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Generating Fine Art - The Making A Score Fine Art Spider Web Log Awards 2013

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This is the start postal service in The Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Art Blog Awards 2013 to denote who has won an laurels this year.

The Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Awards are for Art Blogs as well as for blogging almost fine art on fine art blogs.

A twelvemonth of transition


This twelvemonth seems to endure a flow of transition!

What's real clear is that during 2013 fewer people direct hold been keeping upwardly with their blogs compared to times past times as well as fewer people direct hold been visiting blogs to comment.  So we've seen:
  • fewer weblog posts, 
  • less visits to fine art blogs (although changes inwards the Google algorithm certainly affected stats re. visits), and 
  • people reading fewer weblog posts (the loss of Google Reader has been significant). 
At the same fourth dimension I'm also seeing evidence of people working out a clear social media strategy for displaying their fine art which involves their blogs amongst websites as well as a presence on social media sites as well as vlogging (video blogging).

What I demand to practise is piece of work out whether I travel along to boundary these awards inwards time to come to simply fine art blogs or direct hold on board the wider social media aspects equally well.  Time volition tell - I've certainly non made whatever determination equally yet.

The Generating Art category 


There are 3 awards inwards this category - all associated with  with making, displaying as well as exhibiting art.
  • The Best Art Blog Project Virtual Challenge Cup
  • The Best Art Society Blog Prize
  • The Showcase Shield (which replaces The Painting Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Day Stickability Shield )
First nonetheless at that spot is a an proclamation of a retirement - as well as it marks the goal of an era.


The Painting Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Day Stickability Shield - RETIRED


This twelvemonth I direct hold retired The Painting Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Day Stickability Shield and replaced it with The Showcase Shield. Previous winners of this laurels include:
Last twelvemonth I noticed that many fewer people had whatever variety of legitimate claim to endure doing a ikon a twenty-four hours - compared to before years.

In 2013, 7 years later, I retrieve nosotros tin at nowadays officially declare the "painting a day" stage good as well as genuinely past times its peak.  

It volition travel along - with those for whom this is their preferred way of working - as well as for those who direct hold got a good established following. However it's incorrect to characterise the frequent production of pocket-sized plant equally "a ikon a day" when the origins of the motion lay inwards something real much to a greater extent than demanding inwards price of blogging fine art (and these are, after all, awards for blogging art!).

"Painting every day" is nonetheless something that lots of people volition travel along to practise - mostly on rather larger works!  Painting regularly every calendar week is proficient too!

The Best Art Blog Project Virtual Challenge Cup


Art tin endure quite a lonely action as well as it's noticeable that people oft similar to direct hold some variety of involvement inwards groups as well as projects related to art!  Often these are informal because of the nature of the projection or equally an organisational preamble to the formation of a to a greater extent than formal group. This laurels is designed to render recognition to those who ready as well as maintain such projects going so that they are able to create as well as achieve.


The Best Art Blog Project Virtual Challenge Cup
This laurels is for
  • EITHER a major as well as reputable novel projection which adds value as well as involves a large number of bloggers  
  • OR or a projection which has grown over the course of instruction of the twelvemonth inwards enquiry or otherwise had some meaning impact during the course of instruction of the year

Previous winners are:
2011: The Help Nippon Challenge Auction (Keiko Tanabe, David Marine as well as the Daily Paintworks Art Bloggers)
2010: The Virtual Paintout2009: Urban Sketchers2008: Different Strokes from Different Folks
2007: the International Sketchcrawl drawing marathons
2006: the Crackskull Bob Self-Portrait Marathon as well as the Daily Painters Blog
Last twelvemonth I had Women Painting Women inwards my sights equally a projection which was certainly worthy of an laurels - as well as was upset to observe that their weblog seemed to direct hold died.  Little did I know at the fourth dimension that they were planning bigger as well as meliorate things for 2013!

