You
painted, you wrote poems, you sewed your own clothes, you grew flowers
and made bouquets, you cook like a 4 star chef and did this all your life.
You wrote fabulous stories and got A's in Creative writing in school. Your
greeting cards were hand made, the POEMS all by YOU! Your home is decorated
so ingeniously it looks like the atelier of a great artist yet you got
a job as ….. WHAT????? You got a job as a bank clerk? WHY?
CUZ It paid well? ? There you are --so super talented that folks beg to
buy paintings off your walls and all you do all day is add up strangers’
checkbooks for free? Honey, you're dying on the vine! Take a stand. Leap
off a cliff. DARE to join VAN GOGH, MATISSE, ROUSSEAU, HEMINGWAY! DUFY
(shown here ) TALENT is a curse if you can’t explore it regularly. It bangs
on the inside of your head. Nothing sadder than having it and burying it
in the ground. I mean one COULD -- but that would be taking the first three
or four decades of our life and all those great, developing artistic sensibilities
and experience and burying THEM! Showing no reverence for the God-Given
talent that is yours!What
would you be concentrating on that's so great? Being a bank clerk?
Buying property? Driving new cars? TALENT is a river and it will burst
out of all dams.
Having
submitted books, articles and scripts to all sides when I had postage money,
I FIND THAT moving art into the public eye takes more work than creating
the art! You have to know how to hit the street, hustle, pitch and SELL.
Get represented by an agent. Etc. What can we resolve about that problem?????
Do
A LITTLE ART
and sell it to friends TO EARN A LITTLE STAMP MONEY, maybe even some encouraging
local (or internet) fame, some friendly praise, your family’s applause!
Or just to save your soul from working at the BANK!
DEVELOP
A TRADE ITEM! Ponder, what do you
create that’s the most marketable? Have a trade item! It could be a pillow.
One velvet
pillow can bring you forty five
dollars, or if you have a neighbor who is a chicken farmer, as I do, a
year of fresh eggs.
Your penchant
for thrift store beads in unique colors, a buck a piece these days, but
giving you dozens of beads from the 50’s,can become something startlingly
VINTAGE! Yet modern. A HUNDRED DOLLAR NECKLACE that is unique, made
of THRIFT STORE beads from a dozen old pieces that weren’t put together
as right as you could do it! 
OR
SAY…your COOKIES are superb,
your brownies chewy not dry. Consider a subscription delivery route for
those babies. Your pals get the chocolate sweets delivered every Friday
night. Their parties are covered. Use the cash to launch a catering biz,
doing parties or THE MOVEABLE FEAST, carrying Red Riding Hood’s basket
of sandwiches to corporate offices.
My
neighbor Dorothy the cat lady does meticulous paintings of horses and kitties,
and then transfers them to textile at the Xerox shop, and pumps out pillows!
And sells them at different pet outlets. She is a member of every CAT rescue
group around.
I
used to tie dye lengths of velvet, in psychedelic patterns, then back it
with PUFFY pillow FILLING, and then quilt it, the entire thing, but in
pieces. First I’d quilt the sleeves, then back, front, all quilted. It
became puffy, opulent huge cocktail jackets, lined in silk, with satin
frogs on the front. Woulda made a great trade item. You looked a little
like the PILLSBURY DOUGH BOY on ACID, wearing one.
MUSIC
IS A THOUGHT! Compose ballads
you can play at a party, learn to burn them on CD’s and put them on line
as MP3’s. Start a garage band or a stringed quartet. Explore back alley
record stores to find fifties folk music records and learn the songs, to
sing at a party. Who knows, that record producer at the bar may want to
release you to the public.
PAINT
CANVASES.
We may be in the cash free zone and cannot afford oil paints and oil brushes,
but to SKETCH costs nothing. CHARCOAL sticks cost nothing. And each SKETCH
YOU SELL of your FRIEND, each PORTRAIT brings you SIX BUCKS, which is the
cost of a single tube of OIL PAINT! Sketch on cheap paper -- newsprint
quality, real sketch paper, cheaper than anything. DO NOT sketch on fine-grained
papers. FOR PRACTICE, we get junk mail by the ton with blank backs! PRACTICE
on the back of printed ads! Any blank paper will do. THE REAL ARTISTS developed
in the beginning by working on their skill in sketching. Learning
to draw with the 'right brain' they call it, is a skill.
THEN
when you have a fine sketch, you can keep your model and switch into doing
a painting. We pain on canvas. Frugal way probably a linen type or duck
type FABRIC, even blue jeans...or stiff canvas, primed with rabbit glue
or some other PRIMER. My mother used to use plain white water-based house
paint to PRIME A STRETCHED CANVAS. FABRIC must be stretched firmly over
stretcher bars, FIRST, as a primer will 'shatter' if it can move.
AFTER
primer dries, paint the picture. NOT A LOT OF COST for merchandise but
a picture can bring 70$ wholesale. 500$ if it’s good. A gal I know traded
a nearly new SUV for one of her paintings. She was asking
thirty k but decided a car was fine. Her work is geometric shapes of particle
board, there’s a special name for it, MASONITE…. it’s thin and very hard.
And these squares are colored but then there are brush splats on each piece.
A sixteen year old with a band saw could copy the concept. She spray dotted
it with inkblots, similar to the splats of DeKooning. Last
I heard, she had a Big L.A. gallery hustling her constructions/paintings,
a manager guiding her career and the head guy at our L.A. County Art Museum
has been trying to buy one of her splatthingies.
The
idea is,between jobs, between marriages,
give art a try. REGULARLY explore your top art forms. Paint on Canvas isn't
the only one. Do you have any idea what they’re getting for a jar of jam
these days? My pal does! She has a booth at the farmers’ market, gets 8$
a small four inch tall jar of her kiwi-lemon peel jam. It’s a mouth zinger
and a true work of art. And she sells VINTAGE EBAY tablecloths at her stall,
for twice what they cost her.
The
LAST RESORT for an artist who is all thumbs is to import gorgeousness from
exotic climes. Do the
IMPORTING ARTS, The entire seminar on import/export as a biz will
be found at THE ARTISAN
WEBSITE, also visit the website of MARLA
MALLETT an Atlanta woman. She did this career to the nines and
has links to every important art magazine, e-zine or school. This is like
walking thru a museum. GO THERE.
Last,
start making your apartment real gussied up. MAKE
PILLOWS! Put big handmade tassles on the four corners. To be inspired
in other textile arts, study the great decorators, MICHAEL TAYLOR, TONY
DUQUETTE, Syrie Maugham. Google them, there are pages of the first two’s
work, really posh creations online.
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