Selling Paintings

I don't sell a lot of paintings.
It's something I put exactly zero effort into.

A lot of people ask me about it, usually if I do sell, and when I say "sometimes" they seem to categorize me as.... less.  Like it makes me less of an artist.

I think it makes me more of an artist that I have never stopped painting through raising a kid by myself and working full-time AND coordinating years of dance logistics.

It isn't a hobby, it is a vocation and that's very different.
If you can stop, it's a hobby.  If you can't stop no matter what, it's a vocation.

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Occasionally I'll post a painting and someone will want to buy it, which happened with my beach plein air from earlier this month.

I have given exactly four (4) plein airs away as gifts, and never sold any, but I was really glad someone loved it that much to buy it!

Since I don't sell a lot, and most of my paintings are not made intending to be sold, it's a little bit sad when they go.  I STILL miss my Auridon painting that I put in the dance raffle a few years ago.
I never feel this way about commissions or paintings that were made as gifts. I have no problem sending them off.

Anyhow, I shipped this painting out today and it is going to a good loving home and it has other painting friends.

6x8 oil