Brand New!! 22Nd October 2013 - Who's Made A Mark?

October is exhibition overload month! I had iii exhibitions finally calendar week addition a põrnikas - together with iii to a greater extent than which opened finally calendar week together with which I haven't visited yet ! So I gave myself permission to write most the Whistler this calendar week together with took it tardily over the weekend!  The images inwards this post this calendar week are mainly from the exhibitions I've viewed - every bit indicated - past times way of fifty-fifty to a greater extent than of a taster for those who'd similar to reckon more.

Dr Patricia Montfort together with Professor Margaret F McDonald
Curators of An American inwards London: Whistler together with the Thames at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Standing inwards forepart of Blue together with Gold - Old Battersea Bridge

Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. Mall Galleries - West Gallery
ever a real pop exhibition - amongst goodness sales

I'm thinking of moving this post to a regular slot on Mondays.  The argue beingness I maintain getting the notion that the weekend ought to last to a greater extent than of a "me" time.  It's been sliding from Sundays to Mon for a spell then we'll reckon how it goes.

This ane slid into Tuesday because all twenty-four lx minutes menstruation yesterday I was next a major floor most copyright infringement which I stumbled upon together with which had gone viral - every bit inwards 245k shares of the original floor on Facebook!  So it started every bit a yoke of lines inwards this post together with past times the halt of the twenty-four lx minutes menstruation was a recommended read for all those who quest to know most fair work and/or aren't confident most copyright matters.

Art & Artists

I kicked off finally calendar week amongst this post You are known past times the companionship you lot keep. This was triggered past times using this phrase when discussing some recent "goings on" amongst beau artists.

Drawing & Sketching

• Some of my sketches of gardens together with parks volition last seen inwards a novel majority called Urban Sketchers together with a founding fellow member of the London Urban Sketchers.

The dissimilar covers for Sketch Your World

• Last weekend was the 41st Worldwide Sketchcrawl - 
• Urban Sketchers records The 41st Worldwide Sketchcrawl meets The Big Draw LA!
• Plus in that location was a salubrious turn-out inwards Sydney Commonwealth of Australia - 41st Sketchcrawl inwards Hyde Park, Sydney
• Liz Steel (My Architecture Sketchbook article
• David Shrigley, ane of this year's Turner Prize nominees draws for a living.  In this Guardian article he tells Will Self how he got started - David Shrigley: 'I gave my majority out at the pub – that's how it all started'   You tin give the sack receive got a await at: some of his drawings - inwards this ane Artists speak most their work. 
• People's sketchbooks on Pearltrees - an unusual way of finding out most sketchbooks
• I finally got circular to posting my Lunch for ane at the National Dining Rooms on my sketchbook blog

Painting

• The Royal Watercolour Society right away has a blog - unfortunately it's a spider web log without a feed
• so can't last read inwards feedreaders together with won't interpret to Facebook.  If you lot perish to the problem of creating together with maintaining a spider web log practise brand certain it has an RSS feed.
• Artists who impressed this calendar week included:
• Mark Dalessio together with Plein Air Painting inwards the Tuileries Gardens, Paris
• Haidee-Jo Summers - She's been roofing the completion of a ikon involving large ruby-red sails this calendar week on her blog Haidee-Jo Summers creative somebody - ma vie en couleurs 
• Michael Chesley Johnson - Government Shutdown Couldn't Shut Down This Plein Air Painting Workshop - what practise you lot practise when the goverment shuts downwards all the National Parks together with you lot receive got a workshop planned?
• Haidee has also been playing at Being Monsieur Monet - which reminded me of ane my favourite occupations which is drawing masterpieces inwards coloured pencil.  I was reminded that I'd also tackled Morning on the Seine inwards a dissimilar colourway some fourth dimension ago. It's prompted me to think I should practise more. I know I larn a huge amount every fourth dimension I re-create a ikon past times an old Master.  However it's of import to recollect there's a lot of divergence betwixt copying somebody who's out of copyright together with an epitome past times an creative somebody or lensman whose travel is covered past times copyright - reckon the copyright department for to a greater extent than give-and-take of this inwards the lite of this week's viral copyright story.

