Lovely! Do you take commissions? Please, if you want to, take my money and send me tiny wood owl(s) to keep in my pocket. I usually have a chestnut there as a tactile therapeutic fiddle-thing but I'd prefer one of these and I know other weirdos who'd appreciate it too. <3
PM if interested
I searched his profile for a link to an etsy page or shopify site but didn't find one. I did however find on another larger carving he stated he doesn't sell them. Here is the link:
I'm a freelancing writer/artist and people turn their nose up even at minimum wage rates. Unless you can work really, really, inhumanly fast, like sweatshop fast, it's generally not economical to sell this kind of work. People would probably not pay more than £5/$5 for one of these but carving just one of them might take the artist the better part of an hour.
I'd pay up to 300 in my local currency/35 USD because I acknowledge the effort of preparations to get the material + time + skill that something like this requires (which I am happy to share to encourage all of the talented artists on Reddit). I have the ability to recreate something similar but then it'd only be for myself because the design is beautiful and all OP's... so ignore the joke in my previous post about stealing the idea, please. Credit should go to the right person so I won't be setting up my own tiny owl shop ;)
Most freelance hobby artists - including myself - do not make enough in their side gig to have to declare it here though in my experience. Good for you that you do! Do you want to share a link?
Ofc you ask whatever price you want to but I only produce and sell stuff that I would have really liked to make anyway, personally, so yeah... I am willing to pay what I'd ask myself for things that I just happened to create and that'd make others happy as a bonus
The upper limit for legal hobbyverksamhet is quite low though. 20k sek in a year. Even at 200 an hour which is pretty meh you'd only be allowed 100 hours in a full year. 2 hours a week is definitely at a hobby level, but I don't think I have any serious hobby I spend that little time on.
True. Above 2h per week I think that it is more than just a hobby, it is a small business endeavor. Glad that you are so passionate about yours! :)
I draw/paint/sculpt/sew/croquet for my own sake (primarily) though and have a demanding full time+ job so I estimate that I spend 1 - 2 hours per week on my artistic side thingies. There's no real interest to make money so I basically only ask compensation for the materials used
Yeah, that sounds pretty reasonable. I could collect fallen branches on my daily dog walks, but you've also got to boil it, then dry it, etc. and you should also probably treat it with wood preserver once it's carved too - and maybe a sealant if it's going to be kept outdoors.
Unless it's on your own property, technically it would be stealing it. Obviously this is ridiculous when talking about a single fallen branch. But selling at volume for profit it would be stealing wood from private or public property.
In most places I guess that that is true but we have this wonderful thing called Allemansrätten or the Right of Public Access (word by word translation: Every Man's Right).
It allows anyone to collect any amount of fresh fallen twigs or branches, but not old ones, as old branches are home to many bugs, fungi er cetera. The main rule is "Do not disturb, do not destroy" so only if I'd take anything off of living trees it is considered destruction of public property.
I think the difference is people expect the price of something like this to be similar in range to something that is similar but mass produced for cheap labor and expected to sell in thousands.
Theres a ton of intricate stuff even made out of wood that can be bought for really cheap only because the expensive part was setting up a machine to do it, and it could be offset by selling a boat load of it.
I’ve been seeing this as I try and build up my inventory of sellable art.
On the one hand I can sell for less by going the digital “put-your-image-on-anything” route or take the “I only sell one-off originals” path but each camp kinda scoffs at the other.
The choice of going with an on-demand manufacturer, or doing it myself, is a major factor in the (overall) type of business I want to run.
lmfao... you guys... honestly if you just pay the artist's asking price, that's all most of us would want. If you want to commission someone who works faster and can charge less, or you want to buy commercially-produced sculptures, that's an option too.
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u/unusedusername42 Aug 13 '21
Lovely! Do you take commissions? Please, if you want to, take my money and send me tiny wood owl(s) to keep in my pocket. I usually have a chestnut there as a tactile therapeutic fiddle-thing but I'd prefer one of these and I know other weirdos who'd appreciate it too. <3 PM if interested