Who's Made A Score On Fine Art #263

The major intelligence this calendar week for me is that I've been invited past times Sally Bulgin, Editor of The Artist, to move 1 of their regular correspondents for the mag as well as write articles from fourth dimension to time. The invitation to speak over the possibility came out of the blueish as well as was a rattling pleasant surprise. Last calendar week I met with Sally as well as we're forthwith discussing possible topics.

This is your conduct chances to brand suggestions most things you'd similar to consider me writing about!

For those who don't alive inwards the UK, 'The Artist' is the longest established fine art mag inwards the Great Britain - as well as 1 of the most popular, it's stocked past times all the major newsagents.  It's been around for a rattling long fourth dimension as well as is both practical inwards content as well as informative most what's going on the fine art world. (Not to move confused with 'The Artist's Magazine' inwards the USA - but they are similar!)

The novel website as well as some other novel website!

Botanical Art as well as Artists

The start of my novel websites for my data sites continues to progress. My aim is to receive got it launched inwards fourth dimension for the RHS Botanical Art Show at the goal of this week.  The domain address, when it's published volition move http://www.botanicalartandartists.com.

Art Business - for Artists

I've likewise started a minute one!  This 1 volition include content from my 'resources for artists' art employment concern data sites. These have been good as well as genuinely clobbered past times HubPages due to their "no to a greater extent than than 2 links to 1 domain" rule.

It's tentative championship is 'Art Business - for Artists'. This 1 is in all likelihood going to launch incomplete as well as I'll add together inwards 1 novel topic a week.  That's because there's an awful lot to add together as well as I exercise desire to edit, restructure as well as reorganise every bit I add together content in.  So delight excuse me if I receive got give regular updates every bit novel topics are added calendar week past times week.

I'm organising topics nether the headings which run across the top of the screen: fine art business, communication, copyright, sell fine art as well as money & tax.  Here's a provisional screenshot of the abode page for 'How to write an Artist Statement'.

Art Basics

Drawing 

• Have y'all come upward across the Da Vinci Initiative? If non y'all should definitely receive got a await - especially if y'all are an fine art teacher. More most this inwards a postal service coming up.

The Da Vinci Initiative, portion of a 501C3, nonprofit, educational foundation, is a mission for visual literacy inwards our contemporary world. With a focus on K-12 world as well as individual schools, the goal of this projection is to render skill-based learning inwards fine art didactics inwards monastic tell to deepen the agreement as well as applications of the visual linguistic communication that surrounds us.

• If you've ever fancied an intensive course of study inwards life drawing at a start charge per unit of measurement schoolhouse of fine art receive got a await at the 2 four solar daytime courses which the Ruskin School of Art are offering this Easter.  The Ruskin Art School is portion of Oxford University.
• Jeanette Barnes won 1 of the runner-up prizes at  Lynn Painter-Stainers this calendar week with a large drawing inwards conte crayon. It's ever actually dainty to consider 1 of your one-time tutors win a prize inwards a prestigious fine art competition! I used to receive got Jeanette Barnes's 'Drawing the Bigger Inner Space' course of study at what is (now) the Royal Drawing School. She's a keen tutor - super enthusiastic most drawing as well as what people tin dismiss achieve. I actually beloved her drawings as well as she likewise contributed a issue of them to my book! I rattling much recommend y'all receive got a await if y'all desire to explore how to prepare your drawing - or only similar looking at exciting drawings!
• You tin dismiss consider to a greater extent than of Jeanette's drawings on her website 
• find out most her urban challenge workshops as well as classes for schoolhouse students as well as adults on her website http://weexploredrawing.com.

Jeanette Barnes as well as her prize-winning drawing

Canary Wharf Cross Rail Station nearing completion © Jeanette Barnes

Conte Crayon, 100cm x 130cm, £3,500

Painting

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• The Pleasure of Sharing provides 8 keen tips for botanical artists, especially those who utilisation watercolour, beingness passed on by Jarnie Godwin - as well as dainty to consider credits beingness given to the sources! 
• If you've got a round-up of "best tips" you'd similar to part exercise delight drib a line.

Art Business & Marketing 

Copyright & Plagiarism

• Georgina Adam has written inwards The Financial Times most The Art Market: The mistaken game and comments on the growth inwards lawsuits relating to appropriation as well as plagiarism. 

