Art and Money
Learning not to be afraid of money and its relationship to your art.
When you do a hobby, it is entirely for your own edification.
You do the thing you do for fun, because it makes you feel good, and because it stirs creative juices and produces life-affirming endorphins and so on.
There are almost as many options for hobbies as there are people in the world. Some are pretty general and obvious — such as the arts, woodworking, cooking, painting, writing, etc. Others are somewhat more alien — such as mathematics, research, cleaning and organizing, and so on.
The idea of a hobby is that it is a diversion to help reset and refocus the brain.
Sometimes a hobby becomes a way of life. Frequently, this is where it gets sticky. Especially when we are talking about the arts.
For some people, art begins as a hobby. I have friends who are amazing crafters — woodworking, metalworking, painting, fabric arts, and so on. Some of them have taken what began as their hobby and moved it into the realm of their working life.
That tends to be where it gets complex and confusing.
