I’ve been painting for five years now, and to my great surprise people seem to like some of my work. About two months ago I was wandering around some stores in Houston, and stopped in Space, which is a really cool store that sells art as well. I talked with the owner, and he said he’d be willing to sell prints of my paintings.
Eventually I was able to get some prints made, and I just dropped them off at the store today, and I’m super excited about it. I’m not exactly to the point of quitting my day job or anything, but this feels like a big step, where people will be seeing my art in real life, rather than just on the internet, or the few people who come to my apartment and see my walls plastered with paintings.
I just wanted to post this because I’m so excited about this. I also stopped by Niko Niko’s for a celebratory Gyro and an Athenian Mud Pie, which also made me very happy.
Congrats! Thats gotta be so cool. But to be honest until your work is being sold from some guy in van in a velvet relief form you haven’t reached the big time
I like it - I could see some of your prints hanging on my walls (I especially like “Dandelion” and “Panda” - “Panda” has great potential to become an internet meme).
Thanks fellow Houstonian! I think I might have set my prices a bit too high initially. I looked at what comparable foliotwist artists had set their prices at, but I realize now that they might not have known what they were doing either. I’m going to lower some of the prices, and then of course I can raise them later when I’m a high demand artist on the cover of New Yorker magazine.
Is the Fine Art America link not working for you? I’ve started putting a few on Red Bubble, and I’m going to try to put more up there and other print on demand websites when I’m not busy working on new paintings. Or watching Season 1 of Angel on Netflix Streaming.
Thanks twickster, I wasn’t sure where to put the thread. I didn’t start the thread intending to promote myself, but just because I’m very excited about being in a store now. I’m one step closer to artistic world domination! Or just making a living as an artist which would also be exciting. (Although artistic world domination makes me think of a dictator or James Bond villian that looks and acts like Andy Warhol, which would be interesting.)
I am no expert on pricing art, but I have heard on occassion that charging too little can be a bad thing. Some shallow people think “its expensive, so it must be good” and they might still be able to afford it. Or the opposite, “its cheap so it must be bad” and we arent going to buy it even if we can afford it. Just saying you might want to ask around about that sorta thing with the pro’s that are willing to help you out. Again, congrats.
Yeah, that makes sense. I’ve read different websites and books that have advice on how to price work, but it’s all general guidelines, and hard to know how to apply that to my work. Luckily, Houston has a ton of artists and arts organizations, so I’m gonna try to be more outgoing and go to more events and meet more people and hopefully get more advice.
I’ve put prints of Water Tower up on Fine Art America and on Red Bubble. I’ve ordered other prints from Fine Art America and they turned out well. I’ve never ordered any from Red Bubble but it seems like a good website.
I really like the ones of the animals. I could see those being grouped together in a child’s room. Very sweet and whimsical without being super baby-ish. And I’m seriously considering the Blue Flowers for our bedroom - I’ll have to ask my husband what he thinks.
but I really like them!