The worst that will happen.

I get asked a lot when should I give up my day job and go full time as an Artist?

I always say keep your day job and have money so you don’t become desperate with no sales.

Family and friends will encourage you and say you are a talented Artist and love receiving your paintings as gifts, but that does not mean in the future they will buy all your paintings when they are for sale.

You need to remember that it is strangers who have to buy your paintings to sustain your future income, so you will need to build up a network of strangers over time that will become your collectors and are prepared to support your Art.

You need to build your Art business while you are part time so that one day it can become your main source of income, but until it does you need to approach it as a part time job.

Do not rush out and become a full time Artist, keep your day job and allow your Art business to grow to the point where all your sales and commissions coming from strangers force you to give up your day job.

Be patient, a little success and a few sales does not make a life time of sales, for me this is the wise way to do it.

The worst that will happen to you doing it this way is you will have a wonderful, fulfilling hobby that helps supplement your normal income, doing something you love.