Brand New!! 21St April 2014 - Who's Made A Mark?

This is the initiatory of all of my "Who's made a mark" posts inwards a while.  It's a round-up of my posts on this weblog in addition to on Facebook PLUS it's interspersed alongside other tidings I've noticed equally I instruct dorsum to to a greater extent than normal life.

During my fourth dimension writing the majority I've had a duo of major milestones

The Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Facebook Page yesterday - alongside 2,001 likes

• Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark achieves 2.5 1000000 visits came inwards March
• and yesterday Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark achieved to a greater extent than than 2,000 likes for the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Facebook Page

Many cheers to all those regular readers, visitors in addition to followers of Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark. 
I honey hearing from you lot if the weblog has made a departure to your lives......

After the hiatus I'll start yesteryear merely briefly mentioning what's coming upwards on my weblog inwards the adjacent week:

• a telephone recall for entries for an of import novel fine art competition
• interviews alongside the vi botanical artists who became RHS Gold Medallists lastly week
• a render for "Who Painted This?"
• and a large give cheers you lot to all the artists who contributed images to my novel book

 PLUS a video of the biggest exhibition to opened upwards inwards London recently!

Art Genre

Botanical Art

• We're into my favourite stage of the yr alongside the RHS Botanical Art Show closely preceded or followed (as happens this year) yesteryear the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists. So far I've written iii posts close the RHS Show:
• RHS Botanical Art Show 2014 - Medal winners - highlights what each creative soul selected for the exhibition was awarded. Basically the touchstone is instantly thence high that everybody gets a medal
• More Top Tips for winning an RHS Gold Medal for Botanical Art - some other inwards my serial of posts identifying what's required to practice good at the RHS demo - based on tips from the Gold Medallists
• 15 Top Tips for presenting go at an RHS Botanical Art Exhibition - this yr I've included observations close what makes for a ameliorate presentation of artwork inwards this show.
• Meanwhile Gaynor Dickeson wrote a fascinating line of piece of job organisation human relationship over several posts on her blog
  gaynorsflora close what it was similar to laid for the demo in addition to and thence live there. There are several posts starting on sixth Apr - equally she gives an insiders' perspective on what's involved alongside exhibiting at this show. I recommend you start around close the start of Apr equally she starts her count downwardly to the exhibition in addition to all the lastly infinitesimal things you lot demand to intend close in addition to do. It's recommended reading for all those who aspire to practice the same!

Drawing in addition to Sketching

• I've been asked to speak at "Draw In" - a symposium close drawing inwards belatedly August. Other speakers volition include Paul Foxton, PJ Lynch, in addition to Colleen Barry.
• I've been bespeak artists their transcend tip for drawing - in addition to this is John Smolko's Top Tip for Drawing
• In mid March I asked whether 2014 - the yr of real many books close Urban Sketching? We cause got the tertiary Urban Sketchers London exhibition at Timberyard Old Street – 61-67 Old Street, London EC1V 9HW

Portraiture

• Simon Weston portrait unveiled at National Portrait Gallery - It was swell coming together both Simon Weston in addition to Nikki Pihiliips who painted his portrait at the NPG.  It was too a privilege to reckon somebody reckon their ain portrait for the initiatory of all time. His mum said "It's him to a t." His household unit of measurement are all real pleased alongside it. Simon was voted for yesteryear the British populace equally existence the soul they most wanted to reckon inwards the NPG.

The framer, Simon Weston, Nikki Phillips (the artist) in addition to Fiona Bruce

Watercolour Painting

• This is a Video: Royal Institute of Painters inwards Water Colours - Annual Exhibition. 

Art Books

• One of the best people I know inwards damage of drawing in addition to drawing books is Sarah Simblet. This is Sarah Simblet in addition to The New Sylva - a video about a novel majority she's been working on - it includes 200 drawings of trees inwards the UK

Art Business in addition to Marketing

Art Fairs

• How to pattern a stand upwards for an fine art fair is close a real helpful post service yesteryear Lisa Call summation references to other posts close fine art fairs I've written inwards the past
• Jessica Shepherd (A pop-up shopping list - her "what to take" listing re doing a PopUp Studio at the RHS Show

Business survival tactics

• An first-class article which focuses on a real salient slice of advice The Single Most Important Piece of Advice I Can Give You close Pursuing Your Art yesteryear Carolyn Henderson
• Apparently there's non much live gained from knowing close artists' daily routines - see The Myth of the Artist’s Creative Routine by Casey N. Cep

Communication for artists

• Do you lot desire people to come upwards to your adjacent exhibition? Make certain you lot read this weblog post service yesteryear Alyson Stanfield - The Truth About Why Nobody Came to Your Art Show
• These are my posts about:

• Tips close how to write an creative soul statement. What's the best agency to write an creative soul disceptation is a perennial topic of involvement to artists.
• How to write an artist's CV

Copyright Infringement

• Copyright infringement - why Courts brand people pay - relates to a recent representative relating to Getty Images inwards which the latter were awarded maximum damages of £300,000.
• Google would similar to know if your website or weblog has been scraped - see Has your artwork been scraped?

