Painting for charity?.

elmarko · 27 Jun 2012 at 09:12

Progress update

First donation in from KaHn £50 for the British Red Cross, picture will be sent tomorrow

Second donation.

Bear - OcUk £100 - to the NSPCC

Very generous of you, excellent start - thank you.

20% of the way for the second charity to goal.

http://www.justgiving.com/Mark-Fenton2

http://www.justgiving.com/Mark-Fenton3

10% of the way to the (£50) £500 target for the British Red Cross

20% of the way to the (£100) £500 target for the NSPCC

Morning people,

I wanted to get a feel for a price for a few paintings (I can churn them out pretty quick) - a couple of friends have suggested I sell a few (as I'm running out of space to store them).

I don't really need the cash, so I thinking of doing it as a fundraiser for the British Red Cross.

Firstly, would you buy this kind of painting? & if so - for how much? (not trying to get people to buy them off here, just to see what people deem the value of them/they are worthy of purchase assuming more care was taken).

One ones I'd do for charity I'd obviously take more time than the 30mins on average I spent on the above (so think same style as the above, but less scrappy/more accurate).

Entropy · 27 Jun 2012 at 09:19

How much they fetch would likely relate to the size and for which charity they are in aid of (would make sense for to be an animal charity). Could see around the £30 mark being a reasonable amount.

elmarko · 27 Jun 2012 at 09:23

Entropy said:
How much they fetch would likely relate to the size and for which charity they are in aid of (would make sense for to be an animal charity). Could see around the £30 mark being a reasonable amount.

Well, they are about 24inches by 35 inches (ish), so bigger than they look - I considered an animal charity, but the BRC have an excellent donation to aid funds used ratio (compared to most other charities).

Nikumba · 27 Jun 2012 at 10:15

I do like the middle one the tiger, would be happy to pay about £30-£40 for one like that

elmarko · 27 Jun 2012 at 10:45

Nikumba said:
I do like the middle one the tiger, would be happy to pay about £30-£40 for one like that

Thanks,

But I obviously fail as an artist as it's a Snow Leopard

Nikumba · 27 Jun 2012 at 11:17

lol maybe, or my coffee is faulty and failed to start my brain lol

paradisiac · 27 Jun 2012 at 11:42

elmarko1234 said:
Thanks,

But I obviously fail as an artist as it's a Snow Leopard

lol it does look like a leopard, tigers have stripes, not spots lol.

Craig R · 27 Jun 2012 at 11:45

No offence, but I wouldn't pay anything for those.

Castiel · 27 Jun 2012 at 11:48

Art is so subjective the only way to find out really is to test the market.

elmarko · 27 Jun 2012 at 11:48

Craig R said:
No offence, but I wouldn't pay anything for those.

None taken.

(you utter *******)

j/k lol..., but as stated, I'd spend a bit longer on ones to sell for charity - the ones linked are speed paintings while bored.

Castiel said:
Art is so subjective the only way to find out really is to test the market.

Indeedy - but I'm not too fussed about the commercial aspect - just if they would actually sell or not (as time may be better spent raising cash another way).

paradisiac · 27 Jun 2012 at 11:51

firstly, how and where are you planning on selling these?

if its for charity maybe an auction, or raffle or something (tickets being sold at the local charity shop). if you are selling via a shop, then you will need to factor in if they want a % of the sale.
I would guestimate around £25-£35, but if you are known locally as an artist, then maybe a bit more.

elmarko · 27 Jun 2012 at 11:57

paradisiac said:
firstly, how and where are you planning on selling these?

if its for charity maybe an auction, or raffle or something (tickets being sold at the local charity shop). if you are selling via a shop, then you will need to factor in if they want a % of the sale.
I would guestimate around £25-£35, but if you are known locally as an artist, then maybe a bit more.

My work has a number of arts/crafts things going on every so often (very big office so plenty of people), some of which are for charity - I guess I'll speak to one of the women who does the charity one & pass her a few to test the water..

