Art Pricing Guide

Many emerging artists use their emotions when they are pricing their art.

Art pricing guide. Give yourself a living wage. Multiply the painting s width by its length to arrive at the total size in square inches. Art price publishers like adec and hislop as well as online fee based art price data providers like artfact adec and artnet must be in absolute shock. Art pricing method 2.

Artists with gallery experience and consistent sales histories should already have base prices set for their works. This art pricing calculator is based on the linear inch pricing model. Artprice is the world leader of art market information. It will help your career get off to a good start by setting up some guidelines for your pricing structure.

If you do not already have a track record of sales your base price should approximate what artists in your locale with comparable experience and sales records charge for similar works of art. First let me say that before interactive collector put their art price guide online this amount of sales data cost users anywhere from hundreds to low thousands of dollars to own or access depending on who they bought it from and what form they bought it in. I double this cost so that i ll get it all. Just enter the name of the artist click search and value your artwork.

There s no one right way to price your artwork but we often recommend this model for its simplicity and the ease with which it allows you to raise your prices as your career advances. My frame canvas and materials cost me 150 00 i buy framing wholesale. Then i put it. Bless the internet we now have access to a whole bunch of data that makes.

But note this would only work for pieces that are made similarly materials hours. This way you can easily check the price for an artwork against your other pieces or the work of others. Then multiply that number. Simply choose a cost per linear inch and the size of your canvas and follow the examples below to figure out how much your piece would cost.

See the search example to the right. An artist s pricing guide by phil dynan pricing is one of the biggest challenges for an artist just starting out. There is no faster way to burn out than overworking and underselling yourself. The price tag you stick on your artwork could be the main reason your art sells or doesn t sell.

Price your artwork with this formula 1. Neither is a good idea. Art pricing guide for creatives one of the most complex tasks a rising artist faces when they are just starting to sell their art is learning how to price art. Read more on how to price your artwork and an alternative to.

Most commonly i see them pricing either too low or pricing wildly high.