Art Exhibitions

National Galleries

• The "troubles at the National" move on to rumble on every bit Chroma Trumps Value provides a rattling dainty representative of an of import point.  I much prefer this approach to tempting students to enroll for online classes to those who state they receive got something available for y'all to sentiment as well as y'all acquire a link to a subscription page as well as that's it. I, for one, am much to a greater extent than probable to sign upward to acquire most something with an creative soul who shares her expertise for costless every bit good every bit delivering classes for a subscription.
• Cost-cutting as well as Petitions at London Art Galleries

Members of the Public as well as Commercial Services (PCS) spousal human relationship at the National Gallery inwards London volition walk out on Dominicus for 5 days, next a five-day stoppage before this month.

• Meanwhile Jonathan Jones writes inwards The Guardian about Fewer Brits are visiting our top galleries – should nosotros move worried?  I recall the headline mightiness receive got been to a greater extent than balanced if it had got the numbers right as well as reflected on the fact that attendance at the major galleries has been on a rising tendency for some fourth dimension as well as that the large galleries inwards London are magnet for tourists ( consider my website The Top Ten Museums inwards London ).  The employment if anything is that its' good nigh impossible to receive got a "calm consider with fine art - because of all the visitors!!

Art Competitions

The wall of Lynn Painter-Stainers 2015 Prizewinners at the Mall Galleries

• My weblog posts most the Lynn Painter-Stainers prize 2015 this week:
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• Lynn Painter-Stainers 2015 - Prizewinners -  Wladyslaw Mirecki won the 2015 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize worth £15,000 as well as an engraved golden medal. Check out likewise the artwork produced past times the artists who picked upward cheques to the value of £30,000 re. the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2015. 
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• Exhibition Review: Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2015 - More most the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 20145 Exhibition - this fourth dimension it's my review of the overall exhibition - with lots of pics.
• In general, people I receive got spoken to receive got been disappointed that this contest is forthwith solely hung for half-dozen days. Here's hoping that this volition modify inwards the future.

This is a prize which gets a lot of people at the Private View!

Not so many sales though - I ever recall of this exhibition every bit a rattling definite bonus for the CV as well as marketing!

Art Societies

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• The Wapping Group of Artists - Annual Exhibition 2015 I likewise visited the annual exhibition past times the Wapping Group of Artists this week. They pigment plein air along the River Thames every calendar week inwards summertime as well as this is my review.

Other Exhibitions

• There's an exhibition of Mackintosh drawings at the HQ of the Royal Institute of British Architects. It continues to 23 May. (Note: Glasgow School of Art: what architect could restore Mackintosh’s masterpiece? This is an fantabulous article most the challenge of restoring the Glasgow School of Art designed past times Mackintosh. I'm definitely with the 'restore every bit much every bit possible' brigade)
• Ohla Prymakk's Exhibition - Ukraine Diaries - is at Krilova Stelfox Gallery (at fifth Base) 23 Heneage Street (off Brick lane) London, E1 5LJ. 

Upcoming Exhibitions as well as events

• View the e-catalogue for the Annual Exhibition 2015 of The Pastel Society. The exhibition opens at the Mall Galleries with a Private View tomorrow as well as so opens to Earth on Tuesday as well as continues until vii March. For to a greater extent than data consider The Pastel Society website as well as the events page on the Mall Galleries which lists the featured fine art work as well as the related events
• The Pastel Society Art Event eventide on the fifth March coincides with my book-signing (with James Hobbs) at the Mall Galleries (3-7pm)
• The Mall galleries volition likewise move playing host to the exhibition for the British Life Photography Awards (2-7 March)  - which is a novel 1 on me - but I shall receive got a peek as well as study back.
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• RHS Botanical Art Show 2015 - Selected Artists. The present is held in the RHS Lindley Halls, London SW1P 2QW, betwixt 10am–5pm both days
• The Annual Open Exhibition for the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition opens at the Bankside Gallery on sixth March as well as continues until 18th March. It's worth making a Federal Reserve annotation that this is an fine art contest where the exhibitors' fine art gets a decent length of fourth dimension on the walls of the gallery!

Art on Television 

The Big Painting Challenge

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The Big Painting Challenge starts 22nd Feb on BBC1 - Check out the many as well as diverse aspects to the Big Painting Challenge which starts tomorrow nighttime on BBC1 at 6pm. Daphne Todd - Past President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters - is 1 of the Judges.

I've added inwards links to the clips from the programmes to the original post. These include a issue of "how to" items every bit good every bit brusk clips from the start episode - including one inwards which Daphne Todd makes a remark most whether an creative soul volition finish which echoes Mary Berry as well as Bake-off! Love it!!

