Getting Out Of The Studio - Making A Rank Fine Art Weblog Awards 2013

"Getting out of the Studio"  in The eighth Making H5N1 Mark Art Blog Awards is the category of awards for all those people who pull together with pigment exterior their studio - sometimes producing finished sketches or paintings plein air together with sometimes producing cloth to railroad train farther inwards the studio.

They are:
  • The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize
  • The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy
  • The Going Greener Gong
They're equally good awards for people who identify an emphasis on sharing information.

are for blogging close fine art on fine art blogs. 
They started inwards 2006 together with this is the eighth year.  
Click the link to read to a greater extent than close them.

The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize

The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize for excellence inwards plein air painting plus a strong commitment to sharing information

The past times winners are:
I had a number of nominations for this award

For the getting out of the studio honour I would similar to nominate Roos Schuring of the Netherlands. Not exclusively exercise I dear her manner (very free), she paints inwards the most appalling conditions conditions together with she equally good helps other artists a lot amongst her "sell your art" videos. 
Penny German
(Roos) is an inspiring artist, constantly putting out her function together with sharing her knowledge freely on her weblog together with inwards her workshops. I went this March when it was freezing mutual frigidity together with the air current blowing together with she inspired all of us.
In her paintings she captures the colours of the landscapes thus beautifully together with true: this is due to her beingness exterior all the time, no affair what the conditions conditions are.
Additionally Roos non piants together with blogs close it, but puts her fine art out at that spot equally good together with selling it. The whole bundle what beingness an creative someone is about.
Astrid Volquardsen
He fits the criteria for excellence inwards plein air ikon addition a strong commitment to sharing information.
René paints inwards all weather, riding his wheel to most locations together with has been doing this for years. Rene is talented together with humble together with deserves some recognition.
I´d similar to nominate Luis Perez Ortiz to The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize for his outstanding serial of the mount he views from his window. He draws the mount almost every solar daytime inwards a modest sketchbook together with he reaches to transmit both sensitivity together with strenght
This is a hard one. I appreciate all the artwork - together with I promise that all the artists are proud of the fact their talent together with science conduct keep been recognised past times others.

However I'm left looking for some other agency of differentiating betwixt them.

In the end, I've gone dorsum to the basic regulation of this honour which was that it was never only close plein air.  It has ever been close how the creative someone uses his or her weblog to promote learning together with to transcend on useful tips close ikon plein air.  That's because a lot of people are frightened of champaign air ikon together with the to a greater extent than people tin exercise to demystify the process, the to a greater extent than probable it is that novel people volition conduct keep it up.

I knew ii together with knew nix of the other two. So I popped all their blogs into Feedly together with started looking dorsum at posts over the final year.

Which is how I come upwardly to create upwardly one's hear that the someone whose weblog has impressed me the most is Mike Bailey. He regularly includes lots of real useful tips relating to plein air ikon together with ikon to a greater extent than ofttimes than non - together with real plainly thoroughly enjoys his plein air painting. This special post Sagrada Família)
  • makes certain he gets his sketches scanned, posted together with published!  (Which equally whatsoever inveterate sketcher volition tell yous is the genuinely hard bit!)

  • The 2013 winner of
    The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy is
    Pete Scully (Pete Scully)





    The Going Greener Gong


    The Going Greener Gong is awarded to the fine art weblog which I've constitute most stimulating inwards relation to getting us inwards touching amongst nature together with the environment.

    Past winners include:
    • 2012: Tania Maren's ArtPlantae Today
    • 2011: Sherrie York (Brush together with Baren)
    • 2010 Jeanette Jobson (Illustrated Life)
    • 2009 Sketching inwards Nature - a grouping weblog started inwards Apr 2009 past times Cathy Johnson
    • 2008 Shared by: 
    • 2007: Richard Bell's nature diary A Plein Air Set Up For Watercolor  (posted final month) almost deserves an honour all to itself!  However I constitute I was equally good enjoying reading the "back catalogue" equally it were of posts before inwards the twelvemonth together with inwards the archives. I together with then started to await around at the residue of his presence online together with constitute that he has lots of costless to download articles close fine art on his website.  What I equally good enjoyed was the agency he writes close making fine art - it's accessible together with friendly. Indeed I felt similar I'd been business office of a swopping tips amongst friends session of the form that ever happens when artists sit down downwardly together which is why......

