Crabalocker
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Have really enjoyed this thread, an inspiration to all. Wish I had the balls to do something similar! Keep up the good work and I hope it gets a bit easier for you, keep living the dream.
24 Hour Art Challenge?
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Not really a case of 'having the balls'. More a matter of necessity. Still waiting for people to pay me so, I have no option but to do another week.
Very busy here now. This is THE holiday week in Spain. Processions each night until Friday and then a weekend of nothing - total close down (almost).
I have sold two very small paintings at €20 each. They sold very quickly and the larger canvases, whilst getting plenty of looks, don't appear to stand a cat in hells chance of selling. I'm going to drop the prices in order to raise some working capital to buy lots of small canvasses. Pretty sure I could sell three of those a day. Seems the only way forward at the moment.
Got friggin tooth ache in all. TBH hammering out tiny, formula paintings wasn't the vision I had. Can't complain mind. Yet!
Very busy here now. This is THE holiday week in Spain. Processions each night until Friday and then a weekend of nothing - total close down (almost).
I have sold two very small paintings at €20 each. They sold very quickly and the larger canvases, whilst getting plenty of looks, don't appear to stand a cat in hells chance of selling. I'm going to drop the prices in order to raise some working capital to buy lots of small canvasses. Pretty sure I could sell three of those a day. Seems the only way forward at the moment.
Got friggin tooth ache in all. TBH hammering out tiny, formula paintings wasn't the vision I had. Can't complain mind. Yet!
dada said:
I painted on a tile yesterday and it sold very quickly. Small (half floor tile) with a scene of a floresteria in Bib-Ramblas. Checked a few skips this morning and tried painting on a larger tile but, it was just to heavy.
I have found a supply of very small canvases for just €2.30. Sell them for €20 (I hope). Although, I am now lugging three canvases around. This Semana Santa crowd are not art buyers. If I had really thought about this (been clever like) I would have built up a stock a genuine Jesus paintings or summat.
The tourists seem to be buying bits and bobs by day and just meandering with the flow and spending money on food and drink by evening. That's really what I would like to be doing!
Need a good result tomorrow.
Oh dear! This is not going well. Thousands of people but, no buyers despite reducing prices (dramatically). Perhaps I had beginners luck for the first couple of weeks 
Good news is that I've negotiated my hostal fees down to the monthly rate of €15/night - very clean ensuite room with TV and fridge. A bargain.
But, I'm just not earning a bean at the moment. Will try selling around the bars at knock down prices
Good news is that I've negotiated my hostal fees down to the monthly rate of €15/night - very clean ensuite room with TV and fridge. A bargain.
But, I'm just not earning a bean at the moment. Will try selling around the bars at knock down prices
Cid
Proper break this time
Have to say that this has my vote as one of the best threads I've ever read on urban... It's like an artistic soap opera thing .
Also think you've inspired a lot of people back here - sure most of us aren't gonna have the balls/desperation to follow you but you've certainly galvanised me into getting off my arse and relearning all the ol' artistic skillz.
. Also think you've inspired a lot of people back here - sure most of us aren't gonna have the balls/desperation to follow you but you've certainly galvanised me into getting off my arse and relearning all the ol' artistic skillz.
Yay! A very good morning. Three sales. Two x €20 small pics and I finally sold the large canvas with the beautiful painting of the church of Santa Ana. Sadly at a very knock down price of €50. However, that has enabled me to catch the little art shop before the holidays and stock up on new paint, brushes and five small canvases.
Small canvases sell well. Plan for this afternoon is to complete two paintings. A repeat of the church of Santa Ana in small scale (because it's Semana Santa) and another picture of a floresteria.
Tomorrow I should have three small paintings and one large painting to put on display whilst I paint amongst the ever growing holiday crowds. That could bring in another €100!
My skin seems to have hardened to the sun and a new pair of cords means I am no longer the sunburned, scruffy english painter (for the time being at least). Amongst the locals I am simply known as 'Senior Pintar' or, just 'Pintar'. I like it - I'm becoming a local celebrity.
Have to repeat that the locals have all been very supportive. Even have one security guard watching my back for me whilst I paint. Not that I've had cause to worry about stuff being filched whilst I'm concentrating on painting yet.
Still not making enough money to cover costs but, beginning to believe again that it is possible. I'm learning all the time and still having a great time.
Small canvases sell well. Plan for this afternoon is to complete two paintings. A repeat of the church of Santa Ana in small scale (because it's Semana Santa) and another picture of a floresteria.
Tomorrow I should have three small paintings and one large painting to put on display whilst I paint amongst the ever growing holiday crowds. That could bring in another €100!
