Do you have any thoughts on Art Storefronts?

Are you familiar with Art Storefront? If so, are they a good way to go for a website?

I would like to focus on originals, high quality prints, a course, and a membership. I've got a lot of decisions to make first - like which niche I want to narrow down toward.

Wow, your advice makes so much sense. I had kind of heard this as a beginning acrylic painter, but I ended up doing paintings of flowers, beach scenes, botanicals, and landscapes. I find that currently, my social media (FB) followers seem to prefer landscapes, but I'm not sure it is my favorite (I tend to be drawn to painting flowers). I can understand choosing one, getting better and better at it and using it to target a specific audience. At this point, do I choose landscapes because that is what my current audience seems to like? Do you choose the niche that has the most income potential? or do you choose the niche that best fits with my current passions?

I appreciate your videos and they have been very interesting, but I feel like the title of this is misleading as 2/3 of this is just using the same platforms put your art on different products, which is literally just the same thing.

As an artist who does not like social media anymore, (quit trying to grow an art account after 5 years without an audience) I think it is really important to find a way to promote ourselves without the standard of 'number of followers' and being actively posting content for the people rather than ourselves. It's hard to do so in this era, but we hopefully we can succeed.

Thank you - this is inspiring!! =) I've been watching a lot of videos about reaching your target audience without using social media & there's actually a lot of great ideas! I just decided to create an ARt Blog on my website. I'm excited by the thought of being able to post whatever and whenever I like (and not have to be concerned about 'followers'!) Starting an art blog is a great idea - and i hope will help bring potential customers to my website! ♡

Watched to the end - lots of food for thought, but I'm wondering just how to start!

A very helpful video. I currently have a WIX website but find it unnecessarily complex and it's very difficult to contact useful help. I'm wondering about Square Space but want to keep the same website address - can I do this once I've deleted my WIX account?

Hoping to build a great art website, but there's an awful lot to learn

I love solutions

amazing content!! thank you so much for sharing them, super insightful

I loved all your tips, thank you. I will be doing my very first Facebook Live on the 23rd of October 2024 and can't tell you how many videos I've watched and research I've done to get information on how to do it well. My live is about Christian Expressive Art and I'll be running it over two days. A one hour session each day and a weekend in between to give participants time to do their art activities. A question I have is how to toggle between my computer camera and the camera pointing to my creative space, where I will be demonstrating the art activity. I would appreciate any advice you have for me. Thanks, Mariëtte

Thank you 👩🏽‍🎨

I’m definitely starting this year into next year

Lewis Susan Brown Daniel Perez Thomas

I always use discord or KZbin its not alotnof traction but I finally got customers after years 😅

yes please to a refreshed Pintrest video :)

Yet, when I look at art history, I don't see this narrow focus among so many top name artists. There are many top name artists who did not focus on one type of art. Picasso was a painter, sculptor, ceramicist, did prints & also worked in numbers of different art movements including his own invention of Cubism. Matisse painted, & was a printmaker, & did stained glass windows. Chagall did painting & ceramics, stained glass, & more. Michelangelo painted & was a sculptor. Gustav Klimt painted figures/ portraits, large mural commissions for institutions, & landscape painting. Louise Bourgeois did large scale installations, sculptures (out of diverse materials, such as metals, but also, sewn fabric), & drawings. Isa Gentzken's art included sculpture, photography, found-object installation, film, drawing and painting. Robert Rauschenberg worked in painting, sculpture, prints, photography, and performance. Cy Twombly was a painter & sculptor. Etc, etc. ????

Best way! Just be the best you can be, love what you do, have fun, believe in yourself and the world will come to you or at least the part of the world that is ready to. Artists did this for generations and it worked - even if they lived far away from big cities with critics and art magazines. I’m a big believer in vibrational marketing. Anything else is secondary and for fun. 💖 When we expect success to be inevitable it is but always remember your joy and happiness is true success. Money will always follow and more easily if we don’t struggle. It took me a while to understand that. Gifts and inspiration come more easily when you don’t struggle and other people will want to market you and collect your work. Passion can help focus but struggle is never necessary if sometimes a choice for many people. And everybody gets to choose for themselves and what feels right for them. Being light and easy and playful and allowing flow and inspiration may be even more powerful and more fun. When you know there is no competition and only inspiration and are true to yourself success comes effortlessly and people are naturally drawn to you. 🖌️✨🌸🦋✨

Thank you

I would love to learn about the SEO

I have built my website and it looks okay.

Great advice! Thanks

Subscribed as soon as the video started. Love the way you communicate!

I want to dive into selling my originals ++++ paintings on products such as mugs etc +++ my main one is commissions 😍

Very helpful thank you

So clear and succinct, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

I posted my art on Instagram and forgot about it. 2 years later, I have 30,000 followers. The problem; my followers think I am a sugar daddy or a good time charlie. People like my art but, they or not there for that, they want to get access to my 30000 followers to grow their follower count. "Ain't that a kick in the head!"

Love all of this Sophie, I’m going to go through all of the resources. Thank you for your generosity ❤

The problem with paying someone is they charge a fortune for hosting, when you try to change you can move the content without another professional

You can help me please

Hello Sophie ! Me again ! Just a quick question, I'm going to revive a Instagram account that I barely used. The content is still on visual art although before I was into painting and now in the book illustration business. Before, I never really picked an audience so I have very few followers and a little bit of everyone there. Should I revive the account and pick a clear audience or start over according to you ? Thank you so much !

Thank you for your informative video. I'm trying to get away from social media and build a different way of selling again. Pre-covid i was selling at galleries, etc, but then I had to take a long break and only just started up with painting again. Last time, i relied on social media to reach galleries, but i am now driven away from those platforms mostly because of the AI training from our uploads. I have further read that the art is still not safe from AI scraping even on our own websites. Do you have any recommendations for that at all?

Watched to the end and saved. Thank you!

Thank you so much Sophie ! I was so lost with my 5 boats. I knew I had too much but couldn't choose because I get board so easily on long terme things. Also I felt like choosing meant sacrificing something, instead of just empowering one of them.

Thank you! This is a great start. Beats freezing in front of a blank word document, wondering how to get going. ❤

Thanks for making an actually helpful video instead of one of the endless useless ones business scammers make to get you to buy their courses

Great info, thanks ❤

Solutions, I'm ready!

Sophie, I watched right to the end! Thank you!

This is the only video I have watched that breaks down determining the ideal art collector. So helpful. Thank you.

Cool info!

Your advice on choosing content areas is spot on. I've been doing something similar and recently added boost app social to my toolkit. It helps by enhancing my posts and really making my artwork pop on social media.

Such a great Video. Very helpful as I am questioning FB and wanting to wean myself of it. Thank you for sharing this. I watched the end. 🙂

Pinterest. I did a year contract working for a gold award winning interior designer. They used Pinterest all the time for acquisition for their fit outs. For me it's a no brainer.

First time viewer here; I appreciate your wisdom here. Thank you!

I love your delivery. I know i'm going to be able to learn a lot of everything i need to know going forward. Thank you.

Thank you for the amazing list!