I recently had special orders theses days concerning Michael Jackson. With the celebration of his early days carrer like the Bad and Thriller albums.
smooth Criminal
First inquiry was michael with his hat, but finding a good picture of him with the hat was really challenging. After browsing the google picture results i try to get more with looking the videos and extract some picture from theses. So 8 pictures and only one O.K for the portrait.
the portrait was “smooth criminal inspired”, so i’ve been watching all the michael “foot works” and i actually discover the anti-gravity shoes he was using to lean towards the ground without falling (included in the hat on the picture). This picture also made an appearence into the french Michael Jackson official forum (thanks to a fan who wants to promote my works !)
The second inquiry was a special order embracing the “Thriller” clip, the picture was extracted from the clip and the whole story of thriller was included, starting with the romance in the woods, the movie session then the thrilling choregraphies in the dark streets….
It was great fun to capture the essence of the thriller clip, and her owner is quiet happy to have a one of a kind piece of the King of Pop at Home !
Thriller is quiet a monument when speaking about the music clip as it was the first shown on MTV, is closer to the short film than the clip with his 13 minutes long, the first time that a music was strongly linked to pictures (still have in mind theses zombies dancing left and right with claws pointing down), and the clip still charted number one in the clip history.
Today, i’ll talk about the prints i’m currently doing from the orifginals portraits. Following some questions from buyers and art collectors, i’ll explain the process, then you will be able to understand why a print is different than a copy from photocopier.
” Giclée print”.
Today, youc an find many many differents way to reproduce a piece of art, and many more than 30 years ago since apparition of computers. It started with leonard doing a masterpiece and his student copying it, then we started tu use machinery, then computers, fotocopiers, ets…
So a “giclée print” started when somebody invented the inkjet printer. Giclée is a french word for “squirt” and still in 21st century it’s class to use french words. So a computer and a inkjet printer is enough for giclée print ? maybe a little bit sophisticated …
Creating a Master.
Into get the picture i will reproduct, i’m using a high definition scanner. This is a very high definition scan (1200 DPI).
Once done, i have some cleaning on the file because : the paper is not smooth andstains appears on the scan with little gray marks here and there, if not cleaned the printed picture will get theses marks. I’m using a picture editor on my computer and spend the time it needs into get a perfect picture (1-2hours).
And at the final part, i’m doing something a little modification on the file with the erasing of the scanned signature. And once printed, i add a hand made signature on the print to make it more valuable and unique. This i not something done on usuals print but i prefer to do this, making it more unique.
The print.
As said, the “Giclée print ” is made using an inkjet printer. So i’m using one wich get a 1200 DPI accuracy (like the scan)into get the best result. The second factor is the ink quality : all the printers don’t come with the same quality and some brands propose special ink with higher life time. As the ink technologie got 20 years age, i can said that the ink used can last 20 years when seeing the result with print printed 20 years ago still OK !
Once the print checked i then use my indian ink to put the signature on the front, then turn the print and put some infos at the back like :
The title, the number of the print, the total number of prints
The date and the artist signature.
Storage
Prints are stored flat in a dry and dark environment. I put a plastic sheet around each prints to protect it from accidents like ink squirts, pain, dog tongue, etc…
Protecting your print
You recently receive your print by post and you want now make it shine to the high. the best thing i propose is to frame the picture. So if you want to do it by yourself, don’t forget to use a picture mat into avoid humidity condensing behind the glass and affect the paper. It often happens and make unwanted effects to the prints.
I recently put up in place a framing service for the originals picture i’m doing but it’s also availbable for the prints. I’m using on the shelves frames, and a custom hand made picture mat. the result is clean, ready to hang an the wall and lightweight. This is a service i propose if you want to make the perfect gift and wan’t to avoid the hassle of framing services
I wish to thank all of you, 350 art collectors so far since January 2011. You are from all over the world, so into make it, i’ve used my babel fish and translate the french “merci” into your language :
As the number of collectors is growing and growing, i will soon put up a mailing list into give the available new productions like portraits, paintings and designed objects….
So there it all happened last friday night in Gracia, Barcelona : the opening of the group exhibition with all the artists in presence. As the galery is very small , it was full packed (like in an Irish pub) but it’s always a warm impression compare to a empty, silent gallery.
