Finding Your Thing with Maggi McDonald

How to Sell Art: The Abundant Artist Podcast

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.