London Walks Artwork - Yes You Can!

...buy a limited edition print of the work from my book. I had a few enquiries about buying original artwork and, although I'd love to be able to sell it, I actually drew a lot of it directly onto a dummy of the book. I may sell it one day but that could well be when I'm a) very old b) very poor or c) dead, so I hope you'll have to wait a little while. (In the meantime here's a tantalising glimpse)

However I have made very limited edition giclée prints of each piece of artwork. There will only be five prints produced from each spread and they are printed on sketchbook pages (a bit fiddly which is why the run is so limited).

Here they are exhibited them at Foyles bookshop last month in lovely frames that suspend the artwork inside a sort of glass sandwich, letting you see your wallpaper or tasteful Farrow & Ball paint between the edge of the print and the frame.

Each print is, of course, signed, dated and numbered.

I'm selling the framed artwork through the Tate Britain and Tate Modern shops, where you will soon be able to see the pictures on the wall. If the prints are not showing on their online shop, just email them and they will be able to sell you one. I think they will retail at around £90 which I hope doesn't sound too outrageous.

If you'd like an unframed print please get in touch with me at badaude@aol.com. Unframed prints cost £60 each + p&p (about £4 in the UK and £6 for the rest of the world). If you buy more than one print I will post them free, by insured post, worldwide. If you want to buy more than two prints I'll give you a further discount on the price but I haven't quite worked that one out yet.

If you would like a print, just have a flick through the book, decide which one you'd like, and get in touch.

Oh and if you'd like a signed book with a little drawing inside it, I've just received my copies from the Tate so, if you emailed me about ordering one and I haven't got in touch yet - apologies -  please email me again.

 

 

Comments

[Paris Karin (an alien parisienne)]

Poo. I left a comment, and something crashed on my browser, and it has disappeared, I think. Alas. Here goes again!

This is really delightful. :) Thank you for sharing from the book dummy! I love to see the creativity involved in the making of the book. I really do want to get my hands on a copy. I'll email you about how to get my hands on a signed one with an illustration. :)

Was the book dummy a Moleskine or did you create one yourself? I'd like a nice blank book about that size and shape to mess about in. Not sure what just yet, but I think I need a blank book about that size and shape. It's calling my name... :)

Congratulations on all your illustrative and creative success of late! I think the framed, limited-edition run is a *great* idea, and priced just right for the artwork you've done. Of course, it's still too expensive for my unemployed self (*sigh*), but I'm positive you will have many takers!

Thanks again for posting this.
Karin

[Paris Karin (an alien parisienne)]

(Whoops. I just realized with posting the comment above that it was "my bad." I forgot about entering the Captcha code at the end of the posting process, and went off to answer an email and also write to you about a copy of the book before completing it. Silly me. :)~)

[badaude]

I have that problem all the time - though I should be used to it by now.

I usually use Moleskine sketchbooks in all sizes but the book I used for the Tate work was actually a dummy of the final book (publishers usually order a blank mock-up of the book from their printer so they can tell what final copies will look like and check for problems). As the paper quality is so good I found I could just draw directly onto it.

[Paris Karin (an alien parisienne)]

Thanks for letting me know! That's cool that the dummy was of such great quality.

Also, I tried to send you an email re: a copy of the book to the email that's listed on your site here (which is an AOL one) and got a mailer-daemon bounceback on it. Is there a better email to use? Or, if you like, send me a message from a good email for you (mine should show up for you as a commenter, right?) and I'll forward the message I originally wrote to the good email. Thank you. :)

[badaude]

Hi - am emailing you right now so you should be able to get in touch with me - check your spam!

[DBC Reed]

Just received my copy: delighted! I intend to do some of the walks, despite your health warning.

When I took early retirement, I began a project to write a guidebook to London riverside pubs,(which included the Black Friar) but ended up with me getting fairly immobile, then not being able to read my notes.

Now in my mind's eye , I see this work with Badaude-style drawings instead of slabs of print, reborn and glorious.( I'm not trying to pitch the idea: the mere re-visualisation is so intense that it has taken on a kind of personal reality with no need of objective correlative).