Brand New!! 2D June 2013 - Who's Made A Reach This Week?

As many of yous volition appreciate yesteryear straightaway May has been an extremely strange calendar month for me as well as that has been reflected inwards a large slowdown inwards my posting as well as reading online.

First of all I conduct hold had 2 GA operations on my eyes iii weeks apart see Phacoemulsification of cataract amongst intraocular lens implantation #2. I've straightaway got TWO novel lens implants to right both my cataracts as well as some other to a greater extent than serious occupation amongst my eyesight.  I sketched spell waiting to become downward to Theatre on the 2nd occasion - see Day surgery sketching at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

The patient inwards the bed contrary - amongst the ubiquitous post surgery optic dressing
8" x 10" pen as well as ink as well as coloured pencils
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

I straightaway non exclusively know how to give myself optic drops, I tin also practise nineteen drops a twenty-four hours for a week! (thankfully we're straightaway dorsum to a to a greater extent than normal regime!).  Which for somebody amongst a severe optic phobia is a actually large deal!

Last Th I had my 1 calendar week afterward check-up (of course of written report I sketched again! See sketch inwards
Postoperative checkup at Moorfields Eye Clinic) following the 2nd operation.  It looks similar everything has been successful.

Guess who tin straightaway read easily all the means to the 2nd to bottom line on the optic chart!  I straightaway officially conduct hold amend than normal distance vision!

Once I acquire novel reading as well as estimator spectacles inwards 4 weeks fourth dimension I'll conduct hold got the eyesight dorsum that I used to conduct hold to a greater extent than than 25 years ago!  No to a greater extent than endless polishing of spectacles to take away a non-existent cinema on the glasses!

However, the bottom line right straightaway is I expire on to demand to boundary the fourth dimension spent on the estimator for at to the lowest degree some other 4 weeks.

This is mainly due to the fact my current prescription lenses no longer work. I'm using my one-time driving spectacles from 1996 every bit the spectacles which give the best resultant when sitting at a desk staring at a screen.  However I can't utilization them for really long.  Reading offline is OK so long every bit the text is no to a greater extent than than half dozen inches from my eyes - which makes reading exhibition lenses really interesting - if yous reckon me at the 2nd I'm the adult woman amongst my olfactory organ to the wall!

Art Blogs as well as Artists

Drawing as well as Sketching

• One of the actually prissy things most novel eyes - fifty-fifty when it's simply 1 - is that it makes it a lot easier to sketch.  We had trip out to Ide Hill as well as Emmetts Garden inwards the middle of May to reckon the bluebells on the hillside
• The view of the Weald from Emmetts Garden
• The greenish at Ide Hill
• It used to live possible to access JMW Turner's sketchbooks actually easily on the Tate Great Britain website - as well as so along came the digital projection as well as straightaway nosotros conduct hold a non bad front-end as well as absolutely no links through to the actual sketchbooks! How airheaded is that? See Tate Great Britain - J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings as well as Watercolours
• Sketching tips for gouache paint is for those people who similar sketching as well as icon amongst watercolour - as well as who'd similar to conduct hold a become at gouache.  Take a peek at the results which Martin Stankewitz gets using gouache paint. This website has lots as well as lots of practical tips for beginners as well as lots of his paintings too

Botanical art

• I also came across a spider web log post yesteryear an creative soul who has tried developing botanical fine art using gouache - see Gouache Technique by Clare Ward (Drawn to Paint Nature)
• Mindy Lighthipe (The Art of Mindy Lighthipe) provides a YouTube video PhotoShop Tutorial on Getting White Backgrounds for botanical artists wanting to know how to build clean upward backgrounds inwards digital images of botanical fine art for the purposes of reproduction.  It's simply small of thirty minutes inwards length.

Painting

• Women inwards the Act of Painting in flagrante depicto posts paintings of women icon - as well as that's it.  So where's yours?

Portraiture

• Alan Coulson has been getting some exposure this in conclusion month
• This New York article - Rajat Gupta’s Lust for Zeros - includes 2 portraits yesteryear won tertiary prize inwards in conclusion year's BP Portrait Award
• Here's an interview amongst Alan on Creative Spotlight The BP Portrait Awards dear him, nosotros reckon yous volition also - Portrait Artist - Alan Coulson
• I actually enjoyed The Pee Ess of A - of the Portrait Society of America Conference - here's a taster

If yous ordinarily become to the PSoA conference, yous know what it's like; but if yous haven't ever been, well, sonny, LET ME TELL YOU. Hundreds of reclusive, socially inhibited fine art geeks crawl out of the woodwork, seat on prissy clothes that they in all likelihood had to borrow from a friend who doesn't acquire away amongst wearing sweatpants to work, as well as bask inwards the glorious sensation of existence role of the crowd. 

Who painted this?

For those who've non seen them I won't give the game away.  Start at 26 as well as move your means through (and don't aspect at the comments!)

