This is a quite small detail from a larger painting I’ll be shipping out. I enjoy photographing and zooming in for closer looks at paintings (anyone’s paintings). Doing so always makes me think of that scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, my personal favorite of John Hughes’s movies, when Cameron’s gaze focuses on increasingly smaller sections of a Seurat painting.
I read an article the other day which posited that creative people don’t need to be paid well for their efforts because their reward comes from creating. I think I can speak for most creative people when I say, “Bullshit.” I love to write and I love to paint, but I also like and need to make money. A big thank you to the people who’ve given new homes to twelve of the works I put in my Make Me An Offer post a few days ago. You help me pay bills and just like every person who ever bought one of my novels or art works, you sustain my creative energy.
Prompt from FMS Photo A Day.
That girl was having a staring contest.
I totally agree with you; I hope the editor felt the same and short-changed that author.
They actually have been back-peddling on that article because of the response.
Living for art or love alone went out of style right after Mimi coughed her last in La Boheme. Outside a privileged few, creative people are seldom paid what they are really worth or deserve.
But it’s beyond sanctimonious to underpay them deliberately then attribute that to “creative people don’t WANT to be compensated fairly.” Creative people have bills just like everyone else.