Brand New!! Eighth January 2012 - Who's Made A Compass This Week

I'm starting the initiatory of all "who's made a score this week" of 2012 with a summary of your posts virtually reviews of 2011 as well as plans for 2012.  The primary argue I do this is because I notice it absolutely fascinating how people approach these pop tasks.  Take a hold off as well as y'all may notice yourself revising what y'all do at the halt of this year!

Some of y'all combine posts (the "Janus post") as well as hold off backwards as well as forwards - as well as inward that instance I've included them inward the initiatory of all department below.

A bust of the 2 faces of Janus
- the Roman god associated with novel beginnings as well as transitions
Location: Vatican Museum

The Janus Post - looking backwards as well as forwards

• Liz Steel (Looking dorsum on 2011 as well as thinking virtually 2012
• I besides did a "Janus" ship - The Old Year (2011) as well as The New Year's Day (2012) & eleven Principles (see right).  You tin download the disceptation of principles from Flickr.

Reviews of 2011

Then nosotros had the to a greater extent than straightforward reviews from (listed alphabetically):

• Jana Bouc (The Best Art Quips as well as Quotes of 2011.  What a corking agency to total upwards the year.
• The 2011 Review  Jeanette must endure doing something correct equally she reports that 2011 has been i of my best years financially for art, despite a recession, with most go coming through online sales as well as commissions.
• Casey Klahn (The Colorist) has gone for the simple/difficult version - he's posted his 6 overstep pastel paintings from 2011- see 2011 - The Blog as well as Art Year inward Review and therefore listed his 6 overstep posts as well as his 6 overstep events.  It's a rattling neat approach - I similar it!
• Gayle Mason recapped her twelvemonth in Review of 2011 in terms of what she achieved (eg Gayle was asked to sit down on the Selection Committee of the Society of Feline Artists) as well as what she was less happy with.
• Ilaria Rosselli del Turco (Yearly Recap who was selected for the exhibition of a major fine art contest inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland as well as was featured inward The Artist magazine
• Anna Wilson Patterson did a ship of all her Paintings 2011 - there's a lot to endure said for this approach.  It's a chip similar going to a solo exhibition.

New Year Resolutions

I spotted rather fewer plans for 2012

• Marion Boddy-Evans, the About.com Painting Guide, has ten New Year's Resolutions for artists
• Rose Welty believes inward keeping it fluid with some full general aims inward mind What volition I do inward 2012?
• Gillian Holding (What's inward shop for 2012

For those who haven't however made their plans endeavor reading How to Have the Best Year of Your Life (without Setting a Single Goal)

So much for my intention to write shorter posts - this i inward draft had weeks of fabric inward it - one-half of which I've had to deed forrad to adjacent week!

Here's the rest.......

Artists as well as Art Blogs


Obituaries

• her obituary inward the New York Times 

Drawing as well as sketching 

• The first SketchCrawl of 2012 is on Jan 21st.  Click the link to see the forum to notice out where others are sketching
• Enrique Flores (4 ojos) has been sketching inward Mauretania - this is a fabulous post Mauritanian portraits
• I've been posting sketches on Travels with a Sketchbook in....... of the meals I ate inward restaurants at the halt of June/early July spell on my ain inward Provence as well as therefore on the journeying dorsum to London - starting with the lunch I had inward St Remy en Provence in i trial I'd dropped Sarah off at Marseilles airport.
• Lunch at La Maison Jaune, St Remy de Provence
• Dinner as well as sunset at Le Mas des Vignes, Bedoin
• Les Quatre Saisons inward Bourg en Bresse
• Lunch Chez Guy inward Gevrey-Chambertin

Lunch at La Maison Jaune, St Remy de Provence 29 June 2011
11.5 x 16.5", pen as well as sepia ink as well as coloured pencils inward Moleskine Sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

Coloured pencils as well as pastels

• I'm certain I've come upwards across Artists inward Pastel earlier - but forgot to add together it into Google Reader which I've forthwith done.  One human being reviews pastel artists. 
• The Get Ready for 2012 -it's almost here!

