10/13/2026
🎨 LET’S TALK ABOUT THE REALITY OF HANDMADE ART! 🎨
Let’s talk about something that doesn’t always get seen when you look at a finished piece of artwork. The TIME that goes into it. ❤️
Yesterday, I started this 24-inch beauty. After 8 HOURS of painting, I’m only about halfway done! 😳 And that’s just the actual painting!
What you don’t see is everything that happens behind the scenes.
🖤 The hour (sometimes more) of prep work before the first dot even touches the surface.
🎨 The countless hours of carefully placing thousands of tiny dots, one by one.
⏳ The waiting. Ohhhh, the waiting! If a piece needs top dots or additional brushstrokes, that’s another hour or more of drying time before I can even touch it again.
✨ Once the painting is complete, there’s varnishing… and more waiting.
💎 Then comes adding embellishments, if the piece calls for them.
📸 And finally, waiting until everything is completely finished and cured enough to photograph, edit, and get listed for sale.
And that’s not even counting the time spent planning designs, choosing colors, purchasing supplies, or cleaning up the creative chaos afterward! 😂
Sometimes people see the price of handmade artwork and look at you like you’ve grown two heads. 🤪 They see a finished piece and a price tag, but what they don’t see are the HOURS, the patience, the supplies, the trial and error, and the years spent developing the skills to create it.
You’re not just paying for a piece of art. You’re paying for someone’s time, creativity, experience, and a little piece of their heart. ❤️
And here’s the thing…
I LOVE WHAT I DO. Every single tedious, time-consuming, back-aching, eye-crossing minute of it. 😂❤️
Creating brings me a kind of peace that I can’t even begin to explain. So even when I’m 8 hours deep into a piece and still have miles to go, there’s nowhere else I’d rather be.
And just TRY to stop me from creating! 😘
So the next time you see something handmade, whether it’s mine or another artist’s, remember that there’s so much more to it than what meets the eye.
Handmade isn’t expensive because someone wants to charge more. It’s valuable because of everything that goes into making it. ❤️