This fortnight, Ros and Laura are back together and bringing you a conversation about how to make money from your art and generate more money as a creative person. This episode covers different income stream options for creative people. Laura and Ros discuss what they have done over time in their businesses to earn more money from their art practice. 

Laura shares that one of her main streams of income to support her practice has been sharing her skills through teaching. By doing this she was able to use the money generated from classes to re-invest back into the creative projects that she was passionate about pursuing. 

In terms of selling her art, she identifies that it took focused intention to work towards an exhibition to sell her paintings. She had to work through money blocks to get to the point of making the kind of money that she wanted to make from selling her paintings. Laura shares that lots of journaling and intention setting helped her to do this. 

Laura and Ros share a common money block - “it’s hard to make money as an artist” that they, and many other artists have struggled with. Ros shares about making the jump into her own art biz and the motivation to do that came from her being deeply un-fullfilled in her job. She could see that she had so much more to give and her skills were being undervalued. She had no desire to go back, so she “had” to make money from her art, she does this through varied income streams.

Ros also mentions Elizabeth Gilbert’s book - Big Magic - and a concept that is outlayed in the book about not putting too much pressure on your art. She says to make sure you have a job or income to your practice to relieve the pressure on solely making money from your art. It can be through a side-hustle, a day job or ideally something related to the creative industry. 

Some of the various income stream options for artists discussed in this episode are:

• Teaching - group and 1:1 mentoring
• Online Membership
• Commissions
• Instagram Sales of original arts or prints
• Open Studio event with art for sale
• Original Art - selling independently or through retails or galleries
• Exhibitions - solo
• Group Shows 
• Art Prints 
• Wholesale - art prints or products
• Making products - cards, t-shirts, tea-towels etc. 
• Local Markets or bigger design markets
• Projects with local council or local organisations
• Applying for art grants

If you have any others to add to this list please let us know. Hopefully, this gives you an idea on the varied ways that you can generate more income as a creative practitioner!

We hope that you enjoy the show!

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This episode is sponsored by: Laura’s Soul Medicine Painting Workshops for more info please visit: https://laurajaneday.com/workwithme to find out more!

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Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert - https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/books/big-magic/

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With love & gratitude, 

Ros

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