"Love Regan"
oil on canvas
30" x 30"
Sports Illustrated can make you an athlete, Cosmopolitan can make you a model, and Plein Air Magazine can make you a plein air painter. The perk to the latter...they allow you to advertise your progress for $3995 a page. How-to articles and artistic confirmation all in the same place...can you beat it?
I'm thinking of trying one of those food challenges at a restaurant with an attached gift shop. You know...the kind where you're given an hour to consume a 5 lb. steak, two sides, a dinner roll, and a shrimp cocktail in front of an audience of fellow carnivores. If you want to win your name on the wall as testament to your great achievements of gluttony, all you have to do is pay $100, consume every bit of fat and gristle, and not throw up in your plate. And if you lose? Well, I'd imagine it's the exact same indigestion...minus your grease-smudged, misspelled name on a cheap brass plaque over the booth opposite the bathrooms.
I've done the research...with few exceptions, if you buy a Picasso at Sotheby's for 1 million today, you should be able to sell it at Sotheby's in five years for about 1.5 million. That sum, in $100 bills, weighs around 33 pounds...the equivalent weight of a little more than six $100 steaks. That weight of money is also enough to to purchase 15,000 of those 5 lb. steaks...if you're keeping track...
I guess it's all in how you measure.
Pass on the paint. Sign the subscription. Pass the antacids.
