Well, we reached my goal but there's still about 8 hours to go. If you've thought about funding the project but have been on the fence please watch my last Kick vid update - there is a twist:
http://youtu.be/YMPUzeWzWJ4
Whether you pledge $5, $10, $25 or $1,000 - your help is appreciated.
Okay, back to work. So much to do before delivery in 13 days!
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
03/13 - Kicks
Only 5 days left so if you haven't checked out my Kickstarter page please do so:
As of today my Kick project is 42% funded I have a ways more to go and every dollar will make a difference in how successful my show ends up being. The costs of printing, producing, designing, the supplies, the hardware involved in hanging the work, etc has taken this venture into completely overwhelming territory.
So, please be a part of making this show a success - like, share and or pledge. There are rewards for every level of pledging whether it's $5, $10, $25 or more. A $25 pledge will garner a limited edition, hand pulled silk screen print and more.
Check out the project, project updates, videos and rewards on
Kickstarter: http://kck.st/xcgP15
Check out the project, project updates, videos and rewards on
Kickstarter: http://kck.st/xcgP15
Monday, March 12, 2012
03/12 - Print-o-liscious
Been working my butt off printing silk screen illustrations at AS220 in preparation for my upcoming NY show. The opening is April 5th, work has to be delivered March 31st and we hang on the 1st....can't believe it's almost time. Can't believe I've been working 4 months, almost non stop, to produce work for the show and here we are! Yow!
If you don't know, getting my work in a NY gallery was my primary goal for 2011. My entire focus for 2011 was working towards having the necessary materials to approach galleries in the big city, In the end, I was invited to have my own one man show.
However, the costs of the show have mounted so, 3 weeks ago, I turned to Kickstarter for help - Kickstarter is a web site where people who have creative projects can appeal to the general public for financial support. Although a large number of people with projects apply to Kickstarter, not everyone is granted the right to post their projects and campaign for financial pledges. There is a vetting process but if your project is accepted you can post a profile with videos, updates and links that will help you reach out to other people who will then (hopefully) help you reach your stated goal.
I posted my Kick project on Feb 17 and with the stated goal of $2,500 - I've gotten people to invest in my project (the last leg of getting the NY show done and delivered) but I need more Kickvestors to succeed and I only have till Sunday March 18th before my Kick campaign is done. I've posted where I can - I've got posters up from Brookline to Brooklyn, my FB friends are receiving almost daily reminders, there's this blog (....which I've kinda been neglecting lately in lieu of working on work...sorry), and I chat it up with people wherever I go. I've gotten some really great comments, emails and messages from people but I still have a ways to go to have my project fully funded. Yeh, it's embarrassing and frustrating to have to keep asking but there we are - when you need help you gotta keep asking for help till you find it.
As of right now, my Kick project is 41% funded, I only have $1,055 to go BUT, and there is a but, if I don't reach that goal by 5:00 (???) March 18th I don't receive any funding at all. None. The investors accounts aren't charged for the pledges they made to my project and I don't receive any funding. However, if we reach or exceed my goal by Sunday I receive all the funding and I can breath a little easier.
I've spent a tremendous amount of money over the last year getting things in place before I could even approach people about being considered for a NY gallery. Once I was booked for this one man at ReBar I got straight to work but have spent a huge amount of money getting work done. At this point, I'm down to the nubbins trying to make sure I get all the printing done and mounted, finishing up my paintings, getting the paintings ready to hang, and then there's the cost in delivering all the work and the 4 trips involved with the show. This venture entailed expenses beyond anythign I could have foreseen so I'm asking for support.
To view my Kick project page, see an outline of the expenditures, visit links, pics of the work being done, more videos and to get more info on the show and project visit:
http://kck.st/xcgP15 - like, share, register and pledge!
To view a video update on my Kickstarter project go to: ttp://youtu.be/Pedjv25M0gA
Finally, I'm really, really proud of the silk screen work I've been building for the show - I've been playing with layers of colors, mediums, old silk screens and text to create the looks I wanted. My prints start off as pen and ink drawings, are transferred onto clear acetate but fun for me starts with the backgrounds - I love added and taking away the backgrounds with water and mediums to produce an old tyme photograph feel. A lot of what I've been doing has been experimental but I've had a number of experienced printers, at AS220 print shop studios, asking me what I use to achieve the effects I've been able to produce. Their support of my work has been extremely flattering.
Here are a view images of the work I've been printing for the show:
If you don't know, getting my work in a NY gallery was my primary goal for 2011. My entire focus for 2011 was working towards having the necessary materials to approach galleries in the big city, In the end, I was invited to have my own one man show.
