Advice for an artist seeking to sell work?

My cousin is an amazing artist who currently works in construction. I don't want him to waste his gift but neither of us know how he might get started selling some of his work. We were thinking of things like street fairs or small shops. Any ideas?Advice for an artist seeking to sell work?
There's two basic routs you can take; online or local.





If you want to try and sell things online you'll need to set up an account with EBay or Etsy.com, scan or photograph his work and post it up there. You might reach a wider audience with this method, but you'll have to deal with shipping and whatnot, which isn't usually an issue if you're selling locally.





To go the local route, check out bulletin boards at any local collages with art programs, there should be postings about any upcoming shows/art fairs/etc. You could try locally owned restaurants and cafes, a lot of them will display works by local artists.Advice for an artist seeking to sell work?
Before you spend a lot of money on fees and booths, test sell items on zazzle.com or ebay and see what people want and how much they are willing to pay. then make more of them and sell them at the booths, take names of interested parties and create community of people to sell new works to. finally he will be too busy to take new customers and increase the price of his works.





Also maintain a copyright for your use so you can sell high res images of the works for your stock photography business. Sell it over and over!





Goodluck.
If your cousin has a computer and a scanner avaible to him, I would recommend an art site called 'DeviantART.com'.





http://www.deviantart.com/





Its free to sign up an account. You can upload your art easy. DeviantART features a place were you can sell prints of your art. Its a popular site, and people from all over who love art are swarming there. There are many people who would appreciate your cousin's art and buy it.





Hopefully that helps you.