Gag Pricing
In my short and successful career, I have had quite a few young, and sometimes older, artists ask me how one should price their work. After years of battling with this concept I have come up with this simple procedure. If you follow these steps I guarantee results.
Step 1: After coming home from a hard days work at the studio, make the largest meal you can.
Step 2: Eat every last bit of the meal, all the while thinking of your artwork.
Step 3: Slowly, try to push away from the table.
Step 4: Think to yourself, "what price should I ask for my artwork? "
Step 5: Put a really high price in your mind, one that would make you very happy to receive.
Step 6: Cut this price in half.
Step 7: Feel the food come back up slightly.
Step 8. Cut the price in half again.
Step 9. Feel the food come up a little more.
Step 10. Continue lowering your prices in this manner until the huge meal you have eaten gets to your throat and you begin to experience a fits of gagging. (Caution: If your food hits the floor you've gone to far. This would not only be undignified (yeh. like after this you really have any.) ,but now you'll have to sell twice as many pieces to make up for the chunks you blew all over your floor.
Congratulations! Upon gagging you
can now go to your gallery and feel
great about the price you will
receive.