Increasing The Value Of Your Art
what it means to you. One thing you don’t want to do is tell people what it should mean to them, the viewer or buyer of your artwork wants to be able to decide for themselves what the piece means to them, and it doesn’t matter if it’s something entirely different from what it means to you.
Most people buying artwork do like to know what it was you meant as you created it, or what drove you to create the piece the way it is. This can mean telling them something about you, your thought processes as you were beginning and working through the piece, or maybe what was going on in your life at the time you were creating this piece of art. You might decide to tell them about something you’d seen or heard that affected you in a particular way and that prompted you to express something specific with this particular medium. You might be telling them that this particular