Who's Made A Order Inward Art? October 2014

This post is a round-up of my posts since my in conclusion "Who's made a grade inwards art?" post a calendar month agone - addition links to interesting tidings virtually the fine art globe that I've spotted during October.

Below is Ben Johnson's ikon which won the £10,000 Visitors Choice Award - chosen past times visitors to Threadneedle Prize Exhibition. (see below for to a greater extent than details)

Threadneedle Prize 2014 - Winner of £10,000 Visitors Choice Award
Room of the Revolutionary past times Ben Johnson

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Artists

Artists on Film

Mr Turner opened! Then Jonathan Jones commented inwards A brush with Mr Turner: why can’t films virtually painters acquire the ikon right? My ain persuasion is that one could also inquire why can't the critics acquire the analysis of the ikon right! I'm to a greater extent than forgiving of those creating a cinema than I am of those making a documentary. At to the lowest degree Timothy Spall took lessons inwards how to pigment for ii years! I'm much to a greater extent than critical of critics who comprehensively demonstrate they haven't got a clue virtually how drawing or sketching or ikon genuinely works.

Artists on Television

It's the fourth dimension of twelvemonth when the British television set channels laid out to 'get cultural' as well as we've begun to receive got some meaning programmes virtually fine art as well as artists.

• The major trial has been Grayson Perry - Who Are You? - on TV as well as at the NPG. Another wonderful as well as insightful serial of television set programmes on Channel four as well as diverse plant of fine art virtually identity inwards the modern world. The serial finished this calendar week - simply the exhibition continues at the National Portrait Gallery (details inwards Exhibitions below). This is an article virtually it past times Isobel Morrish on the RA Blog Grayson Perry RA’s portraits of Britain 
• BBC2 had ii programmes which relate to the novel exhibition of slow portraits (see exhibitions below) past times Rembrandt van Rijn at the National Gallery
• If you lot missed Simon Schama's cinema virtually Rembrandt's portraits painted inwards his afterward years you lot tin flame grab upwards on iPlayer - Schama on Rembrandt: Masterpieces of the Late Years is all the same available for the side past times side 8 days.
• The Culture Show's contribution is Rankin shoots Rembrandt - as the lensman John Rankin Waddell (aka 'Rankin') addresses the challenge of interpreting Rembrandt's portraits of sometime age, adapting the Dutch master's techniques for his camera.  Also available for the side past times side 8 days.
• Andrew Graham Dixon has been delivering a brusk serial on The Art of the Gothic.
• The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour 1. Liberty Diversity Depravity (8 days)
• The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour - 2. The City as well as the Soul (20 days) 
• The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour 3. Blood for Sale: Gothic Goes Global (28 days)

Art on Video

• More videos past times the creator of 500 Years of Female Portraits inwards Western Art - Philip Scott Johnson is the chap who made the famous video where portraits of woman individual sitters over 500 years morph from ane to the other. However this is non the solely videos virtually fine art that he has made. (He at ane time seems to receive got turned his attending to architecture)

Artists inwards Books

• 33 Artists inwards three Acts past times Sarah Thornton – review is about Sarah Thornton's novel book. The writer of the real fantabulous "Seven Days inwards the Art World" has turned her attending - as well as stories - to an analysis of unlike artists on unlike continents - with a persuasion to identifying what makes them the same as well as what makes them unlike as well as what makes an artist. She has ii (questions). “What is an artist?” And as well as thence a killer followup: “What variety of creative individual are you?”

Art Business & Marketing

• RECOMMENDED READ! Thanks to Molly Crabapple's xv rules for creative success inwards the Internet age
• An of import U.S.A. of America Tax Court Ruling for all U.S.A. of America artists - This is virtually a specially of import taxation ruling inwards the USA. It affects inwards exceptional all artists who are also teachers. Most specially it affects all those who earn to a greater extent than from their instruction than they practice from their art.  It relates to "The Hobby-Loss Rule".
• For all those sending their fine art to purchasers via the Post Office - they've got a novel "larger" size for pocket-size parcels New Small Parcel Size | Post Office
• Do artists ever retire? came virtually because I had a BIG birthday before this month. 

