How to sell paintings
How To Price Your Art To Sell In 7 Minutes | Explained | Paintings By Justin
so if you've clicked here because you're
trying to figure out the best way and
how to sell your paintings you've
clicked on the right video because not
only I'm going to tell you how to do it
but I'm going to provide you with a
formula of exactly how to sell your art
whether you are a beginner intermediate
or an advanced artist and I'm gonna go
based on things that I've done over the
last few years alright so we're gonna
jump right into this so let's say you
just started painting sometime within
the last six months and most of the time
beginners tend to use smaller canvasses
I know I did when I first started so
let's go ahead and base this particular
price analysis off of a twelve by
sixteen canvas let's go ahead and start
right there okay so here we have a
standard 12 by 16 canvas okay so what
I'm gonna do now is I'm going to talk a
little bit about the measurements and
the beginning point and I'm gonna start
off with doing the price that I would
sell this sort of as a beginner okay and
later on I will put up with the formula
the prices for advanced and intermediate
and at that point you'll be able to
figure it out pretty much on your own
okay so the first thing that you're
gonna need to remember this is one of
the most crucial things that you need in
order to start selling your paintings
for what I believe to be a very pretty
much accurate price okay so we just
talked a little bit about the first
actual size of the canvas which is 12 by
16 so the first thing that you're gonna
have to remember is you are going to
multiply the length times the width
don't forget that length times width
that's going to be the very first thing
in the equation to learning the price
and how to sell your painting based on a
twelve by sixteen beginner level all
right so now it's time for me to make a
little bit of sense to you alright you
are a beginner painter
alright beginner painter you have a
twelve by sixteen painting that you are
selling so remember from earlier we are
going to multiply 12 by 16 that's our
length times our width that's going to
give us a number of 192 we are going to
take the canvas thickness which in that
particular case was a half inch so we're
gonna take 192 we are going to multiply
that by 0.5 in our calculator and that's
going to give us a number of 96
at that point what I used to do is I
would take that 96 and nobody wants to
sell their painting for $96 you know a
weird number like that so rounded up to
$100 so you're a beginner painter all
right 12 by 16 canvas somebody says hey
how much is that you're gonna tell them
it's $100 plus shipping or anything else
and remember frames are not included in
any of this
let's go ahead and move on to the
intermediate okay so the intermediate
one has always been one that I
particularly liked because it was just
very very simple and just very easy to
formulate you didn't have to worry about
decimals this or that now what I did
when I was in the which I don't even
know what category I'm in but let's just
say when I was in the intermediate
category all as I would do was I would
times the length times the width of the
actual painting so if you have a 12 by
16 painting you just times 12 by 16 it
gives you 192 what did we say earlier
round that number up never round down
round that painting that number up to
200 so you're in the intermediate
category 12 by 16
there's your numbers $200 plus any
applicable shipping or anything else
that you may add on the painting but
$200 is your base price all right so
here we have a 16 by 20 landscape
painting and let me just throw this in
there because you probably see the frame
around the actual paintings these
formulas are based without frames any
framing cost will be additional and
there are other ways to figure that out
or if you just add the cost of your
framing or if you're looking to mark
that up that's a whole nother video so
make sure that when you're pricing these
you are not pricing with frames this is
just for the canvas okay so now let's
move over to advanced let's say you are
in the advanced category and now listen
there's going to be a lot of different
you know perspectives out there based on
people somebody might say hey my
painting is worth $10,000 and that's the
good thing about painting you can you
can decide your own value this is just a
guide hopefully this will help you so
let's go let's go to the advanced
category and let's talk sixteen by
twenty for just a minute so we're going
to take our sixteen by twenty we are
going to multiply that number that's
going to give us a number of 320 okay
now what I have found in the advanced
category is we take that number our
length times our width which becomes 320
and we're gonna multiply that times two
that's going to give us a number of 640
now we can round that up to 650 we can
round that up to 700 but that's just a
general figure I would say 650 so if
you're selling a 16 by 20 painting I
would be selling that for about $650
based on that particular simple equation
and it's something that works and it's
something that I have followed for a
very long time let's jump over to the
larger painting and discuss that because
that is a different thickness okay so
let's just go ahead and let's talk let's
talk about this big beast behind me
right here this is that 40 by 60
painting and let's just go back to you
know let's just go back to the beginner
or intermediate areas of this painting
let me tell you how I personally would
price this particular painting so I'm
gonna take that 40 and I'm gonna take
that and when the times or multiply that
by 60 that is going to give me that 2400
number we talked a little bit about okay
that length times the width gives you
the magic number
now the canvas here is three quarters of
an inch thick so we're going to take
that 2400 and we're going to times that
or multiply that by 0.75 that's going to
give us a number of 1800 now that could
be beginner or intermediate you can do
it this way but $1,800 is a very very
good and very very fair price for at
least intermediate or advanced okay this
is just a basic guideline so let's say
$1,800 let's just base that on
intermediate 1800 if you are a beginner
and you paint a 40 by 60 painting so
that 1800 divide that by to sell it for
900 okay that's all it's very very
simple stuff and this is just a guide I
hope you guys really enjoyed this video
use this to sell your paintings
and be confident when you sell never
ever underpriced yourself your art is
more valuable than you will ever ever
think or ever know trust me
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