How do you price paintings?

[Richard Hakluyt]

I think The Brain is right, charge $100 for a painting and they think they are doing an amateur a favour, charge $1000 and they think they have got a bargain 

They are strange, the humans.

Got to be worth giving it a go.

[syk]

Lots of helpful replies, thanks everyone!

That cat painting really changes things a bit. It looks like it would have taken me an hour to make that and apparently will be sold for mad cash.
Pricing high possibly needs a certain market, one I haven't got (yet). I will check out the local galleries and see how they react. I thought about ebay before, maybe I'll try that with a copy of the caffeine painting. I still have 4 spare of those.

[The Larch]

That cat painting really changes things a bit. It looks like it would have taken me an hour to make that and apparently will be sold for mad cash.

She'll get mad cash when/if she gets to sell it. She's had it up for sale at her site for a looooooooong time. She also has a bit of name recognition at this point, having had a number of expositions and having been mentioned a few times in the papers. She's also an art insider, having worked as PR for an art foundation a while ago, so I guess that she has the contacts necessary to pull that off.

[Ideologue]

I think The Brain is right, charge $100 for a painting and they think they are doing an amateur a favour, charge $1000 and they think they have got a bargain 

They are strange, the humans.

Got to be worth giving it a go.

Lololol.  God, Veblen goods suck.