- Pre-paying for two months on Roosevelt Row with reserved corner space: $70
- Materials for building a portable “Gallery Wall” to show art: ~$100
- Cost of re-ordering business cards after giving away 300+ last month: $64
- One and a third gallons of gas for the generator (ie: lights): $5.36
And that’s just the new stuff this month. That doesn’t include costs like canvas, paint, ink, and other supplies that made the art, the cost of having books published, printed, and shipped to me so I can offer them, or the roughly $600 (off the top of my head) I’ve spent on creating the audiobook version of Dragons’ Truth (which I forgot to take any copies of with me tonight). Some of those costs I don’t have to pay again; the printer for printing audiobook packaging & disc labels, the portable wall, the setup costs for books, the audio equipment for recording audio books, et cetera. Still, there has been quite an outlay of money to get things up and running, and the bulleted list above only represents the obvious, new, and direct costs of doing the Art Walk since doing it last month. There’s just one more bullet to add:
- Total revenue from sales of books and art at the Art Walk, tonight: $5
F_ck.
Starting out is really hard. Don’t give up you have talent. I wish we could have been there. Of course had we been there I know Sean would have wanted to buy more art. I look at Betty every day and smile.
I’m glad you like Betty. That’s more important to me than the money, and part of why I’m holding my prices low: I want people who like my art to buy it, not just collectors looking for investments.
Of course, if you and Sean like more of my art, you’re welcome to buy it. 🙂
–Hopefully some of the people who showed interest & didn’t have money on hand last night will follow up with me in the next week or two. There’s always hope.
I’m glad you like Betty. That’s more important to me than the money, and part of why I’m holding my prices low: I want people who like my art to buy it, not just collectors looking for investments.
Of course, if you and Sean like more of my art, you’re welcome to buy it. 🙂
–Hopefully some of the people who showed interest & didn’t have money on hand last night will follow up with me in the next week or two. There’s always hope.