{"id":2814,"date":"2013-03-10T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2013-03-09T08:12:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T15:12:36","slug":"the-cost-of-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/the-cost-of-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I figured there’s probably nobody reading this that wouldn’t want to yell out, “Exactly!” at this sentiment. Being a plastic, polymer gets this attitude more than our comparable crafts such as metal work and ceramics. But the cost isn’t just\u00a0the materials. It’s also the time it takes to make – the hours and years of learning and perfecting what we do, and the proverbial blood, sweat and tears\u00a0we sacrifice\u00a0as we build our name and business.<\/p>\n

Here is one of my favorite stories about an artist truly valuing himself:\u00a0 I was at a Science Fiction show a half dozen years ago, and a well-known comic artist was asked by a fan to draw a picture. He proceeded to create what the fan\u00a0requested in beautiful detail. When he was done,\u00a0the artist\u00a0showed the very excited fan the piece and asked for $300. The fan sputtered and said, “But that only took you\u00a0thirty minutes to do!” The artist calmly responded, “No, it took me\u00a0thirty years.”<\/p>\n

Don’t you love that?!<\/p>\n

We have a great article in the present issue\u00a0about pricing your work, in helping you determine the true value of what you do. Get your copy on the website at www.thepolymerarts.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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I figured there’s probably nobody reading this that wouldn’t want to yell out, “Exactly!” at this sentiment. Being a plastic, polymer gets this attitude more than our comparable crafts such as metal work and ceramics. But the cost isn’t just\u00a0the materials. It’s also the time it takes to make – the hours and years of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[832,831,221],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponderings","tag-materials","tag-pricing","tag-value"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-Jo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}