SELLING YOUR ART IS EMOTIONAL

It is!

I don’t want to get rid of any of it. Well, not “get rid of” but that’s how it feels. You spend so much time working on a piece. And you get attached when you’ve had it hanging in your house for a while. It’s a piece of you.

But you also want to make an income off the work that you do so at some point you have to sell more than just prints. It’s just sad when I put an original up for sale and see it get snatched up. Thrilling, for sure. But now it’s going to a new home that you don’t know anything about.

What if it gets to that new home and doesn’t get hung up (much like MANY of the pieces of other people’s art I have bought over the years)? What if it sits in a closet? What if the person who bought it passes away many moons from now. Will their family appreciate it? Will it end up at Goodwill? Heart breaking.

But I guess that’s part of it. You want your art to be appreciated. You want it to add creative spice to someone’s environment. And that’s a good thing. Just hurts a little letting go.

I’ve been working on that, though. I think having several pieces in progress at the same time kind of helps. You’re spinning and spinning and you get one done and that opens up space for a new one. And then all of a sudden you have no place to put all of them so they have to go.