Gee, thanks for totally depressing me.
I struggle very hard with this. I charge basically half for pastels what I charge for oils for the reasons Mike mentions. I just feel like I am supposed to. Painting portraits is my opportunity to stay at home with my children and not have to get a job. So I have to keep it coming in and by having something lower in price to offer there is something always there to do.
However, this is very frustrating to me. I feel like pastel comes easier to me but at the same time takes me just as long to complete as one in oil would. So perhaps it isn't really easier, maybe I just enjoy it more. So, this is a fight I have been having with myself for this past year that I have been offering these pastels. I spend the same amount of time making half the money, but because there is something offered at such a lower price I never have nothing to do, and I HAVE to have something always paying, or my patient husband won't be so patient..shew, hows that for some proper grammar streaming from my brain!
I wish I felt as comfortable with oils as I do with pastels, and maybe if I had more time to do both? Well, that will be a few years from now when everyone is in school all day. I guess I just have to settle and do what has to be done.
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