# Ethan Harrington – Street Artist

- Published: 2007-07-27 (updated 2020-04-28)
- Author: [Terkel](https://pursuethepassion.com/author/brett.md)
- Topics: [Careers in Art and Design](https://pursuethepassion.com/topics/careers-in-art-and-design.md), [interviews](https://pursuethepassion.com/topics/interviews.md)
- Source: https://pursuethepassion.com/how-to-be-street-artist/
- Publisher: Pursue The Passion

*Ethan is a painter with an unshaven stubble, a kangol hat, and an iPod. He doesn’t take his headphones off during the course of the interview.*

### How To Be a Street Artist

***Noah: I’m Noah. This is Brett, Jay, and Zach. We’re with a group called [Pursue the Passion](https://pursuethepassion.com/). We’re traveling around the country for three months interviewing people who love what they do. So would you say that you love what you do?***

Absolutely.

***Noah: What is it that you do?***

I paint pictures for a living. That’s all I do. I stand outside. I pick different scenes in the city to paint. And I also have a series of paintings of young ladies with guns and whiskey. So that’s what I do at night.

***Noah: Young ladies with guns and whiskey? Excellent.***

Yeah. Add scantily clad to the list.

***Noah: So is this quote unquote all you do. Or do you have another job?***

This is all I do.

***Noah: And it supports you pretty well?***

Yep. Well, I pay my rent, and I pay my car payment. That’s enough.

***Noah: Well, what advice would you give to people who want to become artists?***

For painting at least, what I’ve found to be successful is putting up displays of my artwork all over town. I do as much as I can. Putting it up in a restaurant, or café, or gallery…just constantly having artwork out there for people to see. That’s the main thing.

***Zach: Would you finish a painting like this in one day? Or is this a several day project?***

This will be several days. This will be my first day. I’m only two hours into this one. I have a finished one over here that’s about three days of work.

***Z: Do you like doing this stuff better or the ladies?***

That’s a tough one. They kind of balance each other out. I’ve got a girlfriend now, but when I was single that was a super good way to meet girls.

***N: What would you be doing if you weren’t doing this?***

I don’t know. Maybe music or something. But definitely something creative. I’d have to do something creative.

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