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 Professional practice: Workshops and skill sharing 


As an artist one way that you can earn some extra money is by running workshops and skill sharing. Some examples of these are Batik workshops, Tim Davis paper sculpture workshops, Dawn Turners glass workshops, Gillian Brents gallery workshop and professor illustrator. 

Before running your own workshop, if you are thinking about working with children or vulnerable adults you'll need to have a current DBS certificate, and Public liability insurance is also important. It's important to think about what you have to offer while setting up your workshop, this includes the skill set that you have and can share and thinking about the possibility of bringing in other artists to help out and acquiring new skills if needed. 

Developing a website is one way to make sure that your workshops and information about them are easily accessible to the public, and using an-web guidelines to price the workshop will help with making sure that you price the workshop accordingly so that it is both good for you and the customers. 

Personally, I believe that running workshops would be a good side business to make some extra money. However, I don't think that it would work full time as it seems too unreliable, there's no guarantee that people would turn up or if they would want to come again. If I was to run my own workshop I would choose to teach Cyanotypes as this is a process that I know well and have had lots of practice with. 

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