Oh, its such a left brained issue that some people are really good at and attracted to and--- I'm not gifted in at all. There. Its out there. But its being dealt with :)
Someone asked me how we eat. LOL, she really made me think. Honestly, my first thought was "when do I have the time?" Thankfully my hubby Stephen is the major food supplier for now, but there is another half of the story. Here's it is:
Art with Heart got many of their starting art supplies this way: I was in school and in need of supplies when this wonderful thing called eBay came along and -in its infancy- no one knew what they had and how expensive art supplies really were. Stephen went nuts and I ended up with a great deal of art supplies. Somehow, you can get 12 boxes of conte crayons for the price of 2--- I kid you not. (Somehow these people can sell their stuff for that cheap and still survive... What, are they stealing them? Who knows. I didn't think about it back then.) Anyhoo, I was still in college and thought I needed it for schoolwork and went totally overboard like usual.
So, guess what? These are what we use. But they are starting to run out :( This minor surplus is what we'll work with and make last. Heather Pettersen who gave me the bug and does the Mobile chapter of Art With Heart has dibs on canvas paper, canvas and gallons of paint she somehow gets free. She shares with us! I am indebted to this chic big time. I don't know, but this is God's doing, not mine :) Heather is an awesome human being and has a gift for being a magnet for all things good. You'll love her when you meet her.
I grew up poor (or my dad was cheap? Don't know what is truer) and making mansions out of mud pies is a skill deprivation teaches well. Seriously, the art class uses dirt to add tooth to the paint that we use craypas over. And then, just like Heather is a magnet for good and I'm a magnet for cheap: we got about 10 huge canvas for $3 a piece! So, its just great planets aligning so far.
Other sources of income are art fairs/face painting~ no kidding, this is going to the GCWC's taxi fund. When they don't need it for a while, we can get some paintbrushes.The profits from my paintings go to fund this and, hopefully, by the time we really need more money on a larger scale, we will have our non-profit status and the 501c3 established. You otta see the size of this booklet and you'll understand why we had been procrastinating. Its like taxes on stearoids AND acid. BUT- we finally got it done and we're waiting on our "go out and hit up the big companies" papers to go through the IRS.
We have help from a great lady named Alice, too, who needs a cd of our pictures and some info to compile into a book for a "pitch" to potential funders (is that a word?). Thats another afternoon to get into, so we're off to a start... albeit slow sometimes. We will get funding and keep going. Eventually, hire some employees and other instructors, too. So, thats about it for now, unless gas goes up to $10 a gallon, and then we'll walk to the rec center :)
Hugs,Linda
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