This practice is not acceptable. The symbolism alone is bad enough. You just sold a 2k piece of art and you put it in hadty bag...wtf. I am embarrased as an artist to witness this. Spend a few dollars on some bags you cheap d bag. I am doing a show and 90% of the artwork is going out in freakin trash bags. If that is what you think of your own work, you have problems...this is not right. Stop it.
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I package everything in clear plastic bags and I get all of them from ULINE.
They have clear bags for art of all sizes. Here's a ink for one product. They go up to 25x37 & 28x36.
Here's a link: http://www.uline.com/BL_5590/Crystal-Clear-Bags
Clear bags. You want clear bags so other customers can see what your customer bought, and they can ask where they got it. Free advertising.
Agree 100% with Tom - drives me nuts. I do what Chris says - Uline, clear bags so everyone can see what my customer purchased. I'll even tell cusomers (only half kiddingly) if they have my art turned so the back is showing, to turn it the other way so people can see it. They usually get it and do turn it. I've had new customers come up to me, say they saw what someone else purchased and asked where they got it.
Paper, plastic, cloth or whatever else is available should look nice enough to equate to the quality of work you are creating and selling. I personally like the cloth because they are stronger and people are more likely to keep them and reuse them ( a good reason to have your website and/or contact info printed on them.)
I feel the same way as you do, Tom. I've seen it day in and day out. Trash bags set a really bad example for expensive framed artwork and you are right about the symbolism. Oh, they're leaf bags, you say? Still, they look the same and carry the same symbolism to me. It's just not even funny anymore.
I have always used nice cloth bags that I bought for sales of my woodart and have had a lot of compliments about how nice they were...never used trash bags...
I am not sure what a hadty bag...wtf is either.
Many 2d artists have quite large framed pieces and I cannot recall seeing very large cloth bags in huge sizes.
Maybe you could offer some recommendations and suggestions to the trash bag and hadty bag...wtf users as a good gesture to help them in their plight...What do you use...?