Guessing you paid many thousands to buy the image that you liked, would you not of preferred to of paid just £950 to obtain that image? Not sure I would be best pleased if I now found out I could of saved myself a couple of grand by picking up a "new" edition of what is the same image?

staying well clear of this.

So then ... Simple question

What's the market value now of the original edition

No more than 1k perhaps!

Wilson.... I Agree with that totally.

I don't think there will be any of the original releases coming up for sale anytime soon, not while there is a cheaper option for buying into the image available.

I would rather drink my own p*ss than allow monetary value cloud my pleasure of a piece of art, or most things in life for that matter. No point being the richest man in the graveyard.

Just to clarify - it's piss poor form when you don't want them to do it, it's ok when you do?

There's a reply to this up on Eelus Facebook page. Have to kind of agree with him, but then i dont an original edition so maybe id feel differently if that was the case... 





I've been away on a top secret mission in an undisclosed part of the world for the past week, and have returned to all kinds of emails and feedback about the decision to release a second version of Not Everything Is So Black & White.

To try and answer some of your questions and give you some insight into this decision, I'll paste a reply I've just sent to one such email:

I'd wondered for a long time what NEISBW would look like as a lenticular 3D but the high production costs prevented me from exploring the idea. I was then approached by Art Republic who asked if I'd be interested in producing a series of lenticular works with them picking up the bill for production.

So to start things off and for me to get my head around the process of the medium, which is something completely new to me, it seemed the perfect opportunity to experiment with NEISBW and finally satisfy my curiosity. We were originally only going to produce around 10 and sell them privately without making too much of a fuss. The whole reason for this first step was to literally test the medium and discover how things work, but once I got the proofs back I was so blown away by the quality I thought it would be a huge shame to keep the edition so exclusive.

I know there are many many collectors out there desperate to get their hands on one of the original prints but can't due to the high secondary market costs. This gives them the opportunity to pick up an official version at a more affordable price.

At the end of the day, after doing this for the last 10+ years I've learned that you can never please everyone, and whatever you do there'll always be a handful of angry and upset people for one reason or another, no matter how honest and sincere your actions are. So I just like to please myself and do what I feel is right for me to satisfy my own creative curiosity.

We could have released 10, sold them privately and quietly to then be criticised by the many upset people who would have loved to pick one up, or we release a higher edition to allow more people to finally get their hands on a copy and still be criticised by people who only see the original edition as a financial investment and are worried about losing money.

I personally feel that re-releasing the image in a brand new medium with slightly tweaked artwork shouldn't effect the current secondary market of the original edition. And I also feel that any artist should be allowed to re-visit older works when new mediums and technologies become available to them without falling under such dramatic criticism. It's their right, as the owners and creators of the artwork to be able to explore whatever they feel necessary.

We won't be releasing ATR or WTNFU in the same medium as I'm not interested in seeing them produced in 3D. There's one more classic image that I've always thought would work well as a moving lenticular, and I might explore that down the line, other than that, all future lenticular and 3D releases will be completely new designs.

I hope that clears things up but please get back to me if you have any more questions. I don't personally feel I need to justify any of my decisions but for the most part I'm happy to have an open dialogue with the people genuinely interested in collecting my work.

Thanks again.

E.

'Dress Up' could look good

I hope everyone agrees Lee's comments make absolute sense and fair play to him for letting people know rather than just letting it be released.

No ATR or WTNFU, the secondary market on Eelus prints will certainly be very interesting to see over the coming year ... ATR may reach NEISBW prices and the original NEISBW may plumet ....

Whatever happens as a huge 'E' prices dont matter just get them on the wall to be enjoyed, which I will be hoping to do with the new 3D release and cant wait to see what future new releases are to come.

In the meantime my BSMD has arrived from Ken at Spoke Arts competition so off to my Framers to get yet another super Eelus release ready for the wall.

I think that is harsh ........ ^^^^

I just dont think you can have it both ways.  If you think your art sells too low, raise the price of the first issue.  If you dont like that risk of it not selling, dont cherry pick the best ones and water down the previous edition, just run an open edition then and see how many people buy your stff. 

im curious if he made a face book statement when he doubled the ATR release by selling all the damaged ones as PP's? Was it only because of "new technology" like a scissor to trim the damaged edges and make an extra 20k?

On the 3D edition, the rain moves but stays the same color. In the 3D changing rain edition, it changes color as it moves.