The Value of Your Work is NOT the Price of Your Work
The VALUE of your work is not determined solely by the price of your work, or by the work that sells the best. In other words, do not confuse your best selling item with your best work.
Your best selling item may be because of a modest price, appeal to a large market, great color combination, current fashion trend, or numerous other reasons irrelevant to artistic depth or quality.Price, in my mind, is NOT a demarcation of value. As an artist and maker, developing a distinctive personal voice, signature style, or repertoire of technical skills is so much more important.
Your best selling item rarely leads to better work. It only places the pressures of the marketplace foremost in your thoughts. With the Internet, there is a huge rush to sell everything we make. The numerous online markets drive everything to have a retail price attached. This could be a big mistake.
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