Selling Art work.

Unless you can negotiate with the sites, the only way you're going to increase your take is to increase your involvement in selling, which means following all the usual business advice in this regard. That means either you do it yourself, or you team up with someone who'll do it for your either for free or for a smaller cut. Basically you're looking to build up your personal visibility which means building a website, blogging, using Facebook etc, all of which takes time, rather than piggybacking on an established site. If you want to go down this route, I'd suggest you buy a book like Marketing for Dummies and absorb its advice.

There are sites like Folksy and Etsy that charge a lot less commission than that but they're typically more crafts than arts.

The alternative of cause is to set up and promote your own site but then you may find the cost of PPC and other marketing exceeds the other sites commission rate

An enterprising art student went door-to-door and I bought a couple of his small pieces. Although I suspect it wasn't a very good return, for the hours it took him to do and sell?

i second etsy, it's awesome and the more you talk in the forums and join and network the more people visit your store. I sell handmade jewellery on there and have done commissions for quite a few people now.


It is a little more crafty than artsy but I have brought art prints from there before