Forum: MarketPlace Showcase


Subject: Selling your art?

Driesketeer opened this issue on Nov 02, 2007 · 5 posts


Driesketeer posted Fri, 02 November 2007 at 6:42 PM

I found this site yesterday and have been clicking like crazy eversince. There's loads of amazingly good work here. As a student in Art-history i sell photo's from friends on an art market in Amsterdam once a month. It would be great to sell some  artwork on this art market and/or on a site for the dutch market. The idea behind it is that  both parties profit so that it would be a good way for an artist to support  their hobby financially and for me, eventually, make my hobby, working with art, my job.

But what is a reasenoble price to offer? Works here took loads of hours, seems difficult to just put a price tag on it.
Besides that, i did mention i'm a student :p Its also mostly for about 5 till 10 prints per photo. So it wont be practical to buy copyrights i guess. An option would be to pay a price for every print. But then again, how would the other know i'm not making thousends of them?

Am also curious about what you would think about the idea of having your work copied and sold. After all, art is not a  product but something which has a symbolic reference and exists of idea's and patterns. It should keep this authenticity.

Any answers, ideas or advice are welcome!