How Artists and Photographers Can Finally Earn an Income from Home on Etsy

I have been a member of eBay for a few years. I started out selling some of my paintings, because I'm the starving artist sort who just wants to figure how to manage making myself a decent income and still finding time to create those masterpieces that take dozens of hours to create. I sold a painting or two for under what I had hoped on eBay, but that's the starving artist life, and I figured well tough...at least I'm selling something. Overtime I realized that I was putting a lot more money and time into my art pieces than I was getting out. A lot people will try to say that the money doesn't matter, and to an extent, that may be true as artists need to try to focus on the joy that simply creating and inspiring should bring to them. However, everyone at some point wants to feel fullfilled, sustained somehow by hard-work. Millions of artists in the world aren't really feeling that, and it is not really because they aren't respected by anyone in the art community, it's because they are broke, un-able to do what they love and survive in the real-world.

Not able to focus on a boring day job, finding only time to paint, but not making enough money, was my reality until a friend introduced me to a website called Etsy:: a place for all things handmade. It didn't take me long to figure out that this was the place for me. My paintings were not going to be lost in a sea of non-related barbie dolls, cars, printers, and iphones on eBay anymore. Instead, they would be nurtured by a community of thousands of people who are also artists, all uniquely individual in their creativity and design. Signing up and listing my first painting was like walking into a room filled with hundreds of people and being applauded and smiled upon for my contribution. I watched the rate of page views escalate by the day and it felt good to have so many people who love art as much as me, accepting and appreciating my work.