Origin "Magic dreams" 204 x 103 cm #Painting #artlover #acrylicart

Happy to be in such great company! 💪 Thanks for sharing. 🙏

Super grateful to have been selected from among 400 works for the 59 Reina Sofia Painting and Sculpture call. Thank you thank you thank you!!!

GM

I know things are hard out there for generative artists right now. We're adjusting to a new reality where instant mint-outs are more and more rare. Secondary action and rapid profits for collectors have dried up, so there's a flight to safer names. That's meant emerging artists have had to shift their thinking to the steadier small sales, one edition at a time, that many of us knew before the Web3 boom. So what do we do? Things may or may not turn around, but I wanted to take a moment to shout out what I've seen work: 1. Great art still sells. We saw that on Alba with Undercurrents from @VolatileMoods and Tetra by @protozoo both minting out in December even as gas was 60-80 gwei midday. Other projects in that group show struggled, a couple of which I would call equally great, but by and large collectors still show up for great art. The bar is higher today, so as artists we have to rise to meet it. That means the "old days" of minting small experiments makes less sense. We can still share those experiments on socials, but burning up social capital to ask collectors to mint them makes less and less sense. This is even more true with on chain work. Artists should release/mint primarily the work they've invested serious time into, always putting your best foot forward. Even then, remember that collectors are more visually versed than they were three years ago — they've seen a lot of generative art in that time — so an average (or even good) work can struggle, which brings us to: 2. Making a daily post about your art that's open to mint works. Unless you wildly mispriced your piece, steady marketing works. Persistence matters more now than ever. If you continue to get the work in front of collector's eyes over several months, it should lead to gradual sales. But you have to stick with it. I want to shout out here @PauloSilvaGArt and his project Folia for his persistence in sharing an edition from his project each day on socials since the launch. The project sold an initial 73 editions. Not terrible. Not great. He's a smaller name that a lot of collectors don't know, so no surprises there. But over the last two months, he's made one post per day sharing outputs from the piece. He includes hashtags to help genart lovers discover his work. There's no link in the post (since twitter kills all posts with links), but he includes the link to the project in his bio and his pinned post so it's easy to find. And it's worked. In the last two months he's sold an additional 37 editions, that's an additional 50% increase in sales above and beyond his launch day mints — way more than he expected to sell after the first day. Daily posts work. And if you hate taking two minutes per day to make one, then use an app like Buffer to schedule your posts for the next month in a single afternoon. It's worth it. 3. Take more time between mints. With demand lower and the bar higher, it doesn't make as much sense to release something every few weeks. Taking time between mints allows you to raise your own standards as an artist, and strive to take your work further. Releasing something every 3-4 months is a good cadence for an emerging artist (at this particular moment). It gives you time between releases to make those steady, daily posts that attract new eyeballs. And it gives you time to refine your craft and focus on releasing only work where you've invested real time. On the flip side, don't take too long between releases either. I've seen emerging artists that waited 12-15 months between releases fade from collectors' memory in this space, so their follow up release can struggle from a lack of name recognition. I won't name names, but there have been a handful of good artists who've struggled on Alba over the last eight months for this exact reason. So it's important to stay visible. A more successful artist, with good name recognition, can afford to wait 8-12 months between releases, but that's not true for the majority of artists here. A cadence of 3-4 months hits an important sweet spot that makes room for both personal growth and steady posts leading to sales on your previous piece, both of which are vital to succeeding at this stage in the market. And that cadence also saves an artist from pouring in too much time at a time when collectors may simply not respond to a piece either. 4. The thing that most hurts a project today (other than a lack of new collectors overall in the space) is wildly mispricing your work. It's the one thing you often can't undo after a project is on chain and people have started collecting it. So it's super important for artists to be tuned into what their fellow artists are doing, keeping track of price points, how many editions sold, what platforms and chains are doing well — and ALL of the advice you'll hear around this is subject to change every quarter, sometimes even on a month-to-month basis. When I'm working with an artist, no conversation is more heartbreaking to me than having to give them a wake up call about pricing, because they're still thinking in numbers from 6-12 months ago (or worse). It's so important for artists to stay tuned in to what other artists at their level are doing, how they're pricing, how they're editioning, where they're releasing. It's essential to open your eyes and put in the legwork, because it's literally make or break for your project's success. And as an added bonus, when you pay attention to recent releases you'll likely also find some inspiration and motivation for your own art, and the places you could take your next piece. Otherwise it's like trying to be a writer that never reads, or only reads the great classics, but doesn't know what contemporary fiction looks like. In our space, where everything is evolving so rapidly, it's essential to be paying attention. I spend multiple afternoons each week doing studio visits with artists over Google Meet, and these are some of the realizations that have emerged from those conversations. Which, for all their difference, keep coming around to the same few topics, so I share them here now. Your mileage may vary. But I will continue to ring the bell of making daily posts about your open work. For emerging artists, at this moment, it works better than almost anything else I've seen. And it's something we need to step up and do if we want to succeed this year.

MINI DREAMS series. N.3——————————————————————

Working hard for the @artist360 in Spain

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My son just turned 7. He’s such a little artist. So today I said I’d take one of his drawings and combine it with my code.

Currently finalising the colours 🌈🖌️ Will drop tomorrow on @exchgART Hope you had a good day. GN for now 🌙✨

☕️gm, have a lovely day❤️

GM! 🎁 Massive thank you to all the collectors of my first SOL piece last week. I will be doing the draw later today for the free art prints. There will be a 1 in 4 chance to win. ✨🤞

2 editions remain! 💫👇

𝐆𝐌 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬💎❤️‍🔥🌐 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑻𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑬𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒚 (this is one of my pieces from 2021).

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

"Origin," the inaugural gem of my "Magic Dreams" series for the new year 2024, emerges as a poetic visual testimony of beginnings. Like eager sperm in search of the egg, this piece embodies the fervent quest for something new, something gestating from the depths of my being.

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