# Have you been paid for your "Art"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-paid-for-your-art/523956 "2010-01-06T20:55:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-paid-for-your-art/523956/101 "2010-01-12T16:33:56Z")
I’ve been paid for shawls I designed and knitted. I’ve been paid for dresses I designed and sewed. ---
**Author:** ![miatachris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@miatachris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miatachris)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-paid-for-your-art/523956/102 "2010-01-14T07:44:09Z")
I’m a writer! I did a few eHow articles last year, and completely forgot about them until I got paid! Shameful plugs: > **[How to Videos, Articles & More - Discover the expert in you. | ehow.com](https://www.ehow.com/)** > > Learn how to do just about everything at ehow. Find expert advice along with How To videos and articles, including instructions on how to make, cook, grow, or do almost anything. > **[How to Videos, Articles & More - Discover the expert in you. | ehow.com](https://www.ehow.com/)** > > Learn how to do just about everything at ehow. Find expert advice along with How To videos and articles, including instructions on how to make, cook, grow, or do almost anything. I went home and asked my wife, “What makes a writer” – she quickly replied, “Getting paid for it.” I whipped out my paypal print out ----- “I’m a writer!” ---
**Author:** ![Hilary\_Algar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilary_algar/32/4282_2.png) [@Hilary\_Algar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilary_Algar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-paid-for-your-art/523956/103 "2010-01-14T15:45:11Z")
Way back when, while soldiering for my undergrad student newspaper, sold some photographs to the AP and a couple of big city dailies. (deep curtesy) ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-paid-for-your-art/523956/104 "2010-01-14T19:58:45Z")
I got a free oil change for drawing smiling cars on the windows of the local car dealership. totally counts ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-paid-for-your-art/523956/105 "2010-01-14T20:34:01Z")
Yes. I am a beadworker and have sold several of my original pieces, in the range of $45-125. Not a huge amount, but I am pleased that people like my work. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-paid-for-your-art/523956/106 "2010-01-26T06:52:45Z")
I’ve won prizes for two short films I made, one of which paid $200 and one of which paid $550. (The budget for both films was about $30 total.) Once when I worked at the paper (though not as a reporter or photographer), I happened to come upon a fairly horrifying traffic accident right after it happened. Having a point-and-shoot digital camera in my pocket, I quickly shot some pictures, and when I went in to work that night I sent them to the newsroom folks. They ran one and paid me $60. And I once donated a set of four photos in a big single frame to our local public TV station for their annual art auction. The pictures won an honorable mention, and someone bid $40 for them. So I didn’t actually get paid, but someone did pay money for the photos. I wonder if someday I’ll be at someone’s house and see my photos hanging on the wall; I have no idea who bought them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-been-paid-for-your-art/523956.md?page=5)