Blond Magnums 1 to 56

The Blond Magnums info is now, finally, up on my website. They’re like big Blond Card pocket size paintings. There's no talking in this video. Just video footage and music from my Ethereom album of maybe initially cacophonic jazz improvisation.

Original acrylic paintings on A4 size paper. PVA glued onto cardboard I rescued from the streets. Individually hand stamped red lettering. Advertism as always. I’ve recently started taking them to The Camden Market Free Art Man as people were almost only taking my small paintings. The big ones are too big to carry, fit in tourists' suitcases or on their walls. Blond Magnums are medium size so I thought would be more popular. For once I was right, they’re shifting pretty well so I’ll be making more soon. There’s currently 56. Enough for the next month or two. The video above is the forgery foiling blockchain ledger of every inch of every Blond Magnum.

In other news, I’ve decided to join Ron Throop @ronthroop in making three paintings a day, as this coincides with my plan to paint on 12 inch record sleeves for the Camden Market goers to flick through as they’re walking over the bridge. I’ll need a stable table as the pavement is cobbled and uneven. It’s also a wind trap, so will need proper planning. My paintings are already getting blown into the road and nearby people, and I imagine if the record sleeves are sitting loose on a table on the bridge, some could get blown into the canal below. They’ll need to be in open top boxes to be flickable through, and flat pack so I can carry it all on the bus. I think it’s worth the effort, as I was saying on last weeks Black Ivory podcast how The Camden Market Free Art Man needs something to make it more popular but I didn't know what. I think record sleeve paintings will work and will connect my display more to the rest of the market. Especially as Kozmic Records record fair is nearby. I already have a load of Kozmic Records themed paintings which I’ll also paint on some of the record sleeves.

A lot of the record sleeves, at least the first batch will be in the looser style of my Heckel’s Horse Jr. paintings. Then there’s the Nirvana ones.

I’ll do some record sleeves for the upcoming release of the Owl and Studious double album by my band, Edgeworth Band. Fellow Black Ivory member Emma Pugmire plays drums on most of the Owl songs, I think. Zombie has a stereo playing mostly punk rock music across the road and my posters of him could send people his way. This could all join up really well.

The new series of Blond Posters. Posters and records are often sold together in the same shops, so if I can find a way to display them well in the limited space I have on the bridge it'll look really good. An outdoor record shop with no records. One way or another, I have to make my display more photogenic. There are three regulars at the bridge: Alan the town crier, Zombie the punk, and more recently, me. I’ve only been there on and off for the last couple of years, so Zombie and Alan are much better known and photographed. But still, they get photographed and filmed a lot more than my display, which is quite shameful for the one who’s supposed to be the visual artist. If either or Alan or Zombie aren't there, people often come up to me and ask where they are. My goal is for people to ask Alan and Zombie where I am on days I'm not there.

If it’s the case that I don’t have space to display the posters well, the other option’s to have two locations on the go simultaneously. This would mean flying my girlfriend over from Thailand, which she has said she would like, to supervise the second location. It would be under the train bridge, which is only 30 yards from where I am, and in plain sight. It’s so close and visible, I could almost supervise them both myself.