Brand New!! The Summit X Fine Art Weblog Posts Of 2017 - On Making A Mark

This is a spider web log post almost the most pop spider web log posts on Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark inwards 2017 - inwards ii categories
  • normal posts almost fine art - which tend to highlight viral posts in addition to fine art competitions
  • posts almost fine art on television - which e'er teach a big audience

The Top 10 Blog Posts almost Art on Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark inwards 2017


I'm forever amazed at how some spider web log posts convey off in addition to move viral whereas others that I idea would live on pop did less good than I expected.


Top fine art competitions are real pop - but real 'individual' posts also gained a lot of prominence in addition to went viral inwards 2017

1.  Let's celebrate the move of Khadija Saye - It's real poignant that the give post should live on about Khadija Saye when:


2.  NOT selected yesteryear an fine art challenger or opened upwards exhibition? - I'm non surprised this comes nigh the top. It's a perennial favourite - in addition to immediately listed inwards my side column equally well.
Interestingly I've been asked for in addition to provided written advice to artists inwards 2017 regarding suitability of their artwork for dissimilar competitions.

3.  RA Summer Exhibition 2017 - Call For Entries - a perennial favourite - in addition to I've already got the spider web log post re. 2018 inwards draft!  Keep your eyes peeled for when I post it on Facebook, or - fifty-fifty improve - sign upwards to teach an electronic mail every fourth dimension this spider web log publishes a post.

4.  BP Portrait Award 2017 - The Shortlist - The BP Portrait Award is ane of the most pop of the international paradigm competitions inwards the world every year. Little wonder so that the publication of the shortlist ranks high!  Interestingly this ane was for the mobile version of this post so I'm guessing in that place was quite a bot of sharing going on....

5.  10 Best Paintings inwards the Dominicus Times Watercolour Exhibition - While the Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition is some other real pop fine art challenger inwards the UK, I suspect my determination to vary how I wrote almost it (given the paradigm that won) made this ane rather popular. I had a LOT of people writing to me afterwards maxim they completely agreed.  It started equally follows.....
This twelvemonth I'm non doing a post that announces the prizewinners inwards the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2017. That's because
  • the paradigm which won is inwards acrylic on sail board in addition to is truly eligible for credence into the annual exhibition of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters! 
  • I take away hold rarely felt so disappointed inwards the acquit of a panel of judges.
I'm left wondering when are nosotros ever going to discovery the next Leslie Worth if nosotros give this prestigious challenger over to people who pigment with acrylic on sail non newspaper so it looks similar an crude painting?
this challenger aims to celebrate in addition to vantage excellence in addition to originality inwards the genre of watercolour painting.
6.  BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2017 - Selected Artists - I notice it fascinating to aspect upwards all the websites of the selected artists so I tin teach out a link to them embedded inwards their names. It's a major process to come across so many dissimilar ways that artists approach portraiture. If you've non taken a aspect at the websites of those who were selected in conclusion year, I recommend yous convey a look.  Don't forget these are the ones who got through all the before rounds are are business office of these stats - in addition to these realistically are your chances of getting selected if yous teach into this year. Except for the fact that the number entering increases every year.....
  • In price of entries, out of the 2,580 entries from all over the world
    • 1,214 Entries came from the Great Britain - England, Scotland in addition to Wales (47%)
    • 1,366 Entries came from 84 other countries(53%)
  • The judges in addition to then reduced this number to their pick of the concluding 53 for the exhibition (representing 2% of the full number of entries).
Some of this year's selected artists inwards the BP Portrait Exhibition 2017 at the National Portrait Gallery
L to R: Honest Thomas yesteryear Alan Coulson; Jessica yesteryear Laura Quinn Harris; Tabitha Moses with Gilda, Liverpool yesteryear Hero Johnson; Matt Berry yesteryear Martyn Burdon; Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Russian Artist inwards Communist People's Republic of China yesteryear Bao Han

7. Watercolour paintings of flowers sell well - This was a post I'd been pregnant to write for ages.  Worth repeating why I wrote it - especially to those women who pigment flowers but somehow think that watercolour competitions in addition to watercolour fine art societies wouldn't live on interested inwards what they produce. This is a work with issues on both the render in addition to demand sides - in addition to inwards my opinion, both demand to think a chip to a greater extent than almost what the world similar to come across in addition to buy!
Flower paintings are hugely pop with the public. Watercolour paintings of flowers also sell good - especially when executed yesteryear experts.

