2Nd June 2013 - Who's Made A Order This Week?

As many of yous volition appreciate past times directly May has been an extremely strange calendar month for me in addition to that has been reflected inwards a large slowdown inwards my posting in addition to reading online.

First of all I direct hold had ii GA operations on my eyes iii weeks apart see Phacoemulsification of cataract amongst intraocular lens implantation #2. I've directly got TWO novel lens implants to right both my cataracts in addition to some other to a greater extent than serious work amongst my eyesight.  I sketched patch waiting to become downwardly to Theatre on the 2d occasion - see Day surgery sketching at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

The patient inwards the bed contrary - amongst the ubiquitous post surgery oculus dressing
8" x 10" pen in addition to ink in addition to coloured pencils
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

I directly non solely know how to give myself oculus drops, I tin also exercise xix drops a twenty-four hr menses for a week! (thankfully we're directly dorsum to a to a greater extent than normal regime!).  Which for somebody amongst a severe oculus phobia is a actually large deal!

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

Guess who tin directly read easily all the agency to the 2d to bottom line on the oculus chart!  I directly officially direct hold ameliorate than normal distance vision!

Once I acquire novel reading in addition to calculator spectacles inwards 4 weeks fourth dimension I'll direct hold got the eyesight dorsum that I used to direct 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 directly is I croak on to demand to boundary the fourth dimension spent on the calculator 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 quondam driving spectacles from 1996 every bit the spectacles which give the best outcome when sitting at a desk staring at a screen.  However I can't utilisation 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 regard me at the instant I'm the adult woman amongst my olfactory organ to the wall!

Art Blogs in addition to Artists

Drawing in addition to Sketching

• One of the actually dainty things well-nigh novel eyes - fifty-fifty when it's but i - is that it makes it a lot easier to sketch.  We had trip out to Ide Hill in addition to Emmetts Garden inwards the middle of May to regard 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 - so along came the digital projection in addition to directly nosotros direct hold a neat front-end in addition to absolutely no links through to the actual sketchbooks! How empty-headed is that? See Tate Great Britain - J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings in addition to Watercolours
• Sketching tips for gouache paint is for those people who similar sketching in addition to paradigm amongst watercolour - in addition to who'd similar to direct hold a become at gouache.  Take a peek at the results which Martin Stankewitz gets using gouache paint. This website has lots in addition to lots of practical tips for beginners in addition to lots of his paintings too

Botanical art

• I also came across a spider web log post past times an creative mortal 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 upwardly backgrounds inwards digital images of botanical fine art for the purposes of reproduction.  It's but small of thirty minutes inwards length.

Painting

• Women inwards the Act of Painting in flagrante depicto posts paintings of women paradigm - in addition to that's it.  So where's yours?

Portraiture

• Alan Coulson has been getting some exposure this lastly month
• This New York article - Rajat Gupta’s Lust for Zeros - includes ii portraits past times won tertiary prize inwards lastly year's BP Portrait Award
• Here's an interview amongst Alan on Creative Spotlight The BP Portrait Awards honey 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 commonly 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 dainty clothes that they likely had to borrow from a friend who doesn't acquire away amongst wearing sweatpants to work, in addition to bask inwards the glorious sensation of beingness business office of the crowd. 

Who painted this?

For those who've non seen them I won't give the game away.  Start at 26 in addition to travel your agency through (and don't expression at the comments!)

• Who painted this? #29 has a really brilliant in addition to painterly paradigm this calendar week which a number of yous are correctly identifying!
• Who painted this? #28 - what looks similar a really contemporary however life
• Who painted this? #27 - large doggie!
• Who painted this? #26 - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 really handsome chap who looks quite a lot similar some other handsome chap

Art Business & Marketing 

• I spent a large business office of my career dealing amongst concern issues in addition to so direct hold a exceptional involvement inwards the workings of the fine art concern - in addition to how artists relate to it.  Picasso the human being of affairs - branding in addition to the value of art provides a summary of some of the reasons why Picasso had a mastery of branding in addition to the fine art business. It includes lessons which some artists direct hold learned good - in addition to others direct hold yet to learn.
• "The Science in addition to Art of Pricing in addition to Costing Your Work" is an fantabulous in addition to piece of cake to read article inwards apparently English linguistic communication - past times 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 lastly month

Sophie Ploeg's 
Original in addition to Excellent Open Studio Poster

Art Economy & Collectors

• Lori McNee has written a really relevant article well-nigh Summer Drawing Workshops at venues across London during June, July in addition to August.  Both are really experienced tutors (see their joint CV page). Jeanette every bit i of my tutors at the Prince's Drawing School in addition to she's really good.
• Sarah Simblet - writer of:
• Anatomy for the Artist and The Drawing Book - volition in i lawsuit to a greater extent than live teaching the unique Art & Anatomy course of didactics 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 teaching a NEW course of didactics 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 ii of Sarah's classes in addition to also heard her lecture in addition to she is an fantabulous educator

Copyright

• A twain of articles past times The Art Newspaper on copyright relating to artwork
• UK museums must pay for images where copyright is unknown - non quite the lawsuit the museums in addition to 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 well-nigh the alter of constabulary soon.  Just been waiting for the legal procedure to come upwardly to an end.
• with abide by to how much does it direct 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 past times 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 in addition to 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 hr menses I acquire to post a drawing past times Michelangelo on this blog! Time to exit the develop timetables......

Major Museums in addition to Galleries inwards London

• A twenty-four hr menses inwards the life of botanical creative mortal Rory McEwan (1932 - 1982).  Plus a neat video of the exhibition
  I went to regard the retrospective exhibition of his travel at Kew Gardens today - in addition to it's amazing! I tin absolutely regard why he has been so influential. More on the exhibition tomorrow.
• I also met Dr Shirley Sherwood in addition to nosotros talked well-nigh the linked exhibition Rory McEwen’s legacy - Artists influenced past times 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 in addition to surgery #2 was an interesting experience - but I however 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)
in addition to 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 meaning cash values - it includes The Ondaatje Prize for the most distinguished portrait of the yr which is worth £10,000 summation a gilded 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 shut today but they direct hold an fantabulous virtual exhibition online so yous tin savour it also - in addition to buy work!
• I honey 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 upwardly to the populace on 2nd June. I've highlighted the travel of a few artists which I liked the expression of. There's null quite similar starting amongst a thumbnail view when reviewing a lot of art........

Artists I know