• Who painted this? #29 has a really brilliant as well as painterly icon this calendar week which a number of yous are correctly identifying!
• Who painted this? #28 - what looks similar a really contemporary withal life
• Who painted this? #27 - large doggie!
• Who painted this? #26 - H5N1 really handsome chap who looks quite a lot similar some other handsome chap

Art Business & Marketing 

• I spent a large role of my career dealing amongst occupation organisation issues as well as thence conduct hold a exceptional involvement inwards the workings of the fine art occupation organisation - as well as how artists relate to it.  Picasso the human being of affairs - branding as well as the value of art provides a summary of some of the reasons why Picasso had a mastery of branding as well as the fine art business. It includes lessons which some artists conduct hold learned good - as well as others conduct hold yet to learn.
• "The Science as well as Art of Pricing as well as Costing Your Work" is an splendid as well as piece of cake to read article inwards evidently English linguistic communication - yesteryear Visual Artists Ireland. I've added it into my website "How to Price Your Art - Resources for Artists"
• I loved Sophie Ploeg's poster for her Open Studio in conclusion month

Sophie Ploeg's 
Original as well as Excellent Open Studio Poster

Art Economy & Collectors

• Lori McNee has written a really relevant article most Summer Drawing Workshops at venues across London during June, July as well as August.  Both are really experienced tutors (see their joint CV page). Jeanette every bit 1 of my tutors at the Prince's Drawing School as well as she's really good.
• Sarah Simblet - writer of:
• Anatomy for the Artist and The Drawing Book - volition 1 time to a greater extent than live instruction the unique Art & Anatomy course of written report at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art at the University of Oxford on 4th- tenth August or alternatively 1st - seventh September
• Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants - volition live instruction a NEW course of written report on botanical drawing July 8-12, 2013 - largely based inwards the Drawing Studio at 74 High Street, Oxford but also including visits. Click the link for to a greater extent than details.
• I've participated inwards 2 of Sarah's classes as well as also heard her lecture as well as she is an splendid educator

Copyright

• A span of articles yesteryear The Art Newspaper on copyright relating to artwork
• UK museums must pay for images where copyright is unknown - non quite the resultant the museums as well as libraries were expecting when they lobbied hard for changes inwards copyright constabulary to bargain amongst orphan works.  A proposed amendment which passed stipulates that they must pay upfront.  I'm going to live writing most the modify of constabulary soon.  Just been waiting for the legal procedure to come upward to an end.
• with honour to how much does it conduct hold for a derivative work to live transformative - Judge says Sid Vicious street fine art breaks copyright

Colour

• The Creation of Color inwards Eighteenth-Century Europe yesteryear Sarah Lowengard is a fabulous site
• This is a website devoted to the pigments inwards watercolour paint

Art Exhibitions

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) 

The Ideal Head 

Red chalk on off-white paper 205 x 165 mm

Part of the Master Drawings Exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (see below for details)

Major Museums as well as Galleries inwards the UK

• The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has a novel exhibition about Master Drawings which is attracting universal acclaim. It's non every twenty-four hours I acquire to post a drawing yesteryear Michelangelo on this blog! Time to move out the prepare timetables......

Major Museums as well as Galleries inwards London

• A twenty-four hours inwards the life of botanical creative soul Rory McEwan (1932 - 1982).  Plus a non bad video of the exhibition
  I went to reckon the retrospective exhibition of his move at Kew Gardens today - as well as it's amazing! I tin absolutely reckon why he has been so influential. More on the exhibition tomorrow.
• I also met Dr Shirley Sherwood as well as nosotros talked most the linked exhibition Rory McEwen’s legacy - Artists influenced yesteryear him inwards the Shirley Sherwood Collection (13 Apr 2013 - Jan 2014)
• The Whitechapel Gallery has an exhibition of the botanical photographs of Karl Blossfeldt ( 16 Apr - xiv June 2013 ).  This is a chap who inspired Rory McEwan.

Art Society Exhibitions

Royal Society of Portrait Painters - Private View

• Viewing the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in May in betwixt surgery #1 as well as surgery #2 was an interesting experience - but I withal managed to generate FOUR posts!  (Lots of photos!)

Winner of the £20,000 SELF Portrait Prize
Jan Mikulka with his self portrait (oil on canvas, 100x70cm, 2012)
as well as Alastair Adams, President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters

• Jan Mikulka wins £20,000 SELF Portrait Prize - This is the build novel self-portrait prize
• Royal Society of Portrait Painters - 2013 Prizewinners These are prizes amongst some pregnant cash values - it includes The Ondaatje Prize for the most distinguished portrait of the twelvemonth which is worth £10,000 addition a gilt medal.
• Review: Royal Society of Portrait Painters - Annual Exhibition 2013 - the best of the rest!
• PLUS - Bulldog Bursary 2013: Shortlisted artists 

• The Hilliard Society of Miniaturists - 30th Annual Exhibition. The exhibition unopen today but they conduct hold an splendid virtual exhibition online so yous tin relish it also - as well as buy work!
• I dear fine art societies which seat artwork online for all to see. California Art Club - 102nd Annual Gold Medal Exhibition is my review from a distance of the virtual exhibition of the 102nd Gold Medal Art Exhibition of the California Art Club - due to opened upward to Blue Planet on 2nd June. I've highlighted the move of a few artists which I liked the aspect of. There's nada quite similar starting amongst a thumbnail view when reviewing a lot of art........

Artists I know