Urban Art Association

I know what you're thinking.

www.printmag.com/article/the-painted-book/

Thanks Poly. It's a bit of fun satire merging the paperback book with the soup tin. Both have wording on them and both are well known. Quite a few artists have painted and re collaged book covers. Conner Brothers and years before Kitaj etc. Of course Harland Miller has made a career out of it.

I couldn't resist making a version of Campbells in that style.

and hybridisng consumer supermarket food and other products is fun.

 I can reserve one for you. Which one do you want?

 I will visit my printer tomorrow to get a price off him for printing them on paper which I will supply to him. To get them printed on heavy watercolor paper I don't know yet how much he will charge me  but should be able to do them at £20 each.

I should have all the info tomorrow on pricing and might be able to give a small discount if buying the pair.

 

I hadn't planned on selling the original. You can make an offer. I sent you a pm.

 

The humour in these is a little more adult, than soup for the last supper, and all the better for it. They do both your talent and intelligence justice Ploppi. I agree that they complement each other, the detail, and shading, are great, I like the subtlety of shading, which seems easier to appreciate on the red can. The can seems to have more of a quality of light. Alphabet soup is spot on. I would appreciate two of these, if that's possible.

 I agree. I'm only intelligent sometimes.

 They are freehand drawn in pencil with just some straight ruled lines for the proportions.  Acrylic on 1/2 inch havyweight corrugated card. The soup can I wanted to give the feel of an old oil can had a sheen to the label. Hence the patination of the white lettering and white and the highlights on the red etc,  plus the faded to brown of the white lettering and white on the can label. To match the faded book.  The book I didn't do the highlights as it's meant to look matt and faded. It looks a lot better in the flesh.

They work well when displayed together.

I'll reserve you a pair and post on here when they are up for sale on my Big Cartel.

Now on my Big Cartel, ploppi.bigcartel.com/ Price €20 euros each.

Plus buyers can win the original paintings.

Once all 20 prints have been purchased. The buyers names will be put into a randon draw to win the original painting.

If you buy the soup can print your name goes into a draw to win the original soup can painting and if you buy the book print your name goes into the draw to win the original painting for the book print.

If you buy one of each, your name goes into the draw for both paintings.

The draw will take place once all 20 prints of each edition have been sold.