Ep 115 – 31 Ways to Share your Art on Social Media and Real Life
In today’s podcast, we are providing you 31 ideas of how to share your artwork on social media and in serious existence! It’s not always uncomplicated for us to uncover new strategies to share factors with no remaining repetitive, but you don’t generally just have to share your actual physical artwork. There are lots of different approaches you can interact your viewers.
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Check with your followers for suggestions
So a person definitely great spot to begin is to question your followers for tips of what to attract/paint following. I assume people today appreciate to feel like they are part of the system, so enabling them to get involved in some way is a wonderful way of partaking with your viewers.
Share exactly where you locate your inspiration
Anything else you can do, is to share exactly where you obtain your inspiration – So as an example, I created a short movie of me exhibiting the crushed coke can that I virtually threw in the bin, but then realised it would be beautiful to paint, so I talked about that. But be imaginative. I could share myself sprucing off a bottle of wine ‘for study puposes’… People today enjoy that stuff!
Photograph your workspace
This could be a distant look at or focussing on on some of your elements in your workspace.
Photograph or video clip on your own operating or around your art
You could do this in an around the shoulder form of perspective or from in entrance of you. Look at out an artist identified as Carmel Jenkin on Instagram for this, she is amazing at photos and films of herself with her operate.
I while in the past I tried a idea from a further artist Andrea Ehrhardt (ep 86) who proposed photographing by yourself in front of a plain history holding or future to your artwork. You can batch do a load at once. If you get the job done the exact same sizing you can also photograph you with a blank canvas and photoshop your portray in later.
Exhibit shut up detail of your work
Exhibit near up depth of your work on Social media and inquire your viewers to guess what it is. Or you could generate a small close up video of you portray a little place. People love guessing game titles and once again, it’s a terrific way of acquiring your followers to have interaction with you.
You could also show your work in development
I do this a good bit on my instagram.
Share strategies or strategies about your method
for occasion I like to use kiddie sponge brushes and I make my track record faces by drawing with the dropper bottle best.
Share problems you practical experience and how you resolve them
Speak about your favourite elements
While you’ve obtained a piece of get the job done on the go, get the prospect to communicate about your favourite art materials, possibly do a minimal demonstration or overview. These matters do not consider significantly time if you are presently working on some thing, it’s not like you’ve got to set a little something up.
Check with your audience for suggestions
You could even talk to your viewers for opinions – Is it finished?
Develop a time-lapse of your procedure, from get started to complete
This is something I very substantially generally do now. As perfectly as remaining very good for social media, it is also handy to glance again and see how you achieved an influence. I begun off filming all my timelapses horizontal (or I tried to shoot vertical and horizontal at the similar time)but have now switched to vertical as I am acquiring that operates superior for instagram and is fine for Twitter and Fb way too.
Request your audience—What’s the tale driving this piece… Or, what’s the caption?
Eva Falck-Wall Simpson does this occasionally. She generates a drawing of folks which begins off as random strains and then asks men and women to appear up with a tale
You could talk to for concepts for a title for your latest piece
I signify I wouldn’t do this personally, due to the fact I appreciate coming up with titles but I know there are a whole lot of artists out there that don’t enjoy that.
Question your audience to vote on a frame
Request your viewers to vote on a frame, utilizing just one of those people mock-up apps. And those apps are a good way to display your viewers how your art may well seem framed on a wall.
Make a very simple tutorial
This could be as simple as displaying the content in your hand with a little bit of textual content and then showing how you use it.
Share toss-backs
There is something referred to as Throwback Thursday on Instagram and this is a fantastic time to present off some of your older artwork that you like.
Submit the identical piece of art in interesting ways
Submit the same piece of artwork in appealing methods. It does not constantly have to be a monotonous confront on cropped shot… I have observed some beautiful examples of this on instagram… You could present your work on it is easel or with your artwork tools… You could clearly show it propped on a dressed surface… maybe with a plant, a cup of coffee and some fairy lights… You could be keeping the piece… be inventive!
Share how ideal to hang and display screen artwork in your dwelling
Yet another point you could do is share how most effective to hold and exhibit artwork in your home…. It’s generally wonderful if you can present your piece shown in a authentic setting.
Talk about your favorite ebook
You could video clip on your own flicking via some internet pages or photograph a handful of web pages of your favorite art e book and converse about the best.
Chat about the artists who encourage you
You could make a put up conversing about the artists who encourage you. Maybe you could share some of their art and tag them in the write-up
Share your personal favorite piece and chat about why you like it
It’s possible there’s a tale at the rear of it you could share.
Share what you do when you are not making
It doesn’t usually have to be about the art. Men and women like to get to know the artist also. Probably a clip of you strolling your pet dog and getting a split from the easel.. I not too long ago created a movie of myself cleaning my art studio!
Do a Facebook Are living Q & A
Now I am not really absolutely sure if I am courageous plenty of for this nevertheless, what about you Sandra?
I do like a little something that Anna Zubarev does which is to converse artwork with yet another artist dwell on Instagram though they are each creating art.
Acquire testimonies
Gather testimonies about your art and share them to Social Media
Share you packing procedure
You could share you packing process… anything I desire I had done when I was packing my painting to mail to London.
You could offer tips on how to care for an artwork
You could share studio suggestions
How you clean your brushes, for case in point.
Be susceptible about your method and your daily life as an artist
You could discuss about the issues that have absent improper or how you are experience if you are getting a slump.
Check with to hang yout artwork in a local gallery or espresso shop
And it doesn’t have to be all about social media. Request to hold your function in local cafes, pubs or gallery’s. Just make absolutely sure you have faith in them to look ater it!
Have an artist’s e-newsletter
One more detail you can do is to have a e-newsletter that individuals can indication up for. Which is a terrific way of trying to keep men and women up to date on on new function and reminding individuals that you are even now making artwork!
Just get started sharing…
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This week’s inventive question
If you could adjust your Artist name to some thing else, what would it be and why?
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