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Brand New!! Vote For The Best Artwork On An Fine Art Weblog Inwards 2011

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You are invited to vote for
the Making H5N1 Mark Award
for the best artwork on a spider web log inwards 2011

Earlier this month, y'all were invited to nominate artwork for the Making H5N1 Mark Awards for Best Picture inwards dissimilar categories.  I posted the results inwards the 4 posts published on Christmas Eve (listed at the goal of each category below).

You tin straightaway VOTE for what YOU mean value is the best picture in the FOUR polls for the best artwork for each category - based on the artwork shortlisted from the nominations in addition to my ain nominations

Before the display of images of the shortlist I've said a few words nigh why I chose the works that I did.

What YOU induce got to practise straightaway - VOTE!

DECIDE WHICH ARTWORK YOU LIKE THE BEST (see images below) inwards each of the FOUR dissimilar categories below in addition to hence vote inwards the poll relating to each category - but entirely i vote per category please! ;)
  • Make sure y'all instruct the termination correct showtime fourth dimension every bit you'll live blocked from changing your vote 
  • The deadline for voting is 6.00am (GMT/London) on Fri 30th Dec 2011
  • I volition hence formally denote the winner of each category inwards the 2nd role of the Making H5N1 Mark Awards inwards a post service afterwards on the 30th December.
  • You'll entirely live able to reckon the percentages of the vote which each slice attracts. However the operate which attracts the most votes inwards total volition also live declared Picture of the Year!
I advise y'all click on the images earlier voting hence y'all tin reckon all the operate properly. When you've voted y'all tin hence sentiment the results yesteryear clicking on the 'view result' link inwards the bottom left paw corner (just higher upward the polldaddy link).

You tin also percentage a link to whatsoever of the polls on your ain blog.  Just click the 'share this' link for the poll you'd similar to share.

You straightaway induce got 4 days to vote for which is the best artwork inwards each category (see below). There are FOUR polls below - delight induce got your fourth dimension in addition to vote on each.

Please note: Lobbying is non allowed beyond a selected creative mortal posting a link to this post service on their ain spider web log in addition to explaining how to vote.  Others tin experience costless to percentage a link to this vote if y'all desire to encourage people to await at the options generally.



The Making a Mark Prize for 
Best Artwork - Portrait / Figures 2011

aims to celebrate in addition to highlight excellence inwards portraiture and/or artwork 
on an fine art spider web log predominantly involving figures 

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This category attracted the largest issue of nominations in addition to at that topographic point are 4 paintings inwards the vote-off.

The Making H5N1 Mark Awards likes to highlight figurative paintings in addition to drawings every bit good every bit conventional portrait paintings.  This twelvemonth I had a surfeit of caput portraits.  It's almost every bit if people seat the give-and-take portrait alongside the give-and-take "face".  (On the other paw when nosotros reckon the Google images results for the give-and-take "portrait" you're inwards adept company!)

