artlover637
nearing enlightenment
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Thanks for the recounting of the story. I was not bored and found it extremely erotic and arousing.
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I don't know that I have really a good answer for you. In my case I got lucky early in my career. I lived around LA and my dad worked in a business that did work in the entertainment business. I couple of his associates saw some of my work while I was in grad school at Yale and liked my portraits in particular. They commissioned portraits from me and it kind of started things off. Those were seen and more people wanted me to work for them. I always meet my committed dates and try to give my customers more than they expect.
The important advantage I had was that I didn't need to support myself when I started. My parents were comfortable and I was living with them. My dad built a separate studio for me and I furnished it with a bed and some basic amenities to make it comfortable. I practically lived in my studio and my parents pretty much just supported me. You really couldn't ask for a better deal especially in the beginning when I just wanted the work and didn't really concern myself terribly much about the money. That was my dad's advice. He told me that if I did good enough work, then the money would come and he was absolutely right. Now I limit myself to 20 portraits a year, when commissions rise above that number, say between 25 or 30 in the backlog, I raise my prices. That usually gets me back down to my target.
That said, my prices are such now that the clients I deal with aren't terribly concerned about the cost and my method hasn't really worked over the last couple of years. Raising my prices seems to have absolutely no affect on my backlog and people now are waiting almost 2 years for one of my paintings.
I think that's a terribly long time to wait, but I just don't know how to control it any longer. I do make exceptions and push one through in the event of special circumstances and stuff, but that's why I limit myself to 20 paintings a year. I can do special projects and not impact my commitments. Right now, I'm actually painting more like 30 just to stay caught up, but still usually hold to my original commitment date before delivering the artwork. It's nice to visit with the finished paintings for a while before I have to turn them over to someone else to take care of.
I don't know if that answered your question or not, but it's the best I can do as far as advice goes.
I've attached an example of a couple of my portraits
Jenn
Should I repost that summer event with the beach boy... I took those down during my blue time. I've gotten so many comments about those. I'm beginning to think I should repost those. I wouldn't want to bore anyone though.
his hard dick between my little titties.
I teased him by rubbing my nipples against the head of his dick.


You're my best friend on this thread and I think you're very sweet. I haven't stood you up by the way. I just haven't been to Atlanta in a couple years.