Posted on August 24, 2013, in 2013, An Artist's Life, Art Works in Progress, New York, NY, Pastel Painting, Photography, Studio, Travel, Working methods and tagged addition, advertising, allow, art-making, artist, aspect, awhile, back, bare minimum, begin, best, Black Paintings, breakdown, business, change, compensation, complete, computer, continuing, cost, cultural objects, current, day, depict, empty, entire, equipment, evolution, execution, exhibition, expense, foreign travel, frames, happen, hours, include, involved, item, labor intensive, learn, life's work, list, look, make, making art, marketing, matter, matters, measure, money, month, need, New York, notably, number, on track, painting, paramount, partial, pastel paintings, pastel-on-sandpaper painting, photograph, photography, possible, practical, preparation, priced, prior, progress, quality, reality, rent, routine, said, sandpaper, series, shipping, spend, stand, Studio, supplies, surprised, think, thinking, time, training, upwards, utilities, website, week, work, year. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
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Barbara, I am not surprised at the figures (costs) – mine are over the top too. Then, of course, there are no benefits, nothing else to compensate. Knowledge of the process, the material use, and everything else important to content and imagery becomes ‘priceless’ but in terms of the painter’s existence what does it do? What does it (the knowledge) do to aid in the creation, the making, the productivity? – which entail the quality of life? Simply put, what is the knowledge worth? Is its value an actual value?
yay! so glad you broke down your real expenses! so important for people to understand what it costs to make fine art. I think it would be great to add your time at a certain fee as well. most artists get paid less than garbage men when they add it all up.
Thank goodness your selling work – and thanks for the breakdown – of your working life as a artist .