I'd similar to arrive clear that paintings of the whole figure in addition to figurative paintings of groups of people are also real welcome inwards this category.  (Also contrast the termination of a search for Google images for the search "figurative painting"!).  I went searching for figurative paintings - but there's non a lot to live flora despite the fact at that topographic point is a huge tradition of creating paintings alongside several total length figures inwards fine art history.  I'd telephone band that a niche ripe for exploiting!
  • My nomination is a epitome - Sophie Ploeg (Sophie Ploeg)'s "Dream" which I've genuinely seen inwards existent life every bit good every bit on an fine art spider web log - in addition to I induce got to say it's fifty-fifty to a greater extent than impressive when y'all reckon the existent thing.  That fact I've also got freckles could also live something to practise alongside it - I mean value they're real hard to paint!  (This is the idiosyncratic chemical component of selection!)
  • I e'er similar to endeavor in addition to include a drawing inwards the portrait department if possible in addition to this twelvemonth I had a selection of two.  For me "Black Sun" by Dirk Dzimirsky (Dirk Dzimirsky - Drawings) had the edge. He demonstrates an first-class mastery of the fine art of the pencil in addition to the tonal range. However it was peachy to reckon a silverpoint drawing nominated for this award. I'm e'er real pleased to reckon the total arrive at of traditional portrait media beingness nominated.  
  • I liked the fact that "Leah at Sea" yesteryear Taryn Day  (Awake in addition to Painting) was painted yesteryear a large brush painter in addition to although entirely pocket-size inwards size, she kept her "big brush" approach when dropping downwardly to smaller size.  There was also something nigh the means the other elements of the portrait, the bounding main inwards the background in addition to the anorak, acted both every bit explanations of who this mortal is in addition to provided a foundation for primal elements inwards the palette used to pigment this portrait
  • Painting children is perchance the most hard thing a portrait painter ever has to do.  The proportions of the caput are all completely dissimilar  when they're babies in addition to the freshness of the peel complexion in addition to surface texture is completely dissimilar to that of an adult.  Then the're the fact they sit, stand upward etc differently.  I genuinely liked "Scarlet" by Zachary Proctor (Sketchbook), the fact that she "looked like" a kid (the oral cavity is a joy!) in addition to that the palette was complementary inwards a means which spoke of a childish time.  Lots of understatement inwards this real effective portrait.
Links:
"Dream" © Sophie Ploeg
oil, 30x40cm
Nominated yesteryear Katherine Tyrrell
"Black Sun" © Dirk Dzimirsky (Dirk Dzimirsky - Drawings)
Graphite on paper, heightened alongside white ink
25.6" x 20.5" (65 x 52 cm)
Nominated yesteryear Jessica Rosemary Shepherd
"Leah at Sea" © Taryn Day (Awake in addition to Painting)
crude on panel
6"x6"
Nominated yesteryear Rose Welty
"Scarlet" © Zachary Proctor (Sketchbook)
24" x 24", oil
Nominated yesteryear Regula Scheifele




The Making a Mark Prize for 
Best Portrayal of a Place 2011
aims to celebrate in addition to highlight excellence inwards creating pictures
about places inwards our environment
(right click the epitome in addition to opened upward inwards novel tab to reckon a larger image)

Having started The Art of the Landscape spider web log I am straightaway than a combat familiar alongside an awful lot of landscape fine art blogs. I could induce got filled all the nominations myself in addition to nonetheless had some spare. Consequently I needed to await for aspects which had non been satisfied yesteryear the nominations which I selected for the shortlist.

  • I absolutely concord alongside both William Wray (William Wray) in addition to Casey Klahn nigh this painting!
  • Too few people practise paintings of Interiors - in addition to yet this is a dependent land which attracts commissions.  Sarah Wimperis (The Red Shoes) added some other string to her bow this twelvemonth inwards paintings of aspects of domestic environments.
  • I've been watching Nigel Fletcher's (Painting Adventures inwards the Limousin) paintings since the summertime in addition to commend his spider web log to you
  • I dear Robin Purcell's (Point Lobos series
Links:

Back Door © William Wray
Post: Backdoor 24x24
Nominated yesteryear Casey Klahn
"A Soft Light" © Sarah Wimperis
Nominated by: Maud Guilfoyle
Last Light © Nigel Fletcher
Nominated by: self nomination
Pacific Passage yesteryear Robin Purcell
fourteen x fourteen watercolour
Nominated yesteryear Katherine Tyrrell




