More Skav Art Prints In The Urban Gallery

The five prints done so far, placed under a bus shelter in Dewsbury town centre

 

I placed these prints up in the last couple of weeks. Apart from the first two Wizbang! prints that I had left, I also added a third, which was The Triplejack Gun. After that I printed out two other artworks, which were The Balloon Seller and The Neighbourhood Watcher (these two do have printed info on the back but are still signed and numbered by me). As you can see from the picture, I even included a small sign "Free Skav Art Prints" to encourage people to take them. In the end, I didn't really need to add that as it does appear that more people are taking them. In some cases, faster than I can put them up.

 

This is fine. As I said in a previous post, they are yours to take if you see any of them around. I know that some are being removed and thrown away due to the perception that it's just untidy fly-posting, which is a bit much when you look at the photo above where you can still see the old tape marks of those that do fly-post without concern. At least I try to make the effort not to cause such damage. So it might be best to grab them when you see them.

 

I'll try to do more print runs of other artworks in the future. The main reason I don't do them so often and keep each one down to 20 copies is mostly due to cost and my very limited resources. But they are fun to do and I hope you like them.

Wizbang! Prints In The Urban Gallery

Printing out the Wizbang artworks wasn't something I'd planned when I did them, but I thought it might be fun to do. So I chose the Mind Probe and Pet Demon ones, added simple posterization to the images of them and printed out 20 of each. I laminated each one, then took half of them into Dewsbury town centre and stuck them up in various places, such as the following:

 

Not the best gallery space around, but it's free and it'll do!

As you can see on the left with the photos above, others tend to stick posters up all the time on phoneboxes. The fact that they use ordinary tape shows what little thought they have when doing it. Even when such posters are torn down, they always leave those ugly tape marks. I had to be careful not to do that, as it can be seen as criminal damage (which it is really). For that reason, I chose to use Magic Tape. And, as anyone who uses such tape knows, one of its features is that it doesn't leave that annoying tape mark behind.

 

As well as phoneboxes, I also chose bus shelters. I avoided empty shops fronts, as they're still private property even though they are unused. I know that people rarely use phoneboxes these days (and judging by the condition of them, BT seems to maintain them to that level) but they do make a good starting place for such urban galleries. These prints might help brighten up someone's day, and if that happens then they've done their job well.

 

And yes, if you see any of them, you are free to take them!

 

That's what they're there for, after all. What other art gallery allows you to walk around it taking whatever you like? Not any that I know of, and you'll find that each print has been signed and numbered by me on the back.

One last thing. If any of you use a laminator, avoid Texet laminating pouches, they really are shit! (And their laminators are pretty crappy too).