Sketches to the Library of Congress
Marilyn Church

What she sketched for $350 a day are now priceless. Last Fall, the US Library of Congress paid an undisclosed figure for more than 3,500 courtroom sketches representing a 30 year body of work by Marilyn Church, a Queens native who drew as way to gain recognition out of a family of five siblings.

Marilyn Church is perhaps the most famous sketch artist around, capturing the likeness of the infamous John Gotti, serial murderer Sam Berkowitz, ponzi scam artist Bernard Madoff and actor Woody Allen.

Do what you love and the rewards will follow.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/nyregion/13about.html