Hand Jobs and Dime BagsChapter 5
Drawing that picture of Benjie had given me an idea. Well, two ideas actually. One was that I could make money selling my drawings and paintings. I wasn’t exactly Picasso, but I was a better artist than some of the painters whose work the gallery I got my art supplies from. I asked the guy at the counter the next time I went in, and he said they’d put my paintings up for a 50 percent commission, since it was typically pretty slow in the tourist off-season and a lot of their regular artists...