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Alternative Ibiza?

I am now attired :cool: as fuck.

Diadoras on me feet (I am so glad I didn't pay anywhere near full price for this shit). Chocolate brown, classic slacks. And, now a very nice navy blue with white trim Fred Perry tennis shirt. I think it was about 15 years ago I last picked up a tennis raquet!

I am fitting in well here :D

I have clients here who are a mother and daughter team. They are both stunningly beautiful. Daughter found me today to asked for some sketches and I am so paranoid now I told her I would call her mum when they are ready :oops: How to patronise a very clever young women and embarress myself. Don't give me your phone number - I will call your mum. Christ! All because some crazy jealous idiot is stirring up shit.

Work is rolling in. I have waiting list :cool:

Shall have cash and time to explore a bit more of Ibiza in the next few days. I still haven't seen much of the west side of the island. Opening parties start this weekend (officially - unofficially they are underway already ;)).
 
I can see I am going to continue with a bit of a love/hate relationship with Ibiza. I like it for all the same reasons I detest it. It is so naff, it is in danger of becomming cool again. I am no fan of Michel Houellebecq - he has always been far too predictable, but I don't feel too far away from Atomised!

Women with boobs stuffed full of silicon queue at the healthfood shop to buy their all natural elexirs. The place is a joke. I just picked up a copy of Pacha magazine. It's like a very bad parody of everything you ever read on a long flight. Seriously that bad. If a piss take of bad in flight entertainment was made to perfection it would be Pacha magazine. You're not sure whether to cry, or laugh.

An island full of people buying into lies and bullshit. I love it for the time being.

Commercial to the point of total sellout. It is going to get ugly!
 
Hmmm...

Vandalic. I've been playing with that all day.

Cotton Beach Club tomorrow. They are being extra, extra good to me. 10am meeting and I am sleeping out tonight (staying up all night :D). How good are they being to me? I quote a daily rate and they say we will give you almost double that plus a bonus if we like it. It will be nice to get out of town for a day also.
 
Johnny Canuck3 said:
That's terrible.

You know, you'd think that rats could finish a whole face, given three months.
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The guy wasn't really capable of looking after himself. It is a shame that these things happen in the contemporary Western World. Another heroin user bit the dust also. Ibiza does have a very grim side to it.

Thankfully, I am spending most days working at the very cool Cotton Beach Club. Due to open Wednesday. Really enjoying being involved in this. Great people I am learning much from whilst enjoying free, being paid for my art, good free food, sexy dancing girls practicing their routine, stunning sunset views, lift, or taxi to work... but, I still don't have a permanent bed here. To get around all the small corners of the island for work you need a car. Buses are shit unless you just want to from Ibiza to San Antonio. Not sure where to base myself yet. Sant Jordi is looking favourite as a compromise between cost and logistics.
 
I am close to recovering everything. May even have enough for a new laptop by the end of the week. Then I can start taking photographs. I have a secondary plan: my new friend has offered to model for me every Sunday evening. Going to complete a set of 30 nudes to be bound in a very nice leather cover to auction on the internet. If that isn't worth a new laptop, or Two then I don't stand a chance. She gets 25% of the net profit.

Hopefully, I scan a couple tomorrow to post here. I think any artist will tell you the human form is their favourite subject to sketch. It will sell. They will be beautiful. Naked women always sell :D

Rainy and humid here today.
 
No nudes to scan. Elena is out of town this evening. Instead I am having fun in internet cafes using prehistoric crap. Took me 32 Minutes to get this far, so here it is...

An experimental sketch with crayons of Plaza de Parque

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Incredibly stressful day. I have been reminded about why I don't like Ibiza. No problems with piolice, but a couple of people threatened to kick me around the street. Coked-up wankers encouraged by jealous rumour mongers.

Now I make money and beautiful company it starts to get very, very, very difficult. If you have never been here it is impossible to understand. Street people with their issues are incredibly complicated liars.
 
I am not having to work the streets with the crazy people :)

Cotton Beach Club are keeping me fed and happy. Sign writing - not my skill, but I have picked it up very quickly. Totally enjoying this bunch and the location. 12 Feet up a ladder, grey paint on white walls with the sun blazing on your back. Not easy! I needed loads of free beer. Catching a 20 Litre bucket of white paint from a 6 Foot drop whilst pearched on a table gained major respect :D

I like these people. I like the place. First met them in December with only a website and visual proposals to go on. By Friday it is all go. The coolest place on the island, if not Spain. These people have made Heaven on Earth a reality in just Eight months. It is seriously cool. I am going to enjoy until the rich people move in ;)

Totally in awe TBH. HOW THE FUCK DOES ANYONE MAKE THIS HAPPEN IN JUST 8 MONTHS? Incredible. Fantastic team from around the World, managed to perfection in a very creative way. Some people have the vision, but HOW THE FUCK DO YOU REALISE IT?

It is beautiful. Seriously beautiful.

