Brand New!! 24Th February 2013 - Who's Made A Score This Week?

A picayune spell ago, an creative individual called Aine Divine (Aine Divine Paintings) wrote to give thank y'all me....

Thank y'all for the corking data y'all move yesteryear on, y'all ever cease upwards answering those annoying questions nearly opened upwards submission competitions in addition to thence on.

having been prompted to write yesteryear my post nearly the cost of getting artwork to opened upwards exhibitions in addition to competitions.

Mathew yesteryear Aine Divine
Runner Up inwards the Royal Watercolour Society Open Competition 2013

She'd also written to tell me 2 of her plant had been accepted for the A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it posted on her blog nearly this)

It instantly turns out that i of them has been selected equally i of the 3 runners upwards for the master copy prize (see above).  See:

• RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition - Prizewinners 2013
• RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013 Successful Entries

The exhibition for the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition opened on Fri in addition to runs until 3 March at the Bankside Gallery.

She's got links to 3 mag articles on her website.

• Portraits of Character. The Artist Jun 2011
• Painterly Portraits. The Artist June 2009
• Dr Mo Mowlam: Art of England Jul/Aug 2005

Plus an exhibition adjacent month - Greywalls – Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Work of Art at which her portraits of golfers who guide maintain played at Muirfield volition live on on display. She also has a blog alongside exactly i weblog post in addition to she apparently needs to live on encouraged to practise to a greater extent than equally her articles dot she's articulate in addition to writes good nearly process.

Artists in addition to Art Blogs

This is a rattling video oriented post this week.

If you're wondering why no exhibition reviews it's because I've been stuck within alongside the interminable coughing which has been letting me know it doesn't similar mutual coldness air or also much exertion.

Animal Art

See what happens when y'all comment on a weblog post of mine? You tin cease upwards beingness featured on my blog!  (Laura left a helpful comment on my post nearly fine art stores inwards New York - consider 'Art Supplies' below)

This is animal portrait painter Laura Ellis - equally featured inwards this Odd Jobs: Animal Portrait Painter video report by the Wall Street Journal on the agency she approaches commissions .  Plus this delightful article which explains how she came to motility from Vermont to New York in addition to became an creative individual who paints dogs for a living.  Listen to the video all the agency through to banking concern check out the NYC committee prices she charges!



Drawing in addition to Sketching

• This is A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it Chatting alongside Danny on her weblog Liz in addition to Borromini

Liz Steel: An Illustrated Journey from DannyGregory on Vimeo.

• Lori Field is a Post-Apocalyptic Romanticist creative individual alongside aesthetic-compulsive disorder who renders obsessive narratives alongside colored pencil, silverpoint in addition to encaustic.  Thanks to Sophie Ploeg for highlighting her function on Facebook.  This is her website and this is where y'all tin purchase her work.  These are her
• silverpoint drawings
• coloured pencil in addition to encaustic paintings

Drawing is a passion, in addition to I intend for the function to live on drawing-based, concentrating on the work of non-traditional media in addition to arcane materials, ever submitting to an obsession alongside obsessiveness. The mediums tin vary: some are colored pencil drawings on vintage slate chalk boards, others are meditatively drawn silverpoint renderings on gessoed paper

• I'm incredibly impressed alongside Sketchwalk Chaophyra inwards Bangkok which involves Urban Sketchers from other Asian countries in addition to Commonwealth of Australia in addition to a sketchwalk along the river which runs through Bangkok.  The Program in addition to itinerary was looking rattling organised on Facebook at the start in addition to the photograph albums are looking fifty-fifty to a greater extent than organised now! 

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Photographers credit:- โฆสิต จิตต์ไพโรจน์ (kosit jitpiroj)
- The Royal Photographic Society of Thailand (RPST)
yesteryear Mr. Jirawat Phuengsomwong และคุณอ๊อด

• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it Side yesteryear Side inwards Idle Talk
• This is an onetime interview I came across finally calendar week when searching for data nearly what equipment people work to depict inwards pen in addition to ink - in addition to it's an interview inwards The Paris Review with R. Crumb - The Art of Comics in which he talks nearly his personal preferences for nibs in addition to paper.
• These are In Pictures: Andy Warhol - Early Drawings

Painting

• Barbara Benedetti Newton - winner of the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it Best Picture of 2012 on an Art Blog - instantly has an Etsy Store.  Some readers volition cry upwards Barbara equally the co-author (with Janie Gildow) of i of the most pop books on coloured pencil fine art - Colored Pencil Solution Book. One of the plant included inwards her novel store was inwards that mass (on page 97)!

