FireBird wrote:
I am a professional artist. I do commissions and even sold to an actress at an autism art show. I am in 2 books, going to be on TV tomorrow for one of the books, been in several magazines, and of course the newspaper lots of times. I have been drawing since 12. I had talent from the beginning but I am much better now. I have connections in the art world and I guess you can call it agents. I am also in a local pet store with my art. They have 14 stores. They reorder several times a year. I have prints and cards as well. At one of the shows I do every year I make $700 for 2 days. Last month I made $765 and that is basically doing nothing (except the things I mentioned.) It wasn't art magazines though I was in so I didn't get much action for sales, pet magazines with my story. One of them was Dog Fancy and it was because a dog helped me get out of autism (or mostly out). Its the mental disorders that screw up my functioning rather than the autism now. The other was Bird Talk magazine and that was long ago. They don't go to many people so its not that big of advertising. People don't look at those magazines for to buy art or prints. Also, my art isn't really advertised in actual art magazines. Its only on a few websites. The art books don't usually sell but the latest one the person who put out the book is really pushing it. That is why I am going on the local news tomorrow. I have a friend if he is serious this time and I pray that he has the connections (he knows everyone in the world it seems) that I can make about $10,000 a month. In my area I am well known and have collectors. When I go to the holiday shows, they always come back for me. At some of the shows I actually have a line of people waiting for me to buy stuff! Mainly cards and prints. For my artwork I do the best on the big scenes with many animals in them. The single animals are good but not as good as the scenes. Most of the birds I have done are extremely old so that are not as good, they look like a kid did them.... because I was a kid when I did them!
Were you one of the WP members with schizophrenia? Interesting to see the connection between schizophrenia and aesthetic creativity manifesting so directly.
Also, are you in Ellensburg or Cheney? Those are the two cow towns I can think of in Washington (I live in washington, too.).
Yes, I am one of the members with schizophrenia but more accurately schizoaffective disorder. I live in a small town called Yelm. Population: You. There isn't very many people in this small town. It is near Olympia and Tacoma. At least they are populated with humans rather than cows and horses. My art isn't doing as well this month in fact nothingness. My friend is the one who said all the way back in 2004 that my art business can make all kinds of money and promised to help us but never did. Now he is saying the same thing over again. I hope I don't have to wait another 6879 years for his help when it didn't happen in the first place.