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Category Archives: art updates
Heart-Shaped balloon
Since a few people have asked, I thought it would be worth mentioning that I’m happy to hand finish more of the *prints, with or without heart-shaped balloons for £135.
*I’ve exhausted my reserve of black Klaus prints, but the brown are good to go.
Print update
This is a tentative update on the print release and while it only pertains very generally to the size I want to go for, I realise now that I’ve never actually posted a photo of the completed painting that we’re using for the edition.
Of the three sizes Black Rat sent me (digital reproductions) I favour the largest.
It matches the size of the canvas, which is 36″ x 36″, so it should be a big ‘un (supposing Mike at Black Rat is still game to go large).
Here it is, in Thought’s meeting room, pinned down by coffee mugs and keyboards:
By the by, anyone thinking “Jesus fuck, that’s a whole ass-load of frame I’ll have to summon up, can’t they just crop all that negative space off? It’s doing nothing”
We tried that and it doesn’t work at all.
There’s actually a decent photo on Neo Collective. Just scroll.
It’s called This Will Hurt Tomorrow and if “Can You Smell Burning?” is anything to go by, it will be ten colours or more. With a hand finished edition too.
Happy Holidays!
Thank you all for another year of support. All of your retweets, #FFs, “likes” hearts, just taking the time to browse around here- I really appreciate it and wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope that we can carry on doing this because it makes me SO happy.
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Q&A with blake lively on her art collection
I didn’t know much at all about Blake Lively’s art collection until yesterday, when I saw this Artlog post on Twitter. It’s so cool to see that she collects according to taste, regardless of how established an artist is.
It takes a collector with balls to do that*
*cue raging argument about art vs money and whether your purchase is swayed by investment value over buying something potentially worthless that you adore all the same.
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Shipping to London
My shipping guy’s name is Andrew.
I email him with the What Where and When. He replies with the How Much and Crunch.
The Crunch is the time we arrange for him to come and make the collection. To explain, I really hate handling my prints; they’re so easy to damage and if I do, I’m letting down a whole string of people who have or are scheduled in to be part of the job to make sure it successfully navigates all the little obstacles that pop up between “start” and “finish”.
Ideal Brown’s family talk about throwing money at a problem: If you chuck enough dollar at something, it will usually stop being an issue (like AIDS). This is obviously a luxury for people who have dollar to throw around. It’s something I’ve picked up on but only works to a point with prints. Suffice it to say, there’s no other or more able bodied “me” I can pay to check and sign the edition. There is however, someone more capable of packing work for a shipment; and that’s Andrew.
I want to know that I did everything I could to prevent a canvas from getting damaged in transit and that’s paying a professional to do a job I’d likely fuck up.
This morning The Crunch spanned 8am to 10am, when Andrew arrived to collect four canvases, due to be sent to Black Rat Projects for my show with them next June. The hours leading up to The Crunch are when I paint the sides of the canvases in acrylic, so they look all clean and decent and presentable.
While they dry, I have to sit around and wait. I can say with the utmost confidence that the worst time to notice something you’re unhappy with, is in the last two hours you have before it gets sent away. I might be able to work fast enough to rectify the situation, but oil paint will just never dry that quickly.
I hate The Crunch. It’s a drawn out yet frantic slice of time in which I think about how dissatisfied I am with my own ability as a painter.
But then Andrew arrives and I can’t say “do you think this is too shit to send?” because there’s no more time left for dithering and most likely, a fuck is precisely what he doesn’t care to give.
So anyway, that was my morning; I sent off four canvases. Now I can relax; there’s still time to GET BETTER and I don’t have to stare down my own work anymore.
One time I awoke at 4am to find all four canvases crowded around my bed, watching me sleep.
Here’s the next one on the way:
give me some fucking carbs, man
I’m trying to crank out a few more drawings these days. You know, for the sake of progress. Really though, they only happen when I’m waiting for some paint to dry or stuck between audiobooks, listlessly moving the shit around on my desk. Jesus, that makes me as cranky as a guy in the 90′s who couldn’t get a clear picture on the telly during a sporting event.
Anyway. This is my favourite scrawl to date, right here. Think it trumps most of my canvases.
Also, I’ve got a new print on the way. It’s early days right now, but it’s definitely a-go-go. To illustrate the current status: Black Rat Projects go “Hey, Candice, let’s do another print” and I go “Yeah, how about this?” and they go “Yeah, that would work” but really we sound more excited than that and then I go “alright cool, soon as it dries, it’s on the way” and then I get nervous excited.
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Win a print. england is so hot right now
Today marks my first year as a real British Citizen.
For six years I had to fill out forms to keep my place in the country, which also meant I always had to have a job to quash any indication that I would ever just lie on my back and suckle on England’s great teat, which meant being fully self employed would have made things difficult for me.
So, celebrating one year of being legal and 9 months of being a full time artist means giving something away; specifically one of the prints I produced on my recent course:
Anyone who “likes” this picture (my crown pin, given to me wrapped in Beano pages by my mom) on the Candice Tripp facebook page will go into a random draw. The winner can choose which of my inexpertly produced screen prints they get. I’ll draw a winner on Sunday.
Day two at nothern print
As predicted, my registration was out. Typically, the first two colours were fine (fine enough, I declare, for a first-timer) The third was a laugh.
The result reminds me of cheaply made children’s picture books from the 40′s, which is a look I happen to like, so things worked out okay. I don’t however, enjoy bullshiting myself so a perfect print would have been ultimately preferable.
Between Ideal Brown’s printing and my own, we each have an odd set:
3 colour hand-pulled screen prints on irregular paper; 4 on some somerset satin, 3 on an unknown brand of stock,
approximately 29 cm x 39 cm with partially deckled edges,
Edition of 0 given that the artist (sigh) never signed off on any of her proofs. What remains is 7 of each, marked as PPs because I suppose that’s exactly what they are.
