tired eyes and art

[joflasher]

Yuck, eyes are still being goofy. Its like they are really tired after only a few hours of being awake. I'm trying to be good and take breaks and stuff but its just not working. If this keeps up, I'm going to have to go see someone about it. Stupid eyes.

In other news, I have once again been smacked upside the head with the "art pricing" delima. Anyone out there want to give an opinion on what you would pay for one of my 9x12s? How bout the 15x20s?

Its tough, ya know? I want to make a decent amount of money off of my originals but at the same time, I want to actually sell them. A hundred in the hand is worth more than a thousand on the price tag. The folks over at Epi are saying $200 to $500 and up for the 9x12s. Seeing how I was going to min bid the big stuff at $500, I'm now just more confused. Here's the discussion as it now stands.

Also, limited edition 11x14s of End of the Storm are on their way and should show up any day now. I am going to ask $22 for them. I only have 5 coming in as the first batch. If the colors are okay, I'll make a run of 25 total. First set of color tests for Autumn Fading should show up at the same time. Likewise, I'll be doing a run of 25 of that one.

Comments

[talldean.livejournal.com]

Re: End of the Storm, she's got some booty!

Re: originals; pick a high price. If they go quickly, go higher. If they don't go, wait awhile, then go lower.

Re: The Rabbit; you should make a print of this one.

[flasher.livejournal.com]

End of Storm - you aren't the first one to comment on the butt

originals - yeah but its tough when you have someone interested and you don't want to loose the sale just because you put the price higher than they think its worth. Like I said, would you rather have a $100 in your pocket or a painting with a $1000 on the price tag?

The Rabbit - yeah, you can go to hell too. The rabbit is dead, there is no rabbit.

[talldean.livejournal.com]

Whatever you think the painting is worth; if you don't want the original around anymore, $100 it is. :)

Re: The Rabbit. I'll rephrase; do some non-fantasy work, and odds are, I'm interested in buying one.

[flasher.livejournal.com]

Planning to as soon as my last commission is done. I feel the need to get away from pretty women with nice butts for awhile...

[flasher.livejournal.com]

I give up. Maybe I should just keep the originals under the bed where they've always been and avoid the confusion or only sell at the conventions where free market politics take the choice out of my hands. I don't know how other artists do it.

Its easy with commissions, someone comes up to you, they say "I want this" and you say "Okay, that'll cost you X cause it'll take me Y long". Either they walk away or they say "sure" and you start painting. You don't feel guilty for charging a certain $ cause you are doing someone else's vision and you just set an hourly salary on it like any other job. Selling your own visions that you did for fun, well, it seems kind'a like cheating to charge the same amount. I'm obviously thinking about this too much.