colouring inside the lines

I'm a blogging fool these days. Of course it's easy when you have great resource people spoonfeeding you material.

Then again, maybe I'm just a fool. This article in today's Winnipeg Free Press has unaccountably depressed me. I think it just drove home to me the fact that what the average art buyer purchases is not what I like (or like to produce). A disproportionate number of my own sales have gone to other artists. I'm honoured that those who understand art like what I produce, but artists are few and far between and, unlike some of the more commercially (key word) successful artists in the article, tend to colour outside the lines. In a convoluted way this article actually proves rather than dispels the notion of the starving artist. Though the journalist talks about artists who "defy the sterotype" he goes on to mention that the average Manitoba artist makes just $11,181 per annum. That said, of the Winnipeg artists mentioned, I do love many of the cityscapes of Larry Rich.

Urban Aqua
Larry Rich

But enough about the commercial end of the business. If I found that disillusioning, then this was enlightening, Ed Maskevich's follow-up to my blog post about using his artwork as a model.