A 12-year-old artist has made $1.6 million from portraits as | Sheidlina Art&NFT

A 12-year-old artist has made
$1.6 million from portraits as NFTs

Artist Neela Hayes earned $1.6 million from selling her paintings as NFTs. The girl created portraits of people with long necks. Accordingly, that's what she called her collection, "Long Necks."

Nila Hayes as a child was very fond of dinosaurs. And at the age of nine, she started drawing women with long necks. It seemed to her that this was how she could portray female strength.

"I want to show in my work how beautiful, strong and powerful women can be. And it doesn't matter their culture or background, all women are beautiful," Hayes said.

The girl produced her first collection of 75 paintings, 51 of which were sold. A few months later she produced her second collection of 3,333 portraits of women. All the paintings were sold out within
in a few hours.

The girl drew her pictures at first on a smartphone, but later decided to do everything on the iPad. To date, her work has earned $ 5.8 million on the secondary market. Hayes herself has earned $1.61 million in primary sales.