The New Idea: Paintings on Paper
I have an idea, for a change. Blame this one on a little bird named Drew, who has a pug named Charles:
This is Charles. Blame him.
I sometimes make big paintings, which is fun. I usually paint 'em on canvases, or these boxes I make (kinda like an upside-down Nok Hockey board) -- thin plywood front, 1 x 2s all around. This is so whoever buys a picture can take it home and hang it right up, without having to schlep around to find a frame, or pay $$$ and get it framed. (A couple of folks have done this, and paid a good bit more for the frame than the painting. This kind of puzzled me.) I'm all about the instant gratification, as you might well imagine.
This is all well and good if you live here in SF and can come by and pick 'em up, but more than once a nice person from, say, Pennsylvania has bemoaned the fact that I won't ship 'em. This is because the one time I did ship a canvas, it took longer to pack the painting for shipping than it did to paint it. This is on top of the time it takes to stretch the canvases or make the boxes. I don't want to spend my time making boxes or packing paintings for shipping; I want to paint monkeys.
I'm making a bunch of paintings on paper for another project, and Drew emailed me yesterday wanting a painting of Charles above, who I bet is even cuter in person and maybe snores. I said: "Aha! I have it. Pick a frame from IKEA and I shall make you a fine painting on paper and mail it to you, rolled into a mailing tube." I use acrylic paint, mostly, and it's pretty flexible as long as you don't, I dunno, bake it, or paint it on an inch thick or something.
La Reina and I went to Tempe, AZ for an art fair last December. I wanted to sell my little prints on paper framed, but didn't want to ship or schlep frames. I saw that a new IKEA had opened near there, so what we ended up doing was, I cut the prints to fit the IKEA frames I had here at HQ, and when we got to AZ we went to IKEA and bought a bunch of frames for 'em and had meatballs. They even let me return the ones that didn't sell because it fucking RAINED HALF THE TIME of the art fair, 45 DEGREE RAIN, in ARIZONA. Sorry. It didn't go as well as I'd hoped.
Anyway, making paintings to fit readily available frames. I just never put the two and two together until now! What I'm gonna do is make a batch of paintings on paper (maybe in multiples) to fit IKEA frames. I don't have any Swedish blood or anything; if you know of similarly good quality frames available online for cheaper, by all means let me know.
This, for instance, is an excellent and affordable frame, the RIBBA 20 x 28" frame, $19.99. I have a couple of RIBBA frames here at HQ and they're nice. Make the "for her pleasure" jokes on your own time, please.
So I'm gonna make some paper/board paintings to fit this frame. I save hassle, you can get a nice big El Rey and save money, everyone's happy! Yay us!
This is Charles. Blame him.
I sometimes make big paintings, which is fun. I usually paint 'em on canvases, or these boxes I make (kinda like an upside-down Nok Hockey board) -- thin plywood front, 1 x 2s all around. This is so whoever buys a picture can take it home and hang it right up, without having to schlep around to find a frame, or pay $$$ and get it framed. (A couple of folks have done this, and paid a good bit more for the frame than the painting. This kind of puzzled me.) I'm all about the instant gratification, as you might well imagine.
This is all well and good if you live here in SF and can come by and pick 'em up, but more than once a nice person from, say, Pennsylvania has bemoaned the fact that I won't ship 'em. This is because the one time I did ship a canvas, it took longer to pack the painting for shipping than it did to paint it. This is on top of the time it takes to stretch the canvases or make the boxes. I don't want to spend my time making boxes or packing paintings for shipping; I want to paint monkeys.
I'm making a bunch of paintings on paper for another project, and Drew emailed me yesterday wanting a painting of Charles above, who I bet is even cuter in person and maybe snores. I said: "Aha! I have it. Pick a frame from IKEA and I shall make you a fine painting on paper and mail it to you, rolled into a mailing tube." I use acrylic paint, mostly, and it's pretty flexible as long as you don't, I dunno, bake it, or paint it on an inch thick or something.
La Reina and I went to Tempe, AZ for an art fair last December. I wanted to sell my little prints on paper framed, but didn't want to ship or schlep frames. I saw that a new IKEA had opened near there, so what we ended up doing was, I cut the prints to fit the IKEA frames I had here at HQ, and when we got to AZ we went to IKEA and bought a bunch of frames for 'em and had meatballs. They even let me return the ones that didn't sell because it fucking RAINED HALF THE TIME of the art fair, 45 DEGREE RAIN, in ARIZONA. Sorry. It didn't go as well as I'd hoped.
Anyway, making paintings to fit readily available frames. I just never put the two and two together until now! What I'm gonna do is make a batch of paintings on paper (maybe in multiples) to fit IKEA frames. I don't have any Swedish blood or anything; if you know of similarly good quality frames available online for cheaper, by all means let me know.
This, for instance, is an excellent and affordable frame, the RIBBA 20 x 28" frame, $19.99. I have a couple of RIBBA frames here at HQ and they're nice. Make the "for her pleasure" jokes on your own time, please.
So I'm gonna make some paper/board paintings to fit this frame. I save hassle, you can get a nice big El Rey and save money, everyone's happy! Yay us!
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