First a chip of explanation for those unfamiliar with this weblog as well as project
Women Painting Women is a weblog that was started inwards 2008 past times artists Sadie JerniganValeri (blog), Alia El-Bermani (blog) and Diane Feissel (blog) to highlight underrepresented woman mortal artists working inwards the figurative tradition with this theme.
From this they managed to:
  • organise a juried exhibition of plant past times l woman mortal painters inwards 2010 at the Robert Lange Studio inwards Charleston, SC titled, "Women Painting Women."  (Click the link - the real impressive paintings inwards the exhibition are soundless online)
Images from the start exhibition
  • develop a 1 calendar week residency inwards 2010
During a one-week residency exterior Charleston, xiv artists- Mia Bergeron, Alia El-Bermani, Linda Tracey Brandon, Rachel Constantine, Diane Feissel, Lisa Gloria, Catherine Prescott, Cindy Procious, Shannon Runquist, Katherine Stone, Terry Moore Strickland, Stefani Tewes, Alexandra Tyng, as well as Sadie Jernigan Valeri painted together, taking on technical challenges equally good equally finding a infinite to vocalisation their concerns as well as hopes equally women making fine art inwards the 20 start century.
  • In April 2012, they were asked to concord some other exhibition inwards Charleston - "Women Painting Women: The Expedition as well as Beyond." at the Principle Gallery inwards Alexandria, VA (it's a compassion a tape of this exhibtion is non online) - as well as so it all went quiet
However, what the women had planned for 2013 vicious exclusively a lilliputian brusque of the world domination! Here's the real uncomplicated concept they had inwards heed for their exhibition(s) inwards 2013
The goal of this show—as with the group's past times shows—is to expand the collective feel of what a adult woman is as well as way inwards the realm of art. Each creative mortal that had exhibited at the previous WPW exhibition at Principle Gallery has been asked to invite 1 woman mortal creative mortal to exhibit amongst them, thence multiplying the powerfulness as well as vision of the grouping twofold. We are also shout for other venues to host their ain Women Painting Women exhibitions or events concurrently with this September show. We envision that inwards September as well as Oct of 2013 nosotros volition run into a rash of exhibitions celebrating as well as promoting the amazing figurative plant nosotros run into coming from today's women artists.
In the end, inwards 2013, the projection organised as well as held SEVEN concurrent exhibitions as well as went international in 
Where practise they travel from here?  Some National Portrait Gallery has got to alternative them upwardly at some bespeak surely?

This is an fine art weblog projection which started with an admirable laid of values, achieved its goals as well as so changed upwardly a gear as well as created a meaning motion amongst painters.  In all of this the fine art weblog has proved a valuable tool for showcasing the piece of work of diverse women artists as well as providing a house of reference as well as an accessible identity for their work.

I salute them!


The absolutely undisputed 2013 winner of
The Best Art Blog Project Virtual Challenge Cup
the grouping of women artists who piece of work together as 

The Best Art Society Blog Prize


The Best Art Society Blog Prize 2013

This prize is for the Art Society Blog which demonstrates - inwards both text as well as images - how best to
  • promote the aims as well as activities of the fine art guild and
  • AND widen the audience for the images of its fellow member artists.

Below are my criteria for assessing fine art guild blogs.

The characteristics of a proficient Art Society Blog

An EFFECTIVE Art Society Blog will:
  • Be useful to electrical flow as well as prospective members
    • Basic information almost how travel a fellow member is ever included (i.e. assumes a readership beyond existing members). 
    • Information almost events as well as activities include plenty information for people to endure able to locate the society's activities (e.g. does non assume "everybody knows"). 
  • Always endure Current - that way all content is upwardly to appointment as well as timely - announcements almost events as well as exhibitions volition allow fourth dimension for people to computer program as well as adapt to visit! 
  • Emphasise the Visual - Art rather than words dominate the blog. Images of artwork or lawsuit posters should ever endure included whenever possible as well as relevant. An fine art guild weblog without images says something almost how of import visual images as well as the artists' artwork actually are! (This element is the chief argue why some fine art guild blogs are NOT shortlisted. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lilliputian chip of persistence is all that is required). 
  • Highlight what the Art Society does - weblog posts tin demonstrate people what the guild does as well as what it has to offering through the usage of photographs of activities as well as artwork 
  • Supports Artists as well as their career development through highlighting their exhibitions and websites. Blog posts profile members, their artwork as well as their exhibitions - regular updates throughout the twelvemonth generate extra marketing for creative mortal members, extra traffic for the websites of the artist, fine art guild as well as gallery associated with members.
The occupation at the 2nd is that past times as well as large most fine art guild blogs direct hold non yet achieved this

One commutation number is an apparent lack of agreement of how of import the visual paradigm is - which is actually surprising given these are fine art guild blogs.  However this twelvemonth I direct hold seen a lot to a greater extent than usage beingness made of flyers as well as posters relating to exhibitions on some fine art blogs

One of the chief problems relating to lack of progress seems to endure a lack of skills at the Committee grade inwards price of blogging.  Possibly this relates to the average historic flow of the commission members of some fine art societies.  Those with a younger profile appear to practise rather meliorate at getting to grips with the Internet.

In 2013, 1 weblog as well as its associated fine art guild started from scratch as well as reached a proficient criterion of action as well as blogging inwards a real brusque time.  The Pencil Art Society launched inwards Canada inwards March 2013 as well as it was straight off apparent that a build novel approach was beingness adopted to communicating with members as well as the wider fine art the world - as well as it felt similar a breath of fresh air.  The website was inwards upshot a weblog which made real proficient usage of the static page functionality. The start weblog postal service stated
Our website is at nowadays active as well as fully functional. We direct hold a blog, a Twitter feed as well as a Facebook page. We volition endure real active on social media as well as nosotros promise y'all volition endure at that spot with us!