Botanical art

• The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew convey a issue of blogs - as well as this post Fascinating collection of Ray Cowell's illustrations comes to Kew is on the Library Art as well as Archives blog
• This post an interview with Stephen Taylor on The Huffington Post.  Poignant.

Figurative Painting

• I'm using Figurative hither to hateful "including figures: - James Gurney  (Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; and Part 4.

Landscape

• Great to run into somebody doing landscapes inward charcoal - Jan Blencowe (Charcoal Drawing as well as Paper Review
• Bill Guffey (Bill Guffey) has made 2 novel videos of
• a demonstration he did in conclusion summer
• his Outdoor Paintings 2011 - which shows set-up as well as progress shots for dissimilar locations.

Plein Air Painting

• A prissy ship - with lots of images of paintings - past times David Pilgrim (Associate Membership of the ROI 
• Another ship to add together to the "the things which hap to plein air painters!". Sarah Wimperis recounts her New Year Shenanigans on her weblog The Red Shoes

Printmaking

• I'm loving lots of the prints beingness attain past times Amanda Briggs at Dear Ada.  The botanical/plaint inspired ones are my favourites

Sculpture

• Sculpture is becoming vulnerable to theft - the latest is the theft of a Hepworth sculpture stolen alongside metallic theft 'epidemic'
• I'm non certain if I've always highlighted the weblog of a rock sculptor earlier - but I similar this i past times Wind Worn Stone

Street Art

• Thanks to Malcolm Cudmore for highlighting this ship virtually Twelve Art World Habits to Ditch inward 2012
• Luann Udell - writing on Fine Art Views -  writes about Questions You Don't Have to Answer: Where is This Place? 
• Rhonda Hurwitz writes on Forbes virtually lessons y'all acquire from creating fine art tin besides endure applied to business Both sides of the easel: what life equally an creative someone taught me virtually business
• Alan Bamberger has a novel article for artists - he talks about Advantages to Making Art inward Series vs One-by-One (new)

Art Collectors 

• Alan Bamberger of artbusiness.com writes fantabulous articles - this is his latest for fine art collectors - Warning: How Predatory Commercial Galleries Sell Art (new)
• The Art World Class Warfare

Art Competitions / Art Society - Calls for Entries

Calls for Entries

I did a major ship this calendar week about Major Art Competitions inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland 2012 - which includes fine art competitions which are opened upwards to international entries.  Besides providing summaries of all the data that is currently available it besides links to a dyad of sites that I'll endure updating throughout the twelvemonth equally to a greater extent than data becomes available:

• the page on this website devoted to Major United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland Art Competitions 2012
• Art Competitions inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland - Resources for Artists

United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland Deadlines for registration or submissions this calendar month include:

• John Moore Painting Prize 2012: Call For Entries - registration deadline 20 Jan 2012
• Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Call for Entries post - registration deadline 11 Jan 2012
• Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012 - Call for Entries (x2)
• Royal Scottish Society of Painters inward Watercolour - Annual Open Exhibition (note telephone band for entries unavailable for download) - receiving twenty-four hours 17th Jan 2012
• Painting Canada: Tom Thomson as well as the Group of Seven - Review
• Gerhard Richter: Panorama at Tate Modern - Review

David Hockney The Road Across the Wolds 1997
Oil on sail 121 x 152 cm
Private Collection
Copyright David Hockney Photo credit: Steve Oliver

The marketing for David Hockney - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Bigger Picture exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts (opening 21 January) has started early.  The RA is recommending people majority early on - including Friends of the RA.

He was on Countryfile this night giving a preview of the exhibition as well as showing where he paints as well as sketches inward the Wolds of East Yorkshire. This is the iPlayer link for those who missed it.

I'm hugging my David Hockney postcards - courtesy of this week's Radio Times which besides had an exceptional virtually the Countryfile programme.

