How to sell your art online?

 

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I don't want to agonize on what platform to sell what I create. I just want to sell it, so it's out there available to be found to go to the right home and so they don't all pile up around me.

To be open about it, I can't let many go, it's something I am working on, which means if I don't let some go, they will take over my space.

I feel if you are directed to do something it is not for your sake, it is for whomever you were directed to do it for, someone that sees something that stirs them.

So then you have to decide what platform you allow your pieces to be found.

 

I use Etsy.

I use it because it is easy, because it calculates all the relevant taxes, is easy to list and manage, and it puts it out there into the world for you, so all I have to do it post to Etsy, post to Instagram and share with twitter, which leaves me more time for other things.

A few people asked what I thought of Etsy, to sell your art, and while I have word of mouth outside Etsy, I never really thought about it before, it was just easier.

There have been galleries over time enquirer about pieces, but their commission, while fair for all the work they do selling etc, I could not justify to myself selling my art for that much to cover it and get what I wanted for it.

So I started to second guess myself, and took two days to create this rockin website even started to list some pieces on it, but then it came down to taxes etc etc...and I was like...noooo... maybe one day when I am selling enough that I can hire people that can advise me, but at this time it just felt too much. 

It's still there not against it, think it looks so much better; Just concerned about all the time it would take away from doing other things and that there are many things I don't understand worldwide about taxes that Etsy auto does.

It did occur to me though about choice. When on Etsy there is so much choice for people, and Etsy openly recommends other peoples work "you may like"and most people stop working when they any inundated with it. I was frightened that with so much choice being offered to them that the initial *something* that stirred them enough to come and look at adopting one of my pieces would be overwhelmed by the overwhelming feeling you get when offered so much and they would forget they were there because the piece they came for stirred something in them.

I still don't know if this is the case, but I try to get out of my head and remember that you are creating most things as directed, and when the right person comes for that piece, they will just want "that piece", everything else will be a blur. It's a sorting per se'.

There are no answers in this post, it is just the same question. I posed it on Instagram however no replies. I suppose everyone is in the same boat.

As coincidence always has it, a beautiful artist, whom I really respect their pieces, Trent Gudmundsen posted a video on you tube exactly about that, though with galleries.

 I'd love to read more peoples opinions.

Just how to sell your art online that is right for your art, is the question.

A question I feel would be best answered by collectors, where do they go?

 

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