This week I had a disappointing encounter with a couple of fellow artists. Let me explain. I was excited to find out about a week ago that a new printmaking group had just started near where I live. The two main attractions for me were being able to share with other printmakers, and being able to use a printing press! So I scheduled to meet with one of the people who started the group, to find out more about it. I had done the same a few weeks ago with another printmaking group, but this new one is much closer and more convenient for me, so I had high hopes of joining. There was another person there also thinking of joining, so we both got to listen to the explanations of how the group functioned. Things took a turn when people started throwing their diplomas and past experience around. It didn’t help that one person took over the “talking stick” and basically acted as though only their opinions were interesting. I was never once asked about my experience, and when I volunteered that my learning had been through what I jokingly call “YouTube University”, I thought I would see the very first-ever instance of eyeballs doing a backflip in their sockets. I was informed in no uncertain terms that what was available on YouTube was only “this type” and “that technique”, and was obviously not worthy of attention by serious printmakers. I guess YouTubers Laura Boswell and Colin Blanchard, two incredibly talented, successful, experienced and generous English printmakers from whom I have learned most of my printmaking skills, didn’t get the memo! If I hadn’t already made up my mind about joining, the clincher came when they started discussing how big this group wanted to become. The group creator mentioned that they didn’t want to become as big as another artist group (to which I belong), especially as it seemed that part of that group’s growth was obtained by letting in “non-professional” artists! Well clutch my pearls!!! Daphne, get me my smelling salts!! Needless to say, I was disappointed by this attitude, but also by the dismissive reaction to almost anything I said. I was made to feel that I knew nothing, or worse yet that what I knew was wrong, and it was pointed out in no uncertain terms that the weekly group meetings would not be "courses". So much for sharing! I blame the other potential member mostly, whose name I don’t know as there was no attempt at introductions, and who may not even end up joining the group. I know I won’t be. I don’t need a press that badly! Thankfully not all artists have this attitude about degrees versus self-study. The other group I visited earlier greeted me with open arms and were genuinely interested in seeing my work and some of the techniques and products that I mentioned using. Supplier names were noted and diplomas were never mentioned! Don’t get me wrong, I am not suggesting that university studies are useless or that they aren’t demanding or that people shouldn't be proud of their achievements. But let’s face it, learning brain surgery or rocket science is not the same as learning art. I wouldn’t trust a “self-study” physician or lawyer! But art is different. Unless you want to study Art History (and there is nothing wrong with that), art is mostly concepts and techniques, and once you learn them (and sometimes even without learning them-- take Maud Lewis!), there is no “right way” or “wrong way” to do art. Just as there is no “right way” or “wrong way” to learn art! Especially in 2022! From my years of teaching in a college, where I met my fair share of “Doctors”, I know that a degree does not confer intelligence or class. Many of the Doctors I met were “a**es”. But, to be fair, most were not. And it’s the same with artists with degrees. But I now have a new definition for a BFA, and it’s not Bachelor of Fine Arts. I’ll let you guess. What about you? Have you had unpleasant encounters with “educated” artists? Post in the comments below. P.S. The print that I had in a show with that group of “non-professional” artists? It sold. After 4 days. Just sayin’.... P.P.S. I am sure the people I met this week are very nice people. Just not the kind I particularly want to spend time with.
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For several years now, I have been using a great online tool to catalog my artwork. I don’t remember how I found this particular site, but it really was great and did all that I needed and more. When I started showing and selling my work, I quickly realised that I needed a reliable and easy way to record the information on each piece. I started by writing things in a notebook, but it didn’t take me long to figure out that that just wouldn’t do. Of course, having a computer background, I knew that what I needed was a database, not just a spreadsheet. Don’t get me wrong: I absolutely love spreadsheets, but they would not give me the features and flexibility of a database. Now those of you who have been following me for a while know that I strive to keep my costs down (I am basically cheap). So the solution I was looking for had to be inexpensive. You can’t get much more inexpensive than free, and the site that I found, in addition to being designed by artists who knew what they needed (a lot more than I did at the time!), had a free option that I couldn’t resist! Like everything else in life, it wasn’t perfect, but it was the closest thing for the price! So I happily used it for years and was pleased when they announced about a year ago that they would be rewriting the whole site, hoping they would use the opportunity to add the features that I (and surely others) found missing, which in my case was the ability to produce customized printouts, including, for example, price lists, show