How She Creates: Ep 016 - Teaching with Brandi Kincaid and Pam Garrison
If you have ever wanted to start teaching about your creative process or have no idea how a creative class comes together, today's episode is perfect for you. Brandi Kincaid and Pam Garrison share with us their process for creating an online course from idea to reality. They share their best tips for supplies, pricing, student satisfaction, choosing a platform for teaching and will encourage you to start teaching your own courses. Listen in today for lots of great recommendations and encouragement for all online creative class lovers.
Episode Takeaways and Artist Actions
- Brandi and Pam's creative story
- Their transition to teaching art courses online
- Do you have to be an expert to teach?
- Ways to begin teaching without teaching a full class
- How to figure out what your audience wants to learn from you
- How teaching is creative
- What are the benefits of learning from other artists
- Why paying for a course brings a greater return than following a tutorial on Pinterest
- Challenging yourself outside of your creative comfort zone
- Project vs. Process classes
- Best tools for creating your own courses
- How to set your pricing
- Self hosting vs working with an established course program
- How to manage student expectations for 100% learner satisfaction
- Artist Action: Start by sharing tutorials and projects, writing articles for blogs or magazines, contribute to other courses, guest posting
- Artist Action: Start teaching by using the Live feature on apps like periscope, facebook, instagram, etc
- Artist Action: Take a class to push yourself out of your creative comfort zone
- Artist Action: Invest in your equipment
- Video camera
- External hard drive
- Tripod with extended arm
- Vimeo Pro Account
- Daylight Bulbs
- Light boxes
Resources and Tools
Please note that some of these are affiliate links. As always, we'd never recommend anything we (or the artists) don't truly love.
- Big Picture Classes
- Brandi's Doodle Courses on Big Picture Classes
- Pam's Painting Petals Course (on sale until January 31st)
- Creative Bug
- Pam's Creative Bug Courses
- Laura Hager's 100 Days of Scrapbooking Tips
- Maryann Moss Courses
- Squarespace
- How To Make Your First Ecourse
- Skillshare
- Get Messy Courses
- August Wren Courses
- Lisa Congdon Courses
- Ali Edward Courses
- Tina Azmus Courses
- Craftification Event
Guests
Brandi Kincaid
Brandi is an illustrator and paper crafter who makes and records memories with her husband in Bellingham, Washington. She spends all her free moments playing with paper and glue, and drawing a version of the world around her. When she isn't making a mess or dreaming up new designs, she's spending time at one of her favorite neighborhood bookshops or watching episodes of Murder She Wrote, because nothing beats J.B. Fletcher.
Pam Garrison
Pam Garrison is an artist passionate about the pursuit of creativity. She can be found art journaling, painting, lettering, doodling or practicing some creative form on the daily. When she's not at home in Southern California with her husband and two children, she is often travel teaching. You can take a class with Pam in person at various retreats around the globe, or online with Creativebug.com 
