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If you would choose to get excited about what you and others are doing, you will draw positive attention to what you yourself are doing in your own work!
Pricing Your Art
Here is why it is so important to embrace this way of selling your art work as a professional, although look and compare dealers v.s. aution houses before making a decision.
This high class article by the Calwell Gallery provides some things to keep in mind when you’re looking at a price.
Learn to listen. If I could show you a way to impress others the easy way is to listen, and ask good questions. Are you interested in others? If you listen you will discover opportunities you wouldn’t have otherwise heard.
Don’t think that you are the only artist in your area. You may not know local artists personally yet, so ask to interview them for a third party, like a newspaper or online resource, but be sure to find a way to meet other artists in person!
Would you like to see your buyers come back? Invite them to your upcoming events, stay in touch, ask them for feedback, maybe send them a special gift for special occassions!
If you would choose to volunteer your time in a place where you want to work or where you’d like to place your artwork. You may not know how a museum works, but if you volunteer you can find out from the inside out!
It’s fun, and easy, to promote your artwork online, make videos in your studio, and make that accessible to hundreds of thousands of people in just a few minutes!
You might want to now join your local Chamber of Commerce. This allows you to get a contact list of all the other members, and helps raise your local visibilty!
How you might go about deciding to build a contact list from the beginning. As you show your work, you might want to now start creating a list of email addresses you can contact directly for upcoming events.
Make art your first priority, because sometimes it is difficult to get other things done when we’d rather be doing our art. If you could have gotten up early and done it first, it won’t keep distracting you from your other responsibilities!