lists, or certificates of authenticity. I also wanted to create a printed catalog, and I still had not figured out how to easily do this with the present tools. Because of the value I was finding in the tool, I had even planned to start paying for it, but when they announced the rewrite, they also cut off the option to pay for a subscription. You probably can see where this is going. So for the last year, I have had the task to “Start paying for xxxxx” on my “to do” list, pushing it down month over month as I eagerly await news of the rewrite. Well, the news came this week, and it wasn’t good. Unfortunately, the developers have decided to throw in the towel, and will be shutting down the service completely in 6 months. Ouch! I can’t help but feel a bit guilty because if I (and many others) had been paying even a few dollars every month, maybe this would not have happened. Maybe some bigger company will step in and buy their operation, as it really is a good product, and it deserves to survive. But I can’t wait and see. I have to come up with an alternative. Rather than let this get me down, I am seeing it as an opportunity. I was already having to deal with the issue of having the information about my art stored in 3 different locations (my catalog, my website and my Square account). The fact that the original information was in this catalog and not easy to access or synchronize to other apps meant that it was easier for me to just repeat it (not the best way, I know, but the simplest in this case). This of course caused some inconsistencies, especially when I did my annual price adjustments. I turned to my artist community on Facebook and asked what tools, if any, they were using to catalog their work. The very first (and only, it turns out) person that answered said she used Airtable. I too use Airtable, but probably because I already had a solution for my catalog, never even thought of using it for that! But I use it for keeping track of just about everything else, so I am already familiar with many of its features. So although it will be quite a bit of work, I will be using Airtable to rebuild my catalog and to design the reports and printouts that I need, I will be able to import all the actual data from the existing catalog, and having started the designing part yesterday, I am reminded of why I loved databases when I was teaching them! Hopefully, my excitement will turn into usable tools! At worst, I will be no worse off than I am now! Wish me luck! I finally got to watch the HBO documentary “The Price of Everything” last night on Prime Video. It is about the manufactured world of modern art collecting, and how it came to be. I have always been curious about why people would pay millions of dollars for a piece of canvas with paint literally splashed on it, and the answer given in this film is not pretty. To sum it up for you: greed. The people in this film are so distant from the people that you and I likely know, it makes me think they aren’t even the same species. For example, talking about potential prices that art pieces will sell for in an upcoming auction as “230” or “250”, when they actually mean 230 THOUSAND dollars! And for what? The potential that the artist will become even more famous, not because their art is good, but strictly because their art sold for so much money, therefore giving them a “reputation” or “value” for resale! And so on, and so on! Several artists were interviewed in the film, and very few of them agreed with (but most of them went along with) this perverted system, where the revenue of so many people (dealers, auction houses, etc) depends on continuously inflating the prices. The artist who created the work will only have a chance at these outlandish amounts on its original sale, and does not benefit from the resale prices, except insomuch as now they will be able to charge more for future works! (Canada has actually proposed a change to the copyright law that would give the original artist (or their estate) a percentage of any resale of an art piece, for 75 years after its creation. This is still being studied, but hopefully for artists it will become law.) One artist in particular who was featured in the film was Larry Poons, who I must admit I had never heard of. He was quite popular in the 60s with his Dot paintings and could have made a lot of money by continuing to produce them, but he stayed true to himself and explored other forms of painting, more or less vanishing from the “in crowd”. Now aged 85, he continues to paint what he wants to paint, and at one point in the film, he states that he probably wouldn’t be still alive if he had gotten rich. Words to ponder! It is a harsh film, quite depressing really, especially if you are an artist. It makes you realize, if you hadn’t already, that there is no chance in hell that you will ever become remotely famous if you can’t or won’t “play the game” of the art dealers and galleries. It makes you realize that it doesn’t really matter if your art is any good, just so long as you have someone who pushes it and makes enough people believe that it is worth buying. It is a sad film also, in that art, which should be a thing of beauty, comes out of this feeling dirty and used, nothing more than a commodity in the pursuit of greed. I am glad I saw the film. I am also glad I am taking my own route. Would I like to be famous? Probably, but at what cost? I am glad I don’t have to make the choice between making art and making money. I have already made the choice, I guess, as I continue to use what time I have left to explore, discover and create. I encourage you to see the film, which you can find out more about here. It will not make you like the “art scene”, but it may