E’tac issues

GregStith said:

I’ll just continue to paint for the joy of it

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Robbyrockett2 said:

Woohoo!

No not at all. Just the conversation kind of headed that way so i was just throwing some things out there. I didn't get the impression that you were doing it to make a living or needed the money from it. Just don't want anyone to see it as hopeless if it isnt just a hobby for them. Thats all. Sorry if I gave you the wrong impression.
I've been where you are with mechanic work and had start charging friends and relatives fairly normal prices or just saying no..... just to lighten my load.

Although for your cause, prints might not be a bad thing..... I'd buy a poster of some of your work if it was local.

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GregStith said:

@Robbyrockett2

Maybe I’ve misspoke or mistyped
I don’t want to do this hobby to earn an income. I have a good job and I don’t want to ruin the love of this hobby by worrying about making money from it. My issue is just that I’ve spread myself too thin agreeing to do a lot of projects for people. I tried to convince myself that it was the right thing to do since I could just use any money from it on my cause but again I can work a few hours overtime to take care of that.
I’ll just continue to paint for the joy of it and if I decide that I’d like to sell some of my work I’ll do as Malky suggested.
Thanks for all of your input

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Malky said:

Carry on painting and having fun just for yourself, knock back any so called commissions but take on board ideas that they might present so that you may at least do something involving those subjects if you wish, when you start to have a collection of paintings building up and taking up space, then you arrange an auction day at your church possibly on their grounds, or in an annex if they have one, I doubt that would cost anything to set up since it is for your chosen cause at your church, just before the action starts notify the people who provided the subjects so they get the option to bid on the day, if they really want the paintings they will try to outbid any competition, as I said you will more than likely raise far more money for your hard work than just accepting token offers from one specific client, even if your paintings went for a low price the sight of all the money you raised all in one day would certainly be more gratifying and show you just how well you've done, on top of that, you, your family and anyone else involved with your cause would have a fantastic day out, especially if other fundraising events and fun activities were arranged on the same day, I'm even willing to bet that any of those auctioneer guys you see on telly would be happy to come and do your auctioning for free if they know it's for charities, making your day even more fun, possibly even more prosperous

The most important thing at the moment though is you haven't sold all your gear

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GregStith said:

Do you have time to be my manager? Or life coach?
Great ideas.

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GregStith said:

As much satisfaction as there is when finishing a project, I’m getting really tired of having hassles with almost every project. As soon as I start to get a routine in order then something else happens. Seems like maybe learning to paint with a hairy brush might be more suited for me.
The issue is now a paint problem. I haven’t used my Etac titanium white in a while and now it’s all separated. I’ve used a stirrer in it and shook the daylight out of it but it’s still not smooth. It has a bunch of solids still not mixing. Anyone else had this issue?

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