INDUSTRY UPDATE

According to Art Business the market of selling Art is not a quantifiable market and it is difficult to categroise. 

To begin with, art is not a commodity that can be regulated. Anyone can call him or herself an artist, anyone can call anything that they create "art," and anyone can be an art dealer or own an art gallery. Anyone can sell art wherever, whenever and under whatever circumstances they please, and price or sell whatever they call "art" for whatever amounts of money they feel like selling it for, as long as that art is offered without committing fraud or misrepresentation. 

To further complicate matters, art is sold everywhere all the time-- at individual artist websites, gallery websites, websites where artists pay fees to show their art, secondary market websites like ArtBrokerage.com, auction sites like eBay, outdoor art shows, art galleries, art fairs, open studios, art walks, flea markets, estate sales, big city auctions, museum sales and rental galleries, "Nothing Over $39.95" sales, little country auctions, directly out of artists' homes and studios, street fairs, high in the mountains of Peru, Uncle Charlie's Ice Cream Store, antique and collectible shops, framing stores, on the street, classified ads in the local paper, interior design stores, coffee shops, corporate lobbies, cruise ships, county fairs, remote villages in Botswanaland, and so on. (http://www.artbusiness.com/marketdata.html, 2013).

Therefore it depends upon your target market, your competitive edge (your style and uniqueness compared to competitors), and how you enter the art market. With this is mind lets have a look at a few artists in the field and how they stand out compared to others.