Ep 115 – 31 Ways to Share your Art on Social Media and Real Life

In today’s podcast, we are giving you 31 suggestions of how to share your artwork on social media and in genuine life! It is not often easy for us to find new strategies to share things without having staying repetitive, but you do not generally just have to share your bodily artwork. There are lots of distinct means you can interact your viewers.

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Question your followers for ideas

So a person definitely good location to get started is to ask your followers for suggestions of what to draw/paint upcoming. I imagine people really like to come to feel like they are portion of the approach, so making it possible for them to get concerned in some way is a good way of partaking with your viewers.

Share in which you discover your inspiration

A little something else you can do, is to share wherever you discover your inspiration – So as an case in point, I made a small video clip of me displaying the crushed coke can that I pretty much threw in the bin, but then realised it would be attractive to paint, so I talked about that. But be imaginative. I could share myself polishing off a bottle of wine ‘for investigate puposes’… Persons enjoy that stuff!

Photograph your workspace

This could be a distant perspective or focussing on on some of your elements in your workspace.

Photograph or video yourself functioning or near your artwork

You could do this in an above the shoulder form of view or from in entrance of you. Examine out an artist termed Carmel Jenkin on Instagram for this, she is fantastic at pics and videos of herself with her function.

I though ago I tried a tip from another artist Andrea Ehrhardt (ep 86) who proposed photographing by yourself in front of a simple background keeping or up coming to your artwork. You can batch do a load at as soon as. If you get the job done the similar size you can also photograph yourself with a blank canvas and photoshop your portray in afterwards.

Show shut up detail of your perform

Show shut up depth of your operate on Social media and check with your viewers to guess what it is. Or you could make a brief near up online video of you portray a small region. Individuals love guessing online games and once more, it is a great way of having your followers to have interaction with you.

You could also display your get the job done in development

I do this a reasonable little bit on my instagram.

Share strategies or ideas about your process

for instance I like to use kiddie sponge brushes and I make my qualifications faces by drawing with the dropper bottle major.

Share difficulties you working experience and how you fix them

Discuss about your favorite supplies

When you have bought a piece of perform on the go, get the option to speak about your favorite artwork materials, perhaps do a very little demonstration or evaluation. These points never acquire substantially time if you’re now operating on one thing, it is not like you’ve received to established a thing up.

Inquire your audience for responses

You could even question your audience for feedback – Is it concluded?

Create a time-lapse of your method, from get started to complete

This is one thing I rather considerably normally do now. As nicely as being excellent for social media, it’s also valuable to glimpse again and see how you attained an effect. I started off off filming all my timelapses horizontal (or I tried using to shoot vertical and horizontal at the exact same time)but have now switched to vertical as I am getting that performs greater for instagram and is wonderful for Twitter and Fb too.

Talk to your audience—What’s the story behind this piece… Or, what’s the caption?

Eva Falck-Wall Simpson does this sometimes. She results in a drawing of people today which starts off as random strains and then asks people to occur up with a story

You could inquire for strategies for a title for your newest piece

I imply I would not do this personally, since I like coming up with titles but I know there are a ton of artists out there that never love that.

Ask your viewers to vote on a frame

Ask your viewers to vote on a body, utilizing 1 of these mock-up applications. And these applications are a fantastic way to display your viewers how your artwork might seem framed on a wall.

Make a basic tutorial

This could be as simple as showing the product in your hand with a bit of textual content and then demonstrating how you use it.

Share toss-backs

There is some thing identified as Throwback Thursday on Instagram and this is a fantastic time to exhibit off some of your more mature artwork that you like.

Post the exact same piece of artwork in appealing means

Put up the exact piece of art in fascinating approaches. It doesn’t always have to be a uninteresting experience on cropped shot… I have viewed some beautiful examples of this on instagram… You could exhibit your perform on it is easel or with your artwork tools… You could demonstrate it propped on a dressed surface… perhaps with a plant, a cup of coffee and some fairy lights… You could be keeping the piece… be creative!

Share how ideal to hold and show art in your house

An additional factor you could do is share how most effective to hold and display art in your home…. It’s often great if you can present your piece exhibited in a genuine setting.

Talk about your favorite e-book

You could video clip yourself flicking via some webpages or photograph a few web pages of your favorite artwork book and discuss about the top rated.

Discuss about the artists who encourage you

You could make a put up speaking about the artists who inspire you. Perhaps you could share some of their art and tag them in the write-up

Share your have favorite piece and discuss about why you like it

Maybe there is a story powering it you could share.

Share what you do when you are not making

It does not often have to be about the artwork. People like to get to know the artist too. Perhaps a clip of you walking your puppy and having a split from the easel.. I just lately designed a online video of myself cleaning my artwork studio!

Do a Facebook Stay Q & A

Now I am not pretty certain if I am courageous adequate for this nonetheless, what about you Sandra?

I do like some thing that Anna Zubarev does which is to communicate artwork with another artist are living on Instagram whilst they are both producing artwork.

Gather testimonies

Accumulate testimonies about your art and share them to Social Media

Share you packing method

You could share you packing process… something I want I had accomplished when I was packing my portray to send out to London.

You could provide information on how to treatment for an artwork

You could share studio recommendations

How you clean your brushes, for example.

Be susceptible about your procedure and your everyday living as an artist

You could chat about the points that have absent completely wrong or how you are emotion if you are getting a slump.

Talk to to hold yout artwork in a area gallery or coffee store

And it does not have to be all about social media. Talk to to cling your do the job in local cafes, pubs or gallery’s. Just make sure you have faith in them to glimpse ater it!

Have an artist’s newsletter

Yet another issue you can do is to have a publication that folks can sign up for. That is a good way of preserving people today current on on new work and reminding individuals that you are even now building artwork!

Just commence sharing…

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