Where To Sell Fine Art Is The Incorrect Question

I received a query almost selling fine art yesterday.  Below you lot tin flame read the query as well as my response

Hi Katherine

I've been enjoying your "Making a Mark" spider web log for years, as well as I'm hoping that somewhere inwards the archives you lot address my question. If not, I'd dearest to accept you lot do a poll!

I'm purpose of a professional person fine art group, as well as nosotros are inwards the procedure of developing a spider web site. Some members tell nosotros absolutely should accept an online store for selling fine art; others, including me, tell that anyone hoping to brand serious sales that way is overly optimistic, as well as that it is real hard to brand pregnant sales online.

I believe the thought of selling fine fine art online is mis-represented, mostly past times people who blueprint spider web sites intended to assist artists sell fine art online. What are your thoughts on selling fine fine art online? Is it feasible - or not?

Thank you!

This was my response - which I accept to tell was written off the altitude of my caput slowly final nighttime inwards almost 5 minutes!

It is withal the distilled stance of having looked at real many websites as well as the activities of real many artists over the final viii years

Both views are right - withal you lot accept omitted the primal component subdivision inwards the equation.

• There are a lot of websites which brand their coin out of persuading people who don't know whatever ameliorate that they tin flame sell their fine art through their website. Wrong! The alone way they volition become traffic is if the artists generate it themselves as well as if they're doing that as well as therefore they mightiness too sell via eBay or Etsy. There in i lawsuit again at that topographic point are websites where people listing as well as sell virtually everything they list. The latter are people who accept developed a following. Look at for sure painters on Daily Paintworks to meet what I hateful eg Dreama Tolle Perry; Taryn Day; Jacqueline Gnott; Karin Jurick; Carol Marine etc etc They're practiced at what they do, they accept a distinctive style, they accept themes for plain of report affair etc. 
• It all depends on your pricepoint. Galleries won't behave upon cheaper fine art - that needs to endure sold straightaway past times the artist. Remember at that topographic point is no committee alone the costs of putting it online. That agency that some people volition brand to a greater extent than coin out of selling large volumes of cheaper fine art straightaway than others volition brand from selling to a greater extent than expensive fine art selling via galleries.
• Bottom describe it's all downwards to the marketing. You volition sell via:
• a gallery if the gallery is practiced at marketing. If non as well as therefore it volition sit down inwards their backroom gathering dust 
• your ain website if you lot are practiced at marketing
• via an online gallery if you lot are practiced at marketing

So bottom describe - I recall your professional person fine art grouping needs to become professional person at marketing - because it seems to me they are looking at the whole query of how to sell fine art the incorrect way round.

The channel isn't the issue.

Selling fine art is hard period.

The lawsuit is almost how much fourth dimension as well as attempt you lot desire to position into marketing! If you lot desire to sell fine art as well as therefore you lot take away to allocate fourth dimension to marketing as well as you lot take away to ensure you lot are doing the right things inwards the right way.

Do the incorrect things inwards the incorrect way as well as it truly doesn't affair how much fourth dimension as well as attempt you lot apply to marketing!

My stance is that if professional person galleries are selling fine art online - which they are - as well as therefore professional person artists should real definitely endure selling their fine art online.

In fact a number of artists accept been able to construct a portfolio of bricks as well as mortar galleries to stand upwards for their fine art because they could demonstrate - via online sales - that their fine art sold as well as that they had a following.

What's your View?

How would you lot accept answered the question?

Do portion what your stance is almost the pros as well as cons of fine art groups having an online ecommerce set-up for selling fine art via their website.

Resources for Artists

You tin flame abide by resources to assist you lot sell fine art inwards my websites listed below


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Sell Daily Paintings - Resources for Artists

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Print Art on Demand - Resources for Artists

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How to Make H5N1 Mark alongside Art

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