Blog / 2022 / What $24 Means to Me
July 5, 2022
When I tell you that there’s a way to automatically give $24 a year to one of your favorite artists, what’s your reaction?
If you go right to:
“Ya, but I already give so much to charities.”
My answer is:
Art isn’t charity. It’s beauty and the love of other humans made tangible across space and time.
If, instead, you say:
“Ya, but I can’t afford to support the artist as much as I want to.”
My answer is:
So if $24 per year isn’t as much as you want to give, you’d rather give nothing? In my world, $24 means six more fine point brushes, and, since I go through at least one with every painting I make, six more size 00 brushes translates to four more artworks. Artists can do a whole lot with small sums of money!
Or if you tell me:
“Ya, but I don’t even support my own creativity.”
My answer is:
If you’re not encouraging yourself to make, that’s definitely a problem. Here’s a drawing tutorial that might help you get you creating again, and this is a whole series about how to love your art better. Please know that your creativity matters to full-time artists.
But if you hear that there’s a way to support artists in a small way that, along with other people’s micro-contributions, can add up to a lot, and your response is:
“Sign me up!”
My answer is:
Thank you. Here’s how it works.
Polar Bear
2022
acrylic on unmounted canvas
10 x 10 inches
There are prints and pretty things of Polar Bear here in my print shop. The original already has a forever home because it was made as a gift for one of my microdonators!
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