Pastels in addition to Pencils

• German pastel creative individual Astrid Volquardsen (A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it A Moment With Two of Our Explore This! nine Winners  - A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it Review: CPSA's ninth Explore This! Exhibition)
• CPSA is also listing on its website links to the specialist magazines for coloured pencil artists.
• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it Simply Getting There provides a brilliant idea yesteryear my friend in addition to plein air painter Louise Sackett (Plein Speaking) for getting from motorcar to the site of the easel in addition to the persuasion for your plein air painting.

Printmaking

• Jeanette Jobson (Illustrated Life) has come upwards up alongside a skillful thought for how to fund her novel printmaking studio - see Fishy Bits - a twelvemonth of original fish prints.  I'm thinking of having a pocket-size investment myself.......

Who painted this? 

• This is A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it Who painted this? #17 which inwards plough provides the respond to the epic post A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it Who painted these 10 Popes? !  I am amazed so many of y'all got it right.  However Jane Gardiner (Glasgow Painter) led the way. 
• This week's paradigm has everybody stumped!  I'll live on posting a clue on Monday.  

Art Business & Marketing

• My post A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it How tin y'all tell when it's a vanity gallery? has prompted quite a give-and-take on the Art Business grouping on Linked In
• At i extreme nosotros guide maintain indicators of a meaning motility inwards the agency top artists sell their fine art - inwards this article Move over galleries: artists sign alongside agents inwards The Art Newspaper (makes feel to me!).......
• and at the other extreme nosotros guide maintain Artsy Shark's 125 places to sell art
• Artsy Shark has 2 to a greater extent than articles of interest:
• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it What it's similar for an Artist's Trustee is for those who guide maintain ever wondered what it would live on similar should they guide maintain to administer an artist's estate - or anybody contemplating it for the future
Art Auctions, Collectors in addition to the Art Economy

• This Financial Times article The Art Market: pay up, pay upwards in addition to play the game By Georgina Adam highlights how Christies has raised the cost of buying fine art at auction which follows its closure of its Haunch of Venison Gallery.  Is this increase inwards cost of sale a skillful idea?  One collector commented to the reporter

“When y'all add together inwards premium, VAT, artists’ resale correct ... y'all tin live on looking at over xxx per cent on the hammer price, I don’t think it volition construct whatever difference, collectors volition only guide maintain to pay more.”

• BBC News - Lucian Freud sketches sell for £16,300 at auction - creative individual Maggi Hambling has sold 3 ink on paper life studies by Lucian Freud thought to guide maintain been drawn inwards the 1940s, inwards Dedham, Essex.  Hambling was given the life drawings yesteryear Cedric Morris, who taught her in addition to Freud at dissimilar times equally work of the East Anglian School of Painting in addition to Drawing.
• Investors are instantly suing fine art galleries for non doing plenty to sell their art!  Read this New York Times article A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it Art Gallery Sued Again Over Sale of Paintings
Art Competitions

• The April number of the Pastel Journal has the prizewinners inwards the 14th Pastel 100.  This post  14th Annual Pastel 100 Competition: Meet the Grand Prize Winners has the images in addition to prizewinners
Art Education

• This is a long (1 threescore minutes 46 minutes) video lecture at the Art Students League of New York called Never Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Day Without Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Line: Drawing Panel Discussion 2013
• Michael Gove has been wallying roughly all over the position alongside abide by to what should comprise futurity educational subjects in addition to certificates within English linguistic communication secondary schools.  This article Turning Gove threat into golden opportunity  suggests at that spot is much to live on done when it comes to defining fine art didactics inwards schools.  It also queries whether subjects taught equally work of the Foundation curriculum might live on improve taught inwards schools.
Art Exhibitions



UK Exhibitions - Major Galleries

• Lichtenstein: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Retrospective opened at Tate Modern finally calendar week in addition to continues until 27 May.  Initial indications are that it is proving rattling popular.

Lichtenstein: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Retrospective is the firstly full-scale retrospective of this of import artist inwards over xx years. Co-organised yesteryear The Art Institute of Chicago in addition to Tate Modern, this momentous demonstrate brings together 125 of his most definitive paintings in addition to sculptures in addition to volition reassess his enduring legacy.

