Cheap Art

I can't believe it is already Wednesday. Lately I've been prepared. I write the post Tuesday night and get everything ready so it posts automatically at Blogger and I just have to drag the new files over when I get up for the website. Yesterday I was distracted and it didn't cross my mind at all that today was Wednesday. Enough of the reasoning for being late.

I have been unemployed for just over a month now. I've actually enjoyed it more than I should have. I have quite a few hobbies and it has been nice to have the time to actually do what I want. This last week was the annual community music and art festival. I entered an art contest. On Monday I signed up and then I had until Wednesday morning to paint a scene or two from the valley. So Monday and Tuesday afternoon I spent trying to use my water colors.

With the pictures framed, I took them back to be entered into the judging. Apparently there was also a silent auction. I had to chose a starting bid price and a buy now price. I had no idea what my art was worth. Certainly not very much. I decided to have the starting bid price cover the frames and the buy now at twenty-five.

When we went back that night to the little reception, I learned I won an honorable mention for one of my pieces. My art was definitely the cheapest there, by a good fifty dollars. Granted some of the art was done by professionals and I could see why they were priced in the hundreds. The happy thought is I sold one piece for the buy now and someone bid on the other one. I am planning on entering next year and I'm thinking of pricing my art a little higher.