Who's Made A Seat On Fine Art #262

I've been trying to intend of a means of continuing amongst "who's made a mark" without it beingness weekly. Frankly I'm enjoying having my Sundays dorsum equally the posts used to have got all twenty-four hours to do!

So here's a novel model, I counted upwards all the ones which had gone earlier too that makes this i #262.

Plus it'll selection upwards on materials which I've already posted online but inward diverse places hence you lot in all probability haven't seen it all, if any!

A create novel website

I'm non posting equally much at the 2nd equally I'm currently totally engrossed inward edifice a mobile-compatible website for all my botanical fine art sites which are beingness merged into one. In fact it's hard to tear myself away!

Keep an optic out for http://www.botanicalartandartists.com - it's coming soon!  After that I'm edifice some to a greater extent than sites on large topics too have got already snaffled the domain names for them!

My novel website inward "build' mode

I have got to country I'm extremely impressed amongst Weebly which is proving really slowly to operate equally I zoom around the site adding inward bits here, at that topographic point too everywhere. It's also super slowly to movement materials betwixt ages which is a huge boon!

I'll go doing a review of it when I've finished.

Art Basics

Drawing

• Linea is the periodical of the Art Students League of New York - worth a read summation they also have got a Facebook Page
• Take a expression at this stimulate video past times The Big Draw amongst Andrew Marr too others about Why is Drawing Important?

Art Books

• Meet me, run across my sketchbooks too acquire your re-create of Sketching 365 signed at a "Meet the Author/book-signing" trial at the Mall Galleries on fifth March. I asked swain urban sketcher too artist/author James Hobbs to bring together me with his majority Sketch Your World - too the Mall Galleries is going to practice a bargain for anybody buying both books on the day! It's a corking twenty-four hours for all those who similar to describe to see the Mall Galleries equally our signing equally John Tookey is inward the gallery giving a demonstration too the Pastel Society's Art Event Evening which starts at 6pm. 

Art Business & Marketing 

• I know I can't mayhap afford to purchase everything I run across too similar (and that's partly because I expression at a lot of art). However it seems a flake hateful to simply exceed past times when I could country that I similar it a lot. I Love Your Art But It's Not For Me is a post past times Alyson Stanfield (ArtBizblog) explores the phenomenon of the someone who likes your fine art but never buys it.

Art too the economy

• Art tin non alone connect amongst communities, it tin also reshape too rebuild them. This Guardian article looks at Six creative ways artists tin improve communities

Copyright too Plagiarism

• The Luc Tuymans plagiarism instance is important. Plagiarise at your jeopardy - the Luc Tuymans case is a recommended read - particularly for all those who re-create photographs. This post provides a detailed commentary on the Luc Tuymans plagiarism case; the associated reporting; the concept of parody too the European Union copyright directive.
• Plagiarism on Facebook is about people who claim other people's artwork equally their ain - too highlights a instance study of an instance on Facebook. There was such a lot of involvement inward this post almost plagiarism that I've added inward links - at the terminate - to a to a greater extent than extensive make of my posts inward recent years almost plagiarism too copyright infringements - and, to a greater extent than importantly, how to halt it!

Art Competitions

• This - Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize 2015: Selected Artists & Events - is a list of the artists selected for the Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize Exhibition inward 2015 - summation details of how you lot tin run across the plant online too attend a beak too workshops held during the exhibition. I'm going to the beak tomorrow afternoon at the Mall Galleries too the PV inward the level where I volition go maxim 'Hello' to Jane Gardiner from Glasgow too missing Ilaria Rosselli del Turco who won't go there. despite beingness selected (she's posting pics of orangish trees inward Kingdom of Spain on Facebook!)
• RHS Botanical Art Show 2015 - Selected Artists is an overview of the artists selected for the RHS Botanical Art Show inward 2015 - beingness held at the RHS Lindley Hall inward Westminster at the terminate of this month.
• Drawn is a biennial opened upwards submission drawing exhibition run past times the Royal West of England Academy. The deadline for entries is 5pm on fifth March
• What's your top tip for entering fine art competitions or opened upwards exhibitions of fine art societies? (I've got a characteristic article "8 Tips for Entering Art Competitions" inward Ann Kullberg's Colored Pencil Magazine for Feb 2015) too in Top tips for fine art competitions - a precis

Art Education

• Really? Not i pupil at Glasgow School of Art tin draw? That's the somewhat heretical assertion made past times Scottish artist John Byrne inward an article entitled Life, Love too Art which you lot tin read inward the digital edition of Highland Life - along amongst some other assertion that the Glasgow School of Art is no longer an fine art schoolhouse but rather it's a fun factory! It made for a lot of comments on Facebook! (Thanks to his missy Celie Byrne for the link to the original article which was non attributed inward newspapers which ran this story)
• I've done classes at the Royal Drawing School (when it was the Prince's Drawing School). The Public Courses are worth a expression if you lot alive inward London - particularly if you're already an fine art student!