Learning, learning, learning. Fun. Most of all I am learning that I would never want to try to do this. You have to see it to understand just what it takes to make stuff like this happen. So many talents and skills brought together under very careful, creative guidance. It is brilliant.
 
We'll figure something out nearer the time - definitely catch up for a drink. :) I'm staying in PDB (fucking silly expensive, but want to be within collapsing distance of Sankeys & Space), so also pretty handy for Ibiza Town. Travelling alone, but trying to set up various meets.
 
kevinpurcey said:
Johnny Boy think crayons is way forward...keep up the good work dude..stay safe x
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Thank you. Good to read you are still alive and free :D

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Cotton Beach Club opening last night. Nobody has called me for work, so I think I am on a day off. Heading to the beach to just sleep, and sleep, and sleep and stuff like that. Might buy a camera.

It was a very nice evening. Everybody had fun with no hiccups. A multinational bunch from all walks of life. This place is a bit special, Johnny Vodka needs to accept an invite when they come, as does Poot. Strangely/coincidentally I have been painting signs for a new French vodka. A vodka made from grapes :confused:

A vodka made from grapes! Is this possible? Isn't it just white brandy?

Plenty of work lined up still, and I need the cash, but after last nights events I really need a day off to be ready for a long weekend of sketching in the street. Unless someone calls me. Might be lucky and get beautiful company followed by life drawing this evening. I need to sleep now.

This is not a bad life. I am on one of the highs of the crazy rollercoaster that is life :)
 
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Looks like you're living the dream, Stan. :) Cotton Beach Club would be an interesting place to visit, though it's a wee bit in the middle of nowhere. :confused: Glad the Balearic vibe seems to have hooked you - tacky as some aspects of Ibiza might be, there is a very special undercurrent to the place. :cool:
 
Ho ho. Silly me with my plan to take a day of rest on a Friday in Ibiza. Thankfully (with hindsight) the wrap of MDMA was dud :D

Alternative Ibiza: 9 times out of 10 the stuff you buy casually here will be no good. You need to be careful. Little party island with limited supply - the good stuff sells out very, very quickly!

Interesting night nonetheless. Some German guy got pissed on by a Scottish girl. Dunno :confused:

I feel a little bit poisened still. But, I have to work. I need cash. For those interested; the cash front is good, but not brilliant. I am OK. Always have a couple of hundred in the back pocket. I started on Zero after having everything stolen before I left Granada. No bank cards, or anything like that. I have plenty of work to chase. I'm saving my pennies for an Asus Transformer T100. Once that arrives I will be sailing cash wise. I am sleeping out in my secret safe bed most nights. 24 hour security and gifts arrive in the morning! Bid bag of clean clothes this morning!!! It is getting busy now. Pretty sure the streets are worth more than €100 a day. Off to buy supplies and get to work just as soon as I have finished my breakfast beer.

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Señor Johnny Vodka... Cotton Beach Club is about a €40 taxi ride from Ibiza town. Back end of nowhere, but that is what makes it special. Cala Tarida is a very nice beach with fantastic sunset skies. Think 'exclusive' rather than out of the way. If we catch up I'm pretty sure the owners will offer a lift there and back. It is worth a visit (if only to see my art).
 
Stan - where the heck you buying from that the drugs are bad? Buy them off the PRs that get you into bars - they're selling night after night in the same spot and it is in their interest to sell good gear, and definitely not dangerous crap or duds. When we meet, I can show you the place I bought from last year. I even started to like coke last year...

Aye, I think some sort of lift would be necessary to the Cotton Beach Club, unless we gather a crowd.
 
Three fucking invitations and not a single reply :mad: It seems alcoholic, scruffshyster, homeless artists are not an attractive proposal. I sort of knew this before I took up the profession, but I have been getting away with it for almost 10 years now. Perhaps I am just older than I feel?

I don't want to check my sent box. I was in a very stroppy mood late last night!
 
Life is pretty much perfect. All I am missing is a female perspective. This is very important to me, and it isn't coming my way in Ibiza. Perhaps I am just not designer enough. Back in Granada I was lucky to enjoy good female conversation for much of the day and night. All ages, all backgrounds. I just sit on my bench and they roll in to talk womanly like. I am fucking well missing it.

It is not a sex thing. Simply a female perspective. I miss it so much it is depressing me even though everything else is cool as.

Off to the port to listen to legless Lucas play his flute whilst chatting man stuff with the men!
 
Johnny Vodka said:
Maybe it'll change as the tourists roll in, Stan.
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I hope so. I would sooner have no company rather than the all male, all drinking company I currently 'enjoy'. Strange that most of my clients are female.

Looks like Cotton Beach Club is quiet for the time being. I am waiting for a woman from Switzerland to return, or get in touch about a very nice job. Lots of little jobs to chase. Today, I am taking a quiet Monday and just doing a small panoramic sketch on canvass to flog in the street whilst I drink, and smoke, and talk man talk :( I have no right to complain. It is a very nice life.
 
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