Starving artist sales, which are usually held at area hotels, are a great place to pick up great artwork for fabulous prices. You can purchase as few or as many paintings as you wish and resell this artwork in a home art shop, via newspaper ads, or over the Internet for a substantially higher price than you paid.

This is a unique business opportunity that can be highly profitable. What is interesting about art is the fact is is difficult to put a price on a piece. If you are in a smaller town, you can buy pieces of art fairly cheap. This is because the local market may not be able to support high priced art.

In more affluent, larger cities, the same piece of art you bought in the small town may be worth thousands of dollars more because there are more people with expendable cash. If you can identify what the "rich art lover" enjoys, you can pick up these bargains and resell them to this type of buyer. Art is a lot like wine. It is only good if you like it. No two people have the exact same tastes, so an inexpensive piece of art can be worth a lot to someone who really likes it.

To start a business like this, you need to know art and what kinds of art people are willing to pay good money for. Your start-up costs will be low. Basically just purchasing a few pieces and try to sell them. Once they are sold, take the profits and reinvest a portion of it to buy more pieces.