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I’m charging five bucks each for these. My brother communicated to me that, in his opinion, I’m severely undercharging.
But how else to get people to buy my works and make it affordable to boot? There’s lots of art I wish I could own, but I can’t afford it. It’s not that I don’t think my work isn’t worth more, but sheezus pleezus! Doesn’t everything else in this world cost too much as it is?
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My baby cousin Max just published a book:
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Yes. I could see slipping a shrimp or two on that. 
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I’m pretty excited! Our cookie company is now officially certified by the Department of Agriculture and we can now sell wholesale.
We just got our first order from a local coffee company.
And we had a TikTok reviewer do a review of our cookies and now a second reviewer is going to review them. We’ve wanted to get on TikTok because Crumbl cookies has done a great job of promoting there and we want to position ourselves against them because they do new varieties each week and all we do is chocolate chip cookies that are really good.
It’s fun to see it start to come together.
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So, I may have a commissioned piece of art to create!
The prospective customer wants something like the center panel, only with palm-tree imagery:
The thing is, it’s to be 4’ x 6’ - I’ve never done anything of that size before. Not that I’m not capable of it. But it’s kind of daunting.
I have to quote a price, too. Which means calculating canvas, paint, and labor costs. Eek.
She saw the panels (posted here on 8/19) that I have for sale on FB Marketplace at $10 each and $40 for the set. But my brother bought me the canvases and I’d already had the paints. I really hope she wants acrylic, though watercolors are really great for Impressionism.
Yeah, I consider myself to be an Impressionist, Abstract, lol.
I’m very excited about this.
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I got the gig!
This might not be enough, but I don’t have any COH, so I asked if she’d buy the canvas ($106 includes sales tax from Michaels) and give me $40 up front for materials, and then $40 upon delivery.
I just hope she’s okay with horizontal orientation, because for an impressionistic palm tree scene that’s how I’m seeing it.
Addendum: Not so much palm tree, but impressions of soothing coolness is what she wants. And she was a dental hygienist in CA and when Andy Warhol was there, she cleaned his teeth!!! And he had to come back, so when he did, he gave her a t-shirt with some of his art on it and painted on his signature!
And she got the canvas at Hobby Lobby, 50 percent off. I never even think of going there, y’know, cuz of their stealing of antiquities (which she didn’t know about).
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This is from last night, and I hadn’t signed it yet. The customer picked it up today and SHE LOVED IT OMG I’M SO GEEKED!!!
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Originally, this was formed to look as though it were made of grey stone. An ex-friend gave it to me for my yard sale, but I kept it and just recently (like today, lol) decided to paint it.
Addendum:
I think it’s poured concrete or something like that, as it weighs about two-and-one-quarter pounds.
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I’m in the process of using paints to revamp and brighten up this shirt.
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Progress thus far:
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Edit: Adding pics that I think are a bit better:
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And I remembered to check the label on this t-shirt, and it’s from Bob Masse Studios.
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The front view of the Nefertiti bust my father bought before I was born. It was originally kohl black paint over plaster with a wire frame. I had to patch up her neck with glue and acrylic paint. It worked, lol!
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