Spotlight on - selling works with Christine Ingram

Christine is one of Ringwood Art Society’s most prolific painters. She also runs the “Friday Painters” club at Greyfriers C0mmunity Centre every Friday morning.

I asked her, “how do you go about selling your work”? This is a summary in Christine’s own words….

I paint mainly alla prima in oils and generally complete 1 or 2 paintings a day, so you can see how quickly I can run out of storage space!

Ebay to the rescue….

It is free to list items, and there is only a fee of around 15% once a sale has been made. I put artworks on as an auction initially for 10 days at a minimum bid I would be happy to let it go at, and eBay automatically relists 8 times.

If they haven’t sold by then, I get alerted by email to relist again, at which stage I take them off auction and relist at a higher buy it now price, where it can sit there forever. Once I have listed one, I can then click sell similar item for subsequent listings which saves having to input every detail each time.

There are considerations…..

Obviously you have to bear in mind postage, and I don’t put on bigger than 16ins x 12ins. I only offer small paintings complete with a frame ie 3ins x 3ins up to 6ins x 6ins. It’s quite fun to watch bidders and offers that pop up.

Finally….

I will never make my fortune, but together with art on Facebook marketplace, I make enough to cover all my art supplies and expenses, and some left over to pay towards our caravan hols. I’m happy with that.

Thank you to Christine for sharing….

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