Yesterday over lunch my friend Melissa and I were talking about creating art for the purposes of making money versus creating artwork out of a compulsion to answer a diverse array of visual problems. Both are adequate goals. To be sure creating work that is salable is a difficult problem to solve in and of itself, but it is sadly not a question that I find any interest in.
We definitely agreed that paying for the costs of being an artist were vital. In regards to that we began to talk about creating a hashtag: #rentpainting. Hashtag rentpainting refers to that painting which is created at the end of each month in efforts to raise rent money for studio. Here’s the first #rentpainting from the Mighty Lark.
It is priced at $200, just enough to pay my studio rent. If you’re interested, simply send payment through paypal to [email protected]. Please spread the word. Thank you.
Peace
-Mike