ETSY SELLING TIP # 3

COPY FAMOUS WORKS OF ART

When you plan on painting or creating a new work of art for Etsy, you need to toss out those original ideas and focus on simply copying famous works of art.  Simply reproduce those famous works by Picasso, Rembrandt, Matisse and other famous artists…copy them exactly and closely.  Your copies of original artwork will “look really familiar” to the common man or woman who browses Etsy.   We all know that familiarity leads to comfort and comfort leads to a pleasing feeling and a pleasing feeling leads to a sale!   Etsy is filled with browsers who have little in-depth knowledge of the art world and you can really fool them with your “original paintings” or drawings. 

Here is an example:   Paint a forgery of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.  Post it on Etsy as you own original painting, and pretty soon you’ll have half a dozen middle school educated housewives from Arkansas saying “Hey, that is a really nice painting…it looks kinda familiar… I feel comfortable looking at that painting…gosh it sure pleases me…I think I’ll buy it.”   Bingo—a sale ! 

If you don’t have the time to actually forge the painting with canvas and brush, you can simply photograph those famous works of art and post them on Etsy as “paintings”… you just have to make sure you describe your painting techniques as using very very very very very thin layers of paint…    Middle America will never know !