Saw a booth at a Tulsa art fair in March that sold out, then saw the same booth last week with a sign asking for commissions

Iris Hall · 2026-10-26T22:20:03.65886+00:00

I used to think all the AI art talk was overblown, mostly because I figured the people buying prints just wanted something to hang over the couch. Then I talked to a woman at a small fair in Tulsa in March who sold 40 pieces of her hand painted stuff in two days, and last week at the same venue she had maybe 6 pieces left and a sign begging for portrait work. She said the online print shops selling AI versions of the same style undercut her by $15 a print starting around January, and her regular buyers just stopped coming. I drove home that night pretty quiet, because I had been one of the guys saying nobody would care about the difference. Is it the same story in your town, or is this just a thing here?

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Saw a booth at a Tulsa art fair in March that sold out, then saw the same booth last week with a sign asking for commissions | AI Art Ethics - Vivisector