Morning on the Seine - a re-create of Monet's travel inwards coloured pencils
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

Pastels together with Pencils

• I similar to highlight pencil artists who are doing good - together with to highlight the criteria together with agency for how to practise well.  Chris Otley (Ways of Seeing) is a graphite creative somebody who likes making large drawings of natural history subjects.  This calendar week he is one of the 100 currently unrepresented artists featured at The Other Art Fair inwards London which gets most 10,000 visitors.  This is his page on the Other Art Fair website.  Note the street cred. inwards price of creative somebody disputation together with fine art education. In monastic enjoin to last selected for this well-regarded number an creative somebody had to last selected past times a panel of experts which comprised 
• Yinka Shonibare MBE, 
• Rebecca Wilson (Director of the Saatchi Gallery), 
• David Jaffe (Senior Curator, National Gallery) and 
• Nick Hackworth (Director of Paradise Row together with erstwhile contemporary fine art critic of the Evening Standard).
• The Artists Network receive got announced the Winners of the 15th Annual Pastel 100 Competition 

Fine Art Prints

• Artists who impressed this calendar week included Austin Cole with some super etchings at the RSMA Annual Exhibition 

North Pembrokshire past times Austin Cole
Etching (edition of 12 - 2 available) £420 unframed

Wildlife Art

• Wildlife inwards Action Prize at the David Shepherd's Wildlife Artist of the Year contest inwards 2010

Who painted this?

• This is Who Painted This? #49
• The reply to the novel way of tackling Who Painted this #48 was non goodness - I'm wondering if the job is the approach or the image.  John O'Grady together with Bernadette Madden were the articulation winners (see #48 for their contributions together with #49 for details of the image)

Art Business & Marketing

Artist development

• Luann Udell has taken an enlightening perspective on how you lot tell your floor most who you lot are every bit an creative somebody - reckon Letting Go... So We Can Become Something Else

Copyright for Artists

• RECOMMENDED READ  The number is most "fair use" when appropriating other people's work. The viral online copyright tempest re. Congdon vs Cody Foster is outlined inwards my spider web log post yesterday - see Copyright for Artists - Congdon vs Cody Foster. 
• As component of the interrogation I did for the spider web log post I finally tracked downwards what has happened to Cariou vs Prince illustration which relates to Richard Prince's manipulation of photographs taken past times Patrick Cariou.
• Although the Appeal Court ruled that Prince could work "fair use" re some of Cariou's images which he maniulated, some other courtroom reviewed ane time to a greater extent than some a smaller number where it was determined that the changes made were insufficient for them to last deemed transformative together with so "fair use" did non apply
• The electrical flow province of affairs is that on August 27, 2013, The Tipster: buying at an fine art fair 
• The Guardian 
• Adrian Searle salivated - Bigger, brighter, better: Frieze London 2013
• Frieze Art Fair: Buyer selection expands from porn together with puddles to a Brueghel With travel of 2,000 artists from galleries worldwide the fair at Regent's Park, London, attracts collectors amongst deep pockets
• The Art Newspaper highlights video fine art inwards its article Time to receive got inwards video fine art - Moving Image debunks the myth that media plant are a difficult sell for fairs. Moving Image is run past times good know fine art blogger Ed Winkleman (edward_winkleman)



Art Exhibitions

Major Art Exhibitions inwards London

New exhibitions opening this calendar week included:

• The EY Exhibition: Paul Klee - Making Visible at Tate Modern (Until nine March 2014).  All the plant are ordered according to Klee's obsessive numbering system. I'll belike perish together with reckon this - but he's never been an creative somebody who interested me much. I'm guessing whether you lot similar it or non volition belike depend on how much you lot similar modern art. Reviews include:
• The Guardian 
• a preview piece Paul Klee exhibition at Tate Modern commencement major Great Britain present for a decade 
• plus Adrian Searle's review Paul Klee at Tate Modern: More! More! More! who thinks ane see to the Tate's novel present volition never last enough
• plus a slideshow of  Paul Klee: Making Visible at Tate Modern – inwards pictures
• The Observer - Laura Cuming's review - Paul Klee: Making Visible – review The sheer graphic zip together with register of Paul Klee's fine art makes for exhilaration all the way inwards this beautifully presented show
• The Independent - Review: Paul Klee, Tate Modern gives it 3***
• The Telegraph - Paul Klee: Making Visible, Tate Modern Richard Dorment gives it 4**** together with says Tate Modern's novel survey of Paul Klee's travel is ane you'll desire to see ane time to a greater extent than together with again
• The Finanical Times - Paul Klee's novel present at Tate Modern
• The Economist - The Art of Paul Klee - Shape shifting (preview article - focusing on the artist's career)

