Brand New!! 15Th April 2013 - Who's Made A Rank This Week?

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[Note: this was supposed to live yesterday's spider web log post together with and thus I heard the awful intelligence most the bombs inwards Boston together with couldn't settle to finishing this - thus in that place volition live 2 posts today!]

On to the characteristic particular this week..........

Those who enjoy Maggie Smith in her roles over the years - together with latterly in Downton Abbey - powerfulness similar to know that she has right away been painted for the nation yesteryear 1 of my ex-tutors James Lloyd.  You tin right away regard a contemporary portrait of her inwards everyday clothes - out of graphic symbol - inwards Room 35 inwards the Ground flooring Lerner Contemporary Galleries at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Admission free.

Dame Margaret Natalie ('Maggie') Smith yesteryear James Lloyd
© National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 6955)
Oil on canvas, 1902 x 1202mm (74 7/8 x 47 3/8 inches)
commissioned yesteryear the National Portrait Gallery
amongst the back upwards of J.P. Morgan
through the Fund for New Commissions, 2012

It is a large sail only I don’t think it’s flashy. I was subsequently a for sure understated grandeur. The background is quite stark, together with apart from the patterned flooring in that place is footling color bar the neutral greys together with browns. This directs the concentration on to the warm flesh tones of the face. And amongst a human face upwards together with graphic symbol similar Dame Maggie Smith’s that’s definitely to a greater extent than than enough
I learnt that Dame Maggie had been reluctant to cause got her portrait painted inwards the past, together with at my maiden off coming together amongst her, her opening words were, “Poor you”. This was quite the contrary from my ain feelings, together with everyone to whom I mentioned the committee was extremely envious (I lost count of the issue of people who offered to construct tea during the sittings!)’.

James Lloyd

Artists together with Art Blogs

Art on Television

Here inwards the Great Britain we've latterly had insights into 2 various artists - together with I can't quite believe I'm writing most the 2 of them inwards the same sentence!

• Michael Portillo, an ex-politician together with ex-Government Minister, has developed a really squeamish career equally a presenter of tv documentaries.  He's also really keen on fine art together with is the Chair of the Mall Galleries!  I thought he did an first-class undertaking of providing an insight into the Castilian side of Picasso.  See Perspectives - Portillo on Picasso on ITV Player.  You've got 22 days left to sentiment it
• By means of contrast, nosotros watched Jack Vettriano showed us what he does all day.  I cause got to say I wasn't hugely impressed although I powerfulness cause got been to a greater extent than thus if he'd truly directed the photoshoot to render the photos to operate from for the paintings!  See BBC iPlayer  - What do artists do all day - Jack Vettriano.  You cause got 2 days left to scout it.
• The 2nd episode of the serial of BBC4 Art Programme The High Art of the Low Countries was called "Boom or Bust" (available on iPlayer). 
•  This episode looks at the Golden Age of Dutch paradigm inwards the 17th century together with how this was generated yesteryear an economical blast based on an expanding middle class. Unfortunately, it took watching it iii times to acquire to the halt equally Andrew Graham Dixon's mellifluous tones choke along sending me to sleep.  
• The side yesteryear side episode - to live broadcast on Th - is The High Art of the Low Countries: Daydreams together with Nightmares
• Jonathan Jones of The Guardian comments on the US TV serial Da Vinci's Demons in Da Vinci's Demons: the novel TV exhibit that totally reinvents Leonardo's life

Botanical Art

Last calendar week was a major calendar week for 1 of my passions - botanical fine art - thus delight excuse the excess of botanical fine art at the moment!  On Fri together with Sabbatum nosotros had the 2 major annual exhibitions inwards the Great Britain opened upwards at the same fourth dimension inside a brusk walk of 1 another.

• the RHS Annual Exhibition of Botanical Art - was inwards the Horticultural Halls inwards Victoria - together with saw 8 botanical artists from all over the world (Australia, South Korea, Netherlands, South Africa together with Turkey equally good equally the UK) go domicile this weekend amongst Gold Medals
• meanwhile the largest botanical fine art exhibition inwards the basis - aka the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists opened at Central Hall, Westminster - contrary Westminster Abbey.

Displays yesteryear 29 Botanical Artists from all over the world
in the RHS Botanical Art Exhibition
inwards the Lindley Hall

London saw a major influx of botanical artists who visited 1 inwards the forenoon together with the other inwards the afternoon together with and thus went domicile inspired to improve their submissions side yesteryear side year!

