Brand New!! 11Th March - Who's Made A Ambit This Week?

I'm finding Who's made a score this week? to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than hard to do.  It's my ain error because these posts guide maintain only grown together with grown - together with they forthwith accept hours together with hours to compile....and I'm afraid procrastination sets in.

They started out equally a means of highlighting things I read on other people's blogs together with items which were interesting but weren't going to give-up the ghost far into a weblog post.  Thus they were assembled over the course of teaching of the week.  However I forthwith notice I exercise to a greater extent than reading when writing the slice which inwards business office accounts for why it takes together with so long to do.

I'm thinking along the lines of:

• making them brusk together with weekly OR longer together with fortnightly
• cutting the topics (but what to cut?)

So tell me which bits you lot similar the best together with what you lot would fille most if it went or were to live revised / reduced.

Art Blogs together with Artists

Artists

• This post is about Artists overcoming disabilities - it starts alongside a discussion of the challenges which many famous artists guide maintain overcome together with concludes alongside an update on when together with how I'm having surgical operation to larn prepare novel eyes!  (In May!)
• Videos: Bankside together with Roy Lichtenstein provides you lot alongside 3 videos - ii of which range give you lot an insight into Roy Lichenstein together with the 3rd shows you lot what it's similar exterior Tate Modern on a Dominicus afternoon - on the means to reckon the RWS opened upwardly exhibition!

Drawing together with Sketching

Lower Manhattan from the Empire State Building yesteryear Patrick Vale
You tin reckon a larger epitome here.

• Do accept a hold back at this video of Patrick Vale Empire State Of Pen - which is how the to a higher identify drawing of lower Manhattan came into beingness together with is described equally follows

One week. Five pens. One pencil. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 1 K m cups of tea. One iPhone and 1 repetitive strain injury.
Patrick Vale gives you... lower Manhattan from the Empire State Building

and

His fourth dimension lapse film“Empire State of Pen” captured 5 days of intensive drawing together with brought critical acclaim across the pattern together with architectural worlds, it clocked upwardly 700,000 plays inwards a few weeks. 

• Tiny Pencil is a weblog for graphite groupies.  It's a spin-off of a biannual anthology devoted to the fine art of the pencil and a novel website of the same name which looks promising.  These are the artists who volition characteristic inwards the kickoff issue.  I did notice it a fighting strange that the kickoff creative someone they interview genuinely describes herself equally working mainly inwards gouache!

Celebrating all things graphite, Tiny Pencil is an anthology zine together with forum devoted to the Pb arts

• In relation to the Tiny Pencil graphite artists I was most impressed alongside the function of:
• Rachel M Bray - function inwards ink together with pencil together with pencil together with graphite powder
• Vanessa Foley (Vanessa Foley)
• Liam Stevens
• James Gurney (brain scans of artists piece drawing.  James too references his previous post Do Artists See Differently? 
• I used to guide maintain posters of drawings yesteryear Aubrey Beardsley on my wall inwards college. It;s so alongside some involvement I came upon Poul Webb's (Art together with Artists) serial of posts on Aubrey Beardsley - which guide maintain lots together with lots of his heavily stylised monochrome images 
• Aubrey Beardsley – business office 1
• Aubrey Beardsley – business office 2
• Aubrey Beardsley – business office 3
• Aubrey Beardsley – business office 4

Figures together with Portraiture

• Progress on "Desert Hill". 
• Jeff McColl sent me a link to his line of piece of employment organisation human relationship of a see to Agawa Canyon - Winter means 2013 (take III) updated.  This is his line of piece of employment organisation human relationship of visiting some of the parts of Canada painted yesteryear creative someone members of the Group of Seven together with others eg George Reid and spending a wintertime calendar week camping ground inwards the Agawa Canyon. Visits are made to the actual locations of paintings yesteryear A.Y. Jackson's icon of the Waterfall at Algoma.  He was intrigued yesteryear how the topography made for such a dramatic shadow inwards paintings yesteryear people such equally Lawren Harris .  You tin reckon all the photos together inwards this album

What I constitute genuinely interesting is how the lighting weather I encountered exposed the cloak-and-dagger of Mr. Harris's dramatic shadow inwards the canyon.

Painting

• I genuinely similar a lot of the paintings I tin reckon on the weblog of Amanda Spencer's weblog Amanda Spencer.  It reminds me of Shirley Trevena's function - but I'm non sure if I don't similar Amanda's more.  She too does watercolour batik paintings together with conducts workshops on this technique.  I've got my real ain batik laid which I bought afterward a workshop on batik inwards Bali inwards 1997.  I mean value I mightiness only guide maintain to cheque out those workshops!
• Do accept a hold back at Rob Pointon's Year of the Boat - it's real much a weblog together with a projection alongside a difference.  It's non many artists who operate out of a narrow boat!  It sure as shooting seems to guide maintain given him a novel perspective on how to agree interiors into paintings.  Rob has some exhibitions coming upwardly inwards the close time to come inwards Manchester together with Birmingham

Pastels together with Pencils

• Ester Roi (Who painted this? #18 however the The kickoff someone to larn the right respond this calendar week was Roger Brown (Art Of The Wild yesteryear Roger Brown)
• Here's Who painted this? #19 which too has the respond to #18.  I mean value this week's epitome volition appeal to truthful cat lovers.........