I notice it such a compassion that leading opened upwards exhibitions of watercolour paintings (by the RWS, RI in addition to Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition) don't include to a greater extent than paintings of flora life inwards full general in addition to flowers inwards particular.

I'd love to know why there's a dearth of bloom paintings inwards watercolour shows - when some of the best watercolour painters inwards the province pigment flowers!
Watercolour Paintings yesteryear Rosie Sanders at the Johnathan Cooper Park Walk Gallery

8. Training the Eye - Teaching to Look - This was almost hugely informative in addition to stimulating video I came across - almost how to teach artists to truly look. One of those which is ALWAYS worth watching again.

9. BP Portrait Award 2017: Artists with their paintings - One of the things I savour doing most is publishing posts on this spider web log of the artists who got selected - fifty-fifty if they didn't win a prize.  That's because merely getting selected is an respect in addition to something to live on celebrated!  This post highlights some of the artists who got selected for the BP - including 3 of those whose fine art is shown on the wall of the National Portrait Gallery above.
Plus showing people that selected artists aspect merely similar yous in addition to me way to a greater extent than people may teach upwards the gumption to 'have a go' adjacent year. Well adjacent twelvemonth starts tomorrow.....

Hero Johnson with her paradigm - selected for the BP portrait Award inwards 2017

10. Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition 2017 - Selected Artists -  This post includes the names of the 78 artists whose 87 paintings in addition to sketchbooks inwards watercolour media were exhibited inwards the 30th Exhibition at the Mall Galleries between xix - 24 September 201 2017. Links to their websites are embedded inwards their names - why non convey a aspect at the move of artists selected for this exhibition inwards 2017?

A corner of the Dominicus Times Watercolour Exhibition 2017 at the Mall Galleries
- non including the winner (as explained above)
Let's promise that inwards 2018, inwards monastic tell to avoid the debacle inwards 2017, the rules reverberate suggestions I had
Eligible media includes whatever water-based media, which includes acrylic, inks in addition to gouache (note it does NOT province that watersoluble crude pigment is acceptable!). My ain feeling is that it should also province that all industrial plant should live on on newspaper - but it doesn't. It would also live on prissy if the rules made it clear that sketchbooks are also eligible for submission.

Addendum re. fine art competitions in addition to opened upwards exhibitions


I also provide goodness coverage of the annual exhibitions of the national fine art societies on this blog.

It's worth noting that none of the national fine art societies generated the same grade of involvement or traffic equally some of the fine art competitions.

This twelvemonth I've also been monitoring the ratio of members to move from the opened upwards entry selected for the opened upwards exhibitions - with a round-up post for 2017 all the same to come.

Arising out of that I RECOMMEND:
  • ARTISTS give to a greater extent than idea equally to whether fine art guild opened upwards exhibitions or fine art competitions are going to generate:
    • a improve jeopardy of pick and/or 
    • a improve profile for their art
  • ART SOCIETIES demand to think some to a greater extent than about 
    • the ratio of move yesteryear members to move selected from the opened upwards entry inwards their annual OPEN exhibitions
    • how to improve their communication in addition to marketing of both the telephone phone for entries of their opened upwards exhibition chance in addition to the exhibition itself so equally to improve both the quantity in addition to lineament of the artwork - in addition to the sustainability of the guild over time.
In 2017 I reverted to publishing Calls for Entries for the opened upwards fine art exhibitions of the National Art Societies - equally good equally the major fine art competitions. This volition maintain inwards 2018 in addition to I'm also going to maintain monitoring the percent of the annual opened upwards exhibitions.


