Q ) "WHY ARE SOME SKETCHES MORE DETAILED THAN OTHERS?"
A) "THEY ARE MORE CRUCIAL TO THEIR RESPECTIVE PAINTING."
Although all the sketches stand alone as beautiful works unto themselves, we must not forget that all the sketches in the end are details of massive paintings that are yet to be created. You may notice as the days go on that some pieces may seem more intricately and elaborately detailed than others. This is because these pieces (When sketch365 is over) will be in the foreground of the painting that it is a detail of.
There may be one or more of these detailed pieces for each of the ten paintings. The amount of detail and the fact that the piece will be a focal point in the painting makes those pieces more highly collectable and sought-after. Nonetheless, they will still be the same price as any unsold piece at the time they are uploaded. These more detailed pieces will be drawn by Cojo throughout the experiment and will be uploaded at random whenever they are completed. There will not be any special notification that the pieces were uploaded, or are going to be uploaded so check back frequently.
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Q ) "WHY SHOULD I BUY A SKETCH?"
A ) "THESE ARE DETAILS"
I'm doing this experiment as a way to introduce my more abstract fine art work to a generation of new young art collectors (or fans of my work) who enjoy art and are thinking about building a collection (or dreaming of the day when they will have money to do so), but maybe don't have the disposable income to purchase a painting, or commission a portrait from me right now.
I'm also doing this to give seasoned collectors the chance to buy the first batch of sketches that will be used in the paintings they will be looking at come 2006
Make no mistake, this is probably the last time I will do something like this (where the art will be this cheap). If I decide to engulf myself into an experiment like this again in future, the starting price per piece wouldn't be lower than the ending price for a piece for this experiment, so it's best to BUY NOW while it's pretty much an unknown thing.
I also suggest buying as many pieces as you can before the word really gets out on this project.
When my entire career is looked back upon 50 years from now, this experiment will be a highlight. Who knows what the sketches will be worth then?
I'm really psyched about this experiment. Up until now you had to be either well off, famous, or a seasoned collector to own a "Cojo Original." This experiment gives Blue Chip Art Buyers and Greasy Spoon Dishwashers an equal opportunity to buy my original works. Ya just gotta be the first to click BUY NOW, and complete the transaction.
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Q ) "ARE THESE SKETCHES RARE?"
A) " YES"
There will only be 365 sketches produced. I, Cojo, am drawing them by hand. The project launches on my 28th birthday, September 25, 2005 and will run for one solid year, a sketch a day, and will conclude September 25, 2006 on my 29th birthday. I will metaphorically be "giving birth" to a new piece of art every day of my 28th year of life. By purchasing a sketch, collectors will essentially be owning one 24 hour period of the 28 year old artist's creative thought documented in line, smudges, fingerprints, eraser marks, and pressure.
Magazines like Maxim and Rolling Stone pay me thousands of dollars each month to draw pieces of the same quality, using the same materials. I finish those, ink and color them in the computer, and e-mail them off. The only actual physical work created outside of the mouse and screen, by my actual hand is the sketch.
The beauty of this sketching experiment is that the magazines only own one time print rights of the finished art, they don't get to keep the originals, and they don't even get to touch the actual sketches. This is the first time I am ever selling raw sketches to the open market. This is the first time people will be able to own and hang my actual hand crafted pencil work. This is the work that gets covered over by brushstroke when I make a painting. Even the people who own my paintings don't actually own my pencil work. The only person I can think of who I have actually sold a pencil drawing to in the past is Busta Rhymes, so if you are one of the only 365 people to own one (or more than one), that's a pretty big deal. So yeah, they are rare.
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Q ) "WHO IS BUYING THESE?"
A ) "PEOPLE LIKE YOU!"
It's an experiment! As I am writing this, the experiment hasn't yet begun. As it goes on hopefully I will be able to communicate with the different collectors of my work and purchasers of my sketches, and will be able to further elaborate on this answer. I assume it will be people who have enjoyed my art for years in print and are looking to own an original piece, or people who have wanted to get a painting from me and couldn't afford one. Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe it will be women buying sketches for their Maxim reader boyfriends?
I'm thinking it will take about two -three months before anyone really even knows this experiment is in existence. It's going to me mostly word of mouth as I'm not really advertising. It seems like part of the experiment is seeing how fast the buzz about this gets out on the web. The web is crazy like that. Someone mentions a site on their blog or a radio show somewhere and the web rips in half with people scrambling to get a look. If you buy a sketch, and after you do, you want to make sure that people will know what the hell you are talking about when you say you bought a sketch, e-mail your friends a link to the sketch you bought/ own. They will be impressed, and you will have spread the word- affecting the experiment, and altering the outcome. I will chronicle the experiment's progress on my blog at ARTSUCKS.COM
Please feel free to spread the word. Send links, send me feedback, and let me know you are out there. Let me feel ya. As Source Magazine's Golden child and lyrical Bronx Bomber SHICE verses in COJO'S THEMESONG." Contact your peeps, tell em all about it man, it's Cojo, the Art Juggernaut family got it, the arsenal is dead on, paint drops like bombs, hurry up and get on, you been warned it's that strong."
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Q ) "WHAT IF I'M NOT AN ART COLLECTOR?"
