Silk Fibres

[jufergu]

In the art world, sales are pretty flat. The only artist I know who is selling online is a man who does posters of people like Elvis and Willie Nelson in pastels. He will also do commissions from online customers to do their portraits. This is a very small niche in the art world and he uses a projector to project the image on the paper and then traces it onto the paper. He is talented with the pastel work, but is kind of an assembly line type and can do this quickly. He does not charge that much for his work. So, what I am trying to say is, careful handmade art is not what people are buying.

[zed]

Production line art always seems to sell better, probably because it is cheap. I've see paintings on etsy that are nowhere near as good as what turns out by accident on the paper I put down under my paintings, and they sell because they're cheap and knocked out quickly. I've thought of doing it myself, I could really do with the money, but I hate 'art' like that, it really does cheapen the effort proper artists put in.