21St April 2014 - Who's Made A Mark?

This is the initiative off of my "Who's made a mark" posts inwards a while.  It's a round-up of my posts on this weblog together with on Facebook PLUS it's interspersed amongst other word I've noticed every bit I teach dorsum to to a greater extent than normal life.

During my fourth dimension writing the majority I've had a pair of major milestones

The Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Facebook Page yesterday - amongst 2,001 likes

• Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark achieves 2.5 1000000 visits came inwards March
• and yesterday Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark achieved to a greater extent than than 2,000 likes for the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Facebook Page

Many cheers to all those regular readers, visitors together with followers of Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark. 
I honey hearing from y'all if the weblog has made a divergence to your lives......

After the hiatus I'll start past times only briefly mentioning what's coming upward on my weblog inwards the adjacent week:

• a telephone recollect for entries for an of import novel fine art competition
• interviews amongst the 6 botanical artists who became RHS Gold Medallists finally week
• a render for "Who Painted This?"
• and a large give cheers y'all to all the artists who contributed images to my novel book

 PLUS a video of the biggest exhibition to opened upward inwards London recently!

Art Genre

Botanical Art

• We're into my favourite stage of the twelvemonth amongst the RHS Botanical Art Show closely preceded or followed (as happens this year) past times the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists. So far I've written 3 posts nigh the RHS Show:
• RHS Botanical Art Show 2014 - Medal winners - highlights what each creative somebody selected for the exhibition was awarded. Basically the touchstone is forthwith thus high that everybody gets a medal
• More Top Tips for winning an RHS Gold Medal for Botanical Art - some other inwards my serial of posts identifying what's required to practise good at the RHS demo - based on tips from the Gold Medallists
• 15 Top Tips for presenting operate at an RHS Botanical Art Exhibition - this twelvemonth I've included observations nigh what makes for a amend presentation of artwork inwards this show.
• Meanwhile Gaynor Dickeson wrote a fascinating job organization human relationship over several posts on her blog
  gaynorsflora nigh what it was similar to laid for the demo together with and then live there. There are several posts starting on sixth Apr - every bit she gives an insiders' perspective on what's involved amongst exhibiting at this show. I recommend you start around nigh the get-go of Apr every bit she starts her count downward to the exhibition together with all the finally infinitesimal things y'all demand to intend nigh together with do. It's recommended reading for all those who aspire to practise the same!

Drawing together with Sketching

• I've been asked to speak at "Draw In" - a symposium nigh drawing inwards belatedly August. Other speakers volition include Paul Foxton, PJ Lynch, together with Colleen Barry.
• I've been bespeak artists their go past times tip for drawing - together with this is John Smolko's Top Tip for Drawing
• In mid March I asked whether 2014 - the twelvemonth of real many books nigh Urban Sketching? We stimulate got the tertiary Urban Sketchers London exhibition at Timberyard Old Street – 61-67 Old Street, London EC1V 9HW

Portraiture

• Simon Weston portrait unveiled at National Portrait Gallery - It was peachy coming together both Simon Weston together with Nikki Pihiliips who painted his portrait at the NPG.  It was too a privilege to regard somebody regard their ain portrait for the initiative off time. His mum said "It's him to a t." His solid unit of measurement are all real pleased amongst it. Simon was voted for past times the British world every bit existence the somebody they most wanted to regard inwards the NPG.

The framer, Simon Weston, Nikki Phillips (the artist) together with Fiona Bruce

Watercolour Painting

• This is a Video: Royal Institute of Painters inwards Water Colours - Annual Exhibition. 

Art Books

• One of the best people I know inwards damage of drawing together with drawing books is Sarah Simblet. This is Sarah Simblet together with The New Sylva - a video about a novel majority she's been working on - it includes 200 drawings of trees inwards the UK

Art Business together with Marketing

Art Fairs

• How to pattern a represent an fine art fair is nigh a real helpful post past times Lisa Call summation references to other posts nigh fine art fairs I've written inwards the past
• Jessica Shepherd (A pop-up shopping list - her "what to take" listing re doing a PopUp Studio at the RHS Show

Business survival tactics

• An first-class article which focuses on a real salient slice of advice The Single Most Important Piece of Advice I Can Give You nigh Pursuing Your Art past times Carolyn Henderson
• Apparently there's non much live gained from knowing nigh artists' daily routines - see The Myth of the Artist’s Creative Routine by Casey N. Cep

Communication for artists

• Do y'all desire people to come upward to your adjacent exhibition? Make certain y'all read this weblog post past times Alyson Stanfield - The Truth About Why Nobody Came to Your Art Show
• These are my posts about:

• Tips nigh how to write an creative somebody statement. What's the best agency to write an creative somebody disceptation is a perennial theme of involvement to artists.
• How to write an artist's CV

Copyright Infringement

• Copyright infringement - why Courts brand people pay - relates to a recent example relating to Getty Images inwards which the latter were awarded maximum damages of £300,000.
• Google would similar to know if your website or weblog has been scraped - see Has your artwork been scraped?

Licensing

• Tara Reed provides peachy advice - inwards a video - for artists manage a Licensing Show. It's good worth watching for anybody who's trying to connect amongst those licensing fine art - together with it's NOT only relevant to the SURTEX or Licensing Expo merchandise shows.

