Here is a recent painting I finished. I am considering an art sale soon including this painting but will post when I get this up on ebay with some other art work. Covid19 isolation did allow me to get some art finished. I am hoping the art center reopens this fall, but not sure yet if it will.
That's really nice. I'd hang it on my wall. You might consider Etsy. There's a sort of name for postcard sized art I forget now, but there are collectors of it and it's a real thing. That's if you like to work small. But there's so, so much really lousy art out there that anything good that's done with real care and feeling will find a home.
ReplyDeleteThanks, yeah maybe in future will look at etsy. I plan to post some on ebay soon. Hmm I think I know what you are talking about with the post card art, maybe I will try watercolors, I got a watercolor sketch book recently. Agree the market is oversaturated. Thanks.
DeleteDefinitely go with Ebay. Given a choice between Etsy and Ebay, Ebay will always come out ahead. I wasn't thinking about that because I'm effectively in a "non compete" contract because I work for a guy selling his stuff on Ebay. If I set up my own account and sold on there, Ebay would kick both of our asses off of the system.
ReplyDeleteI know this because when I had my own Ebay business, a guy near me, and I used to buy and sell with each other a fair bit, and it almost got us both kicked off of Ebay.
I'm always saying, selling on Ebay is like working for the Mob. They can be very capricious but the money can be awfully good.
If you can learn to use oils, the very same art in oil vs. watercolor will sell for something like 5X as much. You can use thin techniques in oils; a famous example is the "We Want You" poster done by James Montgomery Flagg. James McNeill Whistler used "thin" techniques a lot. So what I'm saying is, you can be watercolor-y with oils