When I was young, nobody told me that I could not try things that were outside of my experience. It was not till I got older that this became more the norm . Doing something you never did before and not even know where to begin is fun though. You might do something that is brand new and maybe it will work.
I wanted to sell art but did not now how a person went about that. I wanted to sell it door to door because I thought nobody else had done that before hand the sheer weirdness of it would work. I did sell art door to door. I knocked on random doors and showed several samples of different artists work and asked them if they wanted their portrait done. How funny is that. But some people said ok and several artists got jobs doing portraits just because I did something that wild. The thing about going door to door is that it is bringing you to the potential customer instead of waiting for them to come to you in a gallery. It was proactive.
I bet if I did this now, it would still work because who doesn’t want a hand painted portrait by an artist of someone you care about. who wouldn’t want a family portrait like that.
One client was a Star Trek fan and had the artist paint the members in his family like characters from Star Trek. talk about a unique idea.
I only had to go to about three houses before I got a sale when I did this.
You know what I think. People are starving for something different. This was different alright .