The Language of Flowers
One corner of the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists 2013
Central Hall Westminster

To appointment I've entirely done a duo of posts equally I was "running on empty" yesteryear Sabbatum afternoon.  A 3rd bout of the nasty põrnikas has set me depression 1 time to a greater extent than together with given my upcoming surgical operation I'm wanting to acquire costless of respiratory problems before having an anaesthetic.

So to a greater extent than to come upwards - only here's the ones thus far:<

• Ten Top Tips for winning an RHS Gold Medal for Botanical Art
• Prizewinners at Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2013

Jarnie Godwin

In the meantime, hither are some blogs together with spider web log posts yesteryear together with most artists who pigment plants together with flowers

• Jarnie Godwin of Sketchbook Squirrel - who finally calendar week graduated from her SBA Distance Learning Diploma inwards Botanical Art amongst a Dith a distinction.  You tin regard her amongst her operate inwards the Diploma department of the exhibit on the right. She doesn't ordinarily await similar this - notwithstanding she's looking upwards at my photographic tv camera which was held high higher upwards my caput thus nosotros could acquire the photograph without the polish from its covering!
• Ten Walks inwards Virginia which is right away on her website - together with which I saw inwards the master exhibition inwards London inwards 2007 (see RHS Gold Medal Botanical Art 23 February 2007).
• Lara is also the primary illustrator of Flora of Virginia which was published to groovy acclaim at the halt of 2012.  This is the maiden off Flora (of plans together with flowers growing naturally) of Virginia since the really maiden off 1 which was published inwards 1762!  It's collected 5 reviews which rated it equally a 5* volume thus far!  Apparently it's also going digital!  Does this hateful all florilegia volition halt upwards going digital?
• Open Day at which artists tin cause got their operate assessed finally week
• Jessica Shepherd (Inky Leaves) writes most The Botanical Imagination - together with specifically most a novel exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery together with how his photographic found portraits yesteryear Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932) influenced Rory McEwen - who's got an exhibition opening at Kew Gardens side yesteryear side month!

Painting

• Here's I is for Ipads for Artists 

Plein Air

• I've been following The Plein Air Convention on its Facebook Page. It ran from 10-14 Apr inwards Monterey inwards California - only people turned upwards early on together with I gauge they stayed slow too!  It looks equally if it's been sunny only really windy together with a tad chilly.  
• I was a flake disappointed that in that place wasn't to a greater extent than coverage of what was happening - as it happened - together with the paintings people were producing eg the website didn't update for the duration of the Conference together with I couldn't tell the departure betwixt the paintings which 'marketed' who was in that place together with the actual paintings beingness produced on location.  I think mayhap the organisers powerfulness desire to review their reportage arrangements - mainly from the perspective of non every likes Facebook or is a member!  How most a spider web log side yesteryear side time? :)  (I gauge I'm using Urban Sketchers equally the model here!)
• However I am enjoying looking at the album of photos of the Monterey Plein Air Conference 2013  on Mark Fehlman's Facebook account.

Plein Air artists paradigm on Asilomar Beach during the Plein Air Convention

Nevertheless participants were blogging!

• Louise Sackett (The Tribe Is Gathering
• James Gurney (Ten questions for Eric Rhoads - who is the chairman of the board of Streamline Publishing, which produces Fine Art Connoisseur together with PleinAir magazines - together with it's a really interesting interview
• then took to a footling flat sketching on the means hom - regard Air Bus
• while before inwards the calendar month he had highlighted a useful Pocket easel or monopod for plein air sketching together with paintings

Now people are dorsum domicile together with soundless blogging (and allow me know if you've written a spider web log post most the convention together with I'll cause got a await together with add together it inwards here)

• Jose de Juan (Monterey Plein Air Convention 2013. Part 1
• Julie Hermanson (What I Learned at the Plein Air Convention inwards Monterey, CA

Over hither inwards Europe Plein air painter Roos Schuring (Roos Schuring Plein Air Painter) - who does some amazing skies - was blogging about:

• 5 Tips for plein air painting. (Heavy winds can't choke along yous from painting) - together with they are groovy tips - illuminated yesteryear some groovy photos showing yous precisely how she does it
• some lovely photos of 1 of her 3 24-hour interval seascape paradigm workshops

On other plein air blogs

• Progress Not Perfection on Camille Przewodek's Color Blog illustrates how an creative someone develops over fourth dimension when paradigm color plein air - together with why it's a goodness thought to choke along some of your early on efforts

Pastels together with Pencils

• lost her grapple amongst cancer on quaternary April.
• The IAPS has created a novel prize inwards her cry - to live called The Maggie Price Award of Excellence for an Emerging Artist.  This volition live awarded at each IAPS Exhibition, maiden off amongst the 2013 IAPS Convention inwards June.
• Remembering Maggie Price on The Pastel Journal website sums upwards Maggie amend than I could do

Photography

• Photoseed - the blog - celebrates early photography together with has some first-class images

Who painted this?

