The truth about those starving artists sales...
It's always been a sad joke amongst the art community when your local 'highway motel' hosts a 'starving artist' sale.
I set out to write an article but, first went online to see what was available for documentation.
What I found was this wonderful article that said it all...
http://www.drloriv.com/lectures/starvingartists.asp#world
well, almost all...
Being that these "original" art sales 'with nothing held back' occured frequently in my hometown in Utica in New York State, a fellow artist and I were head out for some plein air painting one morning and ran across one. WELLLLLL... we couldn't resist-
We walked in, looking around rather quickly, like we would be making a fast exit, which got the immediate attention of a fast talking salesman.
'Do you see something you like?' he asked. We replied yes but, how much would the painting be without the frame ?
They were selling 8x10 'paintings' framed for $10.00 !
He explained that he would have to charge us $7.00 for the painting, so we might as well just take the frame for the extra $3.00..
We replied "oh, we don't want the painting, we want the frame". And the look on his face had us cracking up all the way to the car !
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