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Halloween Special Offer – 40 percent off limited edition prints!

By On October 17, 2010 In Character Art, Dead Good Kids, Illustration With No Comments Permanent Link to Halloween Special Offer – 40 percent off limited edition prints!Permalink

Lucian in the Dark

To celebrate Halloween, we have got a very special offer for Dead Good Kids customers. Until 31st October 2010 you can buy our 4 limited edition prints with a massive 40% discount, saving you £50 per print!

Our very special limited edition artworks include two Dead Good Kids favourites, Shadow Penguin and Lucian in the Dark, as well as two Dead Good Wrestlers pieces, Sanchez the Wrestler and Pile Driver Wrestlers . All prints come individually signed and numbered, and the edition for each artwork will only go to 50 prints in total. So buy one quick, before they are all gone!

We have several other promotions running in the shop at the moment. Buy all 5 original Dead Good Kids artworks, featuring the 5 main characters  – Edward, Verity, Vincent, Samara and Calamity for just £170 – a saving of £67.50. And finally there is a three for the price of two deal on the Dead Good Pets – Dexter, Percival & Mervin.

Signed art prints – with signatures that don't fade away

By On April 25, 2009 In Art Talk With No Comments Permanent Link to Signed art prints – with signatures that don't fade awayPermalink

Have you ever wondered why traditionally artist prints are always signed in pencil? Well there is a good, and simple explanation – the graphite in the pencil doesn’t fade.  If you signed the print with a typical pen, in the not too distant future the signature would fade and eventually disappear.

In terms of position of the signature and edition number, many artists sign below the print on a white border, or on the print itself.  I prefer the latter option because I like the mount to come to the edges of the print.

Something I see time and time again is artists signing the mount. This is a big no no, the reason being if the owner of the piece wants to re-frame the artwork, they will lose the signature, and the print will potentially lose any value it had.

So what do you do if you want to sign on the actual artwork and pencil won’t show up? The solution lies with archival ink pens. These pens should not fade and will stay visible on the print. Simple. :-)

So in summary, if you are an artist or a print buyer make sure the signature is in pencil or pen with archival ink.

Limited Edition or Open Edition?

By On April 20, 2009 In Art Talk With No Comments Permanent Link to Limited Edition or Open Edition?Permalink

Limited edition or  open edition, this is always a difficult question to decide upon when you are an artist. I personally love open editions because they are affordable, accessible and available to the masses. Also from an artists perspective they are great because you can use the artwork in lots of different ways. Why should it just be an art print? A piece of art, especially graphic art can be used for so many mediums, for example a bag, a t shirt, wallpaper, the side of VW camper (watch this space) you name it the possibilities are endless. Check out this image for Oakley Sunglasses packaging I did, which was adapted from the “All you need is rock” open edition. Its not exactly the same as the original print, but I would’nt have been happy to use it if it had been originaly a limited edition.

Oakley Sunglasses

In terms of the open editions I sell, I am always happy to sign them, they are printed on the same high quality art paper, and its not like I intend to make 1000′s of prints of a piece (unless a great offer comes along ;-) ).  So to a certain extent they are similar to a limited edition.

With all that in mind, the reality is when you start selling you art, a lot of buyers will only buy limited editions, and the smaller the edition the better. In fact quite a few people ask me to do one off commissions for them, where there will only ever be one piece in existence.  I totally get that, its nice to own something special and unique, especially by an artist you really like. I have a few limited editions by Julie West which I totally adore. They feel even more special because they are limited edition.

I guess the bottom line is, I just want people to see and enjoy my work. So I will continue to do both open, limited and one off commisions, so anyone can own my work.