Spent much of yesterday on art admin regarding the six paintings I took to the Oil Art Advisory. Today I reflected on the fact that my painting prices have about doubled in the past 5 years, that they had doubled in the 5 years before that, and that they're probably 10 times higher than when I first started to exhibit 15 years ago. Part of this is due to greater professionalism; more spent on more costs for higher quality work, more people in a bigger chain who take more of a cut. Another of yesterday's jobs was tidying up a very old and flaky frame bought with a glass painting intact and (oddly) a velvet lining, taking it apart for future use.
Today, charged into making videos for War And Nuclear Love. The results are all very colourful and glowing, like an electric pinball machine. The fundamental idea uses horizontal red lines and yellow stars which move and dance to different instruments. What was a red 'slice' on the cover art became blue. The result evokes an American flag, which it perfect for 'Radioactive' and the title track.
I took a video of myself for 'War and Nuclear Love', using a mask to add it to the animation, and did something similar for the 'Post-Apocalyptic Playground'. This track is perhaps little too bright, for the tune which is, in my mind, rather grey and dreary in mood, like The Night of the Living Dead. 'After The Battle' uses out-takes and clips from Jabberwocky. It's now 20:30 and I've just finished the first drafts. I expect that I'll spend all day making little changes and finalising the Spotify Canvases. These must be as good as I can make them given my time budget.
I've also posted my first animation to TikTok and will start doing this regularly, as I do with paintings on BlueSky.
