Exactly, Don. You have to put yourself in the mindset of folks going to craft fairs: looking for inexpensive gifts for friends and relatives. Maybe something decorative for the bathroom. They are not looking for expensive art, especially large framed objects.
OTOH, people going into galleries are possibly in the market and frame of mind for art. On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Don Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > Larry I have had the same thoughts & reaction to our local Saturday crafts > fairs. One very good local pro offers about 20 different photos all done in > exactly same style (sorta Instagram look.) As the summer has gone on her > inventory has dwindled so she is selling. I do think people may like one > photo and buy a different one as they are looking more for something to go > with their decor more than they are looking for art to treasure. > I have been told it is difficult to sell large matted prints.But if you want > to sell, your best bet is 5 note-cards with photos wrapped in a ribbon and > priced around 15-20 bucks. Everybody needs greeting cards or knows someone > who does. > > Someday when I retire I may like you set up and find out for myself. > > [email protected] wrote: >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:25:24 -0700 >> From: Larry Colen<[email protected]> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]> >> Subject: I went to a street fair Saturday afternoon >> Message-ID:<[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> >> There was a little street fair in Santa Cruz this weekend, and while >> I was downtown I took a few minutes to peruse the booths. There >> were a couple of photographers there selling prints. I didn't talk >> to them, and can only assume that they've been selling at fairs long >> enough to tune their inventory to what sells. Based on that assumption, >> >> if I tried to make a living selling prints at a street fair, ether I, >> or my self respect as an artist, would quickly starve to death. >> >> When I was in high school, the father of one of my best friends would >> sell his paintings at art shows. He basically had three paintings >> that he'd do, with minor variations on the boat, the dock, and maybe >> the sky. He found what sold, and that was what he painted. >> >> I suspect that it would be educational sometime to print up a bunch >> of my photos, and set up a booth at a street fair sometime, just to >> see what photosi, if any, people liked well enough to spend money on. >> >> I'm sure that I would learn a lot from such a weekend. I just don't >> know whether I'd learn more about my photography, or the artistic >> tastes of the American public. >> >> -- Larry Colen > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
