Ep 017: How to Become A Successful Artist on Social Media

How to Become A Successful Artist on Social Media 

In The Artist Appeals, Erin Sparler speaks to Josie Lewis a popular artist based in Minneapolis. As an artist, Josie loves colors, process, and materials. In this podcast, she talks about her experience being an artist, how she didn’t stop working with art amidst personal life struggles, including some tips on how she became a social media superstar. 

Josie also shares how she leveraged social media to sell her artworks, share art technique and tutorials, including some awesome tips on how to use Instagram stories to promote products.

To learn more about how to become a social media superstar and promote your art online, listen to this podcast episode. You will also hear.

[03:00] Josie shares how she loves listening to The Artist Appeals

[03:57] A recollection of childhood memories with her siblings

[04:45] Speaking about married life and how she didn’t stop doing art

[06:35] She shares her experience of difficulty having a second child while finding a new opportunity for her art carrier through the art crawl culture

[07:21] Josie ponders on how to connect with audience and start making income with her arts 

[09:05] Josie started painting as a therapy while battling fertility issues

[11:03] How Josie battled through fertility issues, did her own research while not stopping working with her art

[16:30] Josie talks about her art which includes water colors, collages, and geocodes

[17:13] Josie shares how she tackles various critics against her art

[18:19] Josie shares her experience with the Fine Art Grad program and the discovery of resin

[18:19]  What is a resin and how she used it for her art

[19:03] Testing different resin pieces to improve her art and discover new things

[19:58] What safety precautions she used when doing her art

[20:40] How Josie started a video on YouTube and hit 20, 000 views

[21:39] Josie talks about her color palette

[22:37] Josie shares her rainbow palette  and how she experiment with different mediums

[23:28] Developing individuality as an artist

[24:11]  Josie talks about the danger zones of sharing your process and art on Instagram   

[26:30] Pros and cons of posting art on the internet and finding your end goal

[28:04] Josie talks about her mosaic art called Butterfly Wall and how she prices it

[29:30] Josie talks about GDP for arts and entertainment  

[29:56] How many active American artists there are in the workforce

[30:56] How to sell art and become an artist entrepreneur

[32:42] How to properly market your art on the internet

[33:35] How to use Instagram to promote your art

[34:48] How to present your art on the internet and capture audience

[35:25] Automating Instagram posts 

[34:48] Using planners and schedulers for other social media like Pinterest to keep track with schedule

[37:42] Using the right hashtags to improve discovery on Instagram and other social media platforms

[40:15] How Josie use automation to make other processes easy including her dropshipping business

[31:07] Josie shares her daily activity with her own studio

[41:07] How Josie turned her basement into a studio and ideas for decoration 

[42:35] Why  her art space is essential to her practice

[43:13] Balancing time with kids and art

[44:17] A glimpse of her house which consists 70% of arts and crafts

[45:54] Josie’s secret approach to make income with her art while balancing time with family and her drop shipping business

[47:43]  Josie shares how she made her own limited edition water color brand with Korean artists

[49:39] Josie shares how to manage time and projects with Enneagramm 

[50:27]  How to focus with art and what you love doing  

[52:45] Book recommendations by Josie

 

LINKS AND RESOURCES:

Book Recommendations 

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

The Artist Way by Julia Cameron 

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

 

Connect with Josie Lewis

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Connect with your host, Erin Sparler

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