However, the costs of the show have mounted so, 3 weeks ago, I turned to Kickstarter for help - Kickstarter is a web site where people who have creative projects can appeal to the general public for financial support. Although a large number of people with projects apply to Kickstarter, not everyone is granted the right to post their projects and campaign for financial pledges. There is a vetting process but if your project is accepted you can post a profile with videos, updates and links that will help you reach out to other people who will then (hopefully) help you reach your stated goal.
I posted my Kick project on Feb 17 and with the stated goal of $2,500 - I've gotten people to invest in my project (the last leg of getting the NY show done and delivered) but I need more Kickvestors to succeed and I only have till Sunday March 18th before my Kick campaign is done. I've posted where I can - I've got posters up from Brookline to Brooklyn, my FB friends are receiving almost daily reminders, there's this blog (....which I've kinda been neglecting lately in lieu of working on work...sorry), and I chat it up with people wherever I go. I've gotten some really great comments, emails and messages from people but I still have a ways to go to have my project fully funded. Yeh, it's embarrassing and frustrating to have to keep asking but there we are - when you need help you gotta keep asking for help till you find it.
As of right now, my Kick project is 41% funded, I only have $1,055 to go BUT, and there is a but, if I don't reach that goal by 5:00 (???) March 18th I don't receive any funding at all. None. The investors accounts aren't charged for the pledges they made to my project and I don't receive any funding. However, if we reach or exceed my goal by Sunday I receive all the funding and I can breath a little easier.
I've spent a tremendous amount of money over the last year getting things in place before I could even approach people about being considered for a NY gallery. Once I was booked for this one man at ReBar I got straight to work but have spent a huge amount of money getting work done. At this point, I'm down to the nubbins trying to make sure I get all the printing done and mounted, finishing up my paintings, getting the paintings ready to hang, and then there's the cost in delivering all the work and the 4 trips involved with the show. This venture entailed expenses beyond anythign I could have foreseen so I'm asking for support.
To view my Kick project page, see an outline of the expenditures, visit links, pics of the work being done, more videos and to get more info on the show and project visit:
http://kck.st/xcgP15 - like, share, register and pledge!
To view a video update on my Kickstarter project go to: ttp://youtu.be/Pedjv25M0gA
Finally, I'm really, really proud of the silk screen work I've been building for the show - I've been playing with layers of colors, mediums, old silk screens and text to create the looks I wanted. My prints start off as pen and ink drawings, are transferred onto clear acetate but fun for me starts with the backgrounds - I love added and taking away the backgrounds with water and mediums to produce an old tyme photograph feel. A lot of what I've been doing has been experimental but I've had a number of experienced printers, at AS220 print shop studios, asking me what I use to achieve the effects I've been able to produce. Their support of my work has been extremely flattering.
Here are a view images of the work I've been printing for the show:
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| "Family portrait" |
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| "Out" |
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| "Fleeting" - 2 panel version |
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| "The weight of my sister" - the idea is based on a black and white painting I did a few years ago by the same name. I feel our relationships, whether familial or thru community, are a responsibility we're given. How we handle that responsibility has consequences. |
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| "Ich nich nichts. Ich ben heir, mit ihen" Translation: "I am not nothing. I am here with you" OR "I am not nothing with you. I am here" |
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| "Madame seated" - this is one of several portraits I've done of Madame Soong May-ling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soong_May-ling. I've been obsessed with depicting her face since I first saw it as a child. The background is made of a mixture of colors with iridescent silver paint - streaks and splotches and bubbles in the ink make the print exactly what I want it to be! |
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Okay back to work..... |
Monday, March 5, 2012
03/05 - Tryin'
So, I went to Brooklyn the pother day to work on finalizing a few things to do with the show, walked out feeling confident but very quickly lost my giddiness - I dropped my camera, water the waterfront area near Water Street, and bustled the lens. Seems small but things have gotten so tight I don't think I can get another one. Need the camera...need to record the work so I can post it online on my various blogs and networking sites including FB and Kickstarter or I can't promote my show and garner support - a camera used to be an option but now it's an essential. I gotta find a solution....soon. everytime I look at y broken camera I think "nah, you're not really boken. I can fix you. Just haven't figued out how yet!" But it is very, very broken.
On the upside, I'm working as much as I can to get the prints together. I spend approx. 5-8 hours a day, 4-5 days a week printing out silk screen illustrations. My head, however, won't let the work I've done go - it's always looking for a way to improve what's been done...which is good. The process can also stymie my ability to work on new stuff which then gets me feeling like I'm not moving forward, which then triggers my OCD and depression which then leaves me to believe that everyone knows I'm not doing my best and am headed towards complete failure. Lately, it's been hard keeping my head from going downt that road. A small set back, like the broken Fuji, can get me spiraling. I gotta figure out the camera situation - I have to have recorded proof that I'm making progresss.
I'm tryin' here. I'm really tryin' to stay on schedule - I've only got 10 more days left to work on the print project so .... get up, get moving.
