If I had a million dollars, I'd buy you a Lawren Harris sketch

Need cash?

Here's what you need to do.

Go see Marnie Stone and buy some of those little tubes of paint she sells at 529 Queen Street East.

Tell her you need some canvas, too.

And a stretcher-frame and some camel-hair brushes and a quart of Glenmorangie 25-year-old Single Highland Malt.

Okay, Marnie won't sell you whisky.

You'll need to get that elsewhere.

Then, you just hang around Lake Superior and make pictures of rocks and trees and stuff and sell them down south at fancy auction houses.

These days, the Crazy Rich People are going gaga over pictures of Superior rocks.

Late last month, we were telling you how a 1926 sketch, The Old Stump, Lake Superior by Group of Seven member Lawren Harris, sold in Toronto for $3.5 million.

Well, last night at a Sotheby's auction in a dinosaur gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum, the oil-on-board piece shown above sold for $968,500.

It's Harris' Lake Superior Sketch III.

The pre-sale estimate was between $300,000 to $500,000.

The Crazy Rich People also snapped up two other Harris works for ridiculous sums of money.

Northern Lake, another oil sketch, sold for $244,000.

And an oil-on-board called Stream-Algoma went for $140,500.