Brand New!! 28 July 2014 - Who's Made A Mark?

I've had 3 weeks off from blogging.

  • The starting fourth dimension calendar week was because I had a chip of a daze wellness wise, ended upward inwards infirmary facing a battery of tests as well as decided to convey it slowly for a few days.
  • Followed past times finishing upward the finally layouts for the volume - which was rather to a greater extent than hard than I'd been expecting.
  • Then I decided I needed a calendar week off. I fitted inwards some long walks summation some drawing as well as sketching but a lot of it was taken upward amongst trying to set things dorsum where they were supposed to survive "after the book" - as well as a surprise flood.

Throughout I managed to shipping service a few things to Facebook so this is going to survive an update for those who don't follow me on Facebook - summation a few extras inwards price of spider web log posts past times me.

Two charcoal drawings past times Maggie Hargreaves

Winner of The John Ruskin Prize 2014
(see Art Competitions below)

Artists as well as Art Blogs


Artists Passing on

  • David Prentice died on May seventh this year. He painted some sublime landscape paintings. An exhibition of his paintings of the Malverns "A Last Look at the Malverns" could survive latterly seen at the John Davies Gallery. Unsurprisingly it was a virtual sell out. However yous tin sack run into the exhibition catalogue online http://www.johndaviesgallery.com/prentice/. This was his obituary inwards The Guardian
The comprehend of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Last Look at the Malverns past times David Prentice (1936-2014)
courtesy of John Davies Gallery, Moreton inwards the Marsh

Art History


Botanical Art


Colour


Drawing 
  • What is drawing? Does this mesh amongst your Definition of what is drawing?  This is an article amongst images past times the Victoria as well as Albert Museum
The term drawing is applied to plant that vary greatly inwards technique. It has been understood inwards dissimilar ways at dissimilar times as well as is hard to define.
drawing has creative, expressive as well as educational value; it remains cardinal to translating as well as analysing the world
  • I'm a speaker on a panel at Draw In! a weekend symposium to celebrate the value of drawing at the Belfast School of Art on 30th August. See http://draw-in.co.uk/ for to a greater extent than details.

Portraiture


Art Business & Marketing

fine art fairs

auctions

copyright

  • Beware the companionship that snaffles images without permission from a good connected creative someone similar Ester Roi or whatever creative someone who has a lot of friends on Facebook.  This Malysian companionship later on paid upward when presented amongst an invoice. So the moral of the storey is don't only possess got that your artwork powerfulness survive copied as well as used elsewhere - shipping an invoice!
I’m real pleased to denote that I possess got reached a satisfactory village amongst CP Stationery, the companionship that used 3 of my images on their products without permission. They apologized profusely as well as were quick to shipping the agreed payment.
This victory would non possess got been possible without the massive intervention from so many of you. If anybody even so doubts the powerfulness of social media, this example tin sack supply a potent argument. Thank yous for your amazing back upward as well as for taking the fourth dimension to limited your offend here, on your page, as well as on the company’s page. (Ester Roi - Facebook Page)

websites as well as social media

  • On eighth August 2014 I'm doing a session on how to instruct your artwork online as well as brand the most of social media equally business office of an all-day "techie stuff for artists" workshop at the Mall Galleries. I get together the workshop is at ane time booked upward - but if yous fancy the thought of How to photograph your piece of work as well as instruct it online (topic covered past times other speakers include how to photograph your fine art as well as copyright for artists) be sure to allow the Mall Galleries know!

Art Competitions



Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year

BP Portrait Award 2014 Exhibition

I did a lot of video interviews this twelvemonth - equally did the people running this major portrait contest inwards the UK!  Portraits past times 55 artists were selected from some 2,300 entries.

The human face upward of Man amongst a Plaid Blanket by Thomas Ganter
BP Portrait Award 2014 Exhibition 


BP Travel Award

I've got 2 posts on the BP Travel Award
Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Videos 3:07

Jerwood Drawing Prize 

The John Ruskin Prize

  • Bury artist Maggie Hargreaves was announced equally the winner of the The John Ruskin Prize 2014: Recording Great Britain Now at the goal of June. The Prize inwards its minute twelvemonth invited artists across the U.K. to submit fresh visions of Britain’s urban, rural as well as social environment.
    • You tin sack read to a greater extent than nigh her artwork on her website eg The Company of Trees. This is her spider web log Maggie Hargreaves. The 2 plant were Slowly Creeping (2011) , 150x212 cm, charcoal on paper and Changing Space II (2009), 150x220 cm, charcoal on paper
The degree of special as well as large scale of these drawings invites viewers to go into the infinite depicted as well as pass fourth dimension exploring it. Concurrently, equally the drawings are approached, the epitome dissolves as well as the materiality as well as procedure are established; the artifice of the epitome structure is revealed equally a slice of paper amongst handmade marks, pinned to the gallery wall. Drawing as well as erasing amongst charcoal reflects the transient shifting nature of the human relationship betwixt people as well as the surrounding living environment.
  • The exhibition for  is currently showing at Sheffield's Millennium Gallery featuring 23 shortlisted artists (from 600+ entries) until twelfth Oct 2014.  Artwork past times the selected artists varies from traditional techniques to contemporary visions of Britain.
  • The theme as well as status for the 3rd John Ruskin Prize volition survive announced inwards October.

Packing Room Prize

Art Society Exhibitions

Art Galleries


Art Materials & Supplies

Art media

Art Suppliers

  • Pencils4artists has supplied a handy sized version of the Luminance Colour Chart on its website 
  • Great Art has at ane time its catalogue online at http://ecatalogue.greatart.co.uk but I'm non real impressed amongst the search capability or navigation. That said this is a frequent occupation amongst catalogues going online so we'll only possess got to run into how they tackle it as well as they already possess got the compass to convey orders amongst their existing website. Being able to uncovering what yous desire as well as and then go through a real unproblematic procedure to lodge it is the "make or break" chemical cistron to eventual usage of a site so it's real critical to instruct it right.  GA are even so doing much ameliorate than Atlantis Art Materials as well as Art Supplies which is even so running an extremely antiquated site as well as a 2012 catalogue.

Art Schools as well as Education


and finally......


Giants came to Liverpool finally weekend inwards the shape of colossal puppets. This is the article past times the Guardian about Royal de Luxe's Merseyside spectacular which was an emotional tribute to lives lost inwards the starting fourth dimension the world war


PS I'm 3 "likes" away from 2,500 likes for my Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Facebook Page - volition yous survive the 2,500th?

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