Pricing your art

[Richard Monro]

Picking your individual price per square inch price point requires honest soul searching and a lot of visits to different galleries. After viewing enough different works of art you will get a feel for how your art compares to what is being sold in the marketplace.

Be honest. Most of the forum artists produce art that is better then most of what I see in the galleries. Yet I suspect that a lack of confidence is leading far too many to low ball their prices. DON'T LOW BALL! Price your art honestly according to the market as you and trusted advisers perceive it. Use advisers to help you get past any emotional issues of self worth that may be clouding your judgment. You do yourself and all other artists a favor by doing so.

Maybe we should have a members only pricing section on the forum, where our fellow members can be our board of advisers. They can collectively rate our body of work (say five pieces we think represent our best work) on a one to ten scale. Then as we produce new works they can be rated on the same scale. A comparison of an individual piece to our collective works will determine strength or weakness thereby helping us to adjust our price point for that piece.