Social media marketing together with websites for artists

• 10 go past times tips for fine art blogs - I was prompted to write this post after giving some advice to a prominent fine art weblog nigh something they were failing to practise which makes a BIG difference!
• Why social media matters inwards 2014 - Ever wondered whether y'all ought to live doing to a greater extent than on social media - but didn't know where or how to apply your efforts?
• I've been asked to practise a workshop verbalise nigh websites for artists every bit usage of a Summer School programme of events at the Mall Galleries. I'm non certain nigh the appointment nonetheless together with I'll allow y'all know every bit this when the events are formally announced.

Art Competitions

Call for Entries

• Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014 - Call for Entries - y'all stimulate got until 1st May to submit an entry
• The John Ruskin Prize 2014 - telephone recollect for entries - this is no usage to those who desire to apply this twelvemonth - but worth noting if y'all desire to apply adjacent year.
• The RA has provided an incredibly useful document which I highlighted inwards How to photograph your artwork

Shortlisted together with Selected

• BP Portrait Award 2014: finally calendar week nosotros saw the Shortlist announced for BP Portrait Award 2014 plus a release of announcements every bit to artists who had been selected for the exhibition. 

Awardwinners

• Catherine Davison wins £15,000 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2014
• Daniel Boyd, 31, who is listed every bit i of Australia's l most collectable artists won the 2014 $0,000 BulgariArt Award summation a $30,000 residency inwards Italy for his operate Untitled 2014. The Guardian commented that Daniel Boyd's Untitled is a worthy observe winner

Exhibition

• This is my providing a Review together with video of the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition 2014

Art Exhibitions

Art Critic

• I was trying to intend where to seat this together with decided I had to seat Brian Sewell inwards amongst his ain milieu - the fine art exhibition.  This is an Observer interview with Brian Sewell: Tracey Emin's fine art is 'trivial' together with Grayson Perry's is 'vulgar'

Paintings past times RWS members
Spring Exhibition at the Bankside Gallery

London

Sad to say I've solely only discovered the fact that The National Gallery has a serial of monthly podcasts. Click the link to persuasion the archive.

Current exhibitions:

• until 26th April: Royal Watercolour Society's Spring Exhibition "Marking Time" at the Bankside Gallery
• Until 15th June 2014 Matisse's cut-outs, review: 'a winner' while inwards some other usage of the paper, 
• Philip Johnston opines that the inevitable pushing together with shoving to attend Tate Modern's novel Matisse demo is hardly an inviting prospect - see Tired of the blockbuster shows? Join the queue
• the newspaper too has an interview with Henri Matisse's great-granddaughter - Tate Modern's latest blockbuster: how Henri Matisse turned newspaper cut-outs into masterpieces - who says novel Tate Modern demo brings his peachy industrial plant 'off the wall together with into our lives' together with proves historic catamenia is only a number
• Plus How Henri Matisse made me cry is an edited extract of a novel majority by Alastair Sooke inwards which he explains why the artist's chapel inwards Vence reduced him to tears

Virginia Woolf: Art, Life together with Vision at the NPG (July-October 2014). It volition include over 100 paintings, drawings together with photographs together with rare archival material

National Art Societies

Upcoming exhibitions include

• 8th - 23rd May: the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters at the Mall Galleries
• 9th May - seventh June: the Spring Exhibition of the UK's premier printmaking arrangement - the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers at the Bankside Gallery
• 9th - xviii May: the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists

Rest of UK

• Stanley Spencer's state of war murals: 'The greatest'

Madrid

• until twelfth May - Picasso inwards the studio (link is to an interesting microsite) is at the Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid, 
• See a virtual tour of the exhibition
• Picasso's palettes stimulate got gone on demo - Why Picasso's palettes were a operate of fine art inwards themselves

Art Education

Printmaking

• Choosing watercolour newspaper for botanical drawing together with ikon - usage 1  
• Choosing watercolour newspaper for botanical drawing together with ikon - usage 2

QoR - a novel watercolour paint volition live avialable inwards the USA inwards May.

Art on television set / fine art videos

• Grayson Perry on television set inwards 2014 highlights ii projects:
• a novel 3 usage Channel iv serial exploring identity together with portraiture - which culminates inwards an exhibition at the National Gallery afterwards this year
• a House for Essex projection which is an amazing thought together with concept (ie there's to a greater extent than to Essex than TOWIE) - together with too the dependent area of a one-off television set programme afterwards inwards the year!

and finally......

I've got two!

• First - did y'all know that Artists 'have structurally dissimilar brains' Apparently a study has establish that Artists' brains are structurally dissimilar to non-artists inwards areas relating to fine motor movements together with visual imagery.

together with and then second

• This is Jonathan Jones stimulate got on The go past times 10 woman somebody nudes inwards art.  Call me picky but when somebody does a go past times 10 I practise similar to regard the pictures of the ones which aren't armed amongst copyright lawyers! The absence of Picasso I empathise - but why no Botticelli?

So what practise y'all intend of the list? What's missing that y'all would stimulate got included?

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