Brand New!! Bp Portrait Abide By 2015 Entry Goes Digital

It could alone survive a thing of fourth dimension earlier the BP Portrait Award switched to digital entries - together with thus it has come upwardly to pass. Next year, inwards 2015, the entry physical care for for this real prestigious together with globe renowned portrait contest volition survive digital.

Main Entrance to the National Portrait Gallery
Banners for the BP Portrait Award either side of entrance

I applaud the move. It makes such a huge contribution to cutting the expense of entry for artists living exterior London - both inwards the U.K. together with overseas.

In all the fine art competitions where I direct seen this happen, I've afterward seen many to a greater extent than selected artists coming from places at approximately distance from London - notably from Scotland.

It every bit good tends to increase the issue of entries thus contest becomes fifty-fifty to a greater extent than fierce!

The RA's Summer Exhibition switched to digital entry in conclusion twelvemonth together with I haven't heard whatever squeaks or rumbles next on from that alter thus there's every argue to facial expression that the switch to digital for the BP Portrait volition locomote every bit good - thus long every bit y'all teach your photography sorted of which to a greater extent than below in
  • the importance of an splendid digital image; and 
  • how to hit a digital epitome for an opened upwardly fine art competition.

Notification of the change


This is the missive of the alphabet which Sandy Nairne, the Director of the National Portrait Gallery has mailed today to all those signed upwardly to the mailing listing for data near the contest inwards 2015.

Dear Artist,

I wanted to update y'all on approximately recent changes that are taking house to the BP Portrait Award. Next year’s contest volition direct a novel entry physical care for which volition hateful that artists should submit a digital epitome of their locomote for the outset phase of judging. The entrants who are successful inwards this circular volition together with then survive invited to hand-deliver or courier their locomote to a judging venue inwards London for the in conclusion selection.

This is an exciting fourth dimension for the BP Portrait Award together with nosotros promise that past times making this alter nosotros volition ease the entry physical care for for everyone. We are thus grateful for the commitment that past times entrants direct shown towards the prize simply nosotros are aware that the physical care for of delivering your portrait tin survive lengthy together with frequently real expensive. We direct listened to your comments over the in conclusion few years together with nosotros are bang-up to direct the contest upwardly to appointment thus that nosotros tin teach inwards every bit accessible every bit possible.

More details volition survive announced near the actual physical care for of submitting your digital epitome when the Call For Entries goes alive inwards Nov later this year. I urge y'all to facial expression at these details carefully. We volition ensure that they are every bit user friendly every bit possible inwards lodge to brand the transition to digital submissions every bit polish every bit possible.

If y'all practise come inwards I wishing y'all the best of luck for adjacent year’s competition.

Yours sincerely,
Sandy Nairne
Director
National Portrait Gallery

The importance of an splendid digital image


What the missive of the alphabet doesn't highlight - simply I volition - is the importance of the character of the digital image.

I've lately judged a contest via digital entry together with the character of the epitome is of import together with potentially influential.

Typically artists intend difficult near framing together with direct carefully to teach the best presentation of their icon which is beingness submitted to an opened upwardly competition.

Now y'all demand to intend carefully together with brand the attempt to teach the best digital epitome of your painting. That's non to nation the most flattering.  Do non "overegg" the digital editing to teach inwards facial expression to a greater extent than similar the icon you'd had inwards your caput rather than on your canvas!

Bottom job - virtually all opened upwardly fine art competitions which direct switched to digital entry practise thus to hit a long listing of possible contenders for the exhibition.  Most pick panels experience that at that spot all the same needs to survive an chemical ingredient of pick from the industrial plant themselves - together with consequently most trim the long listing to the industrial plant selected for exhibition via a pick panel sitting inwards a real large room or warehouse or basement!
The agency to teach your locomote selected for:
  • the hypothetical long listing is past times a real adept character epitome of your locomote which accurately represents your work
  • the industrial plant selected for exhibition - past times producing an splendid portrait which looks similar the digital image!

There's no inquiry the worst thing y'all tin practise is ship inwards a icon for the long listing review together with for that to facial expression less adept than the digital epitome - because that at nowadays creates the incorrect impression.

The contest is every bit good thus tearing that real lilliputian is needed to knock a icon out of the running - together with a icon which disappoints relative to its digital epitome would sure survive i of them.

How to hit a digital epitome for an opened upwardly fine art competition


This is the advice which was published past times the Royal Academy of Art in conclusion year.

Enjoy!

PS  Dear NPG - something similar for adjacent year's entrants would survive real helpful! :)

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