AutoDesk’s Old Fashion Map of the World Street Painting
Occasionally I get client referrals from other artists who decline a project and pass it on because it doesn’t suit them nor meet their financial compensation requirements. Some temporary art gigs get passed on to many others before the client contacts me. This mural project arrived in 1997, before I had internet and email which is where I do my most efficiently project negotiations these days. My Artist friend Jay in SF called me just before AutoDesk phoned. “Erin, Jay here. AutoDesk wants to hire a street painter as entertainment for a computer convention with 1,500 attendees – here is the catch, they only want to pay someone $10 and hour for four hours.” “Wow. I chuckled. $40. That’s barely lunch and gas to get there.” We both laughed. He continued, “I told them that doesn’t meet my daily minimum cost, apparently they have already tried 4-5 other artists and no one wants to do it... I gave them your name in case you want to take it as a ‘ProBono’ piec...