The sense of looking at a corking many Klees at ane perish is similar eating also many chocolates … it is oftentimes difficult to rest alert, together with to maintain one’s curiosity aliveThe Guardian

• An American inwards London: Whistler together with the Thames at Dulwich Picture Gallery.  I'm writing my review subsequently today together with it volition divulge tomorrow.  These are the reviews
• The Independent - James Whistler’s tales of the riverbank at work
• Financial Times - Whistler together with the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London – review
• The Telegraph - Whistler together with the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, review

The tour past times the curators - explained features of diverse plant inwards the show
(Left) "Wapping" | (right) Symphony inwards White #2 The Little White Girl

• The Young Durer: Drawing the Figure at the Courtauld Gallery
• The Telegraph - The Young Dürer, Courtauld Gallery, review
• The Young Dürer: Drawing the Figure - a real informative review - I advise you lot read this ane earlier you lot read Jonathan Jones below!
• The Guardian - Courtauld's pedantry clouds Albrecht Dürer's visionary genius past times Jonathan Jones
• Leander of The Idle Woman - brings a a distinctly knowledgeable historical perspective together with also provides an informative review of Elizabeth I & Her People at the National Portrait Gallery - making points missed past times me together with some of the major periodicals.

If you're writing reviews of exhibitions inwards London practise permit me know - I'd rather listing bloggers than newspapers!

Art Society exhibitions

Two major exhibitions opened finally calendar week inwards London together with perish on until 1pm on Dominicus 27th October

• First - the Royal Society of Marine Artists receive got an impressive exhibition at the Mall Galleries - this is my Review: Royal Society of Marine Artists - 68th Annual Exhibition.  This is an exhibition which does consistently good inwards price of sales.  I approximate people who similar boats also similar paintings of boats!

Paintings past times David Curtis RSMA ROI
As seen inwards the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Marine Artists at the Mall Galleries

• This is my Review: 2013 Annual Exhibition of The Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers who are inwards the North Gallery at the Mall Galleries.  This is some other exhibition which ever does good yr on yr inwards price of sales together with contest to acquire travel shown is real competitive together with the character of travel on display is also high.

Miniature paintings of gardens past times Carol Flemish region RMS SLM HS
As seen inwards the Annual Exhibition of the
The Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers 

Art Competitions

• The winner of the $150,000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize is announced this calendar week inwards Commonwealth of Australia together with I'll receive got details subsequently inwards the week.  
• (If you're boggling at the prize coin her's the conversion values - that's $US145,056 or £89,897 or €106,092). 
• You can see past times winners together with finalists inwards the Moran Portrait Prizes spider web gallery. 
• Thinking of entering side past times side year? You together with your sitter both quest to last Australian!

Art History

• Poul Webb (Art together with Artists) has been doing a serial of epitome intensive spider web log posts most Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
• Claude Monet component 1 - introduction
• Claude Monet - component 2 1856 - 1864
• Claude Monet - component 3 1865 - 1867
• Claude Monet - component 4 1868 - 1870
• He's also lately done a serial most a to a greater extent than contemporary creative somebody I'm real fond of Paul Hogarth (1917-2001)
• Paul Hogarth - component 1
• Paul Hogarth - component 2
• Paul Hogarth - component 3

Art Materials together with Supplies

• I updated my website most paper together with non-canvas supports for artists - then it right away has a major department on vellum together with a slight alter of cry - Rory McEwen won't exit me.  Vellum ever seems to brand color sing out.
• Cass Art is a major fine art store inwards London. It has a spider web log - yet the spider web log has problems. 
• Problem #1 - Images are far also large together with non properly optimised for the cyberspace and 
• Problem #2 - It 's ane of those website particular blogs (like the RWS spider web log mentioned above) - which I absolutely loathe because they receive got ane universal characteristic i.e. No RSS feed that Feedly tin give the sack honor - or me for that matter! Hence impossible to follow through a feedreader.  
• However in that location receive got been rather to a greater extent than spider web log posts this yr - so the mention. Here's a sample: "Top 5 products I wouldn't practise without" from our production specialise Chris Bond What are the products you lot can't practise without?

