Creating Christmas Products From Your Fine Art (Poll Results)

This month's poll asked you lot whether artists who read this spider web log practise Christmas and/or Seasonal products from their artwork.  There were a few surprises.

Making H5N1 Mark Poll December 2011 - 48 responses inwards 2 weeks

The query "Do you lot practise Christmas / Seasonal products from your art?" is genuinely a fiddling flake to a greater extent than complex a query than it looks at human face upwardly 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 you lot tin uncovering out what the 53 respondents (in 2 weeks) determined were the answers.

The primary findings are that
  • half (50%) the respondents engaged inwards about shape of marketing artwork every bit suitable for the season
  • nearly a 3rd (30%) of those who responded indicated that this was non a agency they wanted to sell their art.  I'm certain at that topographic point volition move a multifariousness of reasons for this thought but I'm non also clear which are the most important.
Of those who wanted to brand something of their fine art for Christmas at that topographic point were about distinct preferences:

  • 44% create original art amongst a seasonal theme
  • 36% practise seasonal cards from their artwork
  • activities inwards relation to marketing prints, vouchers in addition to calendars were small-scale scale only
Rather than practise novel fine art or convert existing fine art to novel products, 1 grouping purpose their fourth dimension to sharpen upwardly 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 nix non because of a conviction that this was non the agency they wanted to marketplace position fine art but rather because they merely did non bring the time

On the whole my thought would move that the most effective strategy inwards the long run would ever move to ratchet upwardly the marketing endeavor at Christmas having determined inwards advance which aspects of your artwork were most probable to appeal to those buying presents for others

Your views

I'm also interested inwards your views every bit to:

  • whether you lot intend your choices every bit to how you lot spent your fourth dimension in addition to endeavor were effective?
  • how you lot know whether or non the choices you lot made were effective?  
    • For event - practise you lot bring a baseline for measurement "not done anything particular this year" available every bit a comparing (ie how much mightiness your sales bring increased past times at Christmas fifty-fifty if you lot did exactly nothing?)
  • what your theory is every bit 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 nigh Christmas

I was intrigued every bit to which of the to a greater extent than famous artists mightiness bring created artwork for Christmas.  Particularly when I saw at that topographic point was a rigid tendency maxim "this is non what I desire to do".  So I did a search........


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