"The formula stays. The confidence is a work in progress." How I Price My Work I price my paintings using a formula: materials plus an hourly rate based on the medium, with a small addition for commissioned work. Acrylics I price at $45 an hour. Watercolour at $25 because I'm still developing in that medium and I don't think it's fair to charge for learning time I'm still accumulating. Studies and demo pieces get minimum wage because that's honest about what they are. On pape

"The market corrected me." The Painting That Wouldn't Sell My “Winter Tree" painting had been sitting in my shop for a while. Nobody touched it. I finally put it on sale at $35 and still no one looked at it. I had painted it during a Fort McMurray deep freeze. The kind that seeps into your bones and it physically hurts your face every time you go outside. If you ever felt anything minus thirty or below you know what I'm talking about. It's the kind of cold that makes you ques