Students! Artists! Sell a Painting Every Day!

Perhaps artists like Duane Keiser and Peter Togel have started a trend that will soon have art galleries’ attention—they’re bypassing the gallery establishment and selling their works directly to the people via their blogs and auction sites. Consider this scenario: You’re a young artist who looks around your studio, apartment, hometown, etc., then you make a postcard-sized painting of some scene—a still-life, landscape, your self portrait, etc. You announce that it’s available on your blog, upload an image of it, and offer to sell it for $100. Someone who wants it clicks to bid, and voila! it’s sold. Painting, selling, packing and shipping takes a few hours of your day, but you have an income and time to create more and larger works.

Duane Keiser did just that starting in 2004 when he launched his daily blog. Eventually he’d post the artwork and within five minutes “someone in India would buy it.” Check out his blog at DuaneKeiser.blogspot.com or get inspired by Justin Clayton whose paintings on eBay auctions allowed him to quit his job to become an artist. Go to JustinsPaintings.com.