Elena, who is in charge of the space had the oportunity to make the launch of this christmas fair wich is really affordable and fit perfectly theses hard money times, with pieces prices starting from 50 euros and a 90Euros max price. She also added to her speech that all artist had a minimum of social vision of the art and that many of them have a active engagement with the local community of Gracia.
First impressions were good and i allready have few portraits sold as christmas presents. If you want to visit it theses days, the gallery is open from Wednesday to saturday 6pm -- 9 pm and during the day on saturday.
Little early christmas present for you all who are reading theses lines : the movie clip of the opening with a special bonus on the last15 seconds : you will see your host on pagazine speaking in Catalan !
For my first gallery exhibition, it will take place at the “Paspartu Gallery” in Gracia, Barcelona.
This is a group show with a three week time during the christmas hollidays here. So, i will present a special portrait serie with the continuous line. I’ ve planned to present 20 small portraits and 5 bigger, with some never seen before faces…
The new thing about this show is that all the portriats will be shown with showroom conditions, with A3 and A4 size. I’ve worked on resizing the portrait for a perfect fit in the frame. Some pictures later….
Few weeks ago, when i was going to the post office into ship my parcel to the opposite side of this world , Carmen, the post officer gave me some papers with informations about postal rates, leaflet, and an ad about a competition for the “Correos”, the sapnish postal service and the aim was to designa new packaging for the 2012 parcels.
Like the Luas competion in Ireland, i said to myself that it was a good opportunity to try the spanish competitions, so i’ve been on the website and it was spanishly annoucing the competition, rules, etc … in spanish, and i don’t speak spanish yet. Thnaks to google translator (wich is not that bad actually), i’ve entered my finished design and have entered the competition with a big white box covered with just one single line, theses kind of boxes i love to design and cover it with tons of fancy stories…
Here is the result of the box with a 3D view, in a very pure style and some black ink on it.
I also noticed a very interresting orthografic correction of my name by a very smart software. the first mitake is mine (the “n” instead of the “m” ), but i rarely make the second mistake wich is the feminisation of “emmanuel” . Maybe because of my haircut…
2. Forgetting the competition
Well actually, i didn’t gave too much attention to the next of the on-line submission, according to the great number of competitors (more than 300) and the very classy and perfect finished design. I guess i’m the one to have submit a hand made design, all the others have been done using photoshop , digital pen and mistakes free softwares. However, i’ve “facebook” voted for my design to support myself, because i worth it, like my hairs.
The list of the designs could be seen at the following website specially design for the competition :
What a surprise when i received a mail in spanish few days before the official gala of the competition. So it was an invitation send to all thoses who did participate to the competition, and the event did take place in Madrid
Geographically speaking, Madrid is at about 600km (400 miles / 7 hours drive) from Barcelona and 3 days before the event, i thought it was a bit a rush, especially when you don’t know if you will receive something or not. Following this invitation, i’ve jumped to the website into see the selection of designs entering the final step of the competition of the year 2012.
Here they are :
4. Reception and official announcement.
As i didn’t travel to Madrid yesterday i can’t give you pictures about the event. However, the following web page give the list of the winners all along the reception with special guest and president of the jury ”David Delfin”.
So this morning, i did get receive the following mail which says :
“Buenos dias Pierre:
Ante todo felicitarte por ser el ganador en la categoria de E-COMMERCE. “
So without really believing in it till this morning, i am the winner of this competition !!!!!!!!
Next year, ask for a Spanish Ecommerce Parcel and you will get one of the , 100.000 parcels designed by me !
For all thoses who wants to see it in details, here it is !
Petite introduction à un concept catalan de la narration. J’ai appris un nouveau mot cette semaine, “Auca”, qui signifie “Oie” comme l’animal, petite bande dessinée conçue à la manière d’un jeu de l’oie, avec une histoire racontée au fil des images.
