Art coaching Online Community
Art coaching online
We started a Patreon page three years ago to fund our project “Very Private Art”: a website and social media accounts where we publish our original content for artists and creators. We created tiers for one-on-one artist coaching and art business coaching in high demand.
Online art community
After this time, we learned about their struggles and helped them grow. Today we share our experience: The following is a list of the artists we have worked with (in alphabetical order) and their strengths, challenges, goals, and achievements.
Artist community project
After three years of art coaching online: Here is the feedback on the artists joining the Very Private Art online community.
Outsider artist surfer
Dimitri Zoellin
Living between Bali and Saint Petersburg, Dimitri gets inspired by the beautiful landscapes and nature surrounding him. Before taking Art as a career, he worked as a professional skipper at sea. Dimitri was surfing or spending time in nature when he wasn’t painting. Not having spent enough time promoting his Art online, Dimitri found himself relatively unknown on the Internet even though he had been selling directly to the locals.
Outsider artist
Dimitri Zoellin, like many artists, is intuitive and free-spirited. As an outsider artist, Dimitri did not receive fine art education and was completely self-taught. He has demonstrated a strong drive to express and create. The challenge was to structurize his communications and build an online image.
Artist website
We had one-to-one monthly coaching as well as hands-on technical support for over a year. In the past year, we chose to focus on the semantics of his website communication. His artist website is divided into two parts:
- articles on the relevant subjects,
- portfolios in different series like the Collage Series. Apart from his website, his Instagram account continues to reach more people.
Reaching out
In 2021, our goal is to help him boost his online presence and find a community of like-minded people using video and live streaming. Living on a remote island of Indonesia might sound romantic, but it is limiting at the same time. That’s why he needs to reach out to more artists like him – who has a passion for art and nature but did not come from a fine art background. If you are an outsider artist yourself, don’t hesitate to reach out.
Artist researcher
Esra Nesipoğulları
Born in Turkey and living in Italy, Esra Nesipoğulları is a young artist with a clear vision. Inspired by the Dadaism movement, her work is deeply connected with cultural and political contexts. She obtained a bachelor degree in Architecture, a Master’s degree in Architectural History. After completing two artist residencies, Esra decided to move from architecture to the art and curatorial field.
Art studio and Think Tank
At the start of our coaching, her main challenge is to juggle between projects – to make art while finishing her master’s degree, working on her animation studio (Studio Gallio), and working as one of the founders of the Ambaradan Think Tank. Making art for her means exploration and interrogation, which requires extensive research. Esra’s website clearly describes each project with a monthly newsletter.
Future plans
After knowing Esra, we found that she is driven and focused. The coaching is more like a collaboration, a mutual learning experience where we share our visions on art and social issues. We are excited and impatiently waiting to see her following projects as her career develops. With our possible help, Esra plans to roll out her online communication targeted at art museums and research centers.
Street artist hyper realist
Manomatic
We have known Manomatic for over 6 years and witnessed his rise to fame. Today he is one of the most recognized street artists in Spain with a unique art style and technique. His large murals have wowed passersby and made a buzz on social media. Because of his success, we felt the urge to share our coaching method with more artists.
Challenges
His main challenge was to adapt his mural paintings techniques to smaller formats on canvas while maintaining his style and speed. Spray techniques are great for large formats but they are not for details on canvas. Another challenge is the language. Born and raised in Spain, he isn’t native to English. It’s a disadvantage when it comes to communicating his art to the world.
Identity art
Manomatic launched his dual-lingual communication online – in Spanish, his artist website for large murals typically commissioned by city halls and institutions, and in English, his digital portfolio and critical thinking. His website reached #1 on Google ranking for “Identity art” and his art became a reference on this subject. You can see the article at this link.
African Superhero Art
Muntu Warriors
Junior MacDonald Beckley is a digital artist who draws superheroes from African cultures. He developed a coherent and dynamic universe starting with a comic series: Muntu Warriors. He has a strong desire to share a wide range of African cultures with pride, without focusing on a particular country or region. The comic style makes it appealing to the younger generations.
