buy your friends art or buy a strangers art. not the mass produced stuff but that weird little sketch or painting or whatever. support folks, sometimes you find out 20 years later that someone was in the whitney biennial and you have one of their drawings from when they were a teenager and that’s pretty cool. buy stuff for $25 or $2000 or whatever you can afford - give your money to artists when you can!
If you‘re good at art, you can make it yourself. If you aren’t, buy something from an artist at a local farmers market, craft fair, or art gallery. Here’s some small paintings i made for my friends for christmas.
