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Finding Your Thing with Maggi McDonald

Finding Your Thing with Maggi McDonald

FromHow to Sell Art: The Abundant Artist Podcast


Finding Your Thing with Maggi McDonald

FromHow to Sell Art: The Abundant Artist Podcast

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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Jul 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode: 4:35- Maggi shares about how she created a Skillshare class on how artists can create flat lay images for social media... and what a flat lay is. 11:03- How Maggi's background and training in retail merchandising led her to realize she wanted to be an artist. 13:42- What a typical day looks like for Maggi, who has been painting full-time for four years. 23:53- Book recommendations on setting energetic and creative boundaries. 25:27- As a chronic overachiever, Maggi shares some strategies for coping with those tendencies without burning out. 33:45- Why Maggi has chosen to put her artwork on as many art marketplace websites as possible. 41:03- Social media partnerships that have been important for Maggi's business, how she formed them, and what she's looking for in business partnerships at this stage of her career. 46:10- Before Maggi began creating art full-time, she ran a small cake business from her kitchen. She shares how she stumbled across cakes as an art form, and how that experience has informed the work she's doing now.
Released:
Jul 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (61)

We interview successful professional artists including painters, sculptors, photographers and other fine artists. We talk about the business of art and what it takes to succeed.