dizzojay | Snowflake Challenge

Challenge #5

In your own space, talk about an idea you wish you had the time / talent / energy to do. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Back in 2007, I decided to start selling my artwork. I’m a pastel artist, and my pictures, the non-fandom stuff anyway, are all animal based, with a bit of fantasy and a bit of whimsy thrown in. Something to make them – hopefully – stand out from the crowd! I trade under the name of dapplegrey art.

I trade through my website www.dapplegreyart.co.uk , and on my stall at craft fayres, and other similar events.

Over the fourteen years that dapplegrey art has been trading, I’ve sold around forty original pictures and completed around sixty commissions.

I’ve always thought it would be nice to go full time and do art for a living. However, I don’t charge anywhere near enough to make that happen, also, I’d need to sell about five times as many pictures as I already do to give up my day job and enable that to happen.

I’ve always thought it would be nice to have a fandom arm to dapplegrey art as I’ve done a lot of pastel fanart which I don’t sell; I get it autographed at conventions.

Basically, I’ve realised I’m an artist, but not a businesswoman. I just want to draw all day. I draw for love, and money. But I’m crap at making money.

So that means there’s just love left. And there’s nothing wrong with that, right?