Job or Hobby?

[Carol Norton]

if I had to support myself by selling paintings. I paint almost every day.
So, do I have a job or a hobby?
Joan[/QUOTE]

J-O-B! if that is the accurate and honorable term. "Hobby" sounds like something that needs glue and plastic flowers. Joan, I paint nearly every day, too, and consider it a long desired and serious job. I've studied at Scottsdale Artists' School 'round the clock since 2003. I still hear from those not aware of the kind of focus it takes to paint - especially portraits.... "How nice for you. It gives you something to do." (Sounds like a march toward the grave!)

These comments are not meant to be unkind, they just are unconscious, no-brain kinds of comments, like, "How are you?" No one really wants to hear nor expects an answer. Try not responding and see what happens.

Painting is such an internal, cerebral activity that no one knows what must process through our intellect to get just one improvement in a painting. The amount of processing that has to take place over the years is unfathomable to anyone who doesn't do this J-O-B!

We love it. We do it and wouldn't every give it up.