrow

Podcast website - https://www.tomrayswebsite.com

In the previous episode of the podcast, I talked about how I used Facebook ads to find people that might be interested in the things I make. I wanted to tell a story this time about something I tried to find people to read my autobiographical webcomic I draw using Google ads that ended up not costing that much.  It started with promoting a physical book I made of the webcomic and then pivoted into a separate website that people could flip through to read it.

Podcast website - https://www.tomrayswebsite.com

This week I was unable to book an artist in time for the podcast. So I thought I would try something different.

I've been working on ads to promote the podcast and some of the art and music I create too. So I thought I would share how I've been using Facebook ads up until now to promote what I do.

Plus I wanted to share a new type of ad style for me that I've really been happy with.

I talk about my objectives for these ads, the interests I use to find the audience, and the type of ad sets that worked best for me on Facebook.

If you've been curious about creating Facebook ads I thought maybe this might spark some ideas and possibly help inspire others who want to try to do ads in the future.

I don't know I just wanted to try this format on the podcast and see.

Terry Huddleston is an artist living in Indiana who has been making comic book pinup posters and more. I saw his work at a ComicCon that came through town and one of the things that was really cool about what he was doing is he was printing these posters he was selling right there at his booth. We talk about how Terry started out making comics and then realized that he could be making fan art more quickly and sell more of it to people.

Links

Terry Huddleston's website 

https://www.terryhuddlestonart.com

Terry Huddleston on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/terryhuddlestonart

Tom Ray's Art Podcast Website

https://www.tomrayswebsite.com

Craig Hutchinson is a YouTube cartoon animator living in Jamaica. Craig contacted me after seeing one of my animated cartoons I posted online. I had checked out his YouTube and he has been posting his own cartoons for the past year. One thing I found really interesting about them was that he was doing Storytime animation, animated stories about his life. Not only that but I find out during the interview that Craig makes these cartoons using only his phone!

Links

Craig Hutchinson on YouTube  

https://www.youtube.com/IamCraigHutchinson

Craig Hutchinson on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/i_am_craighutchinson

Tom Ray's Art Podcast Website - https://www.tomrayswebsite.com

Philip Salamone is a painter living here in Madison WI. He was actually one of the first people I met on the podcast back when I started it in 2017. I was given the chance to do this podcast live on a local radio station here in town WORT FM and I asked Philip if he would want to come on the show with me. I thought it would be a great chance for us to catch up and talk about what he has been doing since he was last on the show.

We talk about his artwork and the classes he has been teaching at the new location for his art studio Atwood Atelier.

Links

Philip Salamone's Website 

https://www.philipsalamone.com/

Philip Salamone on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/philipsalamone/

Tom Ray's Art Podcast Website - https://www.tomrayswebsite.com/

Amy Regutti is a painter living here in Madison WI. Amy had gone to school for art and gave it to become an acupuncturist.

Years later Amy started painting again. But after an automobile accident a few years ago started focusing more on painting during recovery. Now Amy sells art online and promotes it at pop-up galleries and in the comic cons.

Links

Amy Regutti's Website https://www.amyreguttiart.com

Amy Regutti on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spacethrob

Tom Ray's Art Podcast Website https://www.tomrayswebsite.com