My identify is Michelle Alexander and I’m a Canadian artist with a candy tooth. Though I’ve all the time liked desserts, I haven’t all the time thought-about myself an artist. I began creating and promoting my art work in June 2020 and I’ve outlined 5 of the teachings I realized in a short time alongside the way in which.

1. CREATIVITY IS NOT SOMETHING YOU HAVE OR DON’T HAVE: Creativity is a ability that may be developed and practiced. I’m usually requested how I give you my concepts and the reality is that I work on it continuously. Then I experience the snowball impact as a result of creativity results in extra creativity!

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2. IMPOSTOR SYNDROME CAN BE OVERCOME: In truth I had by no means thought-about myself a ‘actual’ artist as a result of I didn’t go to artwork faculty and I used to be so usually humbled by different artists. An train that helped me with this was writing down all of the explanation why somebody would suppose I’m an impostor, after which all of the explanation why I’m proper the place I must be.

3. GREAT CONTENT ISN’T ENOUGH: It takes vulnerability to place your art work on show and in an effort to stay genuine it might probably really feel ‘icky’ attempting to push gross sales. Sadly art work doesn’t simply communicate for itself so that is the place my advertising and enterprise background has actually helped me to succeed. It’s additionally been a enjoyable problem studying the ins and outs of platforms that I used to have little expertise with (e.g. Pinterest, Wix).

4. IT TAKES A VILLAGE: The artwork group has been overwhelmingly supportive. As a substitute of treating one another like competitors, it’s been encouraging to see so many artists champion different artists! We’ve got a lot to be taught from each other and also you get what you set on the market.

5. HUSTLE IS KEY: I initially assumed I’d have my most gross sales throughout month 1, after my shut family and friends bought my work ‘to be good’. I used to be improper. I stored at it, launched quite a lot of designs made particularly for face masks – capitalizing on a novel alternative, put intention into analyzing analytics, stored creating art work, realized new abilities, and I proceed to place myself on the market, day-after-day.

It took me 35 years and a worldwide pandemic to start this inventive journey. Fortunately it’s by no means too early, or too late, to be taught the worth of your creativity.

With all this being stated, I’d love so that you can take a look at my junk meals impressed artwork and let me know what you suppose.

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