make you appreciate what art you have, and might even make you go out and seek local artists, and support them any way you can. Let me know what you think in the comments below. I spent a lot of time over the last 10 days learning about and exploring lacto-fermentation. Last week I explained what that was and my first steps. This week I will give you a brief update and a suggestion as to why I am enjoying this new (to me) discovery. So far I have fermented cucumber (very good, almost all gone and will definitely make again), cherry tomatoes (pretty to look at but very soft, not my favorite), salsa (a few beginner problems with vague recipe directions, but delicious and really easy to make), sauerkraut (a very messy first few days but tastes good so far), limes (looks like slow progress and haven’t tasted them yet), carrots (easy but slow going, not much happening yet), and turnip (I am trying to replicate those pink sticks that you get with Lebanese food, but without the beet that provides (only, I hope!) the color). I was concerned that I wouldn’t like the taste of the fermented food, but so far, except for the cherry tomatoes, that hasn’t been the case. Lacto-fermentation is pretty easy to do once you understand the principles, but because I am still learning, it does take a significant chunk out of my days, time that I should probably be using to get ready for my next art show at the end of the month. It’s not like I have huge quantities of garden produce that need preserving, so why am I doing this? Besides the fact that I like to learn new things, and that I let myself get distracted by things that look fun, in order to avoid things that do not (some would call this procrastination), I read something this morning that could explain it, or at least that my ego will more readily accept as the reason! In my search for learning materials, the name Sandor Katz was mentioned in a YouTube video. I looked up his books, thinking I would buy a used copy (of course). But even used, his books are expensive, and considering that I don’t really know how long this new rabbit hole exploration will be, I am hesitant to buy yet another book! There are a lot of videos of him on YouTube, including interviews, workshops and demonstrations, and usually I would go that route, listening while I do other things. But I honestly have never heard anyone say "You know" so often, so much so that it makes him impossible for me to listen to for more than 10 minutes. So books sound like a better option. Reading reviews made me hesitate between his “The Art of Fermentation”, which seems to be more of a “bible” of fermentation history and practices around the world, and “Wild Fermentation”, which seems to be more of a recipe book and guide. One of the reviews to “The Art of Fermentation” on Goodreads had the potential answer to my “why I am doing this?”! As the book title says, fermenting is an art! It is creating something new from something else, not being quite sure of what the result will be. Just like art, there are no clear steps, just guidelines. Each person follows them with their own interpretation, and the results are not always predictable, and not always “edible”. This really goes against my controlling nature, and it’s probably good for me. Hopefully it will transpire in my own art. In the meantime, I continue to scour the Internet for a one-page sheet summarizing those guidelines that I can put inside a cupboard door, or an app to help me track my various experiments. It’s not easy to let go!! What about you? Do you have control issues? Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below! It is not always easy to come up with a blog topic every week. If I didn’t like to write anyway, I would probably have stopped busting my brain and abandoned this blog long ago. I had collected some lists here and there of suggestions published by supposed blog gurus, and although I did use quite a few of those suggestions, I now rely on the inspiration du jour. I usually feel a slight panic on Wednesday that sounds like “oh dear, what will I write about this week!!” but something usually crosses my path before Thursday morning, whispering “how about me?” This week I want to recognize two people who I have never met, but that feel to me like old friends. One is a printmaker, the other is an author. They have both taught me a lot, and I hope you will look them up after reading about them. Laura Boswell is a British printmaker. It seems that most printmakers are. British, that is! She has a YouTube channel where she very generously shares her vast knowledge about printmaking. I have watched most of her videos, and she does an extraordinary job of showing and explaining every single step of printmaking, warning about the possible pitfalls along the way. If ever you want to get into printmaking or just learn about it out of curiosity, I highly recommend her, both for her knowledge and sense of humor. Now that I have actually some experience with printing, I am re-watching her videos as I can get more out of them. Some aspects which had no or little meaning when I first watched them now seem to make perfect sense! I can’t imagine how much time I have saved by tapping into her knowledge, compared say to reading about printmaking or even taking a course. It is almost like having a private tutor. And for free! She has also written a couple of books on printmaking, but honestly, other than perhaps being easier to find, I can’t imagine what information would be in the books that isn’t in the videos. She also sells some of her work on her website. The other person I want to pay tribute to is Danny Gregory. I came across him also on YouTube (yes, I do spend a lot of time on YouTube - it’s where I learn most of my art “stuff”). He first came up as a “suggestion” in June (thanks, YouTube Watch History!) with the ominous video thumbnail title “How much time do you have left?”