Art Competitions

• In my lastly "who's made a score this week" I characteristic Aine Divine together with her watercolour icon of Mathew which won 1 of the prizes inwards the Royal Watercolour Society's contemporary fine art competition.  This calendar week I reviewed the exhibition for the exercise goodness of those who were unable to see together with those who mightiness desire to submit their function side yesteryear side yr - see RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013 - exhibition review
• This is my review of the Lynn Painter Stainer Exhibition 2013: Review
• These are the RHS Botanical Art Show 2013 - Selected Artists.  Botanical artists volition wishing to banker's complaint the dates of the exhibition together with the fact that it's beingness held inwards Apr at the same fourth dimension equally the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists.  No excuse for botanical fine art fans non to endeavour together with see BOTH exhibitions.

Art Education

• a fundraising exhibit at Gale's Restaurant - to exercise goodness the Pasadena Humane Society.

Art Societies

• The Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists opened at the Mall Galleries lastly calendar week together with continues until 23rd March.  Click the link to reckon the members' function inwards the exhibition on the website.  You tin too sentiment the Exhibition Catalogue online. The remaining demonstrations are:
• Tues twelfth Mar, 12.00 - 15.00 Drypoint demonstration, Mick Davies together with Melvyn Petterson
• Wed 13th Mar, 12.00 - 15.00 Acrylic demonstration, Alfred Daniels and Nick Tidnam
• Thurs 14th Mar, 12.00 - 15.00 Landscape together with architecture demonstration, David Sawyer

I too banker's complaint they've got a much improved novel website.

Two sets I created inwards Rijksstudio (by makingamark)

Art Galleries together with Museums

• Pinterest meets the Rijksmuseum is my accept on the redevelopment of the accessibility to the collection of the Rijksmuseum inwards Amsterdam.  They guide maintain a novel website together with a novel means of allowing people to access the artwork together with reinterpret it using downloads together with impress on need websites.  It's quite something together with dissimilar anything I've seen elsewhere when roaming the network looking at museum websites (which is something I exercise a lot!).  You tin reckon what I did at makingamark
• The Telegraph has published an article Brilliant, beautiful together with British: the fine art you lot aren't allowed to see.  I mean value the curators of publicly funded fine art museums and galleries who mean value curation is nigh the evolution of the body of cognition nigh fine art history together with their ain career evolution should live made responsible for beingness accountable to the populace for only how much fine art inwards populace ownership is never e'er seen. 

What is together with so incorrect alongside the thought of museums together with galleries celebrating the diverseness of British painting?

• The New York Times has an article on Cautious Approval for a Plan to Merge a City’s Museums (re. Los Angeles). 

Art Supplies

• Ed Terpening (Life Plein Air) has been testing Testing Solvent-Free Oil Paint

Art on Film together with TV

• Your Paintings: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Culture Show Special - a Culture Show Special on the BBC demonstrated that the Your Paintings projection has uncovered the creative someone behind some of the artwork which has previously been inaccessible.  
• London Underground. The artwork comprises 270 enamel plaques (one for every station!) of labyrinth designs.
• The Pre-Raphaelites on BBC4 is too available on iPlayer. There's 3 days left to scout it.
• Finally there's Treasures of the Louvre - too available on iPlayer together with available until Sat, sixteen Mar 2013

The interesting matter is that none of these are listed nether the Factual / Arts Culture together with the Media business office of iPlayer which seems to guide maintain larn equally bad equally Amazon at categorisation!

Opinion Polls

• The results of the Feb Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Poll bring out iv distinct tendencies equally to when people prefer to pigment - see Painters prefer icon inwards the early on morning time (Poll result)
• The March Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Poll volition live published this week.

Techies

Computers

• I've forthwith had my Apple iMac for 3 years - together with I gather a few of you lot guide maintain had iMacs for nearly that long! ;)  This is post asking Which is the best figurer for artists? and it's had some fantabulous together with long comments

Blogging

• The side yesteryear side instalment inwards the serial of posts nigh blogging for Art Societies is Art Society Blog #3 - Recruit a Blog Editor.  This highlights that a Blog Editor is much to a greater extent than similar a Newsletter Editor rather than a webmaster.  In other words it's nigh communication together with  marketing rather than techie stuff!

and finally

This is the sentiment you lot tin larn of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence on the Google Art projection - together with so fifty-fifty if you lot can't larn to Italy you lot tin guide maintain a virtual tour of the Uffizi.

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