| If you are just starting out as a professional visual artist and you have a good body of work that you'd like to sell, but you don't know how to begin when it comes to pricing your art....here are a few pointers that might be helpful! *Note: I do try to respond to everyone in the comments, but sometimes it takes me a while! My website: www.ArtByCedar.com A few footnotes I wanted to add after receiving some helpful feedback from other artists The price examples I give are for gallery-wrapped canvases, ie unframed. So for me, the cost of framing is not a factor. If you frame your work, you will have to add your framing costs onto your retail price (obviously, or you wouldn't make a profit!) In this case I'd probably still price by size to start with, then tack on the framing costs afterwards. I've seen many artists that have 2 prices for each piece they sell, a framed price & an unframed price. I think that's a smart way to do things, as many galleries and collectors may prefer to frame a piece themselves. (But of course this all depends on your work--the frame you choose may be of integral importance to the work.) A note about size: looking through the goggles of my own situation, I hadn't even considered how low $1/inch would be for very small sizes, since the smallest size I typically work in is 20" x 20". If you make smaller paintings, you'll want to start higher than $1/square inch. (A 5"x7" painting for $35 would be ridiculously low for most painters--except possibly ... |
