Art Pricing & Commission Pack

Setting a rate, holding it, selling the image more than once, and what happens to the money afterwards

What to charge and what reaches you. Rate bands by what you can evidence rather than by years painted, a full price ladder across twelve standard canvas sizes, and what each route to a buyer actually takes — including your own site. Then the second income: what one print really leaves you once the channel, the paper and the postage are paid, how many prints replace one painting, and the sell-through at which a print run finally beats printing on demand. Finishing with eight commission terms and why each one is there. 11 pages, printable, with a fill-in price list, edition worksheet and commission record.

Look inside

Two full pages from the pack, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.

What is in it

• Rate bands by what you can evidence, not by years painted
• How to recover your true rate from a sale you already made
• A full price ladder across twelve standard canvas sizes
• What each sales channel actually takes - including your own site
• The costs that are not in 'materials', including the hours nobody counts
• What one print actually leaves you, by sales channel — and why a gallery is hopeless for prints
• How many prints replace one painting, and why the price ratio is wrong in both directions
• Print a run or print on demand: the sell-through at which the run finally wins
• What a run of 50 really earns at every sell-through, dead stock included
• Fill-in edition worksheet, costed from your own printer's quote
• Eight commission terms, and why each one is there
• Deposit and revision structure by size of job
• What to do when someone asks for a discount
• Fill-in price list and commission record

The pack complements the free calculators — they do the arithmetic, it carries the figures they cannot know.