"Blood Swept Lands as well as Seas of Red" at the Tower of London

- photographed from The Shard on my birthday.

Art Education

Art Education

• Learn virtually Why some Art students almost never acquire high grades. Your approach to learning real oft influences outcomes as well as the benefits that tin flame live achieved. That's why learning how to larn is equally of import equally what you lot learn. Read this article if you lot desire to know some of the reasons why people underachieve at fine art - as well as some of the strategies for tackling faulty reasoning.

Drawing

• The Big Draw calendar month is October - as well as this post introduced the arrive at of events across the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland as well as farther afield. This is The Big Draw Gallery - showing images of drawings from diverse events. I constitute I couldn't acquire on with their novel way of presenting data virtually events. I call upwards they quest to receive got a rethink for side past times side year.
• Graphite... a Perfect Medium Despite the Chaos! is a great weblog post past times SBA fellow member Dianne Sutherland Artist SBA total of useful tips virtually drawing with graphite pencils. 
• You tin flame encounter an trial from The Big Draw at the end....

Coloured pencils

• Nicole Caulfield shares an ebook virtually portraits inwards coloured pencils - this is an amazing FREE gift for those who honey portraits as well as coloured pencils!
• Well known wild fauna creative individual Alan Woollett who plant inwards coloured pencils has got a majority bargain to with a good known fine art majority publisher. It volition live virtually his fine art as well as fine art techniques

Painting

• Carol Marine's novel book Daily Painting: Paint Small as well as Often To Become a More Creative, Productive, as well as Successful Artist is at ane time inwards circulation for reviewers (I've got my copy!). I've already recommended it on my Facebook Page having solely skim read it. The department on the Top Six Mistakes that Students Make was ane of the things - with much genuinely useful materials - which caught my eye. I'm non inwards the to the lowest degree chip surprised to that her majority is already ranked at #1 inwards the Painting Section of Amazon Books!

Art Competitions

Botanical Art

• Two posts about photographers as well as the botanical artists who won Gold Medals at the RHS Autumn Show
• HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Three RHS Gold Medals for Botanical Art as well as a video interview - includes a fantastic video interview with Denise Ramsay which genuinely demonstrates the sort of operate which goes into winning a Gold Medal!  In fact, DeniseRamsayArtist not solely won an RHS Gold Medal for her serial of watercolour paintings of "Papaver Orientale" - she also sold the consummate serial to Dr Shirley Sherwood! 
• Reflections on the RHS Botanical Art Show Autumn 2014 - to a greater extent than lessons for those thinking of applying to exhibit inwards future. All artists displaying operate receive got to live juried into the exhibition.
• A build novel RHS Show for Botanical Art has the information virtually dates for the RHS's Main Botanical Art Show inwards 2015 - banknote the dates receive got changed

Figurative Art

These are my posts relating to Threadneedle Prize:

• Threadneedle Prize 2014 - The Shortlist
• Tina Jenkins wins Threadneedle Prize 2014
• Interview with Winner of Threadneedle Prize 2014
• Review: Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2014

The photorealist creative individual Ben Johnson won the £10,000 Visitors Choice Award that was voted for past times people visiting the exhibition. Apparently solely 6 votes separated origin as well as 3rd position after thousands of visitors had voted.

Friends of the writer tin flame play "spot the blogger" on the ikon below. I was tweeting on my novel iPhone when it was taken.

The Threadneedle Prize Awards Dinner
- location the writer (sat inbetween the winner's hubby as well as ane of the Judges!)
- location the ikon which won the Visitors Choice Award (behind the speaker) 

Portraiture 

• There's A novel £15,000 prize for portrait painting - which is opened upwards to international artists as well as is beingness run inwards conjunction with the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Artists. The origin prize volition live awarded at the 2015 Annual Exhibition of the RSPP

Art Exhibitions

Major Museums as well as Art Galleries inwards London

I'm way behind with my quarterly update on major exhibitions inwards London due to personal commitments relating to health. In the meantime hither are the major novel exhibitions which receive got opened inwards London - or are virtually to open

