Pictures for An Art Show that may never happen

[William Overington]

[William Overington]

Please produce pictures as 400 millimetres by 300 millimetres with a 3 millimetre bleed at each edge at 300 dots per inch.

Landscape orientation or Portrait orientation as you choose.

Please post a png of 590 pixels by 443 pixels in the Pictures of An Art Show that may never happen thread.

Any topic of your choice, provided that the picture is not unsuitable for viewing by a family audience.

I will seek sponsorship for the Art Show and a gallery for it to be exhibted.

I am thinking that artwork files would be sent directly to the art printer and framed giclée prints would be sent directly to the gallery by the art printer.

Yes, the Art show that may never happen may never happen, but that is not a certainty at this time.

William

 

 

[Dan C]

Please note: 

Our moderators have approved this thread as it contains work created in the Affinity apps, that you are sharing with users here on the Forums.

We have also 'merged' your second thread here, as they are related & should be contained within a singular post - you are welcome to encourage users to create designs similar to your first post, though there is no requirement to do such.

Should this thread veer off topic from either the Affinity apps, or work created within the apps, it will be locked. 
I'm unable to link to this previous thread where we have provided reasoning behind our decisions at this time, though I trust you are well aware of our requirements for posting going forward.

Should anyone have any questions or concerns regarding moderation here on the Affinity Forums, please email affinity@serif.com.

Many thanks for your understanding!

[G13RL]

Just a small comment: in French, the expression ‘bienvenue!’ (welcome) at the entrance to a place has a final ‘e’.
If you say ‘sois le bienvenu’ to a man, there is no final ‘e’. If you are addressing a woman, ‘sois la bienvenue’ takes a final ‘e’.

[William Overington]

20 hours ago, Dan C said:

... - you are welcome to encourage users to create designs similar to your first post, though there is no requirement to do such.

The 'no requirement' could be regarded as at two levels.

Firstly, nobody is required to produce or post anything at all.

Secondly, it is  the case that although I started this thread, it is not my thread, so if people choose to post pictures at whatever size then I suppose that the rules of the forum are that such is allowed as I am not allowed to require a size.

The fact of the matter though is that I am trying to achieve a result of an art show of work produced by people using Affinity apps. No requirement to be a professional artist, no requirement to be in some age group, no requirement to be able to travel, just art by people who use Affinity apps, at whatever level of ability.

There is a non-zero probability of the art show happening. Perhaps not very much above a zero probability, but not actually zero probability.

So I have tried to make the process of achieving the result of an art show of work produced by people using Affinity apps as straightforward as I can - it will still be a big task to achieve the result, but I am trying to remove as many obstacles as I can.

I have found that giclée prints are available in many sizes yet that framed giclée prints, where the framing is provided at the printers and a framed print can be sent direct to somewhere, are available in a much smaller number of sizes.

So, I specified artwork for this hoped-for art show to be at a size for which the framed print facility is available. I am thinking of natural wood frames. A collection of pictures at various levels of artistic ability each produced using one or more Affinity apps and each in a natural wood frame.

Hopefully there would be still photographs and a video of the exhibition.

I am not intending this to be an art show where someone sits deciding what will be accepted, in fact quite the opposite. 

I accept that maybe nobody will be interested, in which case, c'est la vie and this thread will just drift into the archives.

Yet if you are interested, please do not let any lack of experience of art cause you to feel that you cannot participate, because you can.

If you are stuck, just ask. Though I am not a professional artist, yet maybe somebody will advise.

This thread just needs to get going, and if it does, then maybe the art show will happen.

William

 

[William Overington]

17 minutes ago, G13RL said:

Just a small comment: in French, the expression ‘bienvenue!’ (welcome) at the entrance to a place has a final ‘e’.
If you say ‘sois le bienvenu’ to a man, there is no final ‘e’. If you are addressing a woman, ‘sois la bienvenue’ takes a final ‘e’.

Thank you.

William

 

[G13RL]

You're welcome!

