How much should I sell this particular painting for?

Lets see it.

Here is a FB link to the painting

I like it. $40 is pretty cheap. You need to price it so you can make it worth your while. I loved the second picture. A banker once told me you can be the best at what you do, but if you don’t price it right and make a living you’ll be out of work eventually.

Don’t sell yourself short. You titled “A feeling #1 and #2”

They are original and you won’t paint those feelings again.

Somebody who responds to what you intended would be willing to pay at least double your $40. That’s still pretty inexpensive for something that isn’t mall-art.

You felt something while painting them, so don’t you want them to go to someone who finds value in them?

I really love the second one too.

I’d start at $120, and be willing to negotiate down to $80. I’m comparing it to what I see at Art on the Main type fairs.

I agree with Zenvelo – I was going to recommend $140 but then take a lower offer. $40 is way too cheap for art these days and you don’t want to devalue your future pieces.

It depends partly on the size of the painting. If it is small, say 8“x10” $50 and be willing to accept $45. Add another $50 for each 12” larger. If they balk, ask them to make an offer.

The first one makes me think of a vagina .. and I don’t mean anything negative when I say that. Not sure why… but that’s what I see…

The second makes me think of rain… orange rain but rain nonetheless.

I like them @_Whitetigress. I agree with asking $140 but perhaps put something like or best offer. See what people will offer you.

Good luck!

$40 is way too cheap.

Maybe price it an even $100, and take no less than 75.

@_Whitetigress I agree with the others, $40 is way too cheap.
Those are very cool and art is very expensive.

If you’ve never entered the market before, your work actually has no market value; the degree of emotion you felt while making the piece has no market value; you can price it any way you want. Whether that price gets you a sale is entirely between you and your first buyer. Once you’ve sold one to this interested person, you can tell the next buyer you’ve sold previous work for (x) but since then your prices have risen. You never want to lower your prices later, because that’s unfair to the people who’ve bought them at a higher price earlier. Always fine to raise them as you have continued success.
Katniss is incorrect. Art is only “expensive” after it’s established a market value. High market values come from marketing, not from the amount of feeling the artist may have felt in the studio. You have to feel positive about the value of your work, but you haven’t proven yourself as a supplier of art. This is the beginning.

You are unknown painter, cannot expect receive high prices when have no publicity. “Modern artists” are often only con artists. Pablo Picasso admit he is “mountebank sell trash at fools”! “Abstract Expressionism” have only subjective meaning if any. Many men paint all of lives, never sell paintings at high prices. Vincent Van Gogh never sell one painting while he live. Is good have other sources of income. My lover is painter, fortunately his father is quite wealthy, thus he not need income of paintings.

I like both of them. I think I would start at $100 and not take less than $75.

I have multiple friends who are artists, because they must make art to live a fulfilled life, but none of them makes a living from making art, they all have other jobs.

$40 is about the price for those mass produced paintings that get sold in motel lobbies, and even the larger ones of those types of painting may go for over $100. Unless you are selling it as a living room decoration, it should definitely go for at least $100 and probably considerably more. You always have the option of lowering the price.

I went to a friends open studio today in Oakland, she is an active artist in many media, but hasn’t done much business. While I was there she sold a painting for $225, it was about 16 inches by 12 inches. It was something she’d done 12 years ago, so she was willing to let it go cheap.

Thanks for all the info and update @zenvelo and the rest of you.