Workflow
When we got to know Junior, he had already found his style and goals. His main challenge was to launch several projects at once: making art, making print-on-demand merchandising, sending newsletters, updating his artist website and social media, and from time to time, striking some brand deals. Creating comics is the job of a small studio, not one person. Making a small art business run well with a streamlined workflow is the priority. For the past year, we were glad to step in and help him out.
Peruvian Art Toys
SuperDeep
Rafael Lanfranco is an artist based in Lima, Peru. He expresses himself without constraints using paintings, sculptures, and animations and he never ran out of fresh ideas. Unlike many artists who start off working day jobs, Rafael is dedicated to making art full time.
Creativity with direction
His main issue was to organize different lines of works for his communication. Visually his works are joyful with pops of color, but because they are in distinctive styles and media. It was hard to find the best target keywords to attract his audience.
Writing contribution
After some brainstorming, we set the semantic strategic plan for his artist website Superdeep. His sculptures are mostly art toys and inspired by steampunk. They are also influenced by ancient Peruvian culture. This unique mixture offers a wide range of cultural heritage and stories. To help Rafael with writing about his art, we found a talented art writer to join Superdeep.
Here is a great example: the Dieselpunk robots page which tells the story of each small robot. That’s only a glance of the universe he has created.
Cockatoo Artist
Taaye art
Do you know about cockatoos?
Cockatoos are small, colorful birds similar to parrots we can find in many parts of the world.
And some artists love to paint with all kinds of mediums. Taaye is utterly passionate about them. She is also an expert on them. And obviously, she has a cockatoo in the family always keeping an eye on her paintings.
Sharing passion
And painting them isn’t for her just about creating something beautiful that inspires others. It is about a work of researching their symbolism, reaching out to experts on the subject, and making a work of introspection because cockatoos were there around her when she was young. Her website balances her writings and her art about those talking birds.
If you love cockatoos as well, consider contacting her!
Art Blog
Thoughts on Art
Thoughts on Art is a project created by Christine O’Donnell, the owner of the Beacon Gallery in Boston. She writes about the art world and is passionate about art activism and social justice.
We came across her art blog ‘Thoughts on Art’ on the Internet when we found a reference link from her site to ours. Thoughts on Art offers a collection of great articles, but it was built on top of a previously used domain name populated with old backlinks. Christine turned to us for help to give her website a structural reform.
Technical SEO
One of the first things we did was to define the relationship between Thought on Art and Beacon Gallery. They are independent projects with internal connections and synergies. Another task was to make the blog posts show up on Search Engines. Yes, the boring SEO you have heard a lot about. Great ideas are worth sharing, but they have to be found first. We worked together on the content and SEO strategy for less than a year, and the results are already showing. Here is an example and one of our favorite article talking about Kehind Wiley.
Art coaching method
Cherry method
We structure our coaching around the artist website. We will work on finding the good semantics to reach your audience. When people search for the kind of art you make, you want to be on top of all the search results. We also give advice on social media but not as the main strategy. Social media gives faster feedback but your own websites offer long-lasting results.
The Art of showing your art
Working on SEO means writing up long paragraphs of texts. But today a website is not complete without high-quality photos and videos. Multimedia content is extremely important to captivate your collectors’ attention. At the beginning of our coaching, we also offer technical support for video and photo production.
You can check the availibility on our Patreon Page
Mo Li i saw your video on 798 Beijing art yes we have similar developments in Mexico and USA. i was interested in what you think or advise to submit very contemporary art from the west in this art center.
Hey Byron, thanks for your comment. If you want an answer, please join our forum and tell us more about your project so Mo can answer to it more precisely. Here is the section. Best!
Thank you for sharing clear steps on how to photograph your artwork and what camera and lenses to use. I’m ready to go rent a
good camera and lens! (have good lights) I’m trying to move forward with getting a group of 8 paintings in a gallery.
Thank you Leslie, contact us if you have any questions!