 Business Advice Please I have been working on something for a while now. I mean, it was really something that I just started out doing for the sheer fun of it. The enjoyment of it. It is painting.
Well I have this friend who I met when I took a class at the vocational tech here. He was there for some other stuff and we met in the "commons". He is quite gifted with the camera though. So for fun, what he has done is gone out and taken pictures with his camera and then we use those as the basis for the enlarged pictures that I am doing in paint. Some in watercolors and some in acrylics.
Anyhow, there is a local coffee shop here and I took some of my artwork there to see if they would display it. And they did. Well I have had some offers made. Someone even wants to pay me $200 for one of my pieces.
The thing is that my friend thinks he ought to get some of the money too. That we should do this together. A business partnership, if you will.
But I figure I did the painting. He thinks that he has a right to some of the money. And that if I would go ahead and give him some of the credit, that we could be quite successful as a team. I figure I don't need him now though. I mean nothing against him. He DID inspire me at first. But I can come up with my own ideas how to paint, what to paint now.
What do you all think? Do you feel I should be obligated to split the money with him for the paintings I already made? And I did make them in my own home. Not his. Not even at the school. Should I obligate myself to a business with him? I don't know if he is joking but he says he doesn't want to do this, sue me, but that he does feel that strongly about how much he "thinks" he contributed to my work.
Oh Bother!!!
OhDear |