The 5 Mistakes Artists Must Avoid! 

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I will definitely do a video on these topics in the future 😊

@@CharlotteJordanArt looking forward to it!

Yeah, from talking with people doing the art fairs, they tell that they are willing to travel to many major fairs all year and year after year. It doesn't really work just signing up for a booth at a few art fairs. They can do well at one fair and nothing at another. The following year be a different outcome at each fair. The other thing I noted is that many times a friend or relative is baby sitting the booth for them. The artist doesn't want to sit there for 3 days talking with basically tourists. That would be me. I could never sit there unless I'm at a real showing talking with enthusiasts. Sometimes the local artists will just come and set up the booth and leave. Then come back to pack up. I could do that one. Networking seems a bit fake especially online. The professional artist are mostly introverts working long hrs in their studios and enjoying other life things. It's nothing like artist life in the movies. Artists no longer meet up in pubs or coffee houses, get into drunken arguments and cut each others ears off. The University art instructors are mostly bad advice. With exception of the ones who had successful professional art careers and simply enjoy teaching in those later years. Our world has changed physical social to digital social. We can try o fight it but we will likely loose at this point. I'm thinking more in the lines of posting just a few samples on social media ( the greatest modern human exposer) and then leave reference to our personal websites where folks can leave comments, ask questions or purchase work at full price. We could only put our very best work on our site. Anything questionable will lose audience. Networking out from that, where we refer folks who come to our site, to other reputable artists websites. Attempting to create a loop of reputable artist for art only conversation and sales. This route typically takes two or more years to become anything worth talking about. It's just how slow quality things move through the digital social world because the digital social world is huge diverse interest and intentionally designed for scattering brains. I did not say "scatter brains" because that wouldn't be kind and we artist are kind warriors! Ha HA

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