Brand New!! Creating Christmas Products From Your Fine Art (Poll Results)

This month's poll asked yous whether artists who read this weblog create Christmas and/or Seasonal products from their artwork.  There were a few surprises.

Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Poll December 2011 - 48 responses inward 2 weeks

The query "Do yous create Christmas / Seasonal products from your art?" is genuinely a picayune flake to a greater extent than complex a query than it looks at human face upwards value.

The critical implied questions which respondents had to tackle were:

• Is marketing my artwork inside a seasonal context a proficient thought - or not
• What's the best agency of spending my fourth dimension if I'm going to brand to a greater extent than of an effort?
• producing novel art?
• converting existing fine art to novel products?
• market my existing fine art to a greater extent than effectively?

Below yous tin discovery out what the 53 respondents (in 2 weeks) determined were the answers.

The principal findings are that

• half (50%) the respondents engaged inward approximately shape of marketing artwork equally suitable for the season
• nearly a tertiary (30%) of those who responded indicated that this was non a agency they wanted to sell their art.  I'm certain in that location volition last a diversity of reasons for this persuasion but I'm non also clear which are the most important.

Of those who wanted to brand something of their fine art for Christmas in that location were approximately distinct preferences:

• 44% create original art amongst a seasonal theme
• 36% create seasonal cards from their artwork
• activities inward relation to marketing prints, vouchers in addition to calendars were small-scale scale only

Rather than create novel fine art or convert existing fine art to novel products, 1 grouping purpose their fourth dimension to sharpen upwards their marketing efforts.  13% pass to a greater extent than fourth dimension on marketing their fine art rather than on creating or converting art

Just nether 10% opted to practise zippo non because of a conviction that this was non the agency they wanted to marketplace fine art but rather because they but did non accept the time

On the whole my persuasion would last that the most effective strategy inward the long run would e'er last to ratchet upwards the marketing assay at Christmas having determined inward advance which aspects of your artwork were most probable to appeal to those buying presents for others

Your views

I'm also interested inward your views equally to:

• whether yous intend your choices equally to how yous spent your fourth dimension in addition to assay were effective?
• how yous know whether or non the choices yous made were effective?  
• For illustration - practise yous accept a baseline for measurement "not done anything particular this year" available equally a comparing (ie how much mightiness your sales accept increased past times at Christmas fifty-fifty if yous did exactly nothing?)
• what your theory is equally to the best approach to selling fine art at a fourth dimension when people are spending coin on presents

and finally..... famous artists who created fine art virtually Christmas

I was intrigued equally to which of the to a greater extent than famous artists mightiness accept created artwork for Christmas.  Particularly when I saw in that location was a rigid tendency maxim "this is non what I desire to do".  So I did a search........

This is what approximately famous artists accept painted inward the past times - virtually this festive season

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