When you've done something that you realy love, how do you part with it if someone wishes to buy it?[not happened to me yet but I live in hope .

You could price it where you can get a good price if someone likes it more than you do, or you can keep it for your own pleasure.

That's what I try to do.

bob

When I started to get serious about drawing this winter, and I was able to produce a few decent-looking portraits, I gave a standing offer to a group of friends to draw portraits of them or their kids for free; I'd mail them the original if they'd pay the postage. This was a good way to get a bunch of good source images, and also I told myself it was better that someone would hang up and enjoy the drawings rather then have them stored somewhere in my house.

So I therefore gave away a whole bunch of drawings I really liked, and each one hurt more than the last to part with! This was only slightly mitigated by the thought that people would be enjoying my art in their homes. This one was the last one I gave away -- after this one, I couldn't do it anymore:



So I started drawing celebrities and my own family members! Now if someone wants a drawing from me, it's either a gift, or they're going to have to pay for it

I have found a local garden centre willing to put up art for sale [no cost involved,I know some places charge a percentage of the selling price].

Andrea, Just be careful of insurance and liability issues...the garden center may NOT cover them for loss, damage or theft...Cover your butt...

Andy if you truely like your originals alot of artist have prints made out of original so they can keep them. Its worth looking into atleast.

This is a tough question. I think Venus's solution is probably the better option, if you are giving it away. I don't know if I could sell a painting I really really liked. Though perhaps for the right price... My artwork isn't exactly anywhere near the quality needed to worry about this yet, but I liked Venus's idea.

Josh~

I would rather part with it if I knew it was going to be admired enough for one to pay for it ... I still give alot of my work away for free ... if i do not print myself a copy I have it on disk as a copy ...so myself I would except payment but keep a copy of it

I think nearly every artist who has put a lot of themselves into a drawing or painting and is content with the outcome, always regrets parting company with it a bit.

As Venus said, prints are one way of keeping your original, though I have my originals up for sale as well.

I have an electronic record of all my drawings and paintings on cd which acts as my portfolio at times. Looking at them always brings them to life for me and I enjoy the fact that someone else has the art piece and has thought enough of it to spend money on it.