The 4 dissimilar covers of the Radio Times this week
showing the 4 Hockney images on postcards which could endure flora within the dorsum cover
- it's the same house inward January, March as well as a dyad of dates inward April

David Hockney - an creative someone for all seasons is the interview given to the magazine while David Hockney gives Damien Hirst an fine art attack is the championship of the article inward which the 74 twelvemonth quondam painter slates artists who relay on aides to attain their work. Many of Hirst’s assistant-made industrial plant of fine art volition endure on demo at a Tate Modern exhibition this April.  Meanwhile Hockney's assistants drive the cars to the plein air location as well as fix the easel as well as paradigm tables.  I'm cheering from the sidelines! :)

A poster for his demo at the Royal Academy reads: “All the industrial plant hither were made past times the creative someone himself, personally.”

Art Society Exhibitions - USA

• The Janice Griffiths Gallery in California volition endure presenting a World of Watercolor event between fifth Feb as well as 18th March 2012 which I'd absolutely love to see.  It comprises
• the 144th Traveling Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society's Travel Exhibition and 
• the travelling exhibition of the 91st Annual Exhibition of the National Watercolor Society at the same fourth dimension - this demo includes go past times fine art blogger Keiko Tanabe
• Plus the third annual Signature American Watercolor Exhibition.  (Online catalogue)

Art Galleries as well as Museums

• Makingamark's Top Five Art Books inward 2011, You tin VOTE inward a poll which asks y'all which of the 5 books is your personal favourite
• Dianne Mize (One Artist's Journey / Compose) has published a book In Praise of Mountain Waters and got it onto Amazon.

Art education

• "Looking At Wax" lecture past times Joanne Mattera Thursday, 12 Jan 2012 at 19:00 at The Art Students League of New York
• Wolf Kahn lectures on 6 practiced reasons non to pigment a landscape - with thank y'all to Loriann Signori for identifying this link to me

Art Supplies

• Jamie Williams Grossman (Hudson Valley Sketches) wrote posts about:
• Breaking inward Your Stillman as well as Birn Alpha, Gamma or Epsilon Hardbound Sketchbook So It Lies Flat.  I must confess I simply purchase a Moleskine as well as it lies apartment equally shortly equally I opened upwards it!
• Shading Inks Testing, Reviews, as well as Selections has some practiced images of the color of ink as well as some recommendations

Colour

• I don't usually comment on animation or example but found The Color Blue inward Toy Story 3 by James Gurney (Gurney Journey) to endure a very interesting ship discussing how color tin endure used conceptually - past times Pixar inward Toy Story 3

Conservation

• James Gurney (Archivist’s Top Ten Tips - how many are y'all observing?
• Anybody else got whatsoever practiced tips virtually conservation or written a ship virtually it?

Copyright

• Seth Godin (Simple thoughts virtually fair use and commented on why the concept of "fair use" is of import when discussing or considering copyright.  His ship seems to endure a response to this weblog ship Apropos Appropriation and a photograph collage of artwork that convey been appropriated past times other artists
• James Gurney (Was Rockwell Looking?
• Michael Chesley Johnson (Copyright as well as the Internet

Opinion Poll

• The Jan Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Opinion Poll has already got to a greater extent than than 100 responses - see POLL: First Impressions: what makes y'all exit an fine art website fast? and the poll inward the side column if y'all desire to vote.  We convey 4 rigid contenders for the characteristic y'all most loathe on a website!

Internet, webware, websites as well as blogging

• Ning has been acquired past times Glammedia, an online media provider, as well as at that topographic point are changes to the TOS - which appear to endure of no involvement if y'all don't desire advertising on your site.
• I've alone simply discovered PinInterest - anybody using it?
• Mashable has looked at the divergence inward eyetracking on the novel as well as quondam Facebook profiles - see
  Facebook Timeline vs. Old Profiles: How People View Them Differently [STUDY]
• Apparently y'all can Use Your iPad to Scribble on Photos as well as Screenshots With Skitch For iOS 
• Lori McNee highlighted this post HOW TO Post Your Tweets At Optimal Times

and finally 

Writers as well as artists blueprint coin gibe for modern times - inward pictures - enjoy!

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