How Artists are searching for place to Sell Art

Finding the right place to sell your art can make all the difference.

In this video, I break down where artists are actually selling their work—from online platforms to local shows and unexpected opportunities. Not every space works for every artist, and knowing where your art fits can change everything.

If you’ve been creating but struggling to find buyers, this will help you rethink your approach and open up new possibilities.

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Artist: David Bornancin

Media: Acrylic Paintings

Style: Abstracts and Landscapes

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Transcript

Part One Place to Sell

Part Two Place to Sell

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I got another great question that came in. Um, and it looks like the person is pretty talented because they showed me some of their work. And a question came in, and they said they had an opportunity to put some of their pictures and paintings, some of their drawings, um, uh, not drawings, some of their illustrations and some of their paintings. And they were working with the local community consignment place. Consignment places where they bring in uh either uh all kinds of furniture and they bring in different kinds of uh paintings and different kinds of pictures and different kinds of illustrations, and they put them all on the wall and they put the furniture around, and different consignment places organize it differently. And they said, Do you think that's a good idea? Since I'm just starting off, they're just starting off, they do illustrations and they frame them and then they do some paintings. Let me correct this camera. Okay, so here's my advice make sure you talk to the owner, not the person that's working on the counter that may not know everything that goes on at the consignment place. I have nothing against consignment places, so I'm not picking on anybody. Uh, I love everybody out there that's making things happen. So, what I'm talking about is make sure you talk to the owner and say, can you please explain to me? I'm new to this, and I have both framed illustrations and I have both framed paintings, and I'd like to um display them and sell them. That's your intent, is to get them sold. What type of agreement are you offering? And every consignment place is different, so don't think that there's a standard way to doing things because there isn't. Everybody has different things. But uh, I had an owner approach me one time and said, Hey, uh, I understand you do paintings, and would you like to display some of your paintings in our store and we'll we'll put them up for sale? And the problem with that for me at that time, and like I said, I'm not talking about owners or or consignment places, they're great places. Um, they at that time they wanted like 40 to 45 percent uh of my painting. That's their uh uh payment, commission payment, and then they wanted some kind of 3% override for something, handling and and whatever else. I don't know if they package it up or whatever they do for the customer. And I figured it out and I said, geez, uh, you know, I've got this$500 painting, and now I sell it, uh, I'm losing$250 and then I'm losing another 3%. To me, I just didn't see the value of doing it that way because I put it on on a show, a live show, and I sold it for what I wanted. And so I gained uh, you know, uh, because I did have to package it for the person, so it did cost me some packaging, and then I got to take out the cost of building it. So I probably got about 92 to 93 percent profit uh uh in that range, 80 to 90 percent profit. So my only point was for me as an established artist and doing this a lot of years, it didn't make a lot of sense for me. But let's get back to the consignment logic. You're brand new, you're just beginning, you're just starting off, you're just so maybe you've got um uh three to ten pieces, let's just say, and you uh provide that to the consignment place, you already know what the agreement is, they're gonna take their cut, you already know what it is. So 43 percent. Um so they're putting it on their walls, they're putting they're showcasing your product, they're letting the world see it, and a lot of people come into those places, so you you're gonna have a lot of good visibility. So get just getting started, I would say that's not a bad road, especially if you sell four, five, six pieces. You now have created some uh interest in the world of your work, your body of work, whether it's illustrations. I love the illustrators in this community because you guys, you folks, I always say guys, and I mean guys and gals when I say guys, but you folks just know how to make those things look magnificent. So, so you have a good chance of selling the illustrations and and uh paintings. So good luck with that. I I don't uh uh say don't do it, I just say it might be a great starting point for beginners, it might be a wonderful.