Due to an unfortunate series of events, I cancelled drawing lessons the first two weeks in February. The third week, my first class of the day cancelled me. Well, not really. Out of 7 members (in theory/on paper) only one student could attend.

Hmmm, are drawing lessons becoming irrelevant? Am I? 

I love helping people learn to draw. I used to give lessons 3 afternoons a week, with 3-4 classes, each one containing 4 members, along with a long waiting list.

It isn’t that way anymore.

Everything changes. Figuring out how to make an art business viable means continually adapting to the changes.

Eventually, it will cost me more to go down the hill ($5/gallon for gas, rent and insurance at the gallery, and my time, which is a squishy thing to place monetary value on) than I earn from my students. But how can I justify raising my prices if there is no waiting list?

Meanwhile, I will keep helping the people who show up.

Here is an irrelevant photo of a cat whose name* I have forgotten because it was only semi-civilized and disappeared before we were able to get to know it.

*Was this Butch (abbreviated tail)? Or O’Reilly (bold and fresh)?