. I am glad I took the bait. He is a bit of a philosopher (which I definitely am not) and I like the things he leads me to think about. His musings are usually at least tangentially about art, but they are always on point. For me at least. Such as why do I procrastinate (and how to overcome it) and why is it important to draw every day (which I really struggle with). His videos are short, relaxing, and most importantly thought-provoking. I highly recommend them, even if you are not an artist. Danny Gregory also publishes a free email newsletter, which he calls essays, every Friday. They too are short and thought-provoking. Just what I need. I highly recommend it. And he also hosts a "Draw with me" live session every Thursday at noon eastern time. I will join that for the first time today. So thank you Laura and Danny, for generously sharing your talents. The world is a better, prettier and more caring place because of people like you. I know I will never meet you in person, but know that you have certainly made my life, and potentially the lives of my collectors, better. If ever I get as knowledgeable or wise as you, maybe I will share it on YouTube too! What about you? Any special “strangers” in your life? What do they help you with? Tell me about them in the comments and I promise to check them out! Thanks! Early in my art “career”, I realized I had to find a way to get and stay organized. I was using a lot of online resources, and I needed to keep a list of these so I could not only find them again when needed, but also keep track of what I had seen and not seen yet. I also needed a to-do list application that was both easy and convenient to use. And, knowing me, of course, this had to be free or very low cost. I looked at a few online “organizers” and eventually settled on one called “Airtable”. I have mentioned it before, and I still really like it. It is not the simplest tool to use, and here my computer background certainly helps. It is built pretty much like a spreadsheet, but with many many more built-in features. And even though it has all the features I need, the version that I use is free. Unfortunately, just as buying professional quality paintbrushes and paints doesn’t make you a professional artist, using a great organizational tool doesn’t make you a great organizer! As well as using it to store a bunch of my lists, I built my to-do list in Airtable. It is a model to-do list. Each task includes a Name, a Due Date, a Status, a space for Notes and another for Attachments. Once they are marked as “Done”, most tasks disappear from view, but the “recurring” tasks get added back to the list according to each task's schedule (some weekly, some monthly, etc.). In order to concentrate on things that will help me reach my goals, most tasks are also attached to a specific “Strategy” which itself is attached to a “Goal”. Other lists in my Airtable file include Packing lists for different types of shows, Expenses, Painting ideas, lists of courses or programs I have looked into or taken, and detailed notes that I have made about some of them. I am very proud of my “Airtable” files. Very organized. Very OCD. I am not saying these lists don’t help. They do, enormously! However, recently I have been letting my “to-do” list slip. I used to look at it every day and follow it closely. For the past 2 or 3 months, I have found myself regularly pushing “late” tasks further down the list. Some of these have perfectly good reasons for not getting done, but others I just can’t seem to muster the energy or the will to do. I occasionally decide against doing something I may have thought was worth doing when I added it to the list, but most of the time the items just get pushed further down the calendar. I probably shouldn’t care about most of these postponements, but it does wear on me that I keep postponing things. I suppose it is easier to postpone something than to decide not to do it. Also, I have long been an “out of sight, out of mind” person, so removing an item completely from my list is pretty ‘final’ for me. Some of the items on the list are creative or art related, but most are housekeeping or administrative tasks. Maybe I should add a “Category” to each item and see which type of task gets postponed more often. That is exactly the kind of thing I would do. “Busy work” to keep me from facing the things I don’t really want to do. Then I would know exactly which things I don’t want to do, but they still would not get done! Is there a name for this disease? What about you? How do you get motivated to do the things you don’t like to do? Let me know in the comments! This coming weekend, I finally get to participate in my first major art festival. Called Lyst’ART, it is held in the little town of Lyster, Quebec, about an hour south of Quebec City. This two-day festival has been going on since at least 2006 (except for the two last years being canceled because of Covid) and features about 50 artists and artisans. I first applied and was accepted for the 2020 show, which of course was canceled within days of getting accepted. However, this gave me automatic acceptance to the 2021 show, which almost happened, but was eventually also canceled, a mere 10 days before it was scheduled to start! Here we are in 2022, and I think this is finally going to happen! Having only photos of past shows to guide me, I have been putting together everything I think I will need. In addition to over a dozen full-size framed and half as many unframed paintings, I will be bringing greeting cards