I have just recieved a down payment for a piece of artwork that is yet to be determined. This will be the third I've sold in about as many months. The last two have been sketchs so its not really a big deal, but one a month isn't bad since I am not even trying. Somehow demand just appeared out of nowhere. I guess I will just ride it and see how it goes. Matts wife Tracy has hers up at Empyrion this month. I wonder if she can get me a show.
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: "Its clever, but is it Art?" - Rudyard Kipling
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Sweet deal on the sales! Still wierd everytime someone hands me money for something I have made, although I suppose it shouldn't be.
For me its more weird that someone else "gets" it. I obviously "get" it because I made it. But when someone wants to give me something of theirs for something of mine it is a sort of validation of why I felt it was important to lay it down in the first place. The money bit isn't that odd to me since I place a value on my creation. What I find weird is my ability to speak to someone else without saying anything. Or maybe I'm suprised that they like what im saying. I am used to being the one who isn't "the favorite".
and who do you think is the favorite? you can create some amazing things, a few are hanging on my walls right now. i guess it's just wierd for me that other people see the validity in what i do, although right now i would say i am doing more fluff than valid art, and in a way i feel like i have sold out since i am doing whatever will pay the bills, but people are seeing my work none the less. i guess that is the mind set i need to have
Multiple people. But whenever someone walks in and starts to look at the art, it "seems" to me that they always prefer the work of you, Jessica, Pat or Melissa to mine. Oh, they like mine (perhaps they are just being polite), but someone else always "speaks to them" or "moves them".
I dont doubt my ability, I doubt peoples ability to feel it. it also would appear that the majority of the people who appreciate my stuff balk at a price tag over 20 bucks. It was however, nice to find a "benifactor" for lack of a better word. At least for the time being. Even that can feel kind of judgemental. "That ones not good enough." "Is that finished" "To normal" etc. Don't these people know artists are sensitive?
Yeah, they probably know we are sensitive people, they just don't get it.
It is still hard for me to do the whole commissioned thing, but hey, suppose I have to figure it out at some point huh?
None of my good shit is even at your house... just a bunch of stuff I didn't like. But then again we are sensitive people and very critical of ourselves.
well, if your ever willing to let me have one of the "good shit" let me know. It would be nice to have at least one.
I thought you had the ones you wanted. Which picture do you want?
oh and did you make Tom's Mom's famous cut your thumb off and burn your arm soda bread? I managed to pull it off this year with no injuries...maybe because I waited for Guinness until AFTER it went in the oven!
It is not really about wanting a specific picture, more about wanting one that you think is good enough. I would never want to take the Whitney pictures from you. I know they are very important to you and that is why I will not ask. Your picture for Whitney is amazing. Even without putting a bunch of shit in the background like the devil wanted you to. I think it is important for you. I guess what I would like, if you ever get around to it, would be one that you felt was "important" and "good enough" or in other words, not fluff.
I did find a beat up old recipe card that I dont think I read correctly. It was for Toms Moms Irish Soda Bread but yeah not so readable and as such, not so tasty, more like Matts Half Ass Crap bread. I guess I've never been much of a baker. Albertsons had a slightly more tolerable version but somehow not the same.
Oh, no Guiness prebaking? Sacriledge. Glad you wound up safe instead of burnt, but no Guiness? Damn the insanity.
Oh there was Guinness, I just waited to be three beers deep until I had finished operating large appliances! Although I did build a fire later in the evening...
You must have the original teeny piece of paper written in teeny Tom writing with the recipe, should be correct.
By the way, the Whitney picture still sits unfinished on my art board, probably always will, although the tattoo is done. I think, ok, it's done for now.
nice. I guess the slip of paper is no longer ledgible. I tried, but yeah, not so tasty. Perhaps the fact it sits incomplete means it is done? I think unfinished art is complete all the time.
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