• Who painted this? #24 is a botanical bailiwick this week.  There's a clue if yous read my posts  inbetween this post together with the side yesteryear side 'Who painted this?' post........  I'm proverb no to a greater extent than than that!
• Roger Brown (Who painted this? #23

Art Supplies

The large intelligence since I finally wrote is that Utrecht is right away role of Dick Blick!

Colour

• One of the spider web log posts by Maggie Price which I liked was a method she devised for making color charts together with keeping them accessible when paradigm plein air.  It's thus obvious when yous think most it!  See Old & New Technology: Color Charts on the iPhone
• Elizabeth Floyd (Elizabeth Floyd) has been writing most her favourite pigment mixtures together with below are her spider web log posts about
• Favorite Paint Mixtures: Alizarin Crimson
• The Silver Point Drawing Department.  It's squeamish to know some other house to purchase Silver Point equipment inwards London - specially equally this is the medium I choke along proverb I'm going to cause got a acquire at!



Pastels



• On Unison Pastels - Colour Charts - online, inwards impress together with handmade.
• Richard McKinley (Pastel Pointers) has done a summary of pastel paradigm surfaces.  Painting Surfaces for Pastel - the New Kids - it's joined the other commentaries on my website 



Art equipment



• I do beloved an fine art supplier who stocks decent tapes!  Jackson's Art (Review: Royal Institute of Painters inwards Watercolour - Annual Exhibition which finishes this Thursday.  It's been really good attended - in that place were masses of people in that place on the 24-hour interval I visited.  Below is a photograph of John Yardley who was demonstrating on the 24-hour interval I visited the exhibition



John Yardley RI amongst his demonstration painting




Art History - together with Art Galleries together with Museums


It's the fourth dimension of yr when fine art museums together with galleries to regard how they do relative to 1 another

• The Top xxx Art Galleries together with Museums inwards the World inwards 2012 is my post reviewing the Art Newspaper's survey of 2012 visitors to fine art museums together with galleries
• Plus I've identified the top 5 cities for a topographic point of fine art museum together with gallery visiting - see The Best Cities for Top Art Galleries together with Museums (2012)
• The shotlist has been drawn upwards for Museum of the Year inwards the Great Britain - here's my summary most the 10 Finalists for £100k Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2013

With abide by to private fine art  galleries together with museums

• The major recent intelligence is that the Rijksmuseum reopened at the weekend.  The Guardian comments on how Amsterdam is changing museums inwards Amsterdam in A novel Amsterdam – together with a novel Rijksmuseum
• There's a novel boss at the Louvre
• and Thomas P. Campbell, Director together with CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art inwards New York has an important 'old' message about its admissions policy together with  'suggested contribution'

the Met has never imposed a fixed admission fee. Nor do nosotros always accuse an extra fee to see whatever of our world-renowned special exhibitions.Director of the Met




Art Business & Marketing



• Social Media Marketing for Fine Artists is a truly first-class powerpoint presentation yesteryear Ed Terpening (Life Plein Air) - equally delivered to the 2nd Annual Plein Air Convention. It's is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED yesteryear me
• If yous desire to know most selling fine art cause got a await at Selling art: 17 top tips from the experts from The Guardian's Culture Professionals Network's blog.  How do yous charge per unit of measurement it equally advice?
• Last week, the Press Assistant of a Gallery inwards Northampton sent me a press release containing the names together with e-mail addresses of all the arts journalists (and others?) that the gallery knew inwards the UK.  WHEN are galleries going to larn how to transportation out press releases without breaching the Data Protection Act?  These are the Privacy together with Electronic Communications Regulations together with they apply to all fine art galleries inwards the Great Britain - including artists who choke along a database of personal information (eg e-mail addresses) for their fine art business 
• Which are the best creative someone lineament petroleum colours? provided the really clear answer
• The Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Poll for Apr asks POLL: What is the most hard bailiwick to paint?



Techies



• Apparently Art is really passe together with does non merit a category this yr inwards the The Webby Awards. In which illustration my voting digit volition remain committed to other websites.
• Search Engine Land has an infographic which is rather goodness for reminding yous of goodness practices relating to optimal SEO demeanour for both websites together with blogs.  You tin download the SearchEngineland Periodic Table of SEO equally a pdf file.

and finally

This is a rather amusing means to grade the reopening of The Rijksmuseum - yesteryear staging 1 its most famous paintings

Here's a flashmob recreating the Night Watch yesteryear Rembrandt inwards an Amsterdam Shopping Centre!
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