• Tate Britain is reorganising in addition to refurbishing its galleries at introduce - in addition to is also revising the agency nosotros await at art. See this article inwards the Guardian Tate Great Britain launches novel direction which comments on Painting, video in addition to photography greats paired together equally fine art across 300 years combines for Looking at the View exhibition at Tate Great Britain "The Home of British Art". You tin View some of the artworks inwards this display
• Rare Andy Warhol polaroids move on demonstrate inwards London at Privatus until 1 March. Viewing yesteryear appointment only.
• My review of A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it 'Constable, Gainsborough, Turner in addition to the Making of Landscape' at the RA
USA Exhibitions

• Last sun my weblog post commemorated a rattling famous exhibition - A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it The 100th anniversary of the 1913 Armory Show when modern fine art from Europe came to the USA for the firstly time
• Thanks to James Gurney for the alarm nearly a novel exhibition inwards Boston, Massachusetts, called: Anders Zorn: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 European Artist Seduces America. 
• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it A Painterly Eye Capturing a High-Flying Muse
Art Bloggers
• Art bloggers Vandy Massey (A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it this is Mark's
Art Societies

I've started a serial of posts nearly Art Blogs for Art Societies.  Knowing a  little of the issues involved inwards getting an fine art weblog for an Art Society upwards in addition to running, I started correct dorsum at the rattling start - in addition to am missing null out!.  Here are the firstly two

• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it Art Society Blogs #1 - Why blog? - discusses the potential benefits of blogging when compared to a website
• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it Art Society Blog #2 - Getting started - looks at 3 essentials which demand thinking nearly at the beginning: the departure betwixt a website in addition to a blog; the advert the weblog in addition to its URL
Art Studio

• This is a New York Times slideshow of Winslow Homer's Maine which includes views within his studio
• Happy Camper Art Gallery is some other inwards the mobile fine art studio/galleries which are sprouting inwards New Hampshire. This i belongs to Kristina Wentzell (Kristina Wentzell Fine Art)
Art Supplies

• The results of the polls to position the best coloured pencils inwards 2012 were identified in:
• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it The Favourite Coloured Pencil Awards! (2012 Brand Poll Results)
• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it The Favourite Watercolour Pencils Awards! (2012 Brand Poll Results)
• This nautical chart shows how large a modify occurred inwards artist-grade pencils inwards 2012 - Prismacolor would appear to guide maintain serious problems.  Right click the paradigm in addition to opened upwards inwards a novel tab to consider a much larger chart.

Changes inwards coloured pencil construct preferences 2008 - 2012
• Coloured Pencil artists were in addition to thence asked to vote for the best coloured pencil inwards 2013 inwards two NEW polls on my website Coloured Pencils - Resources for Artists  - which has also had a major update inwards the brands section.
• 2013 POLL: Which is the best construct of creative individual flat coloured pencil?
• 2013 POLL: What's your favourite watercolour pencil?
• I've developed a novel department within my website USA: Art Supply Stores & Online Art Supplies called The Best Art Supplies Stores inwards New York.  However, although I could position a number of the stores, I ran into a problem.   Despite years of reading reviews of Pearl Paint in addition to other fine art stores etc on blogs suddenly they are nowhere to live on found.  It's equally if Google has buried the ordinary fine art blogger inwards favour of larger review sites!  
• Hence my Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Reviews weblog post - also called A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it The Best Art Supplies Stores inwards New York -  which thence far has generated 2 rattling useful contributions.  Many thank y'all to Jane Gardiner (A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it Art Supplies New York City) in addition to Laura Ellis which guide maintain instantly been incorporated into the novel section.  
• I'd honey to listen from to a greater extent than people nearly their views nearly which are the best fine art supplies stores.
• If you're ever write a review of an fine art supplies store or online website delight practise non hesitate to move far touching on in addition to allow me know what the link is.
• There were some interesting responses to A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post nearly it Ash Wednesday, Lent in addition to Art Supplies when I asked What exceptional of fine art supplies would YOU discovery the MOST hard to surrender for Lent?  
Opinion Poll


The Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Opinion Poll for Feb - What's your best fourth dimension of Painting? - finishes only later midnight inwards London on Thursday.  If you've non answered yet, you'll discovery it inwards the correct manus column.  There's no correct respond but the responses thence far are interesting.


and finally......

After The King inwards the Car Park nosotros instantly have King Richard III's life in addition to expiry told through graphic-novel trend art - in addition to displayed equally a slideshow on the BBC website




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