Alternative social media: starting a Patreon as an artist

A creative update from artist Roxy van Bemmel about a surge of energy and ideas after a slow period. She outlines her approach to committing to projects — learned through building a YouTube channel — and announces plans for online illustration workshops, more commissioned portrait work, and most importantly, developing her ongoing painting series into a coherent body of work.

A candid personal essay by artist Roxy van Bemmel about exhaustion after months of house renovations, a hand injury scare, and the familiar freelance anxiety of a quiet first quarter. She reflects on guilt around rest, rebuilding a daily painting practice, and learning to be kind to herself as a self-employed creative.

An exhibition announcement for Roxy van Bemmel's solo show at Sociëteit de Kring in Amsterdam, October 2022. The post highlights her fashion design background (ArtEZ Arnhem, 2017), her expressive figurative style, and the theme of freedom. It places her in the lineage of artists who have shown at the historic venue.

A personal studio update from artist Roxy about returning to oil painting after a period of client work. She reflects on her intuitive, photograph-based sketching process and introduces the first painting of a new unnamed figurative series. She also mentions an ongoing exhibition of six oil paintings at Bunk Hotels in Utrecht.

Discover how a copyright dispute inspired a nine-piece floral collage series. Handmade original artworks born from frustration — now available to buy.

A personal essay by an artist describing how a copyright claim over floral paintings led her to create a nine-piece original collage series. The post covers the creative process, her response to the dispute, and how the works are now available at an accessible price point.

In the 298 edited minutes I filmed and shared you’ll find rejection, excitement, overwhelm, inspiration and lots of other emotions I forgot I had but found again while editing the hours away on my computer. Ten weeks in my life as an artist.

I’m excited to invite you to my new exhibition called I dreamt of expanding.

How to organize your own art exhibition? I’m sharing my tips on how I organized my own art show and a link to two studio vlogs I made during that process.

Wait, what? YouTube? Monetization? Aren’t you an artist? Well yes, haha, but I love numbers and analytics too. Since I’m a small channel on YouTube and recently hit the milestone of monetization I thought it’d be fun to make a video and an accompanying blogpost about it. For those of you that are also interested in starting a YouTube channel and hitting that goal of monetization.

It happens every year, once or twice. Is what I’m doing good enough, is it worth anything? Most of the time it’s about my paintings, but this time sneaky little imposter syndrome pried itself into my videos and it made me doubt.. everything? I just came to a full stop. This is about how to get out of your own head and stop procrastinating.

A step by step guide on how to frame your giclee prints by yourself.