Brand New!! Getting Out Of The Studio - Making A Score Fine Art Weblog Awards 2011

This category of awards is all well-nigh people who describe together with pigment exterior their studio - sometimes producing finished sketches or paintings plein air together with sometimes producing textile to prepare farther inwards the studio.

They are:

• The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize
• The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy
• The Going Greener Gong

They're also awards for people who house an emphasis on sharing.


Painting Plein Air Plus Prize

The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize for excellence inwards plein air painting plus a rigid commitment to sharing information

The past times winners are:

• 2006 Ed Terpening (Life Plein Air)
• 2007 William Wray (Urban painter William Wray)
• 2008 shared by:
• Michael Chesley Johnson (A Plein Air Painter's Blog)
• Linda Blondheim (Linda Blondheim Art Notes)
• 2009 shared by
• Loriann Signori, (Loriann Signori's painting-a-day) .
• Marc R. Hanson, (Painting My Way Through Life
• 2010 Adebanji Alade (Adebanji Alade, South London)

I hasten to add together that the prize is non confined to those who arrive at finished paintings plein air.

It's worth highlighting whatever pose out of fine art bloggers who are intrepid and/or industrious plein air painters.  These include:

• David Pilgrim (David Pilgrim Art) who is a founding fellow member of the  Plein Air Brotherhood and painted all over the UK of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland together with inwards Venice this year
• Painter The Cornwall Big Paint In - on a beach! - inwards reply to the notion that artists could non pigment on the beaches inwards Cornwall
• Sarah Wimperis - who lives inwards Cornwall posted regular paintings of her local river inwards all weathers together with times of 24-hour interval on The Red Shoes inwards the initiative off purpose of the year.  Then painted non-stop inwards Provence inwards June (Four Go Painting In Provence)
• Robin Purcell (Robin Purcell, watercolors inwards the plein air tradition) - who does most of her landscape icon inwards watercolour plein air - together with produces some wonderful paintings every bit a result.

However this is an abide by for people who practise to a greater extent than than simply pigment plein air.  The winners are also people to portion data - that's what the "plus" is all about.

Enrique Flores  (this weblog dorsum inwards May.

This calendar week I've been watching i of my favourite sketchers Enrique Flores (4ojos) posting reportage sketches well-nigh the amazing peaceful protests past times immature people inwards Madrid inside the context of today's elections. This, inwards a way, is the Castilian version of the revolutions which conduct hold been sweeping through the Arab basis since the kickoff of the year.  It's e'er worth recording the fact that those who sketch together with weblog tin dismiss also contribute to a much wider agreement of how life is lived inwards some parts of the world. It's the drawing version of the cameraphone!

He afterward created a specific house to proceed all his watercolour reportage sketches from the protests which went on for days prior to the election. Now my browser offers me automatic translation of the whole page I tin dismiss at to the lowest degree read what he was proverb inbetween his watercolour sketches!

The paintings are non hugely good developed but simply hold off at the quantity together with the agency inwards which he captures a alive trial - non knowing what was going to plow over side past times side at whatever time.  Bear inwards heed he's also standing together with icon wherever he tin dismiss inside the context of a crowded foursquare inwards Madrid.  It's a really remarkable tape - I've never seen anything similar it before.

The 2011 winner of
The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize is
Enrique Flores

Sketch past times Enrique Flores

The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy 
combined amongst the 'Get Off Your Blogging Bottom together with Sketch' Brass Plate from 2007  

The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy goes to the most intrepid and/or industrious artist travelling amongst a sketchbook.

• 2006  Laura Frankstone (Laurelines of North Carolina USA)
• 2007  Martha (Trumpetvine Travels of Berkeley California)
• 2008  Cindy Woods. (Learning Daily USA) This was a posthumous award
• 2009  Enrique Flores (Cuatro cosas  Madrid, Spain)
• 2010  Liz Steel (Liz + Borromini Sydney Australia)

There's no inquiry that the contributions coming from the Iberian Peninsula conduct hold been outstanding this yr - or that in that place was entirely ever i candidate for the Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy

My argue for proverb this is that 200 or so Urban Sketchers from over xx countries descended on Lisbon for the sole purpose of sketching together with talking well-nigh sketching during the 2d International Urban Sketching Symposium - July 21-23, 2011.  It was a resounding success.

This is

• where they sketched inwards Lisbon
• the slideshow of the official Urban Sketchers Lisbon Symposium set on Flickr
• the Group Pool on Flickr
• the Symposium blog where in that place are write-ups of the dissimilar workshops together with accounts of dissimilar people's experiences

Their output was really impressive - every bit were the videos of people sketching people sketching!

The 2011 winner of
The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy are
The Urban Sketchers of the 2d International Symposium inwards Lisbon

The Going Greener Gong

The Going Greener Gong is awarded to the fine art weblog which I've institute most stimulating inwards relation to getting us inwards affect amongst nature together with the environment.

Past winners include:

• 2007:  Richard Bell's nature diary Wild West Yorkshire. 
• 2008 Shared by:  
• Irene Brady (Nature Drawing together with Journaling Workshops) and 
• Debbie Kotter Caspari (Drawing the Motmot) 
• 2009  Sketching inwards Nature - a grouping weblog started inwards Apr 2009 past times Cathy Johnson. 
• 2010  Jeanette Jobson (Illustrated Life) 

What I oftentimes acquire from the people who win this abide by is the sheer pleasance inwards their experience of nature together with life inwards the wild - no affair what cast it takes.

The abide by includes all those who weblog well-nigh animals, birds, flowers together with plants. Blogs are non required inwards whatever agency to throttle themselves to simply those topics but they practise demand to conduct hold a experience for beingness greenish together with sustainable well-nigh them. They also acquire extra points for getting out together with well-nigh together with drawing from life!

The blogs I considered this yr included the following:

• Sherrie York Brush together with Baren inwards Salida, Colorado
• Mindy Lighthipe The Art of Mindy Lighthipe for her participation inwards the 30 day daily foliage challenge
• Martin Stankewitz's How to Draw a Tree who keeps coming upwards amongst novel perspectives on the tree inwards the landscape (try Tree trunks every bit barcodes)

(Incidentally - for those who relish nature endeavour the Nature Blog Network)

My favourite weblog - together with i which I e'er brand a signal of reading inwards a leisurely agency - is Sherrie York's Brush together with Baren.  I dear the agency her linocuts emerge slow - through the cutting processes together with the dissimilar inks until a wonderful epitome emerges at the end.  The combination of construction together with inventiveness is awesome!

What is peculiarly noteworthy is Sherrie has the mightiness to brand yous hold off to a greater extent than carefully at nature - at what yous conduct hold for granted when out together with about.  I meet what she tin dismiss brand of something together with experience inspired to practise the same.  Her artwork speaks volumes well-nigh her dear of her environs together with the natural basis - together with the video below does quite a skillful project too!

The 2011 winner of
The Going Greener Gong is
Sherrie York

PPLD Off the Wall - Feb 2011 from PPLD TV on Vimeo.

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