Selling nature paintings online.
The order that works. Skip a step and the next one gets harder.
- Ten works, one subject. Buyers and answer engines trust a body of work. Ten birds beat three birds, two abstracts and a portrait.
- Photograph them properly. Square to the canvas, no glare, daylight or two lamps at 45 degrees. The file guide covers it.
- Price per square inch. One rate, held across sizes, so nobody has to guess why one painting costs more. Raise it when a third of the year’s work sells.
- One page of facts. Name, city, medium, subjects, sizes, prices, a way to write to you, in sentences. That page is what Google and ChatGPT quote. How to get cited.
- Platforms by fee. Start with one that costs nothing to try; add a second when the first sells. Ten platforms, fees compared.
- Ship like a dealer. Unstretched canvas rolled in a tube, framed work in a double box, tracked and insured for the price.
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Membership is $35 a month with no commission. You get a page with structured data, a place in a collection of nature painting, and every inquiry in your inbox. Painters of botanicals, birds and animals, gardens, land and water. Send a link, not files.
Questions
Do nature paintings sell online?
Yes. Botanicals, birds and landscapes are perennial wall-art subjects with steady search demand, and buyers can check a painting of a bird against a bird.
How do I price a painting?
Pick a rate per square inch and hold it across sizes. $2 to $4 is common early on; a 16 by 20 inch oil at $3 is $960 unframed. Raise the rate when a third of a year's work sells.
Do I need a gallery?
No. A gallery takes 50% for finding buyers. Online, a page of facts and one or two platforms do that work.
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