Today’s the day for my ILLUSTRATION exhibition. It’s ILLUSTRATION – a graphic novel I’ve been working on for the past few years. I have several fine art proposals that haven’t been successful with funding, and it’s interesting that having sent a press release out, I’m getting invites from the art world still expecting me to pay for stuff. £20 to join some other arts promo site. I haven’t sold anything yet. I’m still heavily into my overdraft, and I still have several unpaid roles, especially that of a Carer.
Unless my work sells, I’m currently £200 short on the rent this month due to issues I have no control over. Such as everyone wanting a piece of the pie before I’ve even gone to get the ingredients.
Thanks to Kate Murdoch for sharing something about pricing – in pricing my ILLUSTRATIONS, I went for a day preparation time, 2 hours exhibition set up / install, 2 hours for the private view, and calculated my day rate for the time, then added materials for the prints / cost, and split between the amount of prints to give an amount for each print. Then I added on the 20% asked for by the shop.
It comes to £40 for each A4 print. For some reason smaller prints are the same price. This is because when I divide my time between 8 of them, compared to 10 A4 prints, it works out the same. I also printed the smaller ones, and that actually actually took longer battling with the printer.
Tomorrow I will be relaunching the Kickstarter campaign in the hope that it’s third time lucky.
Meanwhile, I was watching something on BBC3 about vloggers. Some vloggers refer to themselves as “artists”. The only artists I’ve ever known to use vlogging as a medium have only ever made parodies of themselves or taken a wry look at the phenomenon.
I thought about it. What could I vlog about? I used to have a Youtube channel at Uni, but my animations only ever received negative comments, so I abandoned it.
I don’t think I’d feel comfortable sharing my expertise online unless I was definitely receiving recognition, respect, and income for it.
And some vloggers still spend all their time doing it and still not be able to pay the bills. All those selfies of shopping trips…….. I’m not really the kind of person to share my darkest moments online either. These youngsters must think no one else has ever gone through what they’re going through or something.
I’ve probably lived several lives before I was 30, but I still wouldn’t feel comfortable vlogging about it. I can barely blog anything at all. I can’t claim to be too hard up if I can afford an internet connection, so if I’m really hard up, I won’t be online to vlog about it, will I???
Anyway, there were some weird clouds over Lincoln last night. Cloudbusting ;-)