Art Exhibitions

• If you lot dearest epitome too portraiture too then you lot volition dearest the novel exhibition of portraits of friends too artists past times John Singer Sargent at the National Portrait Gallery - on until 25 May 2015 - honor out what I intend are 10 corking reasons to run across 'Sargent: Portraits of Artists too Friends' at the NPG
• Too belatedly straight off but Ralph Steadman (famous for collaborating amongst Hunter south thompson) has been drawing the characters from 'Breaking Bad' - too you lot tin run across them inward Shoreditch inward a costless exhibition on demo 13-15 Feb - but you lot tin nonetheless run across them online - here's a slideshow on the Telegraph website and this is his Facebook Page

Coming soon

• Opens today - the Exhibition for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize at the Mall Galleries - finishes on 21st Feb 2015.
• The RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2015 (6 - xviii March 2015) at the Bankside Gallery
• You can read/view the online catalogue of the 2015 Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists (the RBA). The exhibition opens at the Mall Galleries on eleven March. Listed at the forepart are the talks too events which volition have got identify inward the Galleries during the course of teaching of the exhibition.

Art Galleries too Museums

• Ever wondered what the rules are for drawing too sketching inward fine art galleries too museums?
  How to describe too sketch inward an fine art gallery or museum #1 This is the start inward a serial of posts too equally good a laid of full general "rules", this post focuses on those fine art galleries too museums I know best - inward London
• Tate's BP funding figures revealed - less than expected explores the ground around whether or non fine art galleries too museums should have funding from BP - too simply how pocket-size the Tate funding actually is. This includes links to other journals if you lot desire to read the other perspectives too.

Art Genre

Botanical Art

• It's corking when botanical artists don't simply selection upwards yet some other apple tree but rather become later "The Fruits of Doum" - on Botanical Sketches too Other Stories
• Art too the Hedgerow is a novel fine art weblog past times botanical creative someone too natural history fine art tutor Sarah Morrish too it's for a large novel project

Portraiture

• Understanding British Portraits is a website too an active network amongst costless membership for professionals working amongst British portraits including curators, museum learning professionals, researchers, academics too conservators. I gauge they mightiness have got room for a few artists who pigment portraits!
• I've been loving the chat online betwixt artists getting their submissions together for the BP Portrait Award - after they submitted their digital images.  Just a few to a greater extent than tweaks then...?

Art Materials

Art Shops

• I believe if you lot don't operate the fine art shops you lot actually similar too then you lot lose them. I finally got a expert shot of the exterior of L. Cornelissen & Son - too it appears from Facebook that I am far from beingness the alone fan!  Here's what to expression for if you're always tempted to see - it's simply upwards the route from the British Museum.  The 2nd photograph was me trying to run across if I could acquire all the pigment jars inward on the panoramic photograph on my iPhone!

The shopfront of L. Cornelissen & boy at 105 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3RY

a panorama of pigments at Cornelissen & Son

too this is what it looks similar on the inside!

• I didn't know the Sennelier Shop contrary the Louvre had a Facebook Page - but I practice straight off too have got simply liked it! This is the address https://www.facebook.com/CouleursDuQuaiVoltaireMagasinSennelier

Brushes

Roberson Pocket Travel Brush

• I popped into Cornelissen's later the recent sketchcrawl at the British Museum too took a long hard expression at the Roberson Travel Brushes patch at that good known fine art store that nosotros all love! They grip nicely too are good balanced too the large ones are simply yummy! However I'm non convinced that I wouldn't position the sable hairs dorsum inward the barrel patch nonetheless damp - which is a strict "no no" - too and then forget to acquire them out over again when I got abode to dry out off properly! I'd dearest to listen how people create certain their go brushes are dry out earlier they position them away. Is at that topographic point a special fox to getting super dry out brushes existent fast?  I get together some brands position holes inward the terminate inward which the brush hairs are stored which seems similar a expert thought - but doe sit down work?

Graphite

• Do you lot desire to pigment amongst graphite? This is Confessions of a colourholic!