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The business side of making art — free calculators to price your work, quote commissions, set an honest hourly rate, split gallery sales, and run the numbers on a print run, plus plain-English guides to earning a living from your craft.
From pricing a painting and quoting a commission to setting an hourly rate, costing your materials, splitting a gallery sale, and sizing up a print run, ThinkSlash pairs free hands-on calculators with plain-English guides and a museum of the world of art. Make the work — and make it pay.
Art Business & Pricing Calculators
Free tools for the money side of a creative career — artwork pricing, commission pricing, freelance hourly rate, materials cost, gallery splits, and profit-margin & break-even.
Artwork Pricing Calculator
Cost a piece by time or by size, add materials, overhead, and a markup, and reach an asking price you can stand behind
Art Commission Price Calculator
Quote a custom commission from a base rate scaled by complexity, subjects, extra revisions, commercial rights, and rush
Freelance / Studio Hourly Rate
Turn a target income plus overhead and tax into the hourly rate you must charge across the hours you can really bill
Materials Cost per Piece
Enter each consumable and the percentage a run uses to get the true material cost of one piece, for any batch size
Gallery / Commission Split
Split a sale into your take-home and the gallery's cut, and find the retail price that nets your target
Profit Margin & Break-even
Get margin per unit, units-to-break-even, and projected profit on a print run or product line
Museum of Art
Step into an illustrated museum of the world of art — the media and techniques a picture is made from, the great movements that changed how art was seen, the galleries, museums, and fairs where work meets its public, and the materials and studio behind it all, each in its own gallery. Get to know the world behind the picture: how art is made, shown, and sold.
Tour the museum →From the Journal
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Keep Learning
Plain-language explainers on pricing and selling art, the mechanics of galleries and commissions, the freelance finances of a studio, and how to market a creative practice — everything you need to run the business behind the art.
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