My skin seems to have hardened to the sun and a new pair of cords means I am no longer the sunburned, scruffy english painter (for the time being at least). Amongst the locals I am simply known as 'Senior Pintar' or, just 'Pintar'.
I like it - I'm becoming a local celebrity.Have to repeat that the locals have all been very supportive. Even have one security guard watching my back for me whilst I paint. Not that I've had cause to worry about stuff being filched whilst I'm concentrating on painting yet.
Still not making enough money to cover costs but, beginning to believe again that it is possible. I'm learning all the time and still having a great time.
fractionMan
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Keep at it 
dada said:
The large canvas of the Santa Ana church was obviously religious. There are (I think - six brotherhoods here from different churches. All 'compete' in the processions. The guy who bought my painting I suspect was looking to resell. Followers of the Santa Ana were well chuffed I had painted their church but, there are five others!) so, yes - that one was 'religious'. All the others selling are pretty little pics of florists. Seems the punters want an unchallenging convenience as ever. Nope. No paint Jesus. Yet.
Just had a lovelly painting session. Three pics completed after someone gave me a big fat joint to go with my bottle of beer
Accompanied by some lovely soulful folk singing and pipe and fiddle playing in Plaza Neuvo. Perfect.Then went to paint a florists stall in Bib-Rambla. Beautiful balloon selling lady made a perfect model in front of all the flowers. Spent an hour falling in love, watching a gold, helium filled Winnie the Pooh disappear into a deep blue sky full of swallows. Square full of early evening life. Fucking bliss.
Listening to procession bands pass. Couldn't quite put my finger on it before but, just realised Water Boy's - 'Red Army Blues' is basically a Semana Santa tune. Possibly.
Off to enjoy a beautiful evening. Good selling opportunities tomorrow morning.
--/ So, OK I'm pissed and stoned, beautiful balloon selling lady is probably a heroin addict, lost a pack of cigs in a bar, cigs are a bleedin luxury in this lifestyle, bars are probably a luxury also. However, thing that makes this lifestyle so very special is the fact that everything beyond food and water is a blissful luxury to be enjoyed as never before.
Life is good.
Slightly fuzzy brains today. But, excellent news; I'm building a local customer base! Return customers! And a painting sold before it's even finished. Very, very encouraging for future prospects.
Bought a few postcards to work from so that I can build stock from my regular pitch.
Good day so far. Met a locally based artist from Austria. He's doing giant paintings in the streets when they're closed for the processions. Will spend some time watching him this evening. After a return visit to Plaza Neuvo for a couple of beers and a smoke Yesterday evening really was very beautiful.
Bought a few postcards to work from so that I can build stock from my regular pitch.
Good day so far. Met a locally based artist from Austria. He's doing giant paintings in the streets when they're closed for the processions. Will spend some time watching him this evening. After a return visit to Plaza Neuvo for a couple of beers and a smoke
Yesterday evening really was very beautiful.good stuff.
it's sunny in Cornwall too... and nice things are happening here too....
met a painter mate of mine in Penzance the other day who has done this sort of thing for yonks...only had recognisble_society success in the last ten years or so and he often goes all nostalgic for the less heady_live to work_work to eat days...cept he put his wife and kids through it too!!!! ,,this was on Wedneday morning ...tried to get him to come out to the pub on Thursday..said he couldn't coz he had to be in Canary Wharf to see the Glastonbury Film launch and had to be back early enough to walk his kids to school in Pz on Friday morning. 
Hope you are snapping and writing too?...if only to keep some sort of diary...what happens today will mean alot more in the years to come,,even the little things, if you see what I mean?...like falling in luuuuurve with a ballon seller!!!! =oP
it's sunny in Cornwall too... and nice things are happening here too....
met a painter mate of mine in Penzance the other day who has done this sort of thing for yonks...only had recognisble_society success in the last ten years or so and he often goes all nostalgic for the less heady_live to work_work to eat days...cept he put his wife and kids through it too!!!!
