Dan Kitchener
Artist
Junior Member
Posts โข 1,794
Likes โข 2,061
April 2008
|
Art in flight!, by Dan Kitchener on Apr 9, 2016 12:16:47 GMT 1, In recent years I have been fortunate to travel an awful lot and one thing has always bothered me, the boring, bland, grey or black luggage that people use, every time i collect my luggage I think, i am going to paint mine for my next trip! So as I am off to SOuthern Spain for a commission next week, i thought i'd paint my case, and now have started the ball rolling, so i am painting several pieces for customers, hand luggage and main luggage with different cities on! NYC, Tokyo and London pictured here! 
In recent years I have been fortunate to travel an awful lot and one thing has always bothered me, the boring, bland, grey or black luggage that people use, every time i collect my luggage I think, i am going to paint mine for my next trip! So as I am off to SOuthern Spain for a commission next week, i thought i'd paint my case, and now have started the ball rolling, so i am painting several pieces for customers, hand luggage and main luggage with different cities on! NYC, Tokyo and London pictured here! |
|
|
|
Art in flight!, by Daniel Silk on Apr 9, 2016 12:32:36 GMT 1, In recent years I have been fortunate to travel an awful lot and one thing has always bothered me, the boring, bland, grey or black luggage that people use, every time i collect my luggage I think, i am going to paint mine for my next trip! So as I am off to SOuthern Spain for a commission next week, i thought i'd paint my case, and now have started the ball rolling, so i am painting several pieces for customers, hand luggage and main luggage with different cities on! NYC, Tokyo and London pictured here!
I should think you will get a luggage manufacturer contact you and be wanting these to go into production Seriously! If I was you I would send photos of these off to a few.
In recent years I have been fortunate to travel an awful lot and one thing has always bothered me, the boring, bland, grey or black luggage that people use, every time i collect my luggage I think, i am going to paint mine for my next trip! So as I am off to SOuthern Spain for a commission next week, i thought i'd paint my case, and now have started the ball rolling, so i am painting several pieces for customers, hand luggage and main luggage with different cities on! NYC, Tokyo and London pictured here! I should think you will get a luggage manufacturer contact you and be wanting these to go into production Seriously! If I was you I would send photos of these off to a few. |
|
Cornish Crayon
Junior Member
Posts โข 3,965
Likes โข 2,902
December 2007
|
Art in flight!, by Cornish Crayon on Apr 9, 2016 13:14:22 GMT 1, In recent years I have been fortunate to travel an awful lot and one thing has always bothered me, the boring, bland, grey or black luggage that people use, every time i collect my luggage I think, i am going to paint mine for my next trip! So as I am off to SOuthern Spain for a commission next week, i thought i'd paint my case, and now have started the ball rolling, so i am painting several pieces for customers, hand luggage and main luggage with different cities on! NYC, Tokyo and London pictured here! I should think you will get aย luggage manufacturer contact you and be wanting these to go into production Seriously! If I was you I would send photos of these off to a few.
Careful Dan, some might suggest you are influencing selling out 
In recent years I have been fortunate to travel an awful lot and one thing has always bothered me, the boring, bland, grey or black luggage that people use, every time i collect my luggage I think, i am going to paint mine for my next trip! So as I am off to SOuthern Spain for a commission next week, i thought i'd paint my case, and now have started the ball rolling, so i am painting several pieces for customers, hand luggage and main luggage with different cities on! NYC, Tokyo and London pictured here! I should think you will get aย luggage manufacturer contact you and be wanting these to go into production Seriously! If I was you I would send photos of these off to a few. Careful Dan, some might suggest you are influencing selling out |
|
russkov
New Member
Posts โข 298
Likes โข 127
June 2014
|
Art in flight!, by russkov on Apr 9, 2016 13:43:38 GMT 1, I think it is agreat idea, just 2 moments: how will it last in the transport life? nothing is as sad as a art piece that gets damaged, 100% that the luggage will.
Second momemt: I can guarantee that your item will get "lost" someday, as soon as the airport staff handling luggage will find out that this may have a directly visible value...
I think it is agreat idea, just 2 moments: how will it last in the transport life? nothing is as sad as a art piece that gets damaged, 100% that the luggage will.
Second momemt: I can guarantee that your item will get "lost" someday, as soon as the airport staff handling luggage will find out that this may have a directly visible value...
|
|
Dan Kitchener
Artist
Junior Member
Posts โข 1,794
Likes โข 2,061
April 2008
|
Art in flight!, by Dan Kitchener on Apr 9, 2016 14:00:33 GMT 1, Thanks for the response!
Well with regards to 'selling out' i am an artist, and i paint on things, end of story really! I don't operate under some illusion of 'being secretive or street' etc etc, i do what i do.....street walls, canvas, digital or now suitcases, all the same to me, a surface to slap paint onto!
These are painted for me when i travel abroad on commissions, of which i have several major ones worldwide approaching, so thought it would be good to slap some paint on my luggage and take to new adventures,don't care about longevity and in fact look forward to the well travelled, beaten, battered and used appearance it will have at the end of the year...then again, they have a decent coat of hard varnish over them!
