You know what’s at the end of the rainbow — a pot of gold. That’s a brutal way of making reference to my somewhat large tummy, but it rivets the point — we’re a long way from marketing high-end fine art.
What we need is a New York Gallery to accept my work, and for a couple dozen museum curators to competitively bid to acquire some of my works for their collections.
Not much to ask. Continue reading
Picasso Original — RARE 1944 WWII period plate-signed copperplate engraving, $12,500 in an exquisitely rich carved gilded wood frame. Absolutely no one else has this, and it is one of the rarest of Picasso original works on paper.
“So what?” you ask, “what has that got to do with me?”. Continue reading
In town yesterday for the art class — we talked about the cards, how an artist can bring his or her art to the public quite easily and accessibly with fine-art greeting cards that are produced and marketed by the artist himself or herself. There are a variety of ways to sell greeting cards, but the very best is on a table on the street or in a mall. Be ready for a rush! My vintage cards went out the door, and I never intended to sell them. Here’s what happened: Continue reading
Yes, more about greeting cards. Why all of a sudden, greeting cards?
1. First of all, it’s not “all of a sudden”. I’ve been creating and selling greeting cards, artist trading cards, color wall prints and calendars for decades, starting back in 1954 when I made potato-stamp and linoleum-cut cards for my school projects and Christmas Fairs.
2. Secondly, whaddaya mean by “more”??? I haven’t even hardly begun on the subject. Continue reading
When you’re standing out in front of the supermarket or strolling down the busy street trying to sell greeting cards, the people you encounter don’t have time to know what you want, don’t have the inclination to help you unless they can instantly understand what you want and how you’re going to use their hard-earned money, and most of all, the people you meet are BUSY, far too busy to listen to your sales pitch. The point is, on the street, there is no time for a sales pitch, none whatever. You have at best 1/30th of a second to make your sale. That’s why, in spite of the fact that we have tens of thousands of fine art graphics available to us, we settle on the kid’s art for first conact, period.
That’s also why we make our cards at, by and for, the Children’s Craft Village. Continue reading
Oil Painting by David Teniers the Younger, about 1643 — Price on Request.
How To Make $1 Million Selling Fine Art That You Don’t Own? Nothing could be simpler. You’ll need at least a smartphone of some sort — an Android will do just fine in most areas of the local planet, although they work best back home, on Delta 55a. Of course they don’t work on any of the L3 levels, including 15a, because telepathics don’t tend to invent the telephone. Gosh, it hasn’t been more than a few seconds, and already I’ve wandered far off-subject…oh, yeh…selling $1 Million worth of fine art, that’s right…
So… you want to sell fine art, eh? And you wouldn’t mind making $1 Million with someone else’s fine art stockroom, too, right? And if you donate some of that $1 Million for the Ashram, you’ve got a triple-win. I’ve got the art, you’ve got the motivation and the skills, so okay, let’s get right down to basics. Here’s exactly how it’s done: