Watercolor Cravings
Truth is I'm a freelance kind of girl. Not that I am highly disciplined in my work ethic, but that I am most happy under my own schedule. I have been mulling this over the last week or so after getting a kind rejection for a position as an art teacher at a public school I worked at a lot last school year and was hoping would hire me. They said they decided to go with someone who has been teaching art for awhile, more experienced (safer). Which is all understandable, I mean it's logical. I don't have a standard certificate so I am therefore a higher risk, on paper anyway. So this leads me to other ideas or possibilities; I know I want to teach, but goodness there are a lot of ways of going about this and public school is honestly not my favorite way, I just looked at it as a foot in the door.I am looking at giving private and group art lessons to whomever. Group art lessons to local home school kids I think. Being a home school graduate myself they should view me as one of their own, right? Yes, I do plan on playing that card. Home schoolers can be rather cliquish (or is it clannish ?) and so my home education could work to my benefit.
My mullings have also led me towards the great conquest of promoting my artwork... well let me back up, getting back into the studio, making art and then promoting my artwork. I am not good at it, self promotion, but as my Aunt said recently, "most artists aren't, and that's why they're starving". Well said Aunt, well said. There is actually a book written on this very subject, about selling art as your sole income and how that changes your drive to make and promote your art. I have been spending more time in the studio drawing mostly but also working with clay. I am mostly testing and trying out techniques and ideas, which is beneficial and a prerequisite to making good art. So this is my plan "A" - teaching and making art. And in case you wondered I do have a plan "B" and it's not a contraceptive either. It is simply returning to substitute teaching to cover financial bases (meagerly) should I find business bad in any given month. Substitute teaching is so flexible I can choose any day I am free to work. Perhaps to sub 3 days and the other 3 spend working in the studio, for example. I already have pottery business plans which I will share when they are less embryonic, so you don't have to lie and compliment my "alien baby". Any ideas on best places to advertise art lessons?
My mullings have also led me towards the great conquest of promoting my artwork... well let me back up, getting back into the studio, making art and then promoting my artwork. I am not good at it, self promotion, but as my Aunt said recently, "most artists aren't, and that's why they're starving". Well said Aunt, well said. There is actually a book written on this very subject, about selling art as your sole income and how that changes your drive to make and promote your art. I have been spending more time in the studio drawing mostly but also working with clay. I am mostly testing and trying out techniques and ideas, which is beneficial and a prerequisite to making good art. So this is my plan "A" - teaching and making art. And in case you wondered I do have a plan "B" and it's not a contraceptive either. It is simply returning to substitute teaching to cover financial bases (meagerly) should I find business bad in any given month. Substitute teaching is so flexible I can choose any day I am free to work. Perhaps to sub 3 days and the other 3 spend working in the studio, for example. I already have pottery business plans which I will share when they are less embryonic, so you don't have to lie and compliment my "alien baby". Any ideas on best places to advertise art lessons?