Post #334101 by RevBambooBen on Fri, Sep 21, 2007 5:57 PM

On 2007-09-21 09:32, Tipsy McStagger wrote:
..right you are ben!!
.... hmmm....lemme see now.....we have brushes....we have alittle paint, maybe some primer perhaps.....and canvas!! yeah, gotta remember canvas!!...hmmm...have i left anything out??...comes to a grand total of about $300 bucks.....still not a bad return on his investment.....oh yeah, i forgot frames for some of the pieces...add a couple hundred bucks more (unless he's paying someone else to frame them).

man, you painters and illustrators got it so easy...almost no overhead to practice your craft....us poor crafters gotta shell out for a place to work, large shop equipment costing hundreds of bucks, all kinds of tools and shit, huge material costs, insurance and all that jazz......and then hope to god we sell something to help cover it.

!!! i wanna be a painter!!.....i envy you people!!

[ Edited by: Tipsy McStagger 2007-09-21 09:33 ]

[ Edited by: Tipsy McStagger 2007-09-21 09:38 ]

I don't think that he runs Shagmart out of his studio.

And,,, I don't think he manages his own wharehouse either....

ie; overhead.....and, etc.....

...insurance is the real blood sucker!!!

p.s. He might be fading here on TC but outside of this site in the real world...

Not!