So again on my day off to survey the members show & sale, now noticing how many pieces have sold and how off-the-map the pricing is.
For example, someone's created a hand-drawn bat to place in your window to keep birds from crashing. Very creative. He wants $500 for it. I want to say it's a joke, but you can't be sure around here...
Another, a linocut for again $500 - and - yet again, given you can buy an original oil or acrylic for the same price, who's going to pay that?
A fine felted wall hanging - $3500 - and while I appreciate the work that went into it $3500 is a big price for something that's going to attract dust...
Then there are the "prints on canvas" - another peeve of mine, they are never "limited", always too expensive (even if you wanted one); the artist currently hanging his work in the restaurant at the moment is the same - you're buying an unlimited run of prints on canvas for the price of an original. That said, the one selling out of our restaurant has now sold I think about 6 paintings, and he has work hanging in the art gallery, in Salmo, other places, and so - while it might annoy me he's clearly got the selling part of the business down...