How I Made Art My Full Time Career

People often ask me how I made art into my career. Usually they expect some answer like "I know a famous gallery owner in New York" or "My rich uncle buys all my art" - but this is how I actually did it.

First I spent literally over a thousand hours painting, 30-50 hours a week during evenings & on weekends after my day job at the beginning while I developed my unique style, skills and inventory. Then I shared my art as much as I could on social media - 3-4 hours a day or more posting on different sites and groups etc... Eventually after selling over 100 paintings that way, I invested almost $800 in stickers. It took a while just to break even, but then I used the sticker profits, and profits from selling custom paintings to do prints. I invested everything back into my art career. I had to have the will to live humbly while I was starting my business.

The best piece of advice I got about making art into a career was this - "You can't ever expect to make a full time living working as an artist if you are not working as an artist full time!" - @ChrisDyer . 2 weeks later, in October 2014, I quit my job and haven't looked back!

Now 3 years later I have my own showroom and my own line of silk scarves, blankets & more, some of my original paintings sell for thousands of dollars, my art is in 26 different countries, I've been interviewed for TV, magazines and podcasts, I have no boss and I love what I do every day! :)

Check out https://www.NexusVisions.com/art for all my art and stickers, prints, silk scarves, blankets & more!

A bunch of my early paintings

My showroom now

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