Art Education

• This is Artist Daily on the topic of oil painting. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 quick trot through some instruction together with highlights of fine art history.  (How tin give the sack you lot practise that inwards ane article?)
• Very audio advice by Essential Listening: Democracy Has Bad Taste is my post most the commencement of Grayson Perry's Reith lectures - which was stunningly good.  I'm actually looking forrad to the rest.
• More Art of Commonwealth of Australia - on BBC4 together with iPlayer covers the fine art shown inwards the commencement episode of a serial of iii programmes most the fine art of Commonwealth of Australia currently beingness shown on BBC4
• There's some other gamble to see Turner's Thames (see my previous review BBC4 - Turner's Thames on The Art of the Landscape)
• The Idle Woman has ready herself the job of trying to rails downwards every bit many films every bit she tin give the sack most the lives together with plant of the Old Masters.  She starts with Artists on Film: Artemisia about Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-circa 1656)

Framing art

• The Telegraph has a video interview with The Master: Mark Darbyshire, framer.  This is the homo who creates plinths together with boxes together with frames artwork for the rich together with famous - both creative somebody together with collector!  This is Mark Darbyshire's website and here's the technical detail
• Want to know how to frame pastels? I've only added these 2 articles by Greg Fremstad (President & Founder of FrameTek, Inc.  articles into Pastels - Resources for Artists plus a yoke of articles about passe-partout framing
• Pastel Framing Tips - how to frame your pastel paintings properly together with easily
• Stopping The Dust Pump - explains how conventional framing with glass, mats (or spacers) when applied to pastels creates a real efficient diaphragm pump - amongst displace pumping air inwards together with out of the frame.
• Richard McKinley’s Pastel Pointers Blog | Passe-Partout Framing which essentially agency creating an artwork-vacuum sandwich.
• Here's some other receive got from the Wet Canvas Pastel Forum on the Passe-Partout method of framing pastels.

Techies

Screendumps

• I'm certain I'm non the commencement somebody for whom the screendump commands don't ever travel inwards Apple. (That's Cmd+Shift+3 for whole hide together with Cmd+Shift+4 to select component of screen). They come upwardly dorsum but sometimes they sulk first! Here is a actually helpful - together with old - handout on how to work the Grab business office - which you lot tin give the sack access every bit an Apple utility. The pdf File is called "Image together with Screen Capture amongst Apple Grab" together with was created past times Holly Robertson Spring 2004 IT Lab, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin

Websites together with blogs

• Ever wondered most the best fourth dimension to post to Facebook or tweet? Here's A scientific guide to posting Tweets, Facebook posts, Emails together with Blog posts at the best time past times Belle Beth Cooper on Buffer
• Did you lot know that you lot tin give the sack now Automatically part your spider web log posts to Google+? The fleck I don't acquire is why would you lot desire to since Facebook buries your post if you lot work an automated organisation for inserting a spider web log post.
• Feedly has had an upgrade - together with here's what they've been upwardly on Building Feedly - 6 New Features: Speed Boost, Custom Sharing together with more
• Blogger seriously needs to kind out 
• its servers/systems then that I don't get An mistake occurred spell trying to salve or divulge your post. Please endeavor again  every 5 minutes!
• whatever is distorting color palettes on upload to Blogger.  I've tried to upload ane epitome which looks fine inwards PS Elements iii times together with each fourth dimension it comes out amongst a distorted color palette.

Online products - digital distribution

• If you lot receive got an online production - such every bit an ebook you lot powerfulness last interested inwards this no-art technical post on Viper Chill  about [GET] How I Stopped Blackhat Forums & File Sharers Distributing My Products. The writer is real successful at online marketing of digital books then should know what he's talking most - fifty-fifty if it's absolutely aught to practise amongst art.

and finally......

I know in that location is some actually odd fine art speak out in that location - but these descriptions win the 'gold medal'! See How To Recognise Famous Painters According To The Internet