One problem with doing an Art Show is that you never know what will sell. What sold last year is pretty meaningless, it is just a guessing game. Day Nine and I had a pretty good day, made a lot of stuff without buying a lot of stuff. This is an opportunity to clear out sections of my shop, not the whole damned thing though! Yet, still, I have to make things I like because I might end up taking them home.
I try to make a variety of items and a variety of pricing. My "Big Ticket Item" will be a Stone Post, a concrete post covered in slate and used as a light post, sometimes free standing and sometimes connected to fencing or a gate. That will have a price of $400. My slate raised planter is next at $225.
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Two reclaimed wooden top tables, large round table (not finished) and a garden chair with a 10' trellis back topped with a sprinkler!
Ceramic on steel stake |
The tables are all the same $135. The slate or ceramic on a steel stake, at 12" x 12" is $35 and 6" x 6" for $25. I end up with a lot of items in the 25-35 price range. That way people can "support the artist" AND Maude Kerns Gallery without breaking the bank. I do not raise my prices for an art exhibit. They take a 30% commission and I figure that is my contribution to the arts. I normally get follow up work.
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| Copper bird bath and feeding station |
They like what I do but the size is wrong or they need something else entirely. In this sense, this gallery garden art show is advertizing for my business. So we all come out winners.
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| Slate on steel stakes, looks like its floating,huh? |
3 comments:
And what do I like ???
Everything!!!Your art is creative, quirky enough to stand out and well made...Like you !!!
Seriously Jerry I think you will do well this year, people are at the home centers buying ...
I stll have your wall hanging by my door to the art store.. and the other one is a holds my purse in my room...
My favorite is the way you make those roses.. BJ
I think it would be hard to let go of some of the pieces. I have some favorite of my goofy abstract paintings that really speak to me - and I am always shocked when someone sees them and the piece calls to them too. Sending my babies out into the world - away from me - is hard to do! But then what do I do with all those goofy paintings? who the hell knows
I think you'll do awesome Jerry! You're very creative sir.
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