How to Make Paintings People WANT to Buy

[@melaniereeder2349]

I’m really excited to watch this. I’ve been enjoying your videos! I’m a 33 year old mom and I know that I want to make fine art a bigger part of my life but I struggle with my time and energy management. These videos are inspirational to me, and I love following your thoughts and beautiful work.

[@Randorandom232]

Did you do it?

[@melaniereeder2349]

@@Randorandom232 no 😓

[@Randorandom232]

@@melaniereeder2349 >:(

[@lela8081]

​​@@melaniereeder2349im 32 year old mom with two kids and believe me its hard to start but then you cant stop❤it's so relaxing of course im painting at night when kids are sleeping😅

[@irenerubaum-keller5941]

I started drawing with colored pencil years ago in cafes as a way to meet real estate clients. People would come up all the time and ask to commission me to draw them. ALL THE TIME! I would always say no as I wasn't a professional. Now I'm painting and I do want to sell my art but I can't do it in cafes so I'm on Etsy but it's not going so great. Funny how when I didn't want to sell I could have and now that I do, it's not moving too much.

[@kendallowens8566]

Why can't you do it in cafes? Go somewhere where you can paint people and sell there❤

[@1x1pixelstudio]

This is a gorgeous painting! Thanks for all the knowledge you shared! It's really helpful

[@chica2000ok]

Beautiful loose portret Chelsea

[@anneoliver5375]

I’m a artist and your work is awesome.

[@edsonmaz4101]

Linda pintura, parabéns, seus vídeos são ótimos, gostaria de aprender a pintar tela .😘🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@harshadk4264]

essentially, give time and energy to the practice of the art and get really good at it.

[@DreamwalkerTenesha]

Thank you for the advice!

[@TheDutchman58]

Any ideas on motivation to pick up a brush after years of avoiding art? I’ve sold paintings and won a couple of peoples choice awards, but some how I’m frozen and fearful about the next work.

[@jellydonuts2343]

I’m nowhere near a professional, but I can share a bit of advice that helped me out recently. I used to be a person that made art for fun on a fairly regular basis. Then I entered a five or six year period of mostly only making art for art classes I was taking. I got into a very bad habit of looking at other people’s work and telling myself I could never replicate their level of skill or style. Just recently I started taking a class that was a bit more student driven, so everyone there was bringing their own artistic processes to the table, many of which were very different from my own. One of my peers did all of her sketching in pen (she mainly works with nature scenes and animals), and at first I thought doing that would be insane. I couldn’t imagine not being able to erase. Yet she continued to demonstrate her high level of skill with every sketch, and I got more and more curious. Now, I sketch almost exclusively in pen, and I’d venture as far as to say that I’ve progressed more as an artist in just the last eight months than I did in the years preceding them. Sketching in pen forces you to move forward and work with what you are given. Your artistic judgement is constantly being challenged and exercised, and you don’t get stuck for hours erasing over and over to try to make something perfect. You can practice drawing one thing without it taking forever and then move on to practicing how to draw something else. And my pen sketches don’t look bad either! In fact, most of them look pretty good, at least as sketchbook pieces. I’ve started drawing on my own time much more again because of this, and it’s made me a much braver artist. So if you’re feeling intimidated by getting back into art, I wouldn’t pressure yourself to start out by making a masterpiece. Just create something with a pen and see what happens.

[@charliecelemanya2932]

Thanks for this! Learning from you..

[@authorcraigcothren]

Great video

[@malkoshart]

Do you usually have live models to get the ultimate results?

[@dallashill23]

Could you could teach anyone to paint if they were interested in painting?

[@sophieoshaughnessy9469]

Interesting that she used a portrait as the focus. I feel people are less likely to buy portraiture than abstracts or landscapes.

[@huntsail3727]

Great video, enjoyed it!

[@fuzzydragons]

I really do need to focus more on having a portfolio full of work i am proud of and that people will want to buy or would be used for job interviews, takes so much time tho😕

[@ChantelleArts]

Interesting points 😊

[@Audion]

This portrait looks like the artist and model Keira Grant.

[@angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl]

Very impressive love

[@skkarthick]

Waiting for your new video Madam

[@TurnThePage-cp5ce]

For me it's not that I'm not making paintings or art that people want to buy. I've been told my art could sell for $1000s or more. It's more they want to buy but there's an element that doesn't want that to happen. And you have to ask "Why is that?" "WTF is going on??"

[@miltonwelch4177]

Bob Ross is better instructor on this topic. If-you -know-what-I-mean, that is.

[@jccross6132]

This was a long infomercial.....selling a master class for $$$$

[@jilllong26]

Money comes into your comments a lot. I will watch your videos to learn how to banish boredom

[@jilllong26]

, to me the main thing to tackle.

[@user-mf1rz9mn3l]

I appreciate your effort but your portraits aren’t accurate at all, and if the argument is that they’re loose and alla prima maybe check your references because you can be loose and accurate