Cheers for the ideas/feedback.

Castiel · 27 Jun 2012 at 11:59

elmarko1234 said:
Indeedy - but I'm not too fussed about the commercial aspect - just if they would actually sell or not (as time may be better spent raising cash another way).

To my untrained eye they are pretty good, nice, clean with good lines and I like the Wolf's eye, it gives a great contrast to the b&w. They would complement any minimalist environment so I would say they are certainly marketable.

I'd like to see what else you've done, and what you are capable of given a bit more time and effort.....you appear to have a talent.

I think the £30 people have mentioned for a canvas painting is a bit cheap tbh, I would pay quite a bit more for an original artists canvas and I'm sure others would as well.....

paradisiac · 27 Jun 2012 at 12:00

elmarko1234 said:
My work has a number of arts/crafts things going on every so often (very big office so plenty of people), some of which are for charity - I guess I'll speak to one of the women who does the charity one & pass her a few to test the water..

Cheers for the ideas/feedback.

if its like a arts/craft faire type thing, then people expect to pay over the odds for something, so you might be able to up it a little bit too.

what else can you paint? is it just animals or can you do people too?

JoeF1 · 27 Jun 2012 at 12:03

The leopard is amazing! and id like the wolf.

Ill happily give you 30-40 for charity like. You got any others?

Joe.

KaHn · 27 Jun 2012 at 12:14

If this is allowed I would gladly take the wolf one off your hands (or a similiar one)

Also 30-40 would be fine with me and I'd pay postage one top

KaHn

elmarko · 27 Jun 2012 at 12:16

Castiel said:
To my untrained eye they are pretty good, nice, clean with good lines and I like the Wolf's eye, it gives a great contrast to the b&w. They would complement any minimalist environment so I would say they are certainly marketable.

Cheers, the minimalist style is one I've been working with for a while.

Castiel said:
I'd like to see what else you've done, and what you are capable of given a bit more time and effort.....you appear to have a talent.

Most of what I do is actually pretty immature, cartoon stuff, sci-fi, fantasy etc - used to do a fair few pencil portraits - but that was some time ago.

Castiel said:
I think the £30 people have mentioned for a canvas painting is a bit cheap tbh, I would pay quite a bit more for an original artists canvas and I'm sure others would as well.....

Good to know, as I'd like it to be worth the effort to do.

paradisiac said:
if its like a arts/craft faire type thing, then people expect to pay over the odds for something, so you might be able to up it a little bit too.

what else can you paint? is it just animals or can you do people too?

I used to do portraits a while ago, but moved onto animals - really 90% of my work is digital stuff, not traditional.

This kinda stuff.

JoeF1 said:
The leopard is amazing! and id like the wolf.

Ill happily give you 30-40 for charity like. You got any others?

Joe.

Thanks for the feedback.

I've got a few dotted about at home, I'll need to find the pics out - I'll have to see about opening up an official sponsor account thing (so it's all clear where the moneys going before doing anything on-line) as I'd rather none of the money go to me.

KaHn said:
If this is allowed I would gladly take the wolf one off your hands (or a similiar one)

Also 30-40 would be fine with me and I'd pay postage one top

KaHn

Thanks, I'll have a look at the sponsor account stuff to make one of those, but I was mostly thinking of painting some better ones (as those are a little rushed imho) - improved versions with some care taken on them.

paradisiac · 27 Jun 2012 at 12:19

see those last 2 I could say £50-£80 would be achievable quite easily.

if I had spare cash I would deffo consider getting something similar to that little one.

Nikumba · 27 Jun 2012 at 12:19

As said I would more than likely have the snow leopard off you

KaHn · 27 Jun 2012 at 12:23

elmarko1234 said:
Thanks, I'll have a look at the sponsor account stuff to make one of those, but I was mostly thinking of painting some better ones (as those are a little rushed imho) - improved versions with some care taken on them.

Well for the wolf I call dibs

KaHn