On the upside, I'm working as much as I can to get the prints together. I spend approx. 5-8 hours a day, 4-5 days a week printing out silk screen illustrations. My head, however, won't let the work I've done go - it's always looking for a way to improve what's been done...which is good. The process can also stymie my ability to work on new stuff which then gets me feeling like I'm not moving forward, which then triggers my OCD and depression which then leaves me to believe that everyone knows I'm not doing my best and am headed towards complete failure. Lately, it's been hard keeping my head from going downt that road. A small set back, like the broken Fuji, can get me spiraling. I gotta figure out the camera situation - I have to have recorded proof that I'm making progresss.
I'm tryin' here. I'm really tryin' to stay on schedule - I've only got 10 more days left to work on the print project so .... get up, get moving.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
02/29 - Over the river and to New Bedford and then off to New York we go...
This afternoon I head to NY for first Thursday gallery night in DUMBO http://www.facebook.com/DumboCulture411, to meet with the curator of my show (CAM http://www.craiganthonymiller.com/) in the first of several trips leading up to my show opening next month. I can't believe it's almost here!
Have a lot to do today (pick up prints at Just In Advertising, pick up paintings at storage and Muse Studios, drop off work at UGLY, get my hair cut, come back to Prov. pack, make veg juice, etc ) but before I go I want to post the print I made yesterday. I'm incredibly proud of this one:
Please note: Prints of this work are available as part of several pledge/investment packages in Kickstarter thru March 18th, 2012: http://kck.st/xcgP15
Okay - gotta go!
Have a lot to do today (pick up prints at Just In Advertising, pick up paintings at storage and Muse Studios, drop off work at UGLY, get my hair cut, come back to Prov. pack, make veg juice, etc ) but before I go I want to post the print I made yesterday. I'm incredibly proud of this one:
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| Do to the nature of silk screen, each print is it's own individual work. |
Please note: Prints of this work are available as part of several pledge/investment packages in Kickstarter thru March 18th, 2012: http://kck.st/xcgP15
Okay - gotta go!
Monday, February 27, 2012
02/27 - Just got photos back from photographer
Took some work to my portfolio photographer Chuck Pappas and I'm really excited. Chuck knows how to make the colors in my work POP! His work is incredible - I'd be sunk without him.
As a reminder - copies of the work are available as part of the rewards program for investors on my Kickstarter page: http://kck.st/xcgP15. However, both prints and the original works will be available at my one man show this April at ReBar, 145 Front Street, Brooklyn.
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As a reminder - copies of the work are available as part of the rewards program for investors on my Kickstarter page: http://kck.st/xcgP15. However, both prints and the original works will be available at my one man show this April at ReBar, 145 Front Street, Brooklyn.
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| "Stay out of the pool" - oil on acrylic and aerosol, chalk and oil crayon on 4' x 5' canvas $4,800 |
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| "Un simple soldat" - oil on acrylic, pencil, marker and oil crayon on 4' x 4' masonite $3,400 |
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| "Waiting" - oil on acrylic and aerosol, oil pastel, chalk and pencil on (one of a two panel piece) 3' x 5' canvas. Price to be determined. |
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| "Men in bear suits, men in jail" - oil on acrylic, and oil pastel on canvas 16" (?) x 24" (?). $850 |
02/27 - A little worn down
A bit exhausted but have to keep working....just posted my 5th blog update on Kickstarter http://kck.st/xcgP15 - I'm really excited I get to start working on my new brochere and having posters/color prints of my work made because my photographer just called to say "I'm all done!". I'm also psyched bc I have 9 Kickvestors - 20 days to go and the project is 18% funded!
Have tyo go showere and get to the photog's studio but here's some picks of silk screen work I've been printing and reworking at AS220 this last week:
Have tyo go showere and get to the photog's studio but here's some picks of silk screen work I've been printing and reworking at AS220 this last week:
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| I've added, in pencil, the title: "My toe points me in the appropriate direction" up the side of the print. |
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| Title - "Private property: Not for use without expressed permission from owner" |
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| "Un bridled enthusiam" and "Pride. I am a man" drying on the rack. |
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| "Ek het ongebreidelde entoesiasme wat nie verlore gaan, maak nie saak wat jy doen vir my" ( I have unbridled enthusiam, that cannot be lost, no matter what you do to me) |
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| "My toe" on black |
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| "Pride: I am a man, I am here, I am here. And everyday I earn my place" - finally fini! |
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| Untitled for now. Working on appropriate text - they are boys who dug for coal during the depression. Rethinking the print though....it needs a little brown... |
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| 1/2 of "Waiting" - just like the oil painting, the print "Waiting" is a 2 panel. |
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| 2nd 1/2 of "Waiting" Oh, so tired but off we go to get on with the projects of the day.... |
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