Selling artwork?

MrsWinters

Has anyone done this successfully?
Where do I start?

CWSmith

Yes, I have and my daughter has also.

Mostly, we started with freebies to friends to begin with, then word-of-mouth. I'm lucky enough to work where I can display artwork, but it's worth asking local cafes or pubs if you can use their walls as a temporary gallery. You'll have to give them a percentage of anything you sell obviously, but it's a start!

Daughter, being at vet school and specialising in animal paintings, gets loads of commissions.

Professional advice is always not to under-sell yourself from the start, i.e. charge what you genuinely believe your art is worth right from the beginning, but we found that impossible. We started off doing quite small (no larger than A4 pics) fairly cheaply and have gradually increased our prices as we have sold more.

Be warned though - unless you are brilliant and unique, this is not a way to get-rich-quick, or get rich at all for that matter! See at as a hobby that with any luck, might make you a few extra quid, then you won't be disappointed.

MrsWinters

Thank you.
My work already has a huge interest from many, but I'm not sure how to sell it - price etc...

Kayalana99

If you've already had 'huge interest' then you'd start thier. We can't really help you price it and thats not what you asked for either.

27021988

Getting set up selling things online is the easy part. There are tons of platforms that allow you to list, take payment and ship orders. It's the traffic generation that requires hard work. I would put alot of thought and focus into how you are going to attract people to your website and leave the actual setting up stuff for later as that can be worked out very easily.

Good Luck!

CWSmith

MrsWinters wrote: »

Thank you.
My work already has a huge interest from many, but I'm not sure how to sell it - price etc...

I don't want to "rain on your parade" too much, but you might find that 'huge interest' diminishes rapidly as soon as you start putting prices on your work.


For every fifty potential clients that have shown real interest, I have probably had no more than two or three sales.