,,this was on Wedneday morning ...tried to get him to come out to the pub on Thursday..said he couldn't coz he had to be in Canary Wharf to see the Glastonbury Film launch and had to be back early enough to walk his kids to school in Pz on Friday morning. Hope you are snapping and writing too?...if only to keep some sort of diary...what happens today will mean alot more in the years to come,,even the little things, if you see what I mean?...like falling in luuuuurve with a ballon seller!!!! =oP
dada said:
Prolly..another mate of mine was asked if they would sell a sketch to someone who was being interviewed by them...they nonchalantly said "Uh?..yeah?..whaddeva.#sighs#" the buyer went off to the cash point and came back with £400....she turned out to be Gllian Ayres
And the bastid had given me the sketches a couple of years earlier and asked them back, temporarily, to bulk out his portfolio...
yea the old man was a bit sad when i said 'no'. i was a student then, i spent hours sketching on my notebook, it was hardwork and didn't want to tear the pages off. perhaps i missed my big break.boskysquelch said:Prolly..another mate of mine was asked if they would sell a sketch to someone who was being interviewed by them...they nonchalantly said "Uh?..yeah?..whaddeva.#sighs#" the buyer went off to the cash point and came back with £400....she turned out to be Gllian Ayres
And the bastid had given me the sketches a couple of years earlier and asked them back, temporarily, to bulk out his portfolio...
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dada said:
you don't miss them..you create them and make them as you will.
Oh dear.
Really wish I had found an internet cafe open last night because, firstly I would love to read now what I thought was going on and, secondly it might have kept me out of at least one bar!
Totally fucking wasted. Big hole in my pocket despite selling two paintings without even trying. Not sure what went on last night. Remember watching a full moon rise over the Alhambra after a couple of chillums and trying to explain to all the photographing tourists that the scene was indeed beautiful but, not nearly as beautiful as the scene 45 degrees to their right. Lovelly view of old and new Granada with twinkly neon suburban lights in the background.
Remember getting trapped in the middle of the procession and deciding a bar was the best option. Remember complaining that €2.40 was muy caro for a vino tinto. Remember getting in the way of the waiters. Remember being asked to sign a painting before I sold it. Remember telling the manager of my favourite bar that his tapas was like pig food
and walking out after paying for just one vino tinto when I had actually drunk at least three. Remember a discussion with a nice young american couple about the history of Granada, the Romans, the dark ages and the Dama de Baza. Remember ending up in the anarchists bar and not being able to drink any more.
Woke up this morning with the TV going at a loud volume. Head fucking stinks. Parched. Tostada de tomata y dos cafe con leche is helping. Something about fresh tomotoes and olive oil that reminds you the world is still living even if you feel like you're not!
'Rat arsed' is a very apt expression. Onwards and upwards - I have an appointment to meet. Someone wants to view a painting. Thank fuck for the sunshine!
Bollocksed.
Really wish I had found an internet cafe open last night because, firstly I would love to read now what I thought was going on and, secondly it might have kept me out of at least one bar!
Totally fucking wasted. Big hole in my pocket despite selling two paintings without even trying. Not sure what went on last night. Remember watching a full moon rise over the Alhambra after a couple of chillums and trying to explain to all the photographing tourists that the scene was indeed beautiful but, not nearly as beautiful as the scene 45 degrees to their right. Lovelly view of old and new Granada with twinkly neon suburban lights in the background.
Remember getting trapped in the middle of the procession and deciding a bar was the best option. Remember complaining that €2.40 was muy caro for a vino tinto. Remember getting in the way of the waiters. Remember being asked to sign a painting before I sold it. Remember telling the manager of my favourite bar that his tapas was like pig food
and walking out after paying for just one vino tinto when I had actually drunk at least three. Remember a discussion with a nice young american couple about the history of Granada, the Romans, the dark ages and the Dama de Baza. Remember ending up in the anarchists bar and not being able to drink any more.Woke up this morning with the TV going at a loud volume. Head fucking stinks. Parched. Tostada de tomata y dos cafe con leche is helping. Something about fresh tomotoes and olive oil that reminds you the world is still living even if you feel like you're not!
'Rat arsed' is a very apt expression. Onwards and upwards - I have an appointment to meet. Someone wants to view a painting. Thank fuck for the sunshine!
Bollocksed.
A quick write about the Austrian artist before I forget because he really is worth a big mention.
Really interesting guy. He lives in an old farmhouse near Almeria but, spends most of his time travelling around Spain painting on the streets, literally. During the summer he has three months paid work painting a scene in a church (what a gig!).
He is here in Granada for Semana Santa painting huge Jesus pictures on the streets at night once they've been closed to traffic. Using very diluted acryllics he paints muy rapido! The paintings remain on the road for a couple of days but, the oil in the tarmac means they're not there permanently.
On Sunday he's off to Murcia for the spring fiesta where he will paint topical 'spring' type paintings. He tells me that the people of Murcia are very appreciating of art and you can get a good hostal for just €9/night. It is his favourite city in Spain.
