Can You Sell Your Art If You're Shy?

Artist Debbie Dicker

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "It was that lack of confidence and which didn't match my abilities."

Now: "I just like buzzing with the excitement for where I'm going to go from here. This is more than just my business. This is about me."

Artist Jina Kim

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "Before I joined the program, my top two challenges were lack of confidence and not knowing what to do."

Now: "The biggest result of this program during COVID, during isolation right now, is to sell 11 paintings. What! I sold 11 paintings! I still cannot believe that it happened, and I have two more commissions coming.

I feel like crying."

Artist Marie Bender

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "I remember the days of selling something for a thousand bucks and going Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah. I was discounting my art then."

Now: "Recently someone asked me, 'Is the price negotiable?' So I said, 'No, it's not and I sold that painting for $25,000."

My art sales have increased in a way that I could not even have imagined. I feel so much more empowered and I felt comfortable.

Artist Matt Harline

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "Before I joined the Making Art Making Money program, I had a brain injury a few years ago and focused myself and thinking of the right words. I'm still having this problem."

Now: "So now it is mid-May, and I've gotten close to $2,000 so far this year. I mean, it's not a huge amount by any stretch of the imagination but it's double!"

Artist Leah Smithton

Making Art Making Money Student

Before: "I didn't know where to start first, what order to do things in. And I wasn't sure how long to try something to know whether or not it's working."

Now: "The time that they spend on the fence, they just aren't going to be able to get that back. So if you go ahead and do it now."