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, William Overington said:

The fact of the matter though is that I am trying to achieve a result of an art show of work produced by people using Affinity apps

Your initial post did not say to use Affinity to create the art. I think it should be edited to add that requirement.

Possibly you can do that, but possibly a Moderator would have to do it.

[William Overington]

Alas, most art shows need one to already be a successful artist or a member of some amateur art group or pay money as an aplication fee with no guarantee of acceptance.

However, I have found a solution.

Produce an art show in a PDF document of at least around ten pages, with some text as well as pictures, publish it on the web in The United Kingdom, send a copy to The British Library, for Legal Deposit. All being well the art show in a PDF document will be available for viewing in a reading room of The British Library, permanently.

Please find attached a test publication that I produced. Just one picture.

Affinity products were used to produce the PDF document.

The artwork produced in Affinity Designer, but the PDF document published from Affinity Publisher so that my name could be in the Author field of the PDF document.

The PDF document is 24 inches by 13 and a half inches, so in the 16 to 9 aspect ratio display format used by most display terminals in the reading rooms of The British Library, and also large enough to contain an A3 plus bleed areas size artwork within it. So electronic display with the opportunity to extract the artwork so as to obtain a framed giclée print.

An innovative part of this is to have a white-filled borderless rectangle behind the picture. This does not show in the display, but enables extracting the artwork for printing with correct alignment of its edges.

Full_Screen_with_an_A3_plus_bleed_areas_picture_upon_it.pdf

[William Overington]

Here are small forum size illustrations of two of the pictures, the original A3 size artwork and these forum size illustrations all produced using version 1 of Affinity Designer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Alfred]

13 hours ago, William Overington said:

a PDF document of at least around ten pages

That’s a curiously flexible concept! If ‘around ten pages’ means (say) eight to twelve pages, then why not stipulate ‘at least eight pages’?

[Alfred]

14 hours ago, William Overington said:

Produce an art show in a PDF document of at least around ten pages, with some text as well as pictures, publish it on the web in The United Kingdom, send a copy to The British Library, for Legal Deposit. All being well the art show in a PDF document will be available for viewing in a reading room of The British Library, permanently.

As I pointed out in ‘another place’ late last year, the British Library style themselves as ‘the British Library’ rather than ‘The British Library’. Please see https://www.bl.uk.

The Times newspaper is at thetimes.com and The Guardian and The Observer are at theguardian.com and theguardian.com/observer respectively. The British Library’s domain on the Internet is bl.uk, not tbl.uk or thebl.uk.

In a similar vein, written references to the United Kingdom generally don’t have an initial capital in the word ‘the’.

[William Overington]

Ah, another place. ☺️

[wonderings]

with all the thought you are putting into something that will never happen, why not host something on your own in your town? Connect with local artists and put it together yourself instead of roleplaying about it online. 

[William Overington]

10 minutes ago, wonderings said:

with all the thought you are putting into something that will never happen, ...

Well, maybe it won't happen, but the British Library keeps everything that it iis sent for Legal Deposit and if it is a complete publication within the rules of what the British Library collects, as specified in an Act of Parliament and the Regulations, then it should become included in the catalogue and become available for viewing in a reading room at the British Library. Hardcopy publications onn a desk, pure electronic publications on a screen.

Yes, I need to produce some more pictures using Affinity Designer, I have two, I need at leastv five in my opinion, then produce a PDF document using the pictures and some text using Affinity Publisher, then publish it on the web, which could be in my webspaxce and/or in this forum nd/or in Alfred's forum,then send it as an email attachment to the British Library to the email address specified for receiving pure electronic documents for Legal Deposit.

[wonderings]

5 minutes ago, William Overington said:

Well, maybe it won't happen, but the British Library keeps everything that it iis sent for Legal Deposit and if it is a complete publication within the rules of what the British Library collects, as specified in an Act of Parliament and the Regulations, then it should become included in the catalogue and become available for viewing in a reading room at the British Library. Hardcopy publications onn a desk, pure electronic publications on a screen.

