Your opinion: What are the best ways to promote or sell your own art ?

Answer 1

Why throw the baby out with the bath water?

The community is slow to realize that paintings not only are valuable in themselves, but the image itself can be freed from the canvas and used in many ways and sold many times.

Sell the art but get a very high res file of your work for your personal stock photography collection to use for all sorts of marketing. Sell it over and over to ad agencys, post on zazzle.com (zero cost marketing) Your imagination has no limits to the ways you can use the files - just add a copyright to the backside of the art and let buyers know that you have at least a shared copyright on the work for your business use.

They won't care but you will gain the value technology affords.

All art is for sale on one level or another - so the profit motive is just extended by technology and allows you to promote and sell your art to a wider audience.

remember scarcity in the ratio to the number of your fans will determine what you can sell for and how..Mass creates gravity - make the mass HUGE.

Answer 2

I paint with a group call accessarts and they put some art work on their web site.
They also help with putting art works into exhibitons.
Look out for art show to enter too.

The web is a great tool
I have also hired gallery in the past to.

Answer 3

Create a number of pieces that are wildly disparate. Make some as hideously ugly as you possibly can, make others austere like single pencil lines that are vertical or diagonal, and for others simply paint half the canvas in ivory and the other half in a slightly lighter shade of ivory.

Then affix incredibly high prices, like $46,000 for the pencil line magnum opus.

It won't take long for people to start buying them, just to prove to their friends how profoundly knowledgeable they are about REAL art. Make sure you have one piece visible, then state that it's not for sale when someone inquires, because it's "much too important to me." Act petulant, of course. Someone is bound to press you on the subject and offer you something astronomical for it, you clever scamp.

Oh, and make sure to always wear nothing but black, so people will know you're legitimately deep and complex.

By the way, I'm not kidding about any of this. It's worked for many, um, artists in the past.

Answer 4

Post pictures here.
Make sure you hang everywhere. Make an art 'donation' (loaners) to places you know lots of people go. City hall, hospital, theater those places.
Have your own website.
If there is some art show (not yours) show your face there.
Have business cards that state what you do and your website. Have 10.000 and get rid of them like you were Santa.

Answer 5

The best way to promote your artwork is your own two feet and your own word of mouth.
I promote my self in the following ways.
Contact local art galleries and submit CD Roms of your work.
Contact local restaurants and ask them about hanging work in there.
Contact local hotels, banks,hospitals, schools,libraries, law firms. just about anyplace that hangs work.
Business cards., place them everywhere you go.
Have post cards printed to give away to places and people.
Contact local news publications and expose your self in there.
Have a website...link your website as much as possible.
Have t-shirts made with your art work on them and your website address.
Give the t-shirts away at clubs, schools...where ever.
Donate art work to local charities...
donate work again and again.
Hang out at a local coffee shop and or artsy place and make yourself known.
Try to donate a mural in your community....children's hospital, local building, school..
Submit your work in local or travelling juried art shows.
Submit your work for competition.
State fairs, national and local publications, national poster contest. Scholarship contest.
Just get the stuff out there....good luck!

Answer 6

Create a website

or post it on a bolg site and have people view it

Join Yahoo selling groups and post your work

Answer 7

Best web-site I know of is ArtWanted. Free to join and there are 18,000 + artists who agree with me. Its got everything and it is easy to use. Here's the link...
http://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=31019&SubGal=Oil
After you look at my work posted click on "Join" to get more info. Good luck!