Is DD’s art work good enough to sell.

[themotherhoodproject]

NC for this as a regular user of MN and this is fairly outing but looking for peoples unbiased opinions.

DD is an A level Art student, it’s actually not where her love lies she is hoping to apply for BIMM’s university In Bristol to peruse music and she also does performing arts.

However she is very talented in her painting and blows me away weekly with her work, we have had a few extra special things from her (some of you might remember the snowman Christmas card, it seemed very popular) and lots of people on here saying that they would buy if able too.

Another few months have gone by and we just had another cracker of a card from her (a thank you card for a friend) and well I just think it’s wonderful and have said she should really think about taking on commissions.

We live in a very rural area so lots of horse and dog lovers and I honestly think she could make a bit of pocket money to put away for uni life or fritter away on gigs noodles and vinyl

Can I ask what people think, she is only a year into A level art and will have lots more of technique to learn but maybe £15 a painting she might have some takers?

@CasadeCoca

By using such a plainly irrelevant analogy, you are undermining a valid point about the DD becoming a bit weary and stressed about 10 commissions whilst balancing heavy studies, a job and social life

Oh do stop 🤣 Wouldn't a fine artist's precious artistic soul be even more quashed in an actual Tesco assembly line?

This is peak art school meme (those laughing at a certain kind of their fellow students) btw hahahaha

Possibly not. Depends where you stand on art as unalienated labour?

Guessing not a fine artist?

snort. You have come across quite badly on here.

unalienated labour

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@sunglassesonthetable You have thrown yourself in this thread with a vigour i don’t think i have ever come across on mumsnet before!

😂 🤷‍♀️

I do have a broken leg right now.

ah sorry to hear that!

Although nice to know that my image of you as some kind of Alan Bennett type character hunched over her keyboard all day every day banging out posts is probably not the case!

Although nice to know that my image of you as some kind of Alan Bennett type character hunched over her keyboard all day every day banging out posts is probably not the case!

😂😂

Love it.

Oh again do stop lol. Other artists are ashamed to claim you

I'd've said more Gordon than Alan.

Can see questions of creativity and commodification of art production may not float your personal boat but curious as to why you want to shut someone else down.

Yeah, once I had a one-night stand where I felt a little used so from now on I'm going to refer to myself as a sex-trafficked underage immigrant slave girl raised by pimps.

Or you know, my flat is (genuinely) shit in the warped capitalist oligarch-favouring London property market, therefore I am the same as those in the gulag mines really.

Nobody is doubting that art is often undervalued, artists are often exploited and burnt out. I've been there before. It's a bit rich to compare it – both in terms of quantitative intensity and qualitative lack of creativity – to an actual gruelling and 100% mass production factory assembly line where those with artistic talent/aspirations might never even have a fraction of a chance of realising or applying said talent/aspirations. Also, some of them lose fingers.

I can't believe I have to explain all of the above to you. You're walking meme material and you don't realise it!

Agreed.

You are being very literal, but are clearly no stranger to a metaphor?

If we're talking about being literal, it's quite clear from the context – like you responding to "a real assembly line in a real factory", and also claiming that a fine artist would perhaps be more downtrodden doing their commissions than working in an "an actual Tesco assembly line" – that you meant it as a literal equivalent.

Anyway, if you're going to backtrack, I'm off. I have to go stand in solidarity with the other mine gulag escapees. Justice for us!

I'd've said more Gordon than Alan.

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Can see questions of creativity and commodification of art production may not float your personal boat but curious as to why you want to shut someone else down.

Because they could not be MORE out of context on this thread.

Whilst they are up for discussion generally, hand on heart, do you think they are in ANY way relevant here in the example this entire thread has been discussing?

Like really?

@sunglassesonthetable give your eyes a screen break; this isn’t healthy!

OP - nice pic. I wouldn’t buy out of choice but if a family member did this - absolutely i would buy (and pay substantially more than the asking price of £20!)

sunglassesonthetable give your eyes a screen break; this isn’t healthy!

All good. Just lying in the sunshine reading my book. I MN on my phone so no biggie. You're right I should turn alerts off. 😉

But thank you for your concern.

I do. I hope DD is an assertive young woman and at the point it becomes mind numbing can say bog-off. I hope it doesn't put her off her own work. That's it. Creativity is precious and needs nurturing in young people.

I do. I hope DD is an assertive young woman and at the point it becomes mind numbing can say bog-off. I hope it doesn't put her off her own work. That's it. Creativity is precious and needs nurturing in young people.

Of course it is.. But she's not going to say bog off because no one's making her do it and she asked for the commissions .

She can finish up and clock it to experience.

She's not some piece of china who is going to be broken by the experience. And nor is her creativity.

are the 10 orders all for horses?

I am sorry but the reason she has so many orders is that she is cheap.

She is VASTLY underpricing her work, should be 4 times that price at least, not least because she is really going to piss off the local artists that actually charge a realistic price who may well freeze her out of the market (easily done on local pages).

You are doing her no favours by encouraging her to work for next to nothing whether it is good for her A levels or not. She needs to place a higher value on herself and her work, something that all women can struggle with and the sooner she learns that lesson the better. Its why so many of us get taken advantage of and end up being paid less than men for doing the same work, we are encouraged to behave like this.