How selling your paintings, drawings and art prints works

Sell original paintings and drawings, and printed copies of your art, online, at markets and through cafes and galleries.

Who it suits: Artists with a body of work and a style people recognise, happy to share it online.
Who pays: Home decorators, gift buyers, tourists, offices.
What they get: Original, local art for walls.
Is there demand?: SA artists publish print prices: limited-edition A4 R699 and A3 R1,200 (Hilde Alet Malan). Fine-art printing costs about R155 for A4 and R395 for A3 (Studio22).
Real examples: Instagram

Markets

Cafes and galleries

Commissions (pets, portraits)

A good sign: a sold print or a paid commission.

Do it now

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In a typical case, how long until the first money comes in?

Your challenge

Choose 10 of your best pieces and photograph them in daylight.

You are done when:

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