The Making a Mark Prize for 
Best Still Life 2011
aims to highlight in addition to celebrate excellence inwards creating pictures
which assist us to reverberate on how the pocket-size and/or nonetheless tin live beautiful
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The 2 nominated works I select for the curt listing are both hyper realistic - albeit real dissimilar inwards their compositions in addition to palettes.
  • I've admired Jelaine Faunce's operate for a long while.  To me she real frequently meets that tricky challenge for the realistic creative mortal - where i clementine looks pretty much similar some other clementine - of finding dependent land thing in addition to blueprint which lifts a epitome out of the conventional in addition to makes it "of the artist".  
  • I'm non at all familiar alongside Alex Zonis's operate but tin sure vouch for the fact that the epitome is indeed a painting!
  • I decided to observe a contrast to the realistic images in addition to nominate a operate which was to a greater extent than impressionistic.  Lisa Daria was final year's winner of the Painting H5N1 Day Stickability Shield (which has a issue of good known winners).  What I liked nigh the epitome I chose was that it illustrated for me how a pretty low-cal muted palette in addition to adept blueprint tin live used to create a epitome which says "look at me".
  • I've also selected a contemporary nonetheless life  by Nicole Caulfield (Nicole Caulfield) with a narrative trouble inside the epitome in addition to i which is also role of a series.  Both features are real much associated with classical nonetheless life fine art in addition to are all to frequently missing from a lot of the nonetheless life operate I reckon online.  
Links:

'Glass & Floral II' © Jelaine Faunce
12"x12" - crude on canvas
Nominated yesteryear David Teter
Bottles, Bottles, Bottles © Lisa Daria
Nominated yesteryear Katherine Tyrrell
Lemonade © Nicole Caulfield
6" x 18", Coloursofts on Pastelbord
Nominated yesteryear Katherine Tyrrell




The Making a Mark Prize for 
Best Portrayal of Nature 2011
values the natural the world in addition to its plants in addition to animals
in addition to celebrates excellence inwards portraying every aspect of nature
(right click the epitome in addition to opened upward inwards novel tab to reckon a larger image)

This abide by got off to wearisome start final twelvemonth in addition to it's non been a lot improve this year.  I'm going to arrive at it i to a greater extent than twelvemonth in addition to a bigger dose of marketing inwards advance side yesteryear side twelvemonth to reckon if I tin generate to a greater extent than involvement from the real many artists who pigment nature, animals in addition to botanical subjects.  They're a shy lot! :)
  • Australian creative mortal Vicki Lee Johnston (Vicki Lee Johnston) explained that she couldn't instruct me a improve epitome for the nominated epitome every bit it's currently inwards the U.K. beingness assessed for the Diploma inwards Botanical Illustration which she's studying alongside the Society of Botanical Artists.  Those thinking of doing the Diploma should induce got a await at Vicki's blog.
  • I was real impressed alongside Suzanne Berry's other insects inwards the insect serial on her blog (Suzanne Berry).
  • I've viewed Tracy Hall's paintings on her spider web log Watercolour Artist Diary in addition to inwards exhibitions for a spell now.  The miniature epitome inwards watercolour of a Sanderling is an first-class illustration of the utilization of an odd format in addition to of giving surround context to a dependent land inwards nature.  Note also the size.
Links:

Alyogyne huegelii 'West Coast Gem'
© Vicki Lee Johnston
Ant © Suzanne Berry
16x16" crude on cradled hardboard SOLD

Sanderling © Tracy Hall 2011
4" x 1.75" Watercolour on rag board



Selection of work

There is, of course, no correct or incorrect response to which pieces should live selected from those which were nominated.

If you're interested inwards why operate gets chosen, read a pair of posts which furnish context for making a selection - hither are my thoughts on Selection, jurying in addition to must-see lists and Juried fine art competitions - does size matter?.

For the record, i of the things I practise earlier selecting each operate is review other operate on the artist's spider web log to reckon if it is representative of their operate during the year.

Also, i of the reasons why I halt trying to review an artists operate is when it's simply every bit good difficult.  I couldn't quite believe how many of the artists I similar arrive hard to access operate done inwards the past!  I'll live writing a post service nigh this inwards the New Year.

Do y'all concord alongside the selection?  Which operate would y'all induce got selected?  Do y'all induce got a slice y'all want you'd nominated?

I'm straightaway taking a curt interruption in addition to volition live dorsum on 29th Dec alongside the Making H5N1 Mark Art Blog Awards

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