So this is the painting I made for a so-called friend. I made it to his color choices and specifications. He had said he would arrange for it to be picked up at my place and shipped to him, as we live in different countries. I showed him the various stages of its development and he was very enthusiastic all along the way.
Lo and behold, the painting is finished, and suddenly he’s not answering messages or emails. He’s online talking to other people though, just ignoring me. So I’m pretty sure I’m being intentionally ignored.
Never said why he didn’t want the painting, never said what was wrong with it, just let me waste my materials and time for something he was never really serious about.
Lovely, eh?
Do you think this painting deserves such a fate?
Red, Purple, Green by M.K. Hajdin
Exiled Stardust 
No it doesn’t deserve such a fate, & you don’t deserve such treatment! Been there myself 😦
Thank you.
If it was intentional on his part, and you painted it to his specifications, I wonder what his title for it would be?
I would call it ‘Cosmic Dawn of Woman Ascension.’
I don’t think he’s imaginative enough to come up with a title, to be honest.
That sucks! Not the painting, your friend. I had a similar experience a couple of years ago. I did a charcoal drawing of me and my then-boyfriend/now-hubby and posted it on facebook. A friend from college asked if I could do one of his two children. I said I would and he sent me a picture of them. First of all, it was a rather large picture and second of all, the photographer’s watermark was smack dab in the middle of the image. Needless to say, it took awhile to finish. But I did finish it and I showed it to him along the way, same as you. The images were identical. When I showed it to him and it was time to pay up, all of a sudden he didn’t think it looked like his children. Grrrr.
It seems to be a disturbingly common experience.
What really gets me is the painting wasn’t for money. It was a gift. All he had to do was pay for the shipping. Dude has a good job and makes plenty of money, so I don’t think his motive was poverty either.
It’s like people don’t really value our time or skills.
Man. What a sad situation. I hope you find a home for your red painting.
Thinking of destroying it, to be perfectly honest. It just makes me sad to see it.
sorry to hear that.I had a similar thing happen when I was designing a album cover for a indie band. Fortunately I got paid half upfront so I was a bit more fortunate. nice painting btw.
Thank you.
What did you do with it in the end?
I’ve decided to take it off the stretchers and mail it to him and be done with it. I can’t afford to mail it on the stretchers because the painting’s quite large.
He doesn’t deserve it, ungrateful selfish git, but I’ll feel like I did the right thing anyway.
Ah bigger person then I am then, I wouldn’t send it! Beautiful picture though!
Thank you. Maybe the sight of it will inspire him and he’ll learn to be more thankful. We can only hope.