C’est une tradition très forte ici en catalogne, cependant cela a existé en France il y a déjà plusieurs siècles. Quelques auca sont connues ici tel que la vie de “Montserrat” ou autres figures emblématiques de la région. Joint à ces images, un petit texte écrit en proses pour relever le niveau solennel de cette bande dessinée . On (Joan Carles) m’a fait remarqué que mes portraits étaient plus proches de l’Auca que de la bande dessinée, narrant ainsi l’histoire d’une personnalité. (comme quoi on croit avoir créé quelque chose mais il y a souvent eu des précédents…).
Comme un dessin vaut mieux qu’un long discours, je m’en vais vous conter une des histoires d’un français à Barcelone…
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Pronouce “Hawk A”
Little introduction to a catalan concept of the story telling. I’ve learned a new word this week, wich is called “Auca” and means “goose”, and the story looks like “the game of the goose”.
This kind of narrative pictures are a real tradition here. it used to be very famous in france in the 16th century. So here it is still used and tell stories of great people like “Montserrat” or George, etc… Joined to thes pictures, we can usually found a little poetic text with rhymes, something very closed to the “Limerciks”. One said to me that my portraits were very close to this concept and sometimes you think about finding something new wich used to be common during the old times. So here is my Auca of a recent story…
Here is the first ” continuous line ” based on a clothing piece. The tee shirt is a unique piece and necessited many hours of work. It’s called Delirium, free inspiration based about everything. So if you get a closer look to it, you will find : A hunter and his dog, flowers, a radio gaga, a rocket, monsters, flags, a horse jumping, red lights, a wizard, motorbikes, sheeps, computers, tractor, band on stage, a monkey and banana, a soccer player, etc, etc…
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Voici le premier vêtement basé sur le principe de la ligne continue. Le tee shirt est une œuvre d’art portable, pièce unique qui a nécessité de nombreuses heures de travail. L’œuvre est intitulée “Delirium“, inspiration libre et si vous vous approchez d’avantage vous trouverez dans le dessin : un chasseur et son chien, des fleurs, un ‘radio gaga’, une fusée, des monstres, drapeaux, un cheval sautant une barrière, un feu rouge, un sorcier, des motos, des moutons, ordianteurs, un groupe sur scène, un singe et des bananes, un joueur de foot, etc, etc….
I’ve turned to realise that the website was a bit overloaded with toys and fancy functions but it’s a bit slow and difficult to navigate. Well, after processing the web experience of the visitors, iv’e turn back to a very simple version. (it should appears on your screen like the picture).
The big news are : the collection are more easier to browse and there are links to purchase everything which could be purchased.
Maybe this version of the website would be easier to manage, without any fancy toys or whatever. At least, i will be able to update on a regular basis.
Well today i’ve had a great surprise with discovering an article from a blogger, blogging about my last entries on my Etsy shop. Always a great pleasure to have feedback and nice comment !
Well thanks to Niceties and her Blog “Niceties” from New Zealand….
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Aujourd’hui, j’ai eu l’agréable surprise de recevoir un mail de la part d’une blogueuse de l’autre côté de la planete. Elle parle à propos de mon magasin en ligne “ETSY” et des dernières oeuvres mises en ligne. Merci à “Niceties” pour son article.
“Aujourd’hui, je decouvre les oeuvres de Pierre-Emmanuel Godet, un français qui apparemment habite à Barcelone, Espagne (selon les dires de son Etsy). Il propose 70 dessins originaux dans son magasin, et je pense qu’ils sont tous fantastique- les portraits en fichiers attachés qui representent quelque portraits et c’est un style vraiment à part des autres portraits utilisant des pochoirs que j’ai déja rencontré avant. Faites un pas en arrière de votre écran et vous pourrez ainsi apprecier comment ils rendent bien sur vos murs !
Je pense que ces dessins sont parfait pour faire un cadeau original et il y a tellemnt de choix de celebrités que vous êtes sur de trouver votre portrait favoris !
The day has only just started and I already know this is going to be the best discovery of the day – so thanks for sharing! I’m trying to choose between a couple and, you’re right, they’re all awesome!
smooth Criminal
The second inquiry was a special order embracing the “Thriller” clip, the picture was extracted from the clip and the whole story of thriller was included, starting with the romance in the woods, the movie session then the thrilling choregraphies in the dark streets….