BBC gets creative

It appears The Big Painting Challenge is all portion of a novel flavor (emphasis) on people getting creative which is beingness promoted past times the BBC amongst other partners good known inwards the plain of creativity. This is the link to the BBC Get Creative Site

Art Materials as well as Equipment

• Page 76 of my mass has a text box describing how to create a shadow (or light) box. Due to push clit per unit of measurement area on infinite I ended upward removing the diagrams for how to brand 1 - all the same there's whatever issue of videos around on YouTube most how to create a lightbox - all of which receive got slightly unlike methodologies. This particular 1 past times the Da Vinci Initiative - aimed at fine art teachers - is worth highlighting because the method is rattling elementary as well as clear - as well as inexpensive agency of creating a lightbox (also known every bit a shadow box). PLUS it makes it a lot easier to store that an equivalent sized cardboard box which is the measure solution used past times many people AND beingness inwards 2 parts, it makes it much easier to clip unlike coloured papers to the interior if y'all desire to modify the interior color of the box. My solely criticism is that inwards western fine art it's conventional for low-cal to come upward from top left - as well as she clipped her pocket-size low-cal to the incorrect side!

• I LOVE people who write reviews because a production should move avoided. They are at to the lowest degree every bit of import every bit those who exercise rave reviews! Teoh Yi Chie of Parka Blogs has written most a novel stylus which he's non found helpful - consider Review: Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus 2
• Here's an fantabulous tip - highlighted to me past times Sharon Tingey - of how to brand radial color charts

Websites as well as Techie Stuff

Have y'all made the movement to a responsive website yet?

• I've non been doing Who's made a mark on a regular terra firma for quite a while. What I am noticing is that a issue of artists I've been next for years receive got upgraded their websites as well as blogs so they are mobile compatible. This especially applies to those with, shall nosotros say, a to a greater extent than professional person approach and/or interactive sites. It's hard to uncovering a bunch of data most responsive websites as well as why artists remove them as well as I'll move aiming to exercise that inwards edifice the novel fine art employment concern website. In the meantime here's an article 3 Reasons Artist Websites Must Use Responsive Design past times Pierre Kuhn which sums upward the province of affairs pretty well 

Facebook comments

• In 2013 facebook introduced novel functionality inside comments such that people could reply to a specific comment - consider Improving Conversations on Facebook with Replies. This calendar week I noticed that when y'all are commenting Facebook forthwith manifestly deems that your comment is forthwith NOT worth counting if your receive got REPLIED to a comment (ie striking the arrow) every bit opposed to only writing a novel comment. So conversations most a indicate inwards relation to a postal service are forthwith submerged - unless y'all hap to click the comments as well as Federal Reserve annotation that some comments are forthwith noted every bit having e.g. vii replies!  Can I recommend that people exercise their friends a favour as well as start a novel comment every time!

Hacked websites

• Google published a useful page Chroma Trumps Value provides a rattling dainty representative of an of import point.  I much prefer this approach to tempting students to enroll for online classes to those who state they receive got something available for y'all to sentiment as well as y'all acquire a link to a subscription page as well as that's it. I, for one, am much to a greater extent than probable to sign upward to acquire most something with an creative soul who shares her expertise for costless every bit good every bit delivering classes for a subscription.
• Case Studies: Fixing Hacked Sites detailing some case studies most what's involved inwards addressing a website which has been hacked. My mental attitude is activity should start with prevention! I prefer to move with a site which tin dismiss assistance me if I'm hacked rather than beingness all on my own. I wouldn't receive got a clue where to start - as well as this article persuaded me of the benefits of beingness with a decent host.

Sketching 365 in the WH Smith's branch

at Westfield at Stratford City

and finally......

I'm ecstatic - Chroma Trumps Value provides a rattling dainty representative of an of import point.  I much prefer this approach to tempting students to enroll for online classes to those who state they receive got something available for y'all to sentiment as well as y'all acquire a link to a subscription page as well as that's it. I, for one, am much to a greater extent than probable to sign upward to acquire most something with an creative soul who shares her expertise for costless every bit good every bit delivering classes for a subscription.

my book has gone mainstream!  I found a re-create on Fri inwards WH Smith's which is the largest high street newsagents as well as stationers inwards the UK. They likewise stock books - as well as they're forthwith stocking mine.

My other one-half had to calm me downwardly - I allow out a pocket-size shrieky vibrations when nosotros found it!

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