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I'm mostly joking, but painting is difficult mental labor. It requires an enormous amount of mental and physical control. Most people when seeing my paintings
by lindseymysse 5y ago
I'm mostly joking, but painting is difficult mental labor. It requires an enormous amount of mental and physical control.
Most people when seeing my paintings are quite surprised to find out I rarely sell them. It's because as soon as I try to professionalize that part of my career I have to change what I'm doing to fit a market, and I hate everyone else's taste but my own.
P.S. some of my paintings can be found at https://lnsy.studio https://lnsy.studio, but mostly I write software for organizations that work on dealing with the climate crisis.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoMoney seems to remove the joy from most activities. This is at the root of most of the complaints in this thread.
- avian 5y agoReminds me of this: https://twitter.com/buttpoems/status/1335423879238455299 https://twitter.com/buttpoems/status/1335423879238455299 I started drawing as a hobby when I burned out in my academic career some years ago. I don't think I'm any good at it, but every once in a while I get an offer to do paid artwork. So far I declined all of them because I felt that would make me lose the relaxing escape from my day job.
- thecupisblue 5y agoLove your style, got a new subscriber!