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RE: Hand Painted Eggs for MarketFriday
That guy who does that must be as boring as anything. I couldn't do this as it may be fun to do one or two , but doing 100's for a living would be painstakingly horrible. I would charge a fortune if I was selling them to make up for doing this.
Agree to disagree on this. What may be boring for you, may be relaxing for someone else :)
I know that from experience. As about the price, I agree with you. When you are the artist and the vendor, you want your work to be rewarded and sometimes it isn't, unfortunately.
I think the relaxing disappears when it becomes a business. Imagine having to do thousands of these every month.Maybe 3 or 4 could be fun, but I think you may lose your artistic abilities to create after doing so many. Maybe I am wrong and he still finds it enjoyable. I hope so anyway.
I guess it depends on the person. I know from experience, I can't do the same thing over and over again. I need to do different things and I know artists are thinking the same way. I've spoken with a sculptor lately and he told me he can't do two identical works because it's boring, annoying and not creative 🙂
So who knows ...
Perhaps people's personalities are just different @cryptoandcoffee; I have been painting similar patterns by hand on beach stones for almost 12 years; started drawing the intricate patterns as pen-and-ink on paper when I was in my teens. I find it very relaxing, zen and meditative.
For the past 10 years (the last six "seriously") doing this has increasingly become part of how I earn a living. But hey, I'll be the first to admit that artists are strange and twisted people!
But — for perspective — I have also never been bored in my life, and I enjoy the comfort of just doing one thing and working on endless slight variations of that. It was the constant change and unpredictability of a very busy job in the IT industry that landed me in the hospital with a "hypertensive crisis" a decade ago.
Which is all a very long-winded way of saying that the person making these most likely really enjoys doing so.
Thanks for the reply. I just thought it may be mundane for an artist. I can see the relaxing side of this though. I am glad you found something you enjoy.