good afternoon campers....well iv'e been researching how to price my artwork....seems by the square inch is popular....plus include all your expenses to create that piece of artwork....................what is a definite no no is "do not price by emotion" (yes that's right...sound effects with that one, probably an echo too).........so when you price something, it has to be a standard price all across the board (like by square inch) , cause if you are all over the place (pricing with emotion) potential buyers will just walk on by.......walk on by...da dat da dah....singing that song by....supremes?....oh well moving on up...to the east side...to a deluxe apartment...in the sky i i.......aaahhhhh...all my thoughts are going into songs.....squirrel............
so back to "the wonderful world of pricing!!!!" (sound effects like the wonderful world of disney.....very groovy).......................so if you price by emotion, your prices won't make sense...."why" you ask? ...... let me tell you....well for me, my artwork is a piece of me, my baby, very personal stuff, my emotional attachment to something i created might be worth to me a million dollars......by the way, if anyone wants to buy my artwork for a million dollars i will bring it to you right now!!!....i'm not that attached... so you have that side of it, then there is the compassionate side of it (i think that's the right word)....i would say to myself "self, how can anyone afford to pay a million dollars, they have to pay their bills, buy food, put gas in their car, feed their llama?" ....and then my serious self (ha ha ha ha...serious self....i think that's an oxymoron in my case) would say "previous self, don't people pay to have their car fixed, put in that new kitchen, buy those new llamas?"...and then my previously previous self would say "previously previous self, i know that but isn't this price too extreme, too high, who can afford this, maybe i should lower it by say, a million dollars?" and then my previously previously previous self would say......"oh my gosh".........................well you get the picture....and the reason for this blog......pricing is my nemesis.....but if i really want to do my art full time and making a living at it........kinda gotta figure this out and let it go.....yeah i'm singing again and yeah i've seen frozen numerous times....grandkids.... can i just say that that song "let it go" pertains to everything in life.......like "should i keep the 40 tops that are all the same , or should i donate 2 to the thrift store?" "let it go, let it go"... how bout "this pan is much hotter than i thought it was, and i'm still holding it ".... "let it go, let it go"....... or how bout a cute little jam faced child learning to be potty trained..."let it go, let it go"............ so back to pricing......buyers want to understand why you priced it the way you did....they want the pricing to make sense.............which makes sense......i just have to figure out how to make sense of how to price my artwork, and then, what?....that's right..sing it with me......"let it go, let it go!"
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