A spiffy idea, but for one thing....

[browngirl]

So, cyan_blue sent me a really nifty URL: http://www.artomat.org/home.html , the Art-O-Mat.

The only problem is, they don't take magnets.

Hrmn.

Comments

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

soooo... just do the same thing but leave the magnets off the back? :)

[penmage.livejournal.com]

That's really, really cool.

Ooh. I want to set out and find one of those...

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

pins, earrings, pendants, belt buckles ...
Where there's a finding, there's a way!

[kyttn.livejournal.com]

I also like the idea of pins, earrings, and pendants. You could also do small gift-type cards. The big question is whether the money received would cover your costs.

*hugs* and good luck!

Maya

OK, two things...

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

They want my work, once they approve it, in aliquots of fifty or more.

I'm not hand-drawing fifty of the same thing.

So, I just have to make something suited to at least partial mass production. What to make, what to make. *ponders some more*

"Artists With Too Much Time On Their Hands"?

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

I checked out the site, specifically the submission guidelines. They read, in part, "Try to avoid any mass production process that could lessen the quality of your work. Please submit finished work in amounts no less than 50.". What exactly is this supposed to mean? How do they reasonably expect any working artist to produce "at least 50" of some item without some kind of automation? If you think like a professional, you have to factor both time and labor costs into your work. They say that the artist's cut of a single sale is between $2.00 and $2.50. Let's be generous and assume you get the higher figure. Subtract the cost of the little box that you have to package your work in ($0.30), and assume that you can produce a piece for a materials cost of about $0.50. That leaves $1.80 to cover labor. If you value your time at (U.S.) minimum wage, you have to crank out each piece in 20 minutes or less, start-to-finish. The more you value your time, the less time you can spend on a piece. Unless some form of automation is allowed, it's simply not economical for artists (other than "hobby" artists who value their art-time at nothing) to participate...