Yes, I need to produce some more pictures using Affinity Designer, I have two, I need at leastv five in my opinion, then produce a PDF document using the pictures and some text using Affinity Publisher, then publish it on the web, which could be in my webspaxce and/or in this forum nd/or in Alfred's forum,then send it as an email attachment to the British Library to the email address specified for receiving pure electronic documents for Legal Deposit.

why do you care that it is in the British Library? No offense to your work, but it is not something people are going to look back on and study the techniques and influences you had for your digital art. This all sounds like some fantasy dream world you are playing in. Or is this simply about legacy and you feel that if you get something in the British Library that will be your legacy to be remembered by?

[William Overington]

13 minutes ago, wonderings said:

No offense to your work, but it is not something people are going to look back on and study the techniques and influences you had for your digital art.

Not necessarily. As far as I am aware having a PDF document with an aspect ratio of 16 to 9 and having within it a picture with a white-filled borderless rectangle behind the picture that enables extracting the artwork for printing with correct alignment of its edges is an original technique.

Maybe having such an art show in a reading room of the British Library will become a technique that other people will do too.

[William Overington]

Indeed, it it is possible to have three such white-filled borderless rectangles behind the picture.

Say, one for A3 plus bleed areas, one for A3 with double width bleed areas so as to facilitate production of an A5 version for making greetings cards and art cards, and one for Cloche size (40 mm by 30 mm, a traditional size often used by printmakers.

 

[wonderings]

31 minutes ago, William Overington said:

Not necessarily. As far as I am aware having a PDF document with an aspect ratio of 16 to 9 and having within it a picture with a white-filled borderless rectangle behind the picture that enables extracting the artwork for printing with correct alignment of its edges is an original technique.

Maybe having such an art show in a reading room of the British Library will become a technique that other people will do too.

Don't think you were replying to the correct post.

 

Also as you seem to have forgotten from when you were banned before, this is for displaying art, not for roleplaying putting on an art show. 

[William Overington]

2 minutes ago, wonderings said:

Don't think you were replying to the correct post.

No, I was replying to your post.

[PaulEC]

3 hours ago, William Overington said:

Maybe having such an art show in a reading room of the British Library

How did you get from depositing a publication in the British Library to having "an art show" there? Depositing a publication, which will only ever be seen by someone who specifically requests to view it, (from the 200 million odd other works there), is a far cry from it being "an art show in a reading room"! 

This whole thing reminds me slightly of Enoch Soames! 🤭

[wonderings]

4 hours ago, William Overington said:

No, I was replying to your post.

How does me saying I did not think people would want to see your art get a response about dimensions and layout of your supposed art? Anyways, this really should not be an ongoing thread, and should not be in this section. I believe this is part of why you were given warnings among other things before. This is not the place for LARPing about being an artist. 

[Alfred]

4 hours ago, PaulEC said:

This whole thing reminds me slightly of Enoch Soames! 🤭

Do you have reason to believe that William has made (or will make) a pact with the Devil, or that he is planning to attempt time travel?

[PaulEC]

43 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Do you have reason to believe that William has made (or will make) a pact with the Devil, or that he is planning to attempt time travel?

No, I was hoping to put it politely, but I don't think I could explain what it is about the character of Enoch Soames that reminds me of William, and some of his ideas, without being rather rude! 

[William Overington]

On 5/28/2025 at 9:16 PM, William Overington said:

Here are small forum size illustrations of two of the pictures, the original A3 size artwork and these forum size illustrations all produced using version 1 of Affinity Designer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The colour-filled rectangles, one added using the Affinity Designer Rectangle Tool then copied and pasted and placed using numerical values in the Transform panel so as to produce the display, were added so that upon purchasing a print of each I could compare how a colour appears on a screen with how it appears in a hardcopy print.

I purchased A5 size giclée prints, printed from A5 size artwork png files exported from Affinity Designer.