A ) "WELL, WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF ART COLLECTING!"
Art collectors don't all wear Armani. Some people who make fast money, or have so much money they don't know what to do with it blow it on pimped cars and things that fall apart. A 200 grand luxury machine that decreases a third in value the second it rolls off the lot.
Art is something that you can pass on to your grandkids. It's a status symbol, a sign of sophistication, and a conversation piece all in one. Owning art is a huge leap into adulthood. If you aren't planning on making that leap, thanks to this project, you can buy a sketch for what you would spend on a couple x-box games, and hang it on your wall between to your Reservoir Dogs Poster and the street sign you stole that night when you and the team did a few too many keg stands.
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Q ) "WHO IS THIS COJO, ART JUGGERNAUT?"
A ) "THE MASTERMIND BEHIND SKETCH365"
Peter Max, Warhol, Basquiat, Haring, Koons, Scharif, Cojo.
Cojo, Art Juggernaut is the next in the line of artists who blur the line between Pop and Urban art, and one of the most creative fucks you will ever know.
"Some say I'm sitting on the pulse of pop culture, rightly cutting off the circulation. . .while others feel I am part of the skeletal structure supporting American Commercialism glorified by anorexic, silicone-stuffed, slickly sickening glam. If you know me from another world I'd be the undercoating of the hip-hop mainstream art construct.
I am most definitely a major part of the collapse of the visual arts world, as we know it, rising up from the ashes of the dead predecessors, the creative genius' who walked the urine-encrusted streets before I was a speck in the eye of the mighty track rabbit. As a writer, a painter, a man with a pencil, I am an observer of the things in life that are few and far between, and most of which is overlooked. "
If you wanted to read about some of his accomplishments or origins, CLICK HERE.
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Q ) "I LIVE OVERSEAS, CAN I STILL BUY SKETCHES?"
A ) "YES"
The only thing is the SHIPPING AND HANDLING price will be slightly higher for overseas shipping, and that the US Government doesn't offer insurance on Global Priority Mail so you will have to pay for a higher form of shipping such as USPS Global Express Guaranteed (GXG) , which costs significantly more, but it is preferred for your safety and the safety of your piece.
When you make a purchase, the secured servers of PayPal, through PayPal, or whatever billing method you choose (credit card, e-check, whatever) will take your payment as though you were purchasing the sketch from within the US. Make sure you include a current e-mail address you check regularly while purchasing. After the transaction goes through and your money transfers for the bulk of the purchase, I will contact you via e-mail with a separate check out page made exclusively for foreign purchases so you can pay the difference of the shipping and handling (should only be a few dollars more).
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Q ) "DO I NEED PAYPAL TO BUY SKETCHES?"
A) NO, YOU DON'T ACTUALLY.
Thankfully, technology has caught up with online shopping. Now you can buy things online with a credit card, with PayPal, or by check through your bank account, just by sending an e-check. After the e-check clears, it's just as good as credit cards or PayPal.
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Q) "DO I NEED A CREDIT CARD TO BUY SKETCHES?"
A) "NOPE"
You can buy things online with PayPal, or by check through your bank account, just by sending an e-check. After the e-check clears, it's just as good as credit cards or PayPal. PayPal sounds like something bigger than it is. It's just a secure site that transfers money from your physical bank account and allows you to use it to buy things on the web or send money to anyone with an email address in 56 countries and regions. It's simple to SIGN UP, and it's free.
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Q) "CAN I BUY PRINTS OF THE SKETCHES?"
A) NOPE.
I repeat, these are not prints, they are highly rare original one of a kind sketches. Original hand drawn pieces of art. There won't be any prints made of these to be sold in limited edition or otherwise. The only prints I can see being made of them will be in books, gallery showings of the paintings derived from them, in advertising for the Sketch365, in advertising for the 10 (S)UBJECT show, and things of that nature.
Once the images you see on this site are marked sold, they are gone. Someone else now owns the original. I'm sorry if the piece you wanted has been sold. You weren't fast enough this time. Better luck tomorrow!
If you really have to have it, and you have the bucks, then what can I say, buy the painting it will be incorporated in at the Gala opening. If you don't have the money to buy one of my giant paintings, you can always buy a smaller limited edition litho of the paintings, which I'm sure I'll produce for or shortly after the time of the opening.
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Q ) "DOES COJO HAVE ANY PAINTINGS FOR SALE?"
A ) "YES"
There are actually quite a few paintings from 2001's "THE BLUE SHOW" that still haven't sold. CHECK OUT THE GALLERY, like the sketches, these are first come first serve.
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Q) "I WANT COJO TO PAINT MY PORTRAIT!"
A) COJO CAN'T DO YOUR PORTRAIT AT THIS TIME.
I'll be taking reservations for portraits in 2006. Right now, enjoy the sketches, or browse the gallery of remaining original paintings from THE BLUE SHOW.
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Q) "WHAT IF COJO MISSES A DAY?"
A) HE'LL DOUBLE UP THE NEXT.
I really don't want to miss a day, but if by chance I must (vacation or such), I will draw enough sketches in preparation for my absence to cover the spread of days or day I will not be around to upload them and have one of my programmers upload them for me on the appropriate days.
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posted by -Cojo "Art Juggernaut"