This year via my on-line shop I offered a £10 'blind valentine' where I would post a drawing to anyone a buyer wanted, but they didn't get to see it - not the message, not the materials, not anything. Valentine's day is good like that, you see, cos the normal stuff you can buy for it is so putridly pathetic that ANYTHING is an improvement.

MOONPIG YOU WANKY CHEESEMERCHANT BASTARDS JUST FUCK-OFF.

At the point of inception of this concept I was kind-of taking the piss thinking no-one would be brave enough, but amazingly I sold 9 out of the 10 I could produce, leaving 1 for my own girlfriend, which saved me buying an Asda card or doodling on a piece of wood, or something.

I asked all buyers to send me whatever details they liked about their relationship to the receipient, and that I might use it in some way. Interestingly 8 out of the 9 buyers were men, who had my girlfriend melting a bit reading their emails about how much they loved their partners. It was pretty emotional for all involved.

In the end I decided to design a base artwork, and customiseify it to fit the various recipients. I then etched the art onto copper clad boards and mounted in some craft-shop-from-hell chintzy heart aperture cards, which kind-of looked surprisingly good, and made a few people's day from the feedback received.

This mini-project could never have been completed successfully without my amazing girlfriend, Jo, who was totally supportive of my use of highly corrosive chemicals in her kitchen, and more-than up for getting completely covered in black gunk cleaning off the copper boards. I also couldn't really avoid her seeing her own one of these prior to Valentine's Day... Though I did insist on making this one myself from start to finish to prove that chivalry is not dead.

Thanks to all the buyers, I will be doing something similar next year, but for now.... It's mother's day approaching, and I have an idea in mind which I'll be talking about soon. If the new puppy doesn't eat my pencils.

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