Saturday, December 26, 2020

Mandala prints

I started drawing mandalas in February 2014. I sold them on eBay that year—I think I sold five or six—then stopped selling them and instead just kept them for myself, thinking that it would be nice to publish a book of them, or to sell prints of them, at some point.

On November 10, I started selling prints. I've enjoyed selling prints. It feels more satisfying and less stressful than some other methods of earning money I've tried, like selling writing on Patreon, which I tried earlier this year and abandoned after four posts. 

Mandala prints
Prints arranged in order of popularity. Key for the order is in lower-right.
I've sold 128 prints:

32—numbers mandala 

30—water mandala

27—mandala 13 

26—mandala 25

7—Dudu mandala 

4—mandala 12

2—cannabis mandala

0—mandala 8

Lower sales of Dudu mandala, mandala 12, cannabis mandala, and mandala 8 are due, at least partially, to those being added later. I added Dudu mandala and mandala 12 on November 30, and cannabis mandala and mandala 8 on December 11. 

It seems like people like to buy prints without faces on them, besides maybe Dudu's face. If I had started selling them all at the same time, maybe Dudu mandala would be as popular as the first four.

International orders have been from United Kingdom (7), Germany (4), Canada (3), Chile, Spain, Australia, France, Ireland, Sweden. No orders from Asia or Africa yet.

6 comments:

  1. I believe there is a common adage about what sells in visual arts, and one of the categories is abstracts.

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    1. I threw it away but will make another for $25 with free shipping.

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  3. glad to see you selling mandalas. unrelated, what's your favorite translation of pessoa?

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    1. For The Book of Disquiet, I've read Richard Zenith's and Margaret Jull Costa's and I remember preferring Zenith's, though maybe I just preferred his selection of what to include.

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