WESTERN ARTWORK By Denny Karchner 12 Feb 2005

Hey Baby, don't you just love a good trade? A "most excellant trade" for a website...got to love bartering...cuts the damn government right out of the deal!!

God bless Pete!!

www.karchnerwesternart.com

...I have traded art for many, many of things throughout my life. Many hunting rifles and pistols, meals in fancy restaurants, seafood, hunting trips in Wyoming, furniture, tires, clothing, vinyl albums, music CDs, computer tech service, stereo equipment, TVs, framing, drugs, sex...just kidding...about the sex and drugs...well one one of them anyway...Man! Leigh really likes that one painting I did for her. I am just an "art whore."

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Rob Jones 12 Feb 2005

In college it was usually for a night out on the town, lately its been for art, plumbing, and my mechanic works for parts, a six-pack, and a painting. Its a great deal

Vivian Allen 12 Feb 2005

About 25 years ago I traded one of my elderly neighbors a painting that she liked for several banana trees. I dug them up from her yard myself. She was so grateful to have them thinned that she even gave me extra cash. The trees transplanted very well and actually grew beautiful flowers that eventually became bananas, but didn't fully mature because the warm season wasn't long enough. Those are some great trades you all made. I know the ones you traded with think so, too.

RQ Trietsch 12 Feb 2005

I traded my first of two books of prose for an abstract my buddy did. I think I got the better of the deal.

Being in the trades, we do trade favor for favor when it comes to work.

I have tried to trade percentages of my work for percentages of theirs applied, but with no success. Like 60% - 40% on the sale. No one wants to paint weird wood sculptures ...can't say I blame them...but can't blame one for trying.

eileen martin 12 Feb 2005

i traded two paintings for a weekend stay in a nice hotel in a jacuzzi room, and dinner. also traded 1 for an autographed novel:)

WESTERN ARTWORK By Denny Karchner 12 Feb 2005

...did I say drugs??

Patrick Miller 12 Feb 2005

Art for sex?

eileen martin 12 Feb 2005

Patrick, don't do it. you would look really silly walking around in the sleazy part of town at midnight carrying a painting in your back pocket:)

WESTERN ARTWORK By Denny Karchner 12 Feb 2005

I think Patrick means he changed his name to "Art."--Denny ;{o

Patrick Miller 12 Feb 2005

It would have to be GREAT SEX!

john sayer 12 Feb 2005

I collect antiques and I just traded a print for this 1949 admiral bake-a-lite tv

Andrew Liberto 13 Feb 2005

I used to trade my art for Dead tickets. But, that was so long ago. Nowadays, I'm strictly into trading for soundboards of certain shows. LOL. It's something else I've come to collect.

Bongo lessons would be good.

cramer 13 Feb 2005

i painted a mural in my friends apartment for a bottle of kahlua..which i drank while painting it

Juan Gomez 13 Feb 2005

In Europe during my stay in Germany...traded Art for two nights stay in a pension which housed back-packers and international models/ Artists of all types..when the owner discovered that i did art she invited me to eat breakfast with all the artists and models who where staying there..met some amazingly talented and beautiful people..she commissioned me to draw the Two top models which took me one night to do..Also traded a drawing for one month of rent ten years ago when I had my studio in Phila.... before moving out after being fired from my job, those where some times.

Kari Franklin 13 Feb 2005

Money is my favorite rate of exchange, but I'm a Big fan of the barter system too. I've traded art and web design work for lots of stuff, like:

Concert tickets, laying in a small retaining wall, blown glass pitcher and vase, custom jewlery, food, a couple of cases of mead, a set of throwing daggers, a perm, a pair of holly bushes, a hand carved flute and ocerana, and a baby sitter for my dog when I had one and had to keep going out of town.

Also I ended up with a boa constrictor named Mr. Jones ...that one puzzles me a little, I was actually trying to barter for an aquarium set up but she had to get rid of the snake so threw him in as well...lol

Pete Miller 13 Feb 2005

Yes Denny a most excellent trade....

I have swaped art for all kinds of stuff Pat and I trade art all the time, well it isnt like a trade, if he says he likes something I have done I give it to him and vice versa....

except the boobie paintings.....I have kids..lol

WESTERN ARTWORK By Denny Karchner 13 Feb 2005

Hey Pat! I need some boobs!!

Patrick Miller 13 Feb 2005

You're gonna get me in trouble..aren't ya?

Pete Miller 13 Feb 2005

um yeah...thats pretty much it........if i hung one of your boobie paintings up I would be the one in trouble!!