Welcome to the Honest Art podcast with Jodie King, a weekly chat with yours truly looking at the intersection of art, life, soul, and building a thriving career as an artist.
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Honest Art with Jodie King
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Design Your Art Career Around Your Energy (Not Hustle) If you love making art but worry that turning it into a career will burn you out, you’re not dramatic. You’re aware. Because there is a lot to do when you start taking your art seriously. Even as a […]
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Finish Your Painting With Confidence: 15 Actionable Steps to Push Through The Fuglies If you’ve ever looked at your painting mid-process and thought, “This is going nowhere,” congratulations. You’re a real artist. Because every painting has a dip. Every single one. It’s the fog. The fuglies. The muddy […]
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE How Artists Can Outsource to 3x Their Revenue If you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, and secretly wondering why your art sales aren’t matching your effort, this episode is for you. So many artists believe that doing everything themselves is the only way to succeed. That if they just work harder, […]
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE How to Make Your Art Career Dreams a Reality with Jodie Gear You know the part of an art career that nobody posts about on Instagram? The part where you are deep in the messy middle, doing the work, doubting the work, building the thing, questioning the thing, […]
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Art Fair Application Secrets Every Artist Should Know Art fairs can change your career. Full stop. And no, I’m not talking about the vibe where you’re sweating in a white tent selling coasters next to a guy making wooden spoons. I’m talking about real art fairs. The kind […]
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Start a Painting with Me in My Art Studio If you took a holiday break (or even if you didn’t), and since coming back, you’ve been standing in your studio thinking, “I don’t even know where to begin,” this episode is for you. Starting a painting can feel […]
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE From Art to Life: Lesson Learned in 2025 Let’s just start here: 2025 was a hell of a ride. If I had to describe it in one word, it would be uncertainty. Uncertainty in relationships. Uncertainty in business. Uncertainty in where the hell I even wanted to live. […]
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE The Art Licensing Playbook with Cat Coquillette Licensing feels like one of those secret doors in the art world. You see other artists strolling through Target or Anthropologie like it’s no big deal, meanwhile, you’re wondering if your work is even licensable. Spoiler alert: it probably is. And […]
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Ask Me Anything: Your Burning Questions, Answered (Part 6) If there’s one thing I know for sure after 20+ years as an artist, it’s that there are no dumb questions. Just a lot of artists pretending they’ve got it all figured out. Spoiler: none of us do. That’s […]
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE 5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Start with the End Results in Mind Let’s be real: control feels safe, but it’s the fastest way to strangle your creativity. If you’re walking into the studio already picturing what your painting should look like, you’ve skipped the best part … the unknown. […]
