Daily Life of an Unknown Modern Artist: Day 4

Another day of being a modern unknown artist and most of it is taken up with my 9-5 (I wish it ended at 5 and started at 9) daily grind. Working really does push my art time back but I also need to be able to fund myself until, hopefully, my art stuff.

I am thinking of doing 2 possible moves here as I am not getting much traction anywhere on anything that I am doing whether it is Pageviews to my site (www.leodrysdale.com) or subscribes/views to my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCygapoDNnYiA3tTEFFM6zIA) or follows/likes on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/leodartistry/).

My first move is to create google ads campaigns but with a very low budget (£1-2/day) and my second idea, or move, here is to create an eBay account and use an already established site with a recommendation engine to help sell my prints. I was thinking of Etsy as well but I have heard that you need to promote this as well with ads especially to start with so I may leave that to later.

Nothing much has happened on the art front except that I have finished my recent Hampton Court Palace and I am looking for another picture to paint. I was thinking of a picture of Hakone (Japan) I took when I was there but not 100% sure (see picture below). I also want to try a portrait so I may have two paintings on the go at once.

River Flowing through Hakone (Japan)

Over the next few days I will be going on holiday but I will still post daily however there may not be much written down.