and of course numerous ACEOs. I also will be bringing a few freshly minted lino prints, as well as all the paraphernalia to display all of the above! The booths are smallish, so I am probably bringing more than I will be able to display, but I figure I can’t show what I didn’t bring! Lyster is almost 3 hours from home, so we won't be popping back home if we forget something! We will be taking the RV and sleeping on site. So in addition to the art and display stuff, there is the usual camping stuff to get ready too. A lot of checklists currently in operation! One of the good things about this show is that it is all inside, and you set up once for the entire weekend. The 2021 edition, the one that almost happened, was supposed to have been held outdoors under popup tents, requiring setting up and taking down every day, and of course being at the mercy of the elements! Better than not showing at all, I suppose, but certainly not ideal! Unlike the impression I got in 2021, this time the organisation seems to have a handle on things. I have asked a few questions via Messenger and received answers quickly. I still think they could be communicating with the artists more often, especially in the two weeks before the event, but that could just be me overthinking everything and my obsession with getting things right. I am pretty much ready, and at this point can only hope the show goes well and that as a minimum I can add a few people to my subscribers. And covering my costs and adding a few collectors would be nice! 😉 Wish me luck! And of course I would love to see you there if you can make it! Last weekend, I was participating in an art show with a local group of artists to which I belong. It is our annual show, and we were all quite excited to be able to hold the event after a Covid-imposed 2 year hiatus. Sales had been OK, perhaps a bit better than in past years, but not what you would call brisk. I was helping out at the main sales table when a nice lady asked me for a small piece of paper. I of course obliged. A while later, she comes back with her note-covered paper and informs me that she is “ready to buy”. I glance at her paper and ask if she means that she wants to decide among the paintings that she has listed, and calmly replies: “Oh no, I am buying them all”. OK, this is a first ….. Trying to not show too much excitement, I ask her how she plans to pay for her purchases, and she coolly replies “Credit Card”. My heart sinks, because we aren’t equipped to handle credit card sales (I know, it’s 2022, but this group is very traditional and this kind of situation has never happened before). I inform her that we will accept a check if someone in the group will vouch for her, or cash of course. There is no problem vouching for her, but there is the slight problem that she doesn’t have her checkbook with her, nor her debit card to get cash from a nearby ATM. That could have been a problem anyway, as I had added up her selections and the total was over $600, more than most ATMs will allow you to withdraw …. So I was silently glad that I hadn’t gotten too excited, because I could see this “dream transaction” slipping away…. As we are discussing possible solutions, the lady suggests that she could go home and get her checkbook, but understandably she doesn’t sound too thrilled at the prospect. She confides that she picked the paintings because she just fell in love with them, and eventually convinces herself that the only solution is to go home and get her checkbook. She assures me that she will come back. While she is gone, the member who vouched for the lady, and who incidentally had invited her to come to the show, says she knows her personally and she is an art collector, so she is not surprised by her actions. About an hour later, the lady returns with a box of packing materials and her checkbook, and I proceed to write up her purchases while others are busily packing her newly acquired treasures. We agree to have separate receipts and checks for each artist, and as she is writing one of the checks out, she looks up at me and says “You know, I feel really bad paying only this much for that piece. It’s worth a lot more. Can I add $20 to the amount?” As I had already written out the receipt, I ask her if she would like to talk to the artist and share what she had just told me. So I call the artist over and enjoy watching her receive compliments from the lady, as well as a cash tip. They are both happy, as am I! Talk about win-win-win! As we near the end of our transactions, the generous buyer casually asks me if I am an artist. Of course I say yes, and point to my display of paintings right behind us. When she sees my name, she says “Oh, I almost forgot, there is one of your small paintings I wanted to get too! “ So she wound up buying 8 paintings in all, from 5 different artists! I hope she enjoys them for many years to come! Has anything like this ever happened to you? Do share in the comments! It has been and continues to be a crazy week! Between preparing for a show this coming weekend (selecting the works to show, making sure they are framed, matted, packaged, labeled, rounding up the hanging & display hardware-- thank goodness I am moderately organised!!), then setting up the show, attending the show, taking down the show, traveling to a family birthday party (and getting ready for that!) and getting new art done for the farmer’s market next weekend, there are not enough hours in a day this week! And I hate to admit that I don't get things done as quickly as when I was younger! Not to mention the physical strain of lugging stuff around. Thank goodness I didn’t get into pottery! So this blog will be very short. I am looking forward to a major weekend