In ix months, the Pencil Art Society has gone international, held their start online exhibition as well as built a membership of over 5,000 members inwards their Facebook Group.  What I peculiarly similar almost the weblog is it's making an assay to opened upwardly people's eyes to the reach for pencil fine art as well as increasing awareness of the unlike approaches as well as styles. Leading members direct hold also written weblog posts with an educational slant which is a real welcome evolution as well as 1 which other fine art guild blogs mightiness usefully review.

The 2013 winner of
The Best Art Society Blog Prize 2013
is The Pencil Society Art Blog

Much is due to the efforts of the founding members - namely Alexandra Bastien, Erica Walker as well as Lissa Rachelle Robillard are founding members.

By at nowadays some of y'all volition appreciate that 1 of the themes of this postal service is that I've been real impressed past times women artists this year!


NEW IN 2013 - The Showcase Shield


The Showcase Shield 2013 for
  • EITHER fine art blogs which consistently showcase proficient character artwork of other artists - with words equally good equally images
  • AND/OR the piece of work of 1 creative mortal who maintains as well as displays a consistently high output of consistently proficient character paintings over the course of instruction of the year (i.e. it doesn't direct hold to endure daily - but it does direct hold to endure lots!)

Two nominations were received with honour to 2 artists - 1 for his output as well as 1 for full general showcasing of the piece of work of the creative mortal as well as others.
He posts consistently amazing pocket-sized daily paintings of UK of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland as well as French subjects - mostly plein air landscapes as well as soundless lifes - inwards crude oil as well as watercolour.
She posts photos of her beautiful work, images of the procedure as well as highlights shows as well as other arty events.
However I desire to house to a greater extent than emphasis inwards this start twelvemonth on the curation of fine art as well as artists past times fine art bloggers.  This is also an laurels which I'm thinking of opening upwardly to social media mostly rather than simply fine art blogs.  Or perhaps I'll build the generic showcase chip social media oriented as well as the creative mortal constituent fine art weblog focused?  We'll see......

For example, on Facebook, I follow Jonty Hurwitz (Facebook: Art of Jonty Hurwitz) who posts real regularly as well as constantly amazes me with the contemporary fine art he finds as well as highlights on his page.  I also peculiarly similar it because he finds sculpture as well as installations which I similar but don't tend to expect for equally much equally drawings, paintings as well as prints.  He also reveals the grade of conception as well as character that render rigid contest for to a greater extent than conventional artists when it comes to fine art collectors' $/£/€.

I practise retrieve this type of curation is something which Facebook is excels at. I'm inclining real much towards doing to a greater extent than of this inwards the New Year's Day - which way I meliorate start liking some to a greater extent than Facebook Pages (NOT accounts) to build sure I run into what's on offering for our delectation.

However, if I'm limiting the Showcase Award to fine art blogs inwards 2013 so at that spot tin endure exclusively 1 winner inwards my eyes.

That's Lines as well as Colors by Charley Parker - which is 1 of the transcend fine art blogs inwards the world. He describes it thus
Lines as well as Colors is a weblog almost drawing, sketching, painting, comics, cartoons, webcomics, illustration, digital art, concept art, gallery art, creative mortal tools as well as techniques, displace graphics, animation, sci-fi as well as fantasy illustration, paleo art, storyboards, matte painting, 3d graphics as well as anything else I observe visually interesting. If it has lines and/or colors, it's fair game.
More importantly, what Charley has been doing since August 2005 is writing almost fine artists as well as illustrators past times as well as present. Here's some of the features of his blog
  • he posts regularly - as well as creates a lot of posts each month - I counted 31 to appointment this month.  This is somebody who y'all actually direct hold to direct hold a feedreader for if y'all know you'll demand to computer program what to read. (I'm at nowadays using Feedly as well as am finding it real slowly on the eye.).  This is 1 of the real of import factors equally to why his fine art weblog regularly features inwards the transcend x inwards the world.
  • he makes real proficient usage of images of artwork - there's a lot of them as well as they're mostly large. He also makes real proficient usage of a macro crops to illustrate a point. I peculiarly similar the way he assembles a compilation which way it's non slowly to re-create artwork off his website
  • he showcases as well as reviews the piece of work of contemporary artists who postal service their piece of work online.  A number of artists who are also fine art bloggers direct hold been reviewed over fourth dimension (including me!).  What I'd actually similar to run into on the site is a listing - linked to weblog posts - of every creative mortal covered inwards alphabetical order
  • he posts accessible but authoritative posts almost artists from the past times who are worth knowing about.  Although he has the strange optic candy post, most of his fine art history posts render proficient character as well as reliable links to online resources as well as relevant publications. I've learned a lot almost artists who I otherwise mightiness non direct hold come upwardly across.
  • he highlights exhibitions where good quality art tin endure seen and gives us feedback on the ones he's seen.
  • He provides helpful posts on practical matters from fourth dimension to time and/or focuses on a theme of contemporary relevance eg he's lately been contrasting the abrupt style for the "selfie" with the evolution of the self portrait over time.
The 2013 Winner of
The Art Blog Showcase Shield
is "Lines as well as Colors"
written past times Charley Park

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