Wednesday, May 24, 2006

making money

i actually googled how i can make money as an artist (cooper union fund, art supplies fund, pay off loan fund) and it's so nice that someone has made it so simple with these tips:

33 Ways For An Artist To Make Money
1. Sketching stores
2. Sketching houses
3. Selling caricatures
4. Traveling painter in holiday resorts
5. Silhouettes
6. Portrait sketching
7. Suntan body tattooing on beaches
8. Calligraphy
9. A comic strip artist
10. Cartoons for T.V.
11. Political and gag cartooning
12. Painting murals
13. Making decorative screens
14. Personalized greeting cards
15. Making ceramic statuettes from photos
16. Oil portraits from photos
17. Painting on china
18. Wood carving
19. Interior bottle painting
20. Oil portraits for executives
21. Modeling busts for the wealthy
22. Interior designing
23. Custom-designing wallpaper
24. Designing packages for manufacturers
25. Store window displays
26. Decorating children's rooms
27. Sign painting
28. Promoting art shows
29. Art consultant
30. Mobile art gallery
31. Art rental
32. Art exchange
33. Teaching art