The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-05
ART-H0W TO
 LIVE BY IT 2
 AND LUST ART''


 About as bitter suffering as there is
 pn nfe's list seems to be .entailed on sethe devotee of art who has to become Intimately acquainted with the com
 nercial side of the work. and make a
 that can hardly be named without the
 fndsscrlbab1e French shrug and little
 whifeB and shorts Of self derision.
 Art. the mistress, beckoning and dag
 Mllng from peak to peak, gets adoring tribute. gladly paid. even though you have to 70 hungry to pay it. Art, the
 handmaid, trotting meekly in harness, \ teliverfng the milk and bringing .Hrourd the bread. slavey, to be cuff
 cd and kicked entirely out of your fed you up so that you can get back
 4o your mistress. Ask anybody who
 writes or paints Or sings or acts.
 Still" 1t was suggested to one
 Fey's afngy- It begins to look inter- 7. z-sWeli. she tags along behind your hopes. when you quit the art schools. Xou know she is there because you can feel her in your hands, in your cinAy little conceits that pop into
 mlading you. By and by. you find
 your board money Is getting pretty low. go you pause and grit your teeth and listen to her. Then one day you put your hand in hers and she leads you to the studios for business ser Ffce-ccmmerci9l art studios they call themselves. There you sit in a row around the wall with a lot of other women who are waiting to see the manager. They all have portfolios under their arms, and some of them are so olds That's the pity of it.. They are all there to try to get as- ~7~ e. Tk.- &f, studios do. Most of the big houses that do a mau-order business turn
 their catalogues over bodily to a stu- . dio of this kind If you get a job in une. you may be entered as an ap- prentice, at nothing a week, and you may be able to get salary of five dollars, and on up to twenty dollars
 depending somewhat on you and 4 somewhat on the studio. The division
 Of labor in one of these studios makes
 factory One artist will do the pen
 cil sketch Another will translate it
 into ink Another will put in the de- kafl of the dress trimming. Another
 will do the head. Doing heads is not
 DO bad"
 A FORTUNE IN HEADS
 Art. the mistress, may even deign so smile on you, 1t appears, when you are doing heads. And there is one woman here in the city who does so many heads and does them so we'll
 that Ashe Is reputed to make seven or
 But to get back to the slavey's. story:
 Next, after you have done lit-
 tle of that kind of work, it gets on
 your nerves to such an extent that
 your roommate can hardly stand, you,
 and you begin to wish that you were m man, SO that you could have a wife that you could beat. Then you decide to let the ragged little salary so and try to weather free-lancing, come what may. As a free-iance. your time ss your own, and now and then you Enay get chance to paint. That's what 1t is all for. you know-the chance to paint. Maybe you choose postal cards. If you do, you take your publish postal cards, and you ask to see the art editor.
 Let's say that your sketches don't please the art editor at all. Being gifted sort of person. he hides his disappointment, and praises your work to the skies. It doesn't meet his needs, but it certainly Is scrumptious. xou 10 home, and Roommate says,
 What luck? Well, he said splendid
 things.' Did he buy anything? in
 Then Roommate clears the matter up
 for you: Whenever he is going to buy anything, he won't praise it. He widl think it's, or. sort of so-so-hard- ly know whether he can use It or not. might make 1t do, but not exactly what he was hoping for But you don't care. He's treated you polite ly. and that's a memory not to be pooh-hooed away. Later, you will draw something that he simply cant
 resist. and you won't put the price down so very low, either, no matter
 how much he belittles it. And if he
 1g art editor in a publishing house
 that publishes books, as we'll as pos tal cars. you may be passed on to the book department to do some head pieces and tail-pieces and some deco rative initials for the chapter begin- nings. I know girls who make good
 livings out of textbook publishing
 houses. They do Illustrations for
 readers. physiologies, primary spoilers,
 and SO on. It is not very we'll paid, but nearly all scFeol-books for chill dren are so profuseiy illustrated now adsys that there is a quantity of it, and mcat of it is quick work.
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