Selling Your Art

It Can Be a Yucky Business

This repost discusses selling your art and how for most artists, it’s a yucky business that can dredge up feelings of uneasiness, sleaziness, and an overall feelings of being a sell-out. After all, shouldn’t artists create art because they’re passionate about their work and not driven by the almighty dollar? The answer is…artists create because it is what they’re passionate about. But what’s so wrong about an artist making money from the fruits of their passionate work? Artists have to eat too, right?

                     Artists have to eat too!

Selling your art isn’t the fun part of being an artist and you’re not alone if you feel the same. Click the link here to read Putting a Price on Your Art where I discuss my own feelings on the subject. And stay tuned for next week’s post where I’ll delve a little further into different methods of selling your art and why you should never charge based on the time it took to create your artwork. Seriously.