Thanks for the response! Well with regards to 'selling out' i am an artist, and i paint on things, end of story really! I don't operate under some illusion of 'being secretive or street' etc etc, i do what i do.....street walls, canvas, digital or now suitcases, all the same to me, a surface to slap paint onto! These are painted for me when i travel abroad on commissions, of which i have several major ones worldwide approaching, so thought it would be good to slap some paint on my luggage and take to new adventures,don't care about longevity and in fact look forward to the well travelled, beaten, battered and used appearance it will have at the end of the year...then again, they have a decent coat of hard varnish over them! |
|
|
|
Art in flight!, by Daniel Silk on Apr 9, 2016 14:03:29 GMT 1, I should think you will get a luggage manufacturer contact you and be wanting these to go into production Seriously! If I was you I would send photos of these off to a few. Careful Dan, some might suggest you are influencing selling out
Depends what you mean by "selling out"?
I should think you will get a luggage manufacturer contact you and be wanting these to go into production Seriously! If I was you I would send photos of these off to a few. Careful Dan, some might suggest you are influencing selling out Depends what you mean by "selling out"? |
|
|
|
Dan Kitchener
Artist
Junior Member
Posts โข 1,794
Likes โข 2,061
April 2008
|
Art in flight!, by Dan Kitchener on Apr 9, 2016 14:06:24 GMT 1, You made the original comment, so what do you mean by selling out!?
You made the original comment, so what do you mean by selling out!? |
|
|
|
Art in flight!, by Daniel Silk on Apr 9, 2016 14:22:36 GMT 1, You made the original comment, so what do you mean by selling out!?
I only use the word "Selling Out" in the way or being popular I think if these were produced in large numbers then I think they would sell out, and well deserved! Dan's an amazing Artist and would be great to see his designs being wheeled around on cases all over the world.
I think others use the word "Selling Out" in a way of judging people as if everything they do must be for free or with some kind of political or social message, like a protest. I dont think its fair really to judge anyone like that.
You made the original comment, so what do you mean by selling out!? Cornishcrayon mentioned "selling out". I only use the word "Selling Out" in the way or being popular I think if these were produced in large numbers then I think they would sell out, and well deserved! Dan's an amazing Artist and would be great to see his designs being wheeled around on cases all over the world. I think others use the word "Selling Out" in a way of judging people as if everything they do must be for free or with some kind of political or social message, like a protest. I dont think its fair really to judge anyone like that. |
|
Dan Kitchener
Artist
Junior Member
Posts โข 1,794
Likes โข 2,061
April 2008
|
Art in flight!, by Dan Kitchener on Apr 9, 2016 14:32:51 GMT 1, thanks for the reply Dan
I wouldn't be keen on the mass produced luggage, as tbh these were just for me, and each is hand painted and this aspect is the attraction to me. It's something out of the ordinary, not just a printed piece of plastic!
If artist do work more commercially, It's not 'selling out', as that feels like slightly school boy terminology ( no offence aimed at original person who made the comment ), we live in the real world, and have to earn a living. I just don't feel at them moment it's a direction I'd want my work to move towards.
thanks for the reply Dan
I wouldn't be keen on the mass produced luggage, as tbh these were just for me, and each is hand painted and this aspect is the attraction to me. It's something out of the ordinary, not just a printed piece of plastic!
If artist do work more commercially, It's not 'selling out', as that feels like slightly school boy terminology ( no offence aimed at original person who made the comment ), we live in the real world, and have to earn a living. I just don't feel at them moment it's a direction I'd want my work to move towards.
|
|
Geezer Mate
Junior Member
Posts โข 1,365
Likes โข 1,606
November 2015
|
|
|
|
|
Art in flight!, by Daniel Silk on Apr 10, 2016 19:20:17 GMT 1,
Haaaaaa great story as I type hundreds of streets artists are rushing out to paint pieces with Kanye West in.
Haaaaaa great story as I type hundreds of streets artists are rushing out to paint pieces with Kanye West in. |
|
nds
New Member
Posts โข 103
Likes โข 63
August 2014
|
Art in flight!, by nds on Apr 10, 2016 20:25:17 GMT 1, Travelling with it are you crazy? I was thinking about framing one, I just can not decide between a black or with frame with a 1 meter spacer. I know I would float mount it thats for sure.
Travelling with it are you crazy? I was thinking about framing one, I just can not decide between a black or with frame with a 1 meter spacer. I know I would float mount it thats for sure.
|
|
|
|
Art in flight!, by stillborncrisps on Apr 11, 2016 0:58:53 GMT 1, Seeing a piece get battered and scuffed as it travels round the world will actually add to it. Brings it all to life.
No different to street pieces getting tagged, weathered, and then eventually painted out altogether. They were born and then they lived and then they died.
Seeing a piece get battered and scuffed as it travels round the world will actually add to it. Brings it all to life.
No different to street pieces getting tagged, weathered, and then eventually painted out altogether. They were born and then they lived and then they died.
|
|
Dan Kitchener
Artist
Junior Member
Posts โข 1,794
Likes โข 2,061
April 2008
|
Art in flight!, by Dan Kitchener on Apr 15, 2016 17:56:25 GMT 1, Just got back from painting a commission in Dos Torres / southern spain, and both pieces of luggage are nice and fresh still, even with me using my smaller one at the wall / building site!
Just got back from painting a commission in Dos Torres / southern spain, and both pieces of luggage are nice and fresh still, even with me using my smaller one at the wall / building site!
|
|
|
|
