More ‘Stay Up Forever’ prints for release. There was always going to be a second wave of these, it’s taken a while to get around to it but we got here in the end. A lot of people missed out last time, so hopefully if you didn’t get hold of one before you’ll grab one this time around.
This is to be the last release of ‘Stay Up’, maybe some dribs and drabs in various forms might leak out as I use up any spares knocking around the studio, but this is the last proper launch
Amazingly the first wave have been going for upwards of £175 on E-Bay in the past few weeks, not a bad return on a print bought for £35-45 just over a month ago. Let’s see how they survive the test of time. So what’s on offer this time around…well, tried something a bit different with coloured stocks, still Colorplan 270gsm, but using some nice dark colours. The midnight (blue), claret (dark red) and amethyst (purple) are pretty special. Each hand finished with white spraypaint to make the moon ping off the paper, then a spot gloss lacquer is applied to the moon and drips only, creating a shimmer when the light catches these elements, this matt/gloss effect and the rich paper colours give them areal ‘luxurious’ feel.
Also available are some grey/poison/toxic colours, and the more subtle white print on black stock- hand finished with lilac and purple.
The all important edition numbers on these are: 20(numbered) for each of the luxury- midnight, claret and amethyst. 25(numbered) for the lilac/purple, 5 for the grey/poison and grey/toxic and there will be some more limited offerings popping up over the next few days.
Because of the subsequent meltdown I’ll be selling these through BigCartel, it shouldn’t effect you in anyway, it’ll make it easier for calculating accurate postage and you’ll be able to keep an eye on stock levels. The prints are launched at 3pm GMT Monday, 28th March 2011. but you can browse over the weekend: store
While you are there, check out the ‘Stay Up Forever’ very limited canvases for sale, again these come in the regular black (Tranquility) and 3 ‘luxury’ colours- (midnight/claret/amethyst) each one unique.
Finally, I’m sure you share the feelings of sadness and disbelief at the events of the earthquake/tsunami that devastated areas of Japan on March 11th. I visited Japan a couple of years ago and fell in love with the place, and the people there! It’s hard watching the images unfold on the tv and not be able to do anything to help.
over the last few weeks since the first launch, I’ve had so many requests for a print with a loveheart on (well the last release was near Valentine’s Day), but Mrs Doe was the sole recipient of this one-off print. However if this is something that people want, then I’m willing to ‘do requests’- just this once. So an absolute ‘one-off’ canvas has been painted, never to be painted in this colour way again, never to have a loveheart again, gotta say this is a smasher! on sale at EBay here all 100% sales to go to the ‘Japan earthquake and tsunami appeal’ via EBay- so please dig deep, even if you put a couple of sneaky bids on in the early stages- you’ll be doing your bit!