Basically he tours Spain following the fiestas and paints scenes that are relative to the fiesta celebration. This guy is my new hero. Fantastic painter living a fabulous life even if it's a little bit financially stretched. Very inspirational. Plan to share a vino tinto and tapas with him this evening and find out a bit more. Very interesting guy.
Really interesting guy. He lives in an old farmhouse near Almeria but, spends most of his time travelling around Spain painting on the streets, literally. During the summer he has three months paid work painting a scene in a church (what a gig!).
He is here in Granada for Semana Santa painting huge Jesus pictures on the streets at night once they've been closed to traffic. Using very diluted acryllics he paints muy rapido! The paintings remain on the road for a couple of days but, the oil in the tarmac means they're not there permanently.
On Sunday he's off to Murcia for the spring fiesta where he will paint topical 'spring' type paintings. He tells me that the people of Murcia are very appreciating of art and you can get a good hostal for just €9/night. It is his favourite city in Spain.
Basically he tours Spain following the fiestas and paints scenes that are relative to the fiesta celebration. This guy is my new hero. Fantastic painter living a fabulous life even if it's a little bit financially stretched. Very inspirational. Plan to share a vino tinto and tapas with him this evening and find out a bit more. Very interesting guy.
The state of play.
Typing this here to remind myself where I'm at as much as anything. As things stand I have; one large painting of Romanilla (a personal favourite but, not a seller) and two small paintings of floresterias in Bib-Rambla. None are religious in subject. Religion sells here during Semana Santa. Sells like hot crossed buns actually. However, I'm pretty certain I can sell the two small paintings this evening.
Cash in hand is now approx €70. By end of night should be €120+ if I don´t get wasted again. Don't plan to - I am seriously paying the price for last nights excesses.
Getting far to much interest from the small balloon sellers close to my regular pitch. Something is awry! Not to sure what the game is but, they're sizing me up financially. Not a problem. It's quite easy to sell on the move with the crowds here now.
Time for a baked potato. I need sustenance.
Typing this here to remind myself where I'm at as much as anything. As things stand I have; one large painting of Romanilla (a personal favourite but, not a seller) and two small paintings of floresterias in Bib-Rambla. None are religious in subject. Religion sells here during Semana Santa. Sells like hot crossed buns actually. However, I'm pretty certain I can sell the two small paintings this evening.
Cash in hand is now approx €70. By end of night should be €120+ if I don´t get wasted again. Don't plan to - I am seriously paying the price for last nights excesses.
Getting far to much interest from the small balloon sellers close to my regular pitch. Something is awry! Not to sure what the game is but, they're sizing me up financially. Not a problem. It's quite easy to sell on the move with the crowds here now.
Time for a baked potato. I need sustenance.
9.30 en la tardes. Rain stops play.
--/ Note to self; this is not a fucking game it is the real deal.
--/ Note to self; life's a game - play it to enjoy it.
--/ Note to self; stop noting to self. It's fucking mad.
--/ Note to self; this is not a fucking game it is the real deal.
--/ Note to self; life's a game - play it to enjoy it.
--/ Note to self; stop noting to self. It's fucking mad.
elcuadroentero
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Raining in Cadiz aswell.
Good words.
Good words.
Big rain through the night. Very noisy - got very little sleep. Everyone seems very miserable this morning. You reach a point where you take waking up to a sunny morning for granted. Then, when it's not sunny, you feel a bit let down. Could also be that most of Granada was up until the early hours.
I think the little art shop is open. May buy another canvas despite the gloomy atmosphere. It is all very subdued.
Cadiz is high on my list of places to visit. Will definatley catch a train that way soon. Possibly with that 'Freestylers' tune that was on an Urban Burn that someone here sent me.
I think the little art shop is open. May buy another canvas despite the gloomy atmosphere. It is all very subdued.
Cadiz is high on my list of places to visit. Will definatley catch a train that way soon. Possibly with that 'Freestylers' tune that was on an Urban Burn that someone here sent me.
Lluve, lluve, lluve. The rain is back. A little worrying. Rain can hang around for days on end in this part of the world. Hopefully this lot will pass soon.
I need a rain plan?
I need a rain plan?
hiccup said:
I have a new web project ready to launch on my PC which is currently in storage. Hadn't really planned things this way! With wind, rain and tiredness today it's about as much as I can manage to just post here
Could do with a sale to lift my spirits. It's enjoyable most of the time. It's the financial uncertainty that is a bit of a problem. And, I'm spending about 12 hours a day on the streets. It's not easy.
When I finally get everything set-up and have a base to work from I will be trying to market myself from a 'sort of' blog project. It will feature paintings and photographs also. Hopefully.