event this July. It is out of town, and is causing me a few sleepless nights as it is all new for me. And it is less than a month away! But it will also be a turning point for me. If it goes well, I will continue to promote my art as I am doing, but if the results are disappointing, it will certainly make me question whether or not all I am doing is worth the effort. Maybe the time I spend trying to promote my art might be better spent making art! So, big decisions ahead! In closing, I wanted to share with you this very interesting person I discovered this week. His name is Danny Gregory, and he posts essays and videos every week on art-related subjects. Although some are technical, I am most interested in the philosophical ones. Here is one to check out what I mean, titled “27 Ways Art can Change Your Life’: https://youtu.be/MGD7SWq8CL0 . Hope you like it! In last week’s blog, I wondered about the things I might be doing if I hadn’t got into art. The list was quite long. With all those possible choices, I started wondering about why I chose to concentrate on art. I hadn’t any particular talent or training. I remember doing the “Draw Winky” thing in the TV Guide. I think I remember that I sent it in and got the response that I “held promise” (who didn’t?!?). I remember my high school art classes fondly, but that may have been because of the teacher that I really liked. I never once thought of going into visual arts as a profession, unless you count the time I tried to get into the Photography Program at a college in Montreal. They only accepted a very small number of students every year, and of course I wasn’t one of them. That was the extent of my efforts to start a career as an artist! In fact, after exploring a few subjects at college, I settled on possibly the least artsy program of all: Computer Science! So why the fascination with art now? I think there are many reasons. First, I love to learn. I could have chosen to learn something else of course, but I think that with art I will never run out of things to learn! I also like to create things. You may not think it, but writing a computer program is creating. You start from basically nothing but a set of rules and a problem to solve, and you come up with a series of steps that solve it! I remember the great feeling of accomplishment of getting a program to do exactly what you wanted it to do! And sometimes (very rarely, I admit!) on the very first try!! I think also that I enjoy the satisfaction of doing something where I am happy with the results. I tried learning the clarinet but was not very good at it. My ego feels I am better at art. I also like the quietness of art. I discovered a few years ago that I am a “Type 4” person. (Look up DYT if you are curious). This type of person likes things to be structured and quiet, so I am quite content being on my own and working at my own pace. Another reason is that, like everyone I think, I want to leave a mark on the world. Hopefully some of my works will still be around, and bringing joy to their owners, many years after no one remembers having known me. I have no ambitions to be famous or hang in museums, but it is nice to think that someone in many years will still be enjoying what I created. I think it also satisfies my entrepreneurial spirit. I vaguely remember having a lemonade stand out on the front lawn for some of my father’s warehouse workers next door. I couldn’t have been much older than 6 or 7. I was always on the lookout for money-making opportunities, and sold educational toys for a while when my kids were young. I was also an “Avon Lady” for many years. My ex-husband and I ran a microwave popcorn business for several years, and yes, we even tried our hand at Amway! So it should be no surprise to me that I am spending a lot of time learning and researching art marketing. Marketing art is not like regular marketing. It is much more difficult, mainly because unlike other products, no one really “needs” art. You could argue that everyone needs art, the world needs more art, and I would agree, but there are many opportunities for people to enjoy art that don’t require them to purchase it! Especially now with the Internet, you can visit world famous museums from the comfort of your couch. You can download art, not always legally, from pretty much anywhere. And you can print copies, or order moderately priced reproductions online for home delivery! And, to be honest, with the price of everything going up the way it is, people have legitimately good reasons to not buy original art. (And yet someone bought an original Andy Warhol last week for $195M! US$!! For a silkscreen print!! Go figure!!) Talking with other local artists, getting people to consider purchasing art is very difficult. Unless they fall in love with the piece and can’t get it out of their head, most people, around here anyway, will not buy art. Unfortunately, a lot of people are not educated about art, so can't appreciate the difference between an original and a reproduction. They might also be intimidated by original art and believe that it is out of their reach. I believe it is part of my mission to change this, in part by offering small and very affordable original paintings (nothing above $1M. CAN$. I promise!) So why do I continue? Why do I bother? Simply, because I love it! Of course selling more works would be nice. Knowing that someone likes your work enough to part with their hard-earned money is extremely gratifying. Plus, it would help pay for more art supplies and would clear some space for new work! So this summer, make a point of going to art fairs, and support local living artists! Find art that you love! 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