The Top 10 'Art on TV' Blog Posts of 2017


I should preface the listing of these posts yesteryear maxim I teach emails from Sky almost their programmes BUT I don't subscribe to Sky in addition to consequently can't come across their programmes. I suspect the same applies to rather a lot of those who read my blog.


1. Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2017 - Watch the Heats - I suspect if I'd followed through with a review of the actual programmes when shown on Sky they mightiness good take away hold topped this list. However I don't take away hold Sky in addition to spell I'm happy to review videos, I think somebody at Sky forgot to ship them to me...

2. Review: The Big Painting Challenge FINAL 2017 - I absolutely loved reviewing the episodes of this series, which this twelvemonth had a worthy winner.  I afterward met Suman Kaur inwards individual in addition to she's merely equally prissy inwards existent life equally on screen!  She also had an odd paradigm selected for the Dominicus Times Watercolour Exhibition 2017 - of which to a greater extent than above.

The halt of the origin twenty-four hr catamenia of the Final of the Big Painting Challenge 2017
- stood exterior the Queens House, Greenwich

- hearing almost the adjacent challenge.....remember what it was?
"With the adjacent challenge we're truly pushing the boat out...."
Meriel Frostrup

3. BBC's NEW Big Painting Challenge - If yous wonder why I characteristic fine art on boob tube on this blog, it's because it's real popular. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 chip similar the H2O cooler conversations when nosotros all used to lookout adult man the same affair at the same fourth dimension - before the era of 'on-demand tv'.  The Big Painting Challenge on BBC1 proved to live on extremely pop alongside aspiring artists.

4. Review: The Big Painting Challenge - Episode 1 - If yous desire your cite in addition to artwork to live on recognised, mayhap yous should apply for the diverse opportunities for paradigm challenges on boob tube that arise inwards 2018?

5. Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2018 - Call for Entries - I await to live on drafting the novel Call for Entries adjacent month!

6. Review: The Big Painting Challenge - Episode 3 (Animals) - Everybody loves an beast - in addition to what's improve than cuddly kittens or niggling puppies? Trying to pigment an elephant contre jour!  However the popularity of this item post mightiness merely take away hold been due to the fact I vented some of my irritation at the nonsensical remarks made yesteryear the novel justice who got a big thumbs downwardly from me yesteryear the halt of the programme.

7. Review: The Big Painting Challenge - Episode 2 (Landscapes) - This is when somebody at the BBC demonstrated their naievte when planning the filming of this programme. Bottom business they failed to realise that the existent challenge almost paradigm landscapes isn't perspective - it's paradigm plein air - inwards a howling gale, on a twenty-four hr catamenia when the conditions changed on a real regular footing - in addition to yous could truly lookout adult man paintings dripping off the page!  I'm afraid this was ane of the best comedy programmes all twelvemonth for me - my jaw merely kept dropping! I felt so distressing for the painters. Note to the BBC - when yous conception to cinema painters exterior yous take away hold to exercise what whatever sensible painter does when the conditions is absolutely impossible!  Go within for tea in addition to a bun until the conditions improves!

8. The Great Pottery Throwdown - Series 2 starts tonight - I'm a big fan of this programme equally I love ceramics - in addition to haven't got a clue how to brand them. So this serial renders me real much inwards pupil mode, watching the crafting of a pot. I also liked it when I got sent the mass of the serial to review! See Book Review - The Great Pottery Throw Down.

The Great Pottery Throwdown - Series 2. Remember this lot?

9. Review: The Big Painting Challenge - Episode 4 (Portraits) - Interesting that both animals in addition to landscape got to a greater extent than viewers than the portrait episode.

10. Gareth Reid is Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2017 - So prissy to know that an creative individual who knows how to wield charcoal with intelligence in addition to sensitivity should win the Sky Arts Portrait of the Year. Even improve for me given I've already featured BP Travel Award: Gareth Reid in addition to the Finnish wintertime bathers ) when he exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery. I could tell he was a 'class act' in addition to then in addition to said so!

Gareth Reid with his portrait of Graham Norton

I wonder what volition convey people's fancy inwards 2018?

That's all upwards to you!

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