Who's Made A Compass Inward 2014?

In this ship service you'll uncovering links to some of the most pop spider web log posts on this spider web log this in conclusion year.

Apparently rather a lot of people took a hold off at a fair few posts on this spider web log inwards 2014. Over one-half a i M one thousand people paid unique visits as well as created 0.75 i M one thousand page views inwards 2014.

That's non to tell the posts amongst the most views are intrinsically ameliorate than whatever of the residuum - only it's e'er interesting to run across what peaks interest!

Please banking concern notation I've left out the normal fine art competitions as well as fine art club exhibitions equally I'll live on doing updates on those this calendar week as well as volition highlight yesteryear posts when I do.

Practical Tips for Artists

10 Golden Rules For Every Busy Artist - my version is based on the 10 golden rules for every busy woman.
Top 10 tips for existence an artist highlights the tips offered yesteryear Suzanne du Toit inwards a BBC article. Suzanne won the BP Portrait honour inwards 2013 as well as I had the delightful sense of sketching amongst her inwards November. She's a real fast sketcher!
While writing my majority I couldn't maintain my normal output re spider web log posts - thence took to creating some compendiums of yesteryear posts on a topic. This is A Compendium of Colour
another i of my compendium posts was How to blueprint a represent an fine art fair. This is technical materials folk!
The real pop ship service which isn't hither is "How to concur a pencil". I really wanted to write a ship service nearly it equally shortly equally I'd written that department of the majority - mainly because of the contortions involved inwards really producing the images! In the destination I decided that you'll receive got to read my majority for that - only I volition demonstrate i of the images.... as well as later on I'll tell yous the storey of how that department was produced.

this is the basic traveling steal for drawing as well as is i of iv drawings for unlike options inwards the book!

Art books

Books yesteryear other artists

There receive got been fifty-fifty to a greater extent than published since I wrote 2014 - the twelvemonth of real many books nearly Urban Sketching? - does this tendency demonstrate whatever signs of slowing?
Nicole Caulfield shares an ebook nearly portraits inwards coloured pencils - Nicole shared her non quite finished ebook for free!

Books yesteryear Katherine Tyrrell

My majority is published on 8 Jan 2015 inwards the UK! It was also published on 1 Jan inwards the USA. Here are my posts nearly it - thence yous know what to spotter out for.

My NEW majority is called 'Sketching 365' inwards the UK
My NEW majority is "Drawing 365" inwards the USA - instantly available!

Please allow me know when yous run across it inwards bookshops as well as if yous receive got a photograph I'll ship service it on www.facebook.com/DrawingSketching365 :)

Very many thank yous to those who

responded to my spider web log ship service dorsum inwards Jan nearly which asked What's your favourite tip nearly drawing? and
those who participated inwards the give-and-take on DISCUSS: How to describe amongst confidence?
John Smolko who says much ameliorate than I could inwards a tips majority what the real adept reasons are for continuous line drawings - do delight read John Smolko's Top Tip for Drawing

I also wrote 2 spider web log posts nearly preparing images for a majority - it seemed similar a adept thought to tape the lessons learned (while I could notwithstanding recollect them) for anybody else who does downward this road as well as writes an fine art teaching majority at some betoken inwards the future!

#1 go yesteryear tip is "assume all fine art yous hit volition live on needed for a publication"

Art Business & Marketing

Marketing art

Where to sell fine art is the incorrect question is nearly fourth dimension devoted to marketing versus where yous sell your art
Most Revenue or Best Profit? What was the Best Place to sell Art inwards 2013? - yous tin uncovering a follow-up poll inwards the side column. Please vote - the poll runs until 30th January.
How tin an creative individual uncovering out who bought their painting? a answer to a real frequent enquiry which artists ask. The ship service covers what is normal practise inwards price of sharing the holler of buyers as well as comments on the unlike perspectives of fine art gallery, fine art contest as well as artist
Don't appointment your signature on your artwork! is focuses on a major occupation amongst dating artwork - cheque out the poll results.
Packaging as well as posting artwork #2 - this highlighted updates to a real pop ship service from 2008 which I've updated for electrical flow links to maintain it relevant

Managing the money

What tin artists claim equally occupation organisation expenses - for taxation purposes? - a listing of occupation organisation expenses which tin usually live on claimed for taxation purposes yesteryear an creative individual who is making a serious endeavor to sell fine art as well as brand money.

Art as well as the Internet

This is the department which generated the most visited spider web log ship service inwards 2014! It covers websites, cyberspace marketing, blogging as well as Facebook. In 2014 I started to deliver workshops for fine art societies as well as fine art venues on artists as well as social media - as well as I continued to write nearly issues relevant to artists on my blog.

