![]() That’s great if you can work on a larger scale, but what if you can’t? Large art has never come naturally to me. It helps enormously to show your art hanging on a wall and to scale. Potential buyers need help envisaging a painting, or print, in a living room setting. Small art has the same impact as larger art in a thumbnail, but large poster-size art looks impressive in a mockup. The first thing you need is passing trade and the second is a showstopper. That’s certainly true when you sell physical prints from a market stall. Make them big, bold, and brash, and you will attract attention. Your artwork will certainly get noticed and your profit margins will be good, even allowing for higher printing costs. As advertising goes it doesn’t get much easier to attract potential customers. Without a doubt, large images have more punch. ![]() The Disadvantages of Selling Large Art Prints are: What’s the best way to go and what size prints sell the best, big or small? Let’s look at your choices and weigh up the pros and cons. Not only are they easier to sell, but they’re also cheaper to frame, and besides, you can sell fine art prints in multiples.īut can you sell enough art to make any money? Our living spaces are shrinking.įewer and fewer people have the space for larger artwork, and even those that do are unlikely to ever buy two large works of art, so where’s the repeat trade coming from?įor many artists, it makes more sense to make smaller artwork and small prints. if only it was this, that, or the other.īut knowing that there is a premium to be had in making larger sizes, does that mean you should go along with it? Not necessarily. If only it was bigger, if only it was smaller. I trade in-person and after 20 years of hearing the same comments over and over again, you get the message and it always starts with ‘If only…’ It has been my personal frustration for many years. Your talent is not the most important factor if it’s the wrong size. ![]() People see value in the size of the artwork itself, and that’s regardless of the time, hard work, and skill level involved. ![]()
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