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My short term goal is to be producing sellable art by the end of this year. That's deliberately vague. I'm not deluded into thinking I'll hang in a gallery by the end of the year. If Ebay accepts it I'll be lucky.
My personal definition of sellable is a painting that I'm willing to put my signature and a price on, even if nobody buys it. I've never signed a painting. When I feel my work is worth putting my name on, I'll call it sellable. I'm a tough self-critic, so that's not as mushy a goal as it sounds.
I have someone bugging me for a portrait now. I keep putting her off, saying I'm not ready, because I know she'll want me to sign it. I don't want to lose sleep five years from now, knowing there's a really bad painting with my name on it.
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Judging by the WIP you've posted, you're there. Sign it, frame it, make twenty more like it (that's the time consuming part!) and show your body of work to any gallery you want to. (And yes, you're ready to take on commissions, in my opinon.)
I used to spend far too much of my time doing this: "Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim......" Once I woke up and realized I'm not in my twenties any more (far from it!) I saw that I didn't have time to spare. Now it's "Ready, aim, fire!"
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