Inside the Cooler
Yesterdays work went like this:
back again. This
Another long day in cooler yesterday till about 11pm really mentally shuting down last night. Started to wonder how I was going to do the bits without lettering? A small world in my head with worries about how the white and off whites were distributed. Was there too much varition, not enough?
The fairies did not visit last night, I am waiting for them to continue the work while I sleep!
Such a small world in there. Playing Cd’s means getting up to change them when they finish which is a bit of a drag. Radio; endless talk about football managers. My head asks is the lower part of that c the right shape. Its such a small world with only your own thoughts. Yesterday was actually quite productive in terms of area covered, high price in my mind.
I feel fine today and enjoyed washing off the mess to see what yesterday looked like. Today will actually take me through ‘this. Door’ into somewhere beyond? But I know it will be that small place again….but I have to go there.
John Kenny Illustrator, was a total legend
My stint in the cooler finished at 11pm yesterday. I must be somewhere like 2 thirds, 3 quarters of the way through now. about a month of solitary, its not been too intense. But I am slowing down, and it really needs the momentum to keep running. I have stuff on the horizon which will keep me out of the cooler And another project banging on my door which will very much keep me in the cooler. I need this to keep moving forward.
I will spend another good long day in there today. Yesterdays work went like this o stone, . Then
The day before went: omed t
The day before that: n. Bloss
The fairies have not visited during the night.
Once I have started its not too bad. Starting is the problem. I have added an image by my favourite illustrator John Kenny http://www.ladybirdflyawayhome.com/pages/kenney.htm
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Kenney
who did Ladybird Books which I grew up with. This image shows how I feel, Alexander the Great’s army lost in the desert struggling for hundreds of miles in unknown lands. I feel like one of the soldiers on this march, and if I look back I can see the sick and fallen in the dust. His illustrations have stayed with me all these years. He did Thomas the Tank Engine and I belive some Airfix model boxes as well.
Got to keep going.
‘The Cooler’.
I’ve got to spend a lot of time in there. The faries don’t come during the night and progress the work.
I’ve done about 3 weeks so far. But the time has been dispersed with plenty of other activities so the ‘Lonely Madness’ has stayed away.
Todays work went like this:
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Tommorrows work is 150 miles away, so no Cooler for me for a day.
A Blast From The Past.
I had to go up into my loft the other day and while I was up there I rummaged for something else I had a feeling must be up there. Even though I knew there had been several of these in 1986, the question was…..was there any left.
The answer was Yes. One.
Here it is a slide of a painting of Steve MacQueen I did in 1986. It is oil on canvas and I poured a load of hot wax onto the canvas while I was painting it and worked into it directly. I dont know why, just a spur of the moment thing to see what would come out. I did actually sell this painting in a solo exhibition I had back then, to an Irish restaraunt owner called Thomas O’conner.
Ever since I started this blog called the Cooler King I remembered I did this painting and thought I must look to see if I have a slide of it. Back then slides were the main tool for showing work.
So here he is The Cooler King.
The Sueing Culture
A line from one of my emails this evening made push my chair back away from my computer and fill my cheeks with air and take 15 seconds to blow it out through nearly losed lips
‘Please note we need a figure in
question 9 on both Appendix a and b’.
A rant is lost on my wife and children who tell me shut up and stop getting them confused with someone who gives a s**t …and no doubt rightly so!………….So if you are silly enough to look at this about……..
PROFFESSIONAL INDEMNITY…….
Can AIR negotiate a policy with Hencilla or someone as its a constant question and its really a major pain as no one wants to employ unindemnified artists even though they employ them as ‘Consultants’. If I could charge £600 per day like a consultant, then I might not moan about it. So tommorrow I will have the little dance that goes like this:
I ask the client what did they want indemnification against?
answer…….oh just general all area coverage so we can sue you if anyone chokes to death looking at your artworks……
er and how long would you like me to indemnify you against that then?……..
answer:………. indefinatley………
No problem………
I did get a quote once and the annual premium for the coverage required was such a large proportion of the all inclusive fee it made things not viable AND the insurer said that actually I did not need the cover to decorate Way Markers. I might update this post tommorow with the outcome of this now ritulistic game of chess every time I get appointed.
