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January 12, 2011
links for 2011-01-11
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January 09, 2011
Quote of the Day
“Taking a job, is a lot like becoming part of a religion. Relinquishing control to a higher power takes away some of the responsibility for your decisions. Being told what to do and toeing the line is much easier than making decisions for yourself and coping with the outcomes. …"
Yaro Starak quoted in this post at Wally Conger's blog.
Probably true, but once I stopped being a wage slave, I felt a huge load lifted from my shoulders.
- No more ties!
- No more putting up with backstabbers, dimwits and brown noses.
- Working hours I chose.
- Work I wanted to do, rather than had to do.
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Get a free print when you sign up to my mailing list
Image by ibanda via Flickr
As part of implementing my Business Plan I'm offering a free 6" by 4" (approx) digital print to all new subscribers to my mailing list in the next 10 days.
This is how you do it.
- Sign up to the newsletter : Sign up!
- Once you have signed up, go to my Flickr photostream and find something you like - anything so long as it is digital in origin. Sorry but the offer doesn't include scans from other media.
- Send me the name of the image and the URL by email, together with a postal address for receiving the print.
- Add a comment here to confirm you have signed up.
Image by ibanda via Flickr
Once MailChimp confirms your sign up I will send you the print.
No strings - you don't have to sign up for any given period.
The newsletter will be sent out about monthly. I will include special offers for subscribers - discounted prices not available elsewhere, free -e-books and other specially written pieces as well as links and pointers to other art related stuff on the web and in print.
One special deal coming up is the new Panchromatica Print Club - there will be more information in the next issue, and I hope to launch it in April.
If you are an artist yourself, my first e-book will be "Business Planning for the Working Artist" which I hope to launch in March.
Other special deals and offers are in the pipeline, so sign up by 20th January 2011 - you have nothing to lose other than a few electrons.
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January 07, 2011
January 05, 2011
links for 2011-01-04
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- not involving twitter and facebook!
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creative marketing with QR codes
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Using QR codes for any creative business
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January 04, 2011
Print club
I've been thinking further about this idea (first floated here) and have refined it a bit more.
First of all I've more or less fixed on a name - Panchromatica Print Club. A bit of a mouthful, but it ties the club into the blog, which will increasingly become the focus of my selling activity, and so cashes in on what internet 'brand image' is already out there. I need to work out how to get my own name in there too.
In this first year I'm only going to do one set of prints. That way I know I can cope, I will have time to deal with any administrative hiccups along the way and more to the point, I know I can concentrate on producing a good piece of work.
The set will comprise four images, each about 12" by 10". Paper size will be larger. I haven't settled on a paper type yet. They will be made using a range of techniques, almost certainly incorporating screen print, collagraph, chine colle, and perhaps some digital elements. There may also be some hand applied colour using stencils.
Subscribers will, in exchange for paying some of the price up front, get the prints at a discount on the price to non-subscribers. Subscribers will also be guaranteed a full set of prints. Guide price through the club is about £50 per print unmounted and unframed but including all shipping. Normal price would be about £60-£75. Price for the set therefore would be around £200, of which say 25% would be paid up front as a deposit. You can pay more! Obviously mounting and framing would be extra.
This collage uses a hand applied wash as the background. It is about 11" by 8" in size and has been framed using a green stained waxed wooden moulding about 1.5" deep. It is available to purchase for £140 including the frame and all shipping and postage costs. (The line on the bottom is an artifact of scanning - it is a shadow cast by the mount and does not appear on the actual collage.) Flickr view
Each set will be offered unframed, but I will also offer the opportunity to have the set mounted in acid free board or framed and mounted in a moulding chosen by me to complement the image.
The edition size will be quite small at no more than 10. This is partly to make the offer a bit more special, but also, because these will be hybrid prints incorporating a variety of print techniques, they will take a little extra time to produce.
I have three possible themes.
Memories - I've done some work on this theme already, but these are in various formats and sizes. The new work would be created from the outset as a linked set. I have an idea of a 'Four Seasons' set, perhaps using a common plate, but inked up in different ways and colours for each season.
Jazz - I have loved jazz and blues for 50 years so it isn't surprising it should carry through into my art work. I have some preliminary ideas but this image below might also give a feel, although it is a mixed media collage, not a print. It is about 8" by 6" and is mounted to fit a 10" by 8" frame.
Rock Art - I've done a string of digital prints (also soon available for sale) that serve as preliminary sketches for this set. This one below for example will probably be translated into a handpulled print using screen printing, collagraph, chine collee and an acrylic wash as the back ground.
If you are interested in this project, you can keep up to date by joining my mailing list. I also need some feedback from you as to which of the three themes you might be interesed in. They will all be made eventually, but only one will be offered through the print club.
You can also purchase the set as a gift for someone else. In that case I would send you a gift certificate that would be a small work of art in its own right for you to give to the lucky person. On the reverse would be a code for them to claim their prints. At the moment I'm thinking you would need to pay all the cost up front, but I'm willing to talk about alternatives.
I'll be including this information in my next newsletter, due mid-January, but by then I'm hoping feedback will help me to pin down some of the options.
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January 03, 2011
links for 2011-01-02
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Contemporary Fine-Art Prints and Printmakers from Round the Globe
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analysis of printmaking techniques - including digital
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glossary of printmaking terms including digital
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January 01, 2011
Quote of the day
The journalist’s job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Elke Friedman, wife of journalist Saul Friedman, who has just died, in a tribute to her husband at Time Goes By, where he had a regular column.
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Reasons to be cheerful...
...both China and India underwent annual economic growth averaging around 10% per year throughout the decade. The sheer scale of it is mind-numbing; it's as if the entire population of the USA and the EU combined had gone from third-world poverty to first-world standards of living. (There are still a lot of dirt-poor peasants left behind in villages, and a lot of economic — never mind political — problems with both India and China's developed urban sectors, but overall, life is vastly better today than it was a decade ago for around a billion people.)
The number of people living in poverty and with unsafe water supplies world-wide today is about the same as it was in 1970. Only difference is, there were 3 billion of us back then and today we're nearer to 7 billion. Upshot: the proportion of us humans on this planet who are living in third world poverty (unable to afford enough food, water, clothing and shelter) has actually been halved.
Africa averaged around 5% growth throughout the decade, too. It's unevenly distributed, and there's still the fallout from the hideous war in the Congo, but: net improvement. And Africa is huge — again, over a billion people have, in many cases, seen a significant improvement in their wealth and health.
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