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Why is it necessary to know your painting buyers? Why is it necessary to understand how customer flows are organized towards your paintings? Why is it necessary to pay attention to and assign tags? Because money doesn't come from nowhere, from nothing. Usually, money before becoming yours belonged to someone, belonged to someone. And money always comes to us from people.

Please pay attention to my words. All this means that you somehow motivate other people to give you money. Think. What is there in your paintings that other people are willing to give you money for? What is there that your customers bring you money for?

Sales, especially at the stage of your professional development, have nothing to do with pure and noble creativity, if you thought otherwise.

Creativity. Wildly complex activity that will require significant effort from your brain.

Imagine that you have a bag of parts weighing two and a half tons, from which you need to manually assemble a car. That's what awaits you. Do you really think you can just sit down with your muse and quickly paint a top masterpiece for the last 2,000 years and the next 5?

If you've never drawn before, it might take you several weeks to create a decent landscape, still life, or portrait. And all because you'll have to pay attention to the quality of the watercolor drawing, think about accents and lines, follow the rhythm, composition, light, and air, and maintain the viewer's interest. It's not as simple as it may seem. And if you make a mistake somewhere, it will be noticeable right away, not only to an experienced artist but to anyone who has heard of watercolor. Approach it like your favorite job.

For those who are afraid to start and take action. I did and redid. Corrected, changed. I never looked at stores and galleries and thought, "That's it, perfect forever." No. There were 6 websites. I left 2 of them. And constantly adjusted one according to the buyers and readers. Of the planned and proposed courses, only half "worked." From this half, only a few survived. The rest fell apart into pieces and will be incorporated into future projects.

And that's normal. Testing your ideas and gradually mastering the skill of articulating ideas clearly for others. And bringing them to fruition as a complete project cycle. And tons of texts, videos, different forms, and so on. Because. When you start, especially when you start, you almost always do things wrong, or slowly. Or you get something completely different.

The secret is that if you don't start, nothing will happen. At the beginning, you don't really know yourself and your paintings. And what you want from whom, you imagine in a fog. Especially by what means. Hence the mistakes and hesitation. It's like in intimate relationships. The better you know yourself and your desires, hear your feelings and your partner, the more often you engage, the more pleasure and orgasms you get. What do you think?

And buyers have disappeared forever beyond the horizon?

Start crying and don't stop! And then buyers will surely come to the miserable, feeble-minded artist. To paint a fence and quietly haul away the paintings.

Start pitying yourself and looking for flaws! And then buyers will definitely notice you, curators will come running. To paint a fence and quietly haul away the paintings. In general, no matter what you do, the result is the same. So it's time to prepare for a sad outcome in obscurity and poverty.