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February 14, 2009

Going off like a Frog who’s annoyed.

Filed under: art, printmaking — Tags: auction, bushfire, ebay, etching, frog, fundraising — Crumpet @ 9:29 am

The last auction went very well (thank you to everyone who bid) and I’ve ~~now listed my Frog etching on eBay~~.

Okay, Ebay have decided to be shitheads. Even though I’ve registered with the Everyday Hero Red Cross Fundraising site and am only raising small amounts of money, I haven’t jumped through enough of their charity fundraising hoops. So I’ll stick with what I’m doing on Etsy for now.

This is an etching on heavyweight BFK paper, from an edition of 14 printed in September 2006. The original artist’s proof was printed in July 2005, and exhibited later that year in the ‘Celebration’ Inaugural Art Juried Prize at Box Hill Community Arts Centre, Victoria, Australia. The image measures 19.5×12.5cm on paper that is 30.5×40cm unframed. Not only that, it was the first etching I ever made.

~~All proceeds from the auction of this etching will be added to the total on my Everyday Hero page for the Australian Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal 2009~~. The death toll from the fires is now over 180 with more expected.

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February 9, 2009

Bushfire Fundraising

Filed under: Melbourne, art, printmaking — Tags: art, auction, bushfire, fire, lithograp, lithograph, phoenix, printmaking — Crumpet @ 11:36 pm

I’ve listed this lithograph on eBay tonight as a three-day auction — all funds raised will be donated to the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal 2009. On Saturday we recorded our hottest day ever here, and bushfires ripped through the state (with some arson suspected, which I just cannot comprehend). To date, around 135 people have lost their lives, more are being treated for burns and over 750 homes have been lost. Entire towns have been burned to the ground. Please, go and bid lots and lots and lots and lots of money.

Edited to add: I’ll also be donating half the price of all items sold from my Etsy store until further notice. I don’t have a lot of cash to donate myself, so feel this is a good way for me to do something to help. I’ll likely put some other work up for auction as well.

Edited again to add: Just registered with the Red Cross online fundraising thingy to help my fundraising efforts. Check out my online fundraising page here.

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December 2, 2008

courageous cleaning

Filed under: art, photography — Tags: alice, alice's adventures in wonderland, auction, cleaning, merlin manncrush, painting — Crumpet @ 11:35 pm

I dropped off a registration form today for the RMIT Union Arts New Collectibles auction today.

This afternoon, I got a call from Union Arts saying that the local paper in my suburb wants to do an article on the auction, and would I be willing to be their goto person regarding a tiny interview and photograph for promotional purposes.

So now I need to get up early and clean my filthy house because there’ll be a photographer here at 10:30am.

I’m thinking of entering the painting up there and a couple of the Alice screenprints from first year…

Also, go read Merlin.

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September 30, 2008

Going, going, gone.

Filed under: art, food, printmaking — Tags: art, auction, cupcake, printmaking, rmit, vegan, yum — Crumpet @ 3:21 pm

I’ve been meaning to make this post for over a month and a half, and was finally spurred into action because of another post I want to make… and because of a couple of details, I should make this one first.

Way back in August, the RMIT Printmaking Auction happened. We organise this auction every year as a fundraiser for our graduate exhibition (opening on November 25 this year at the RMIT First Site gallery) and it’s always a wonderful and successful night. This year was no exception and it also had the added benefit of cupcakes.

Vegan cupcakes. 180 or so of them. Lovingly baked by me. My long awaited Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World book took its sweet time getting to me, and arrived the day before the auction. And as such, I got busy making tiny vanilla, chocolate, peanut butter and coffee/kahlua flavoured mouthfuls of joy. Actually, I didn’t read the coffee cupcake recipe properly before I bought the ingredients, and upon realising it was actually a fancy oozy filled cupcake (not good for short timeframes or travelling), I embraced my inner punk chef and made up my own cupcake version.

Note to everyone: if you don’t own an oven thermometer, go and buy one now. I don’t know how I ever lived without one. Also, this book is seriously awesome. Buy it, even if you’re not vegan or vegetarian. Brilliant, brilliant recipes.

The cupcakes were demolished by the crowd in about half an hour, along with enormous amounts of delicious looking savoury food that had been slaved over all day by several other students. I say delicious looking, as I only actually got to eat one sandwich and some cupcakes. It was a busy, busy night, and I had to take over the photography from Mr C, who’d apparently had the worst day at work ever and couldn’t cope with having another job foisted on him (and I’m not being sarcastic at all there, he really, truly had the worst day at work ever — I’m still kind of surprised that he even made it to the auction.)

Anyway, it was a wonderful night. Not being drunk this time around, I managed to stick to my bidding limit and happily let everyone else purchase the work. We auctioned off about 70 pieces donated by students and established artists. Everything sold and we made bucketloads of money to go towards our graduate show, catalogue and anything extra that needs doing for the students in printmaking.

Thanks to everyone involved in the organisation, and to everyone else who came along and made it a great night. See you all next year.

And special big thanks go out to Andy and Joel, who once again did a brilliant job at auctioneering.

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August 13, 2008

Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots of Photos. And an invitation.

Filed under: art, bookmaking, craft, geekery, printmaking — Tags: art, auction, box, clamshell, d&d, dice, dungeons and dragons, geek, printmaking — Crumpet @ 12:19 am

First up, the photos of the Mixtogether gift I received from Drewzel. It’s so cute! Drewzel was suffering from a case of crafter’s nerves on Saturday, which is just silly. I love it! The Monkey bag is adorable, and as an added bonus, it has a lining of owl fabric. Monkeys and owls. Awesome. I’ve also just discovered that one of the pens is a tiny fountain pen. I love fountain pens. Score! Every time I have to work in the stationary department at my store, I’m tempted to drop a load of cash on one of the beautiful fountain pens.

Also, currently very much in need of a Light Bulb Moment. My animation proposal is due in class tomorrow. I plan on sleeping it over tonight, getting up super early and writing it from the warmth and comfort of my bed.

Next up…

I finished knitting something! Actually, I plan on ripping the body back when the semester is over and re-knitting the ribbing from just below the bust to improve the fit. Despite that, I’ve barely taken it off since I finished it a fortnight ago. I love having a warm and simple jumper to wear. Rav details here.

I finished something else last week too… Mr Crumpet’s birthday gift! He turned 35 yesterday, so go and wish him well (and quickly, before the onslaught of our combined geekiness puts you in some sort of strange coma…)

First, the bookmaking geekiness.

It’s another clamshell box, this one made from an old (and free) RMIT library book that I gutted. But wait… check out the title…

Yes, it’s a box for his d20 Dungeons and Dragons dice. Now I just need to make some velvet bags for this set and the two others that he’s recently bought for himself.

Of course, he can’t actually use the dice this Friday night like he thought he could, because he’d forgotten that Friday the 15th of August is the annual RMIT Printmaking Auction. He’ll have to show off my +10000000000 awesomeness to his d&d group (guild? is guild the right term?) some other time.

Viewing for the auction is from 6pm, with Andy and Joel starting the very fun live auctioneering at 7pm. The purpose of the auction is to raise funds for our graduate show in November, and we’ll be auctioning around 70 or so artworks from a variety of emerging and established artists. m1k3y, this is your chance to get your hands on some of that “medieval furry art”*. You know you want it. Actually, I know I want it…

Anyway, the address is level 1, building 49, 67 Franklin Street Melbourne. From 6pm. There’ll be food and drinks and cupcakes and raffles and doorprizes and awesomeness. I’d love to see you there.

And if you come, you’re required to put in at least one bid for each of the following two lithographs… or else…

*His words, not mine.

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