Brand New!! Getting Out Of The Studio - Making A Score Awards 2012
Thursday, 10 October 2019
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This instant post service inwards the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Art Blog Awards is nearly the category of awards for all those people who depict together with pigment exterior their studio - sometimes producing finished sketches or paintings plein air together with sometimes producing fabric to prepare farther inwards the studio.
They are:
The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize
The past times winners are:
Previous winners are
This twelvemonth I'm going to abide by this prize to somebody who routinely carries his sketchbook amongst him together with sketches piece travelling to hold upwards together with his studio inwards Chelsea on the other side of..... London. So no overseas trips - but lots of sketching! Check out this post service for an illustration of what gets posted - Sketches on the Bus, Train together with Tube inwards Oct I. For those who stimulate got never tried drawing on populace carry before, I stimulate got to state y'all that shape of sketching is a challenge! Bear inwards heed the carry does non render for a smoothen journeying together with y'all never ever know when your dependent land is going to acquire upwards together with leave!
Adebanji Alade (Adebanji Alade: My art, my passion for sketching) is something of a purpose model for all those who desire to acquire ameliorate at drawing together with icon people. He keeps his expenses on hiring models to a minimum. Ever since I've known him - which is immediately quite some fourth dimension - he's drawn the people he sees piece travelling on populace carry inwards London. In doing thus he has built upwards his science marking at the same fourth dimension equally developing a portfolio of sketches to utilization equally a footing for his paintings. His weblog is total of sketches done on journeys across London. The bonus is that he together with then also shows on the weblog how he works when translating sketches typically drawn monochromatically in pencil or charcoal into portraits painted inwards oil.
This abide by includes all those who weblog nearly animals, birds, flowers together with plants. Blogs are non required inwards whatever agency to boundary themselves to simply those topics but they practise ask to stimulate got a experience for existence light-green together with sustainable nearly them. They also acquire extra points for getting out together with nearly together with drawing from life!
This twelvemonth I'm awarding this prize to a weblog which is written equally a resources rather than past times an artist.
Tomorrow the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Awards switch to:
They are:
- The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize
- The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy
- The Going Greener Gong
| The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize for excellence inwards plein air painting plus a rigid commitment to sharing information |
The past times winners are:
- 2006: Ed Terpening (Life Plein Air)
- 2007: William Wray (Urban painter William Wray)
- 2008 shared by:
- Michael Chesley Johnson (A Plein Air Painter's Blog)
- Linda Blondheim (Linda Blondheim Art Notes)
- 2009 shared by:
- Loriann Signori, (Loriann Signori's painting-a-day) .
- Marc R. Hanson, (Painting My Way Through Life
- 2010: Adebanji Alade (Adebanji Alade)
- 2011: Enrique Flores (4ojos)
- an abide by for people who practise to a greater extent than than simply pigment plein air. The winners are also people to portion data - that's what the "plus" is all about; together with is
- NOT confined to those who create finished paintings plein air
This twelvemonth I desire to abide by this prize to an creative individual together with a weblog which this twelvemonth has reminded me of the sheer pleasance of icon plein air - inwards all circumstances together with all weathers. As she reminded me before this week
I've painted inwards iv countries this twelvemonth through wind, rain, snow, fog, drizzle together with fifty-fifty sunshine - on occasion!
I start 'met' Haidee-Jo Summers online equally she had been 1 of the artists invited to pigment on the Millennium Bridge equally the Queen's 60th Jubilee River Pageant passed along the Thames. We corresponded inwards advance, she told me which clothing she was going to wearable - together with and then lo together with behold nosotros had 1 of the wettest summertime days anybody had ever seen inwards London. Throughout it all Haidee-Jo continued to pigment inwards the pelting together with fifty-fifty smiled for the BBC photographic telly camera equally she did her TV interview! (see BBC coverage of the Thames Pageant)
Carol Lee Beckx (Art Matters) felt the same agency equally me together with nominated Haidee-Jo for this award.
The rain was coming inwards sideways together with underneath my umbrella together with my palette was getting wetter together with wetter! The canvass was getting a fine spraying, together with H2O was swirling around my feet! Some of the artists started to hold upwards out equally their work, anything on newspaper particularly, was suffering equally good much. Easels started to autumn over. I held my umbrella equally closed together with equally depression equally I could! (see Paintings for the Diamond Jubilee)
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| Haidee-Jo Summers talking to Anneka Rice - piece existence filmed for the BBC coverage! |
Her paintings are fresh, vibrant together with of a rattling high standard.The addition constituent on Haidee's blog Haidee-Jo Summers creative individual - ma vie en couleurs is personality addition sharing what together with how she paints when working plein air. What I actually similar nearly Haidee's weblog is that it's simply similar coming together her - sunny, chatty together with confident. You larn without realising that she's handing out useful snippets together with tips. It makes y'all recollect y'all tin stimulate got upwards your brushes together with become exterior together with pigment simply similar her - amongst exuberant color inwards her extremely competent alla prima mode. You tin consider a review of Haidee-Jo's twelvemonth inwards a review on her weblog - why non stimulate got a read together with consider what I mean!
