Art Integrity

The "painting a day" artists blogging here in cyberspace have created quite an interesting networking draw to their work. Some of it is pretty damn good too.
It's a virtual art market where the average person can find cheap little paintings to buy and collect without worrying if it's a good investment.
But artists should be careful here about devaluing their time, talent and skill by selling their work so far below market value.
The 24"X18" painting shown here of "Yellow Bowl with Peppers" took several hours to complete, but in reality this painting is the result of a life time of dedication.
It actually saddened me when this piece was sold in a NYC gallery back in 2000, as I hate to part with many of my paintings, but it felt good that someone loved this work enough to make a real investment too. Maintaining market value is important to the integrity of the artist's life time body of work. And this will never be achieved by selling your work at dime store prices.