My daughter sold a painting for $250 last year. It was at a little gallery in a rural town.
She's still in art school, so it was her first big sale.
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I've never sold any of my art but
It is offensive [...] on what relative little went into making it
What I find offensive is judging art on how much visible "effort" non-artists think went into it. That's not how that works.
Owning a piece of art is a luxury, nobody NEEDS it, it's not food or shelter or anything necessary for survival. Pricing is purely a matter between seller (artist) and buyer, I don't see how "ethics" come into it (other than when buyers are trying to shame artists into lowering their prices to a point where they can't live off their own work anymore).
I was a commercial artist (animator in AAA studio).
I sold my art, and paid for it with my own soul.
Burnt out.
Now I sketch for joy, not money.
I got paid over $1k to perform at a 3 day festival (9x10min total)
Local or did you need to travel? Even though you were "only" performing for say ~30 minutes/day were you able to do any other work those days?
This does seem like a good hourly rate, but if you had to travel there and back, and couldn't do other things for $$ in your free time, the deal doesn't become as good sounding.
I was already in the area on vacation :) We booked the hotel and planned the trip before I got the gig, the stars just happened line up. The other people in my troupe were friends so it was a lotta fun.
Very cool, glad to hear it worked out so well!
People often dismiss the high price of paint in a work also.
There are some styles which take huge volumes of expensive paint, some skill and maybe 20 minutes of labor. They sell for more than i can afford and the artist barely makes profit.
About $750, IIRC. It was a resized copy of a piece that I'd made for a runway show. I think it took me about 60 hours in fittings, patterning, cutting, and sewing to make. (My sewing process wasn't very efficient, since I was working with a single machine, and had to keep changing it attachments, folders, feet, etc.)
It still takes me a long time to make my first piece--when I sew at all--but I'm faster now.