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What if I’m not an artist?

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Scrolling down my Facebook feed the other day I stumbled on a page of Maine artists.

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I really liked this person’s watercolors.

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And thought they would make wonderful cards.

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Wondering if they sold any, I tried to gain access only to find you couldn’t join the group unless you were an artist.

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I figured I could lie and say yes… cocktail pouring is an art, right?…. but you had to submit samples of your work so that didn’t seem feasible.

Guess the notecards aren’t in my future.

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42 thoughts on “What if I’m not an artist?”

      1. And your problem? You are thinking about starting a new career, as a artistic photographer. Some of the pictures you have posted are beautiful! Think outside the box, 😇. I do it all the time…

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      3. You’re not stretching anything. If the, frankly uber snot-rag, “Artists only” requirement is to mean anything… wait, it already does. It means this clown, in his own words, is generously taking it upon himself to decide who is and isn’t “An artist” by means of admitting or excluding the supplicants who submit themselves to his judgement. If you want to say “I don’t think I can sell that in my crummy little etsy store”, well okay. “My store is for artists only, so you can’t be part of it” is an entirely different matter. This is so much like the cheerleader table I just can’t stand it. In fact, it’s like a cheerleader table populated by soup Nazis.
        You have a great eye, a rapier wit and a real artistic sensibility, which should open that door for you any day of the week. Do you really want in?
        Hate the artist, not the art, I really like the owl.

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      4. Now tell me how you really feel…
        And about those rotten cheerleaders. I sense a story there.
        No worries about the group, it’s for artists sharing their work with each other. No harm, no foul…. now that I know where to find him.
        😉

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      5. The cheerleader table is just a fairly common high school stereotype, it could be any clique: Chess club, debate team, A/V or any other group that inhabits the upper social strata. Like my art or don’t, but don’t insinuate that I am not an artist or that my work is not art. If that isn’t what our etsy friend meant, I would suggest that clear speech is an art form he might wish to explore. You, on the other hand, are just dandy.😁

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      8. I’ve got a friend who is a landscape artist and he was submitting one of his pieces in a competition. He was telling me he had to write one of those short blurbs that describes the art. I said I always thought they were such a “wank” and he agreed. He was dreading it – but he had to write one to accompany his work. I’ve coined the phrase “status masturbation” for the ego self-stroking going on in the world – that must be a status masturbation club. I liked them all but especially the mother and baby fox.

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  16. You’ll be stuck for hours trying to discuss what is or isn’t art and hope the space isn’t traditionalist. Some people get mad when painters use everything but oil. It’s fascinating.

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