• National Gallery 
• (Sainsbury Wing Basement) - Rembrandt - The Late Works (until eighteen January) 
• opening this calendar week - Peder Balke as well as Norwegian landscapes at the National Gallery
• National Portrait Gallery: These are the recent exhibitions as well as displays which receive got opened - as well as I all the same quest to write upwards ii of the reviews:
• Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris as well as His Legacy, 1860 – 1960 in the Wolfson Gallery until xi Jan 2015 
• The Real Tudors: Kings as well as Queens Rediscovered until 1 March 2015 in Room 1, 2 as well as 3
• Snowdon as well as the globe of arts
• Grayson Perry - Who Are You? until xv March 2015  in the Gallery’s nineteenth as well as twentieth century rooms on Floor 1. (Admission Free). I'm looking forrard to finding all the portraits.
• Dulwich Picture Gallery - Painting Canada 2 - Emily Carr at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. It includes a video interview I did with Ian Dejardin, Sackler Director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery as well as co-Curator of the novel exhibition of sketches as well as paintings past times famous Canadian creative individual Emily Carr.

Art Societies 

These are my reviews of the annual exhibitions of the major national fine art societies.

• Review: Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors as well as Gravers Annual Exhibition 2014. If you're intrigued equally I am past times artists who create incredibly pocket-size plant of fine art inwards oil, watercolour, acrylic, wood, bronze, argent etc you're probable to live real interested inwards my review of the 2014 Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors as well as Gravers at the Mall Galleries inwards London. There's a lot of images of prizewinning paintings inwards my review addition I also discovered why Miniature Art is similar the 'Tai Chi' of Painting!  Finishes side past times side Sunday.  There are demonstrations past times RMS members inwards the gallery every solar daytime except the last. 
• Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Marine Artists - Review (Part 1) - I'm ever impressed with the criterion of ikon as well as sculpture at this annual exhibition - as well as this ane is no different. It looked genuinely good. 
• Video: 2014 Exhibition of the Society of Wildlife Artists - You tin flame see to a greater extent than of the operate displayed here. I had hoped to post to a greater extent than virtually this exhibition in conclusion calendar week simply commitments upwards northward prevented this. However I volition live reviewing it this calendar week although it closes today equally I know my reviews are read past times people who promise to submit operate inwards 2015.  You tin flame also encounter a re-create of the exhibition catalogue on Issuu - which agency you lot tin flame encounter the prices beingness charged for the artwork on display!   Below are some some real impressive bronze sculptures of pocket-size birds with long tails on a wire past times Adam Binder

Fourteen Long Tailed Tits (£18,500) © Adam Binder 

at the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wildlife Artists at the Mall Galleries

• Well done to the Society of Botanical Artists on yet some other successful international exhibition OUTSIDE the UK. I wonder why to a greater extent than fine art societies don't accept the chance to set on exhibitions inwards other countries? Here are some weblog posts virtually it:
• Shevaun Doherty - SBA Palmengarten Exhibition, Frankfurt
• plus you lot tin flame follow the total flush on Gaynor Dickson's weblog gaynorssflora

Art Galleries

• Lewis McNaught, the Director of the Mall Galleries is at ane time on Twitter. You tin flame follow him on @Lewis_McNaught.  Those having tape sales at their exhibitions hold back similar they're going to live highlighted inwards future. 

Hard graft as well as swell operate rewarded with tape sales @swlanaturaleye @mallgalleries. Well done Harriet as well as team. pic.twitter.com/G3QHMD03Dy
— Lewis McNaught (@Lewis_McNaught) October 31, 2014

Techies - websites, webware as well as techie materials for artists

• I was reminded before today that I wrote this weblog post - Artists on Facebook - The Scope as well as The Rules - virtually ii years agone - for all those Artists who are confused virtually the departure betwixt a Facebook Account as well as a Facebook Page as well as how to comply with the rules as well as build the most of the range they offer. Plus a chip virtually Facebook Groups - as well as how these are used past times artists. It in all probability needs updating - simply it's all the same amend than cipher for those who are confused past times Facebook!
• A novel gmail phishing scam is virtually a novel gmail phishing scam which targeted me - or at to the lowest degree it's novel to me!

and finally......

First the next Urban Sketchers London Sketchcrawl volition live at Trinity Buoy Wharf on 16th November

...and this is what happened when The Big Draw visited The One Show at the BBC

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