Bongo
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This guy has a how-to Youtube channel, and as an experiment put on a two-day (3to 5 hours per day) sidewalk sale of some of his art - priced as pay what you want! This was his setup
and this is what he sold
for a total of $159.
I'm seriously considering an experiment with a sidewalk sale this summer myself. I'm thinking of doing a few things differently. I think "pay what you want" is a put-off for most people. They don't want to embarrass you or themselves by offering too little, or too much. So I would put one extremely low price on all of the paintings. If you subtract the outliers - the $4, and the $60 - the average sale price was $19. So in my opinion sidewalk sales such as this regardless of the quality- have to be priced extremely low. It's the nature of the venue.
I would make new paintings specifically for this, and all/most on the same theme or subject and horizontal rather than vertical format. People like the "shopping mall" experience so you need a lot of product on display even if there isn't much variation. That will be a challenge for me so might have to pull some from storage.
nothing but praise for this guy for doing such a gutsy experiment
and this is what he sold
for a total of $159.
I'm seriously considering an experiment with a sidewalk sale this summer myself. I'm thinking of doing a few things differently. I think "pay what you want" is a put-off for most people. They don't want to embarrass you or themselves by offering too little, or too much. So I would put one extremely low price on all of the paintings. If you subtract the outliers - the $4, and the $60 - the average sale price was $19. So in my opinion sidewalk sales such as this regardless of the quality- have to be priced extremely low. It's the nature of the venue.
I would make new paintings specifically for this, and all/most on the same theme or subject and horizontal rather than vertical format. People like the "shopping mall" experience so you need a lot of product on display even if there isn't much variation. That will be a challenge for me so might have to pull some from storage.
nothing but praise for this guy for doing such a gutsy experiment