Ive only ever sold one painting and it wasnt through artwanted, I always thought the images for sale on here were just prints, can you also sell originals of these?
Sorry if this sounds dumb, but I havnt marketed my stuff at all really. Would like to though just havnt got a clue how
In addition to promoting art cards on ArtWanted.com, we have decided to create a whole new website that is just focused on buying/selling/trading art cards. We wanted to create a site that will bring together art card collectors from around the world. We have registered several domains/websites and we would like to know which one you like best. Please go to the following link. We appreciate your feedback and we look forward to launching this exciting new program very soon.
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Why would anyone want to buy them from relatively unknown artists?
And what do you do with them?
I recently just sold out my Valentine original aceo artworks, the program sounds excellent just one thing i wasn't clear about -do artists need to me premuim members to submit prints for aceo's ? if so then unfortnaley for me i wouldn't be able to participate since i can't afford yet to be on a premuim status artist here at AW, but if i can still sell my original aceos artworks through this program and through my website without any problem then it would be awesome :):):) It's an awesome idea :)
I doubt these would be a good investment.
They are for fun and sense of community. There are artists that we know through channels (like this one) outside the formal art world, some of whom we like and respect although they will probably never be widely known. This is an opportunity to own some of their works. It is good that the amounts of money involved are small, because they constitute money spent, not invested.
There is a small chance that any one artist here will someday be known and the ACEO card worth some money, I think the odds are such that it would be foolish to buy them for that reason. But just for fun, to have something to look at, to show support for the artist, there are worse ways to blow one's mad money. I'll probably buy some.
Some people put the cards in albums (the size is perfect for the plastic pocket albums that baseball card collectors use), some put a special few in tiny frames. I'll probably just have a little stack in a drawer and one or two on my cubicle wall on a rotating basis. If I get an outstanding one I'll frame it, if I get a lot of them I'll put them in an album.
It is primarily an originals only style of artwork, but perhaps at a price that you can afford as opposed to buying a particular artist's larger work.
By all means use reduced images of your artwork as a business card, but don't confuse this with original artwork which is 99.9% of ACEO's.
Large artwork that is sized down and cropped to 2.5"x3.5" WOULD potentially make some nice looking prints, but to me, that is not what ACEOs are all about. There are thousands of artists who make ATCs & ACEOs, and we all have ONE thing in common - we create artwork that is 2.5"x3.5". This means our original ACEO/ATC artwork is 2.5"x3.5", and if we make ACEO prints, the prints will be the actual size of the original work.
Although it will be fun for some of you to be able to have miniature prints of your work, I think everyone needs to fully educate themselves about ATCs/ACEOs before taking the survey & forming a final opinion about this. If you are unsure what art cards are all about - then please do some research.
Visit art-cards.org (the official ACEO website) or search the web for more info on ACEOs & ATCs. Thanks for taking the time to read this :)
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