Post #240471 by ToonToonz on Fri, Jun 30, 2006 8:52 AM

kooche - Good for you! I agree 100%.

Are you going to paint under a different name than kooche?
I have a nice selling line of art I do and about 7+ years ago I started signing those paintings under a different name (and started up a website under that name). Even though I like that art I didn´t want to be "tagged" or labeled as the guy that ONLY paints that subject matter.

The market for new Tiki paintings is tiny, tiny, tiny. (Unfortunately.)

A small anecdote: I was invited to exhibit some tiki original paintings at an weekend event a few weeks ago. Lots of young, hip people in their mid 20´s to 30s. My wife and I were a bit late in hanging the art and so had quite a few people attending the event come up and talk to us about the art. They really liked it - lots of positive feedback: fun, colorful, cool, wild, humorous, how much is it?.
We had not put the price tags up on the Tiki art and so we started asking people what they would pay for the painting they were interested in. Mostly people said around $100; a couple as high as $200.
We finished hanging a the art an did not put any price tags up on the paintings- we realized it was a waste of time. After hanging the paintings we left and had a fun weekend siteseeing in the area and came back at the end of the event and picked up our paintings.

[ Edited by: ToonToonz 2006-06-30 09:30 ]