Licensing

• Tara Reed provides swell advice - inwards a video - for artists aid a Licensing Show. It's good worth watching for anybody who's trying to connect alongside those licensing fine art - in addition to it's NOT merely relevant to the SURTEX or Licensing Expo merchandise shows.

Social media marketing in addition to websites for artists

• 10 transcend tips for fine art blogs - I was prompted to write this post service after giving some advice to a prominent fine art weblog close something they were failing to practice which makes a BIG difference!
• Why social media matters inwards 2014 - Ever wondered whether you lot ought to live doing to a greater extent than on social media - but didn't know where or how to apply your efforts?
• I've been asked to practice a workshop beak close websites for artists equally business office of a Summer School programme of events at the Mall Galleries. I'm non certain close the appointment nevertheless in addition to I'll allow you lot know equally this when the events are formally announced.

Art Competitions

Call for Entries

• Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014 - Call for Entries - you lot cause got until 1st May to submit an entry
• The John Ruskin Prize 2014 - telephone recall for entries - this is no purpose to those who desire to apply this yr - but worth noting if you lot desire to apply adjacent year.
• The RA has provided an incredibly useful document which I highlighted inwards How to photograph your artwork

Shortlisted in addition to Selected

• BP Portrait Award 2014: lastly calendar week nosotros saw the Shortlist announced for BP Portrait Award 2014 plus a set out of announcements equally to artists who had been selected for the exhibition. 

Awardwinners

• Catherine Davison wins £15,000 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2014
• Daniel Boyd, 31, who is listed equally 1 of Australia's l most collectable artists won the 2014 $0,000 BulgariArt Award summation a $30,000 residency inwards Italy for his go Untitled 2014. The Guardian commented that Daniel Boyd's Untitled is a worthy laurels winner

Exhibition

• This is my providing a Review in addition to video of the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition 2014

Art Exhibitions

Art Critic

• I was trying to intend where to set this in addition to decided I had to set Brian Sewell inwards alongside his ain milieu - the fine art exhibition.  This is an Observer interview with Brian Sewell: Tracey Emin's fine art is 'trivial' in addition to Grayson Perry's is 'vulgar'

Paintings yesteryear RWS members
Spring Exhibition at the Bankside Gallery

London

Sad to say I've solely merely discovered the fact that The National Gallery has a serial of monthly podcasts. Click the link to persuasion the archive.

Current exhibitions:

• until 26th April: Royal Watercolour Society's Spring Exhibition "Marking Time" at the Bankside Gallery
• Until 15th June 2014 Matisse's cut-outs, review: 'a winner' while inwards some other business office of the paper, 
• Philip Johnston opines that the inevitable pushing in addition to shoving to attend Tate Modern's novel Matisse demo is hardly an inviting prospect - see Tired of the blockbuster shows? Join the queue
• the newspaper too has an interview with Henri Matisse's great-granddaughter - Tate Modern's latest blockbuster: how Henri Matisse turned newspaper cut-outs into masterpieces - who says novel Tate Modern demo brings his swell works 'off the wall in addition to into our lives' in addition to proves historic menstruation is merely a number
• Plus How Henri Matisse made me cry is an edited extract of a novel majority by Alastair Sooke inwards which he explains why the artist's chapel inwards Vence reduced him to tears

Virginia Woolf: Art, Life in addition to Vision at the NPG (July-October 2014). It volition include over 100 paintings, drawings in addition to photographs in addition to rare archival material

National Art Societies

Upcoming exhibitions include

• 8th - 23rd May: the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters at the Mall Galleries
• 9th May - seventh June: the Spring Exhibition of the UK's premier printmaking arrangement - the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers at the Bankside Gallery
• 9th - xviii May: the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists

Rest of UK

• Stanley Spencer's state of war murals: 'The greatest'

Madrid

• until twelfth May - Picasso inwards the studio (link is to an interesting microsite) is at the Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid, 
• See a virtual tour of the exhibition
• Picasso's palettes cause got gone on demo - Why Picasso's palettes were a go of fine art inwards themselves

Art Education

Printmaking

• Choosing watercolour newspaper for botanical drawing in addition to ikon - business office 1  
• Choosing watercolour newspaper for botanical drawing in addition to ikon - business office 2

QoR - a novel watercolour paint volition live avialable inwards the USA inwards May.

Art on tv / fine art videos

• Grayson Perry on tv inwards 2014 highlights ii projects:
• a novel 3 business office Channel iv serial exploring identity in addition to portraiture - which culminates inwards an exhibition at the National Gallery afterwards this year
• a House for Essex projection which is an amazing thought in addition to concept (ie there's to a greater extent than to Essex than TOWIE) - in addition to too the dependent area of a one-off tv programme afterwards inwards the year!

and finally......

I've got two!

• First - did you lot know that Artists 'have structurally dissimilar brains' Apparently a study has works life that Artists' brains are structurally dissimilar to non-artists inwards areas relating to fine motor movements in addition to visual imagery.

in addition to and thence second

• This is Jonathan Jones accept on The transcend 10 woman soul nudes inwards art.  Call me picky but when somebody does a transcend 10 I practice similar to reckon the pictures of the ones which aren't armed alongside copyright lawyers! The absence of Picasso I empathise - but why no Botticelli?

So what practice you lot intend of the list? What's missing that you lot would cause got included?

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