- 2012 review - Jan to March!
- 2012 review - Apr to June!
- 2012 review - July to September!
- 2012 review - Oct to December!
The 2012 winner of
The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize is
Haidee Jo Summers (Haidee-Jo Summers creative individual - ma vie en couleurs)
The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize is
Haidee Jo Summers (Haidee-Jo Summers creative individual - ma vie en couleurs)
| The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy goes to the most intrepid and/or industrious artist travelling amongst a sketchbook. |
Previous winners are
- 2006 Laura Frankstone (Laurelines of North Carolina USA)
- 2007 Martha (Trumpetvine Travels of Berkeley California)
- 2008 Cindy Woods. (Learning Daily USA) This was a posthumous award
- 2009 Enrique Flores (Cuatro cosas Madrid, Spain)
- 2010 Liz Steel (Liz + Borromini Sydney Australia)
- 2011: The Urban Sketchers of the s International Symposium inwards Lisbon
This twelvemonth I'm going to abide by this prize to somebody who routinely carries his sketchbook amongst him together with sketches piece travelling to hold upwards together with his studio inwards Chelsea on the other side of..... London. So no overseas trips - but lots of sketching! Check out this post service for an illustration of what gets posted - Sketches on the Bus, Train together with Tube inwards Oct I. For those who stimulate got never tried drawing on populace carry before, I stimulate got to state y'all that shape of sketching is a challenge! Bear inwards heed the carry does non render for a smoothen journeying together with y'all never ever know when your dependent land is going to acquire upwards together with leave!
Adebanji Alade (Adebanji Alade: My art, my passion for sketching) is something of a purpose model for all those who desire to acquire ameliorate at drawing together with icon people. He keeps his expenses on hiring models to a minimum. Ever since I've known him - which is immediately quite some fourth dimension - he's drawn the people he sees piece travelling on populace carry inwards London. In doing thus he has built upwards his science marking at the same fourth dimension equally developing a portfolio of sketches to utilization equally a footing for his paintings. His weblog is total of sketches done on journeys across London. The bonus is that he together with then also shows on the weblog how he works when translating sketches typically drawn monochromatically in pencil or charcoal into portraits painted inwards oil.
He also sketches homeless people inwards London equally a footing for his formal portraiture work. Adebanji worked at St Mungo's - a good regarded charity which works with homeless people - for ix years together with met many homeless people together with inwards doing thus gained an agreement of life on the streets. His paintings of homeless people somehow lift their personalities together with their identities together with enable them to locomote from the pavement together with on to the walls of galleries inwards cardinal London. Hence it gives me groovy pleasance to announce......
The Going Greener Gong
Past winners include:
| The Going Greener Gong is awarded to the fine art weblog which I've found most stimulating inwards relation to getting us inwards demeanour on amongst nature together with the environment. |
Past winners include:
- 2007: Richard Bell's nature diary Wild West Yorkshire.
- 2008 Shared by:
- Irene Brady (Nature Drawing together with Journaling Workshops) and
- Debbie Kotter Caspari (Drawing the Motmot)
- 2009 Sketching inwards Nature - a grouping weblog started inwards Apr 2009 past times Cathy Johnson.
- 2010 Jeanette Jobson (Illustrated Life)
- 2011: Sherrie York (Brush together with Baren)
This abide by includes all those who weblog nearly animals, birds, flowers together with plants. Blogs are non required inwards whatever agency to boundary themselves to simply those topics but they practise ask to stimulate got a experience for existence light-green together with sustainable nearly them. They also acquire extra points for getting out together with nearly together with drawing from life!
This twelvemonth I'm awarding this prize to a weblog which is written equally a resources rather than past times an artist.
ArtPlantae is a resources provider whose aim is to encourage an involvement inwards plants, to brand phytology a to a greater extent than palatable subject, together with to reach both through the utilization of drawing equally a learning tool.Tania Maren's ArtPlantae Today is essential reading for all those interested inwards botanical fine art together with drawing. Regular posts are frequent together with ever 'on topic' together with total of high character data nearly all the sorts of things that botanical artists are interested in. They include interviews amongst established botanical artists of some renown together with intelligence nearly workshops, exhibitions together with novel books. I've been reading it for years together with stimulate got the highest regard for its content together with author.
The 2012 winner of
The Going Greener Gong is
Tania Maren's ArtPlantae Today
The Going Greener Gong is
Tania Maren's ArtPlantae Today
Tomorrow the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Awards switch to:
- Learning nearly Art & the Art Business
- The Home Front
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