(Don't bother looking for them. They've been gone for years.)
So why not take commissions?
I think I mentioned previously that I had a career as a 'mainstream' commercial artist, which has now mostly ended. I didn't want to do anything to jeopardize that when it was my sole source of income.
Moreover, the style that I have developed has become much more exacting and time-consuming than what I was doing ten years ago. I can't turn out the kind of work I'm currently doing in a an hour or two. So, to make commissions economically viable, I think I would have to charge more than most people would want to pay. I could do mainstream art and earn more for the time invested.
I've been pondering some kind of business model that would allow me to make catfight art economically attractive, but so far, I haven't come up with it.
The art: Cherry drives a fist into Renee's belly after being tossed off the sofa in a living room fight. This piece was file-stamped 2005, but I'm sure it's older than that. I've moved stuff from computer to computer, backed up to removable media and restored, and I'm sure that most of my file creation dates are more recent than the actual work.
I don't know about others but if you uploaded all your prior work and charged a monthly acess fee I know I would subscribe in a second! Finished work, unfinished work, it would not matter because your creations capture elusive mixture of personal and sexual rivalry found in catfights coupled with true artistic talent to express those feelings of anger in a visual format. (I doubt I would be the only subscriber if you chose to)
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ReplyDeleteRAM had a similar problem with time and his quality standards not matching up. I suppose you can't have an artist do what he doesn't want to do even though you think it is more than good enough.
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