Bert T
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Your paintings? Or someone else's, selling on consignment? Or do you just split the profit with them? Not sure what you're asking...
If you mean, "I paint paintings and would like to sell them online", that's tough. There are always new artists popping up and it's hard to get noticed in a sea of other wannabes. Especially online. People want to see the painting they're thinking about purchasing, hanging on a wall in front of them, not a grainy picture of it online. Also, who are you? The biggest thing about being a successful artist is the same as with actors. You're no one worth buying (or hiring to be in your movie) until someone buys something and praises it, then others take notice and orders start coming in. Once you've proved you're no fluke and can also reliably produce quality, then the lemmings come running. Everyone will want a piece of you then. But NONE of this applies to selling your art online.
Art purchasing is very corporate these days. I personally know a painter in Jerome, AZ, paints beautiful landscapes, and charges by the size canvas the painting is on, not the contents thereof. He makes a ton, because his stuff is unique, sells well and he's an artist 'in vogue'. The depressing aspect is, the more you paint, the less you're worth, until you die. Then your stuff goes through the roof, if you had talent.
Start smaller. Do like poster sized pen and inks, run off about 500 copies and start selling them on EBay. Get your name out there. Do numbered sets and 4-poster 'Superposters' and sell fewer and fewer each time. If you're popular, the bids should start climbing. Then try a few paintings in the same vein and jump the price WAY up. See what happens. Promote your paintings as "one of a kind, no copies, original hand-painted whatever by whoever".
If those sell, you may end up on 60 Minutes on day, explaining to Morley Safer how you became the first online artist to become a billionaire.
By the way, my cut is 15%. |
Adam W
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ebay is the way to go. if they're your own works, make sure to use catch phrases such as "the early works of..." in the descriptions and titles. you may not make a whole lot, then again, you may get famous! |
aloneinga
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Get a digital camera, take pictures of your paintings, and sell them on ebay, or you can do customized paintings...also people like paintings from photos, you could try that. Good luck! |
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