Blogging as well as social media

Why social media matters inwards 2014 highlights the major changes people demand to live on aware of - inwards item the impact of mobile devices
10 go yesteryear tips for fine art blogs arose out of some advice I gave to a prominent fine art blog. It contains 10 things yous tin do to improve your fine art spider web log using Blogger.
Tips for repelling plagiarist bloggers is what I do when somebody steals content from my spider web log - this i is worth bookmarking. See also the ship service nearly how to written report scraping to Google below.

After 9+ years of repelling plagiarist bloggers as well as websites I instantly acquire direct to the point. It's the exclusively agency to acquire the message across.

Facebook

It appears at that topographic point are major changes planned for marketing on Facebook inwards 2015

Google

An introduction to Google Open Gallery introduced this intiiative - only it's non been real prominent since its introduction. H5N1 adept thought without whatever oomph behind it?
Has your artwork been scraped? is required reading for all those concerned nearly their content existence duplicated

Websites

Why color converts as well as creates sales on websites

Art Exhibitions

Major Art Exhibitions inwards London inwards 2014 - hold off out for an update amongst honor to 2015 coming this adjacent week.
Hockney was at Dulwich Picture Gallery inwards 2014 - as well as unfortunately I never finished the posts due to existence nether the cosh amongst the book.

Photorealism remained real popular. Photorealism - artists, an exhibition, a video as well as 71 photos featured is the foremost as well as largest European retrospective exhibition of Photorealism the The Birmingham Museum as well as Art Gallery
Major novel Singer Sargent exhibition announced - inwards London as well as New York - NPG inwards London from Feb to May 2015 as well as and then the Met inwards New York from June to Oct 2015
Grayson Perry - Who Are You? - on TV as well as at the NPG - I've afterward visited the exhibition - as well as it's real good.

RHS Botanical Art Show, Spring 2014
Best Botanical Painting - yesteryear Işık Güner

Botanical Art - my exceptional interest

Every twelvemonth I do a serial of posts which I know are keenly awaited yesteryear botanical artists to a greater extent than or less the Blue Planet - mainly because I'm recording who won the gilt medals at the RHS shows inwards London.

I mean value this post, for a long time, was the go yesteryear ship service of the twelvemonth - RHS Botanical Art Show 2014 - Medal winners (It's instantly been good as well as really overtaken yesteryear the ship service nearly the changes on Facebook)
Plus every twelvemonth I receive got posts focused on tips for futurity exhibitors Here are my

Reflections on the RHS Botanical Art Show Autumn 2014 was nearly the Autumn Show
Three RHS Gold Medals for Botanical Art as well as a video interview - includes an absolutely fantastic video interview amongst Denise Ramsay

Art Materials

It looks equally if this post Will Cadmium live on banned inwards artists' paints inwards Europe? was helpful inwards getting the proposed ban changed.
How pencils are made - includes a real informative video

Art on Television

Like many others I was intrigued yesteryear The Great British Paint-Off: BBC1 searches for best amateur artists. I've searched high as well as depression on the BBC Media website as well as I tin uncovering no farther cite of it - other than that it's supposed to air inwards Spring 2015. I'll gauge we'll uncovering out at some betoken inwards 2015 what transpired - as well as whether they selected people "with an interesting dorsum story" or amateur artists who could really paint! Daphne Todd as well as Lachlan Goudie may live on sworn to secrecy equally judges or at that topographic point in i lawsuit again they mightiness non be....
I started to uncovering archive films which receive got been digitised on the spider web inwards 2014. One which proved real pop was a British Pathé cinema of Stanley Spencer which relates to his supply to exhibiting at the RA after he had resigned.

Art History

You may recall the kickoff of 2014 was rather moisture inwards the UK(!) By Feb I'd got circular to revisiting Art recording 'The Deluge of 1607' as well as 'Winter Storms inwards 2014' which I'd originally posted on my Art of the Landscape blog. What I flora real weird inwards exhibitions later inwards the twelvemonth was how thence piffling artwork really recorded what had been pretty momentous events inwards 2014. Do landscape artists non run across themselves equally artists who tape what's of import inwards the nowadays day?

and finally.....what's inwards store for 2015?

This calendar week I'm going to live on aiming to do my compendium spider web log posts nearly fine art exhibitions, fine art competitions as well as opened upward exhibitions yesteryear fine art societies inwards 2015.

However I'm currently suffering from needlelike bronchitis (week 3!) thence am non going to live on pushing myself - only they volition appear soon!