Mark E Shellshear.

                                                                  " Lake Bato Bato"                                                                       acrylic on canvas                          ...

“ Selling out of my studio makes me more money and cuts out the Gallery and middleman, great for the artist?”          Is it? I am the first to agree that if you can sell from your studio and make enough money to live on, then you are doing very well. I know of Artists who have been able to carve out a nice living doing Art Fairs and slowly building up a Collector base from their studio. I also know an Artist who I consider very talented and a friend who does not show in any Galleries and he has built a good business and sells directly to his Collectors. He did start off from a Gallery but found he could build his business better outside the Gallery system. If you can do this and it cuts out the Gallery or the middle man and you are happy with that, then you should do it. I know it is hard to get into Galleries and it is also hard to get into the Gallery that I manage. So what do you do? Build your Art Business with or without the Gallery...

      “ Failed selling Artist, successful Artist?” There is a lot of controversy and opinions out there in the Art World, especially the constant discussion about how much should they charge for their painting and what is success? I need to disclose first that I represent Artists in the Art Business, so this is a little out of character for me. What is success as an Artist? For me there are two types of successful Artists, those you make a good living from their art and the two I will describe in this post I thought of two examples of two very successful Artists, but failed as selling Artists. When I was a young man starting out in the business world in the 1970's, I would go to a barber in the suburb of Sandgate where I lived. The reason I would always go this particular barber was that he was an Artist, a very dedicated Artist. His Barber shop was filled with his paintings, every space on the walls was covered with his paintings, all the paintin...

                                                                  " Kandy Head "                                                                   by Austin Surez Acrylic on canvas, this young man is a street artist and doing some amazing work. This painting is sold.  “ Is now the right time to quit my job and become a full time Artist?” I saw a post on a Artist group page where someone had decided to quit their day job and go full time painting and earning their living from their ...

                                               Why don't people want to pay what my art is worth? I keep reading on an artists group pages again and again the same old question, “ I cannot sell my art for what it is really worth?” This is always a question raging in the art world, sort of the never ending question. Every artist has an opinion about this and it sometimes sounds like whining and of coarse they do not want to hear any opinions that differ from the fact, that their art is worth far more than they can sell it for. Of coarse my opinion comes from my experience with Galleries and collectors and of coarse artists and you may not agree with me and that is fine and I hope I do not upset to many people but lets take a look at the reality of the situation. First lets establish this that the price an artist can ask for a painting has nothing ...