      The 2013 winner of
      The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize is
      M.E. (Mike) Bailey (ME Bailey Art)

      The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy

      combined amongst the 'Get Off Your Blogging Bottom together with Sketch' Brass Plate from 2007 


      The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy goes to the most intrepid and/or industrious artist travelling amongst a sketchbook.

      Previous winners are
      I received a nomination for this award

      Emmanuel Prost (Emmanuel) is nominated by Enrique Flores (Cuatro cosas) - the 2009 winner of this award
      I´d similar to nominate Emmanuel Prost for The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy for the trip he´s doing correct at in i trial inwards the delta of Niger river, Nigeria, a identify of environmental chaos he´s depicting amongst committment together with outstanding drawing skills. The images are non inwards his weblog www.emmanuelprost.blogspot.com even thus equally he´s having problem amongst the mesh but they tin live seen hither Travelogues inwards the Niger Delta
      This nomination highlights the difficulty I conduct keep amongst the agency people straddle blogs together with Facebook.  While Facebook continues to exclusively live accessible to its members I mean value I conduct keep to stick amongst fine art blogs for this award.  I equally good constitute Emmanuel's weblog quite confusing. The linguistic communication isn't an number equally I've got an auto-translate. The work is the agency he blogs - I can't tell where posts laid out together with end. The agency he's posting on Facebook makes much to a greater extent than sense. That said I real much await forwards to seeing the write upwardly on his weblog inwards 2014 together with conduct keep him already on the listing of potential nominees for the 2015 award. It looks similar an absolutely fascinating projection together with the images are amazing!

      The someone who is receiving the honour this twelvemonth is a regular bloke who happens to sketch - a lot.

      You tin meet his sketches on his website/blog - together with equally good on Flickr - and Facebook - together with purchase master copy drawings together with prints of them on Etsy.  It's all real integrated!

      This twelvemonth Pete Scully has
      • survived intercontinental locomote amongst a sketchbook together with a tike - because he draws colouring sheets for his boy to consummate on the plane
      • thrived on an in-depth review in several cities, states together with countries and sketchbook recording of 
      • organised numerous sketchcrawls for other people inwards David California - all of which doubtless conduct keep a splendid flyer together with map of useful places to locate yourself for a sketch
      • draws the routine together with the mundane inwards the expanse where he lives together with the places he visits together with makes most places await interesting. He opens my eyes together with remind me in i trial to a greater extent than together with in i trial to a greater extent than close how sketching starts amongst learning how to see.
      • demonstrated how he never gets phased past times complicated structures (see his Sagrada Família)
      • makes certain he gets his sketches scanned, posted together with published!  (Which equally whatsoever inveterate sketcher volition tell yous is the genuinely hard bit!)

      The 2013 winner of
      The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy is
      Pete Scully (Pete Scully)





      The Going Greener Gong


      The Going Greener Gong is awarded to the fine art weblog which I've constitute most stimulating inwards relation to getting us inwards touching amongst nature together with the environment.

      Past winners include:
      This honour has a botanical together with natural history emphasis. All those who weblog close making fine art close wild animals, birds, flowers together with plants are eligible. Blogs are non required inwards whatsoever agency to trammel themselves to only those topics but they exercise involve to conduct keep a experience for beingness greenish together with sustainable close them. They equally good acquire extra points for getting out together with close together with drawing from life!

      I've been most impressed this twelvemonth with The Natural Year blog past times Sarah Morrish.  Ever since finding out close Maria Sibylla Merian, I've been a large fan of all those who acquire by to combine botanical fine art amongst natural history fine art - but people who genuinely exercise this are few together with far between, which is something of a surprise given the greenish agenda together with the popularity of all things green.

      Sarah's strapline is Art & Observations of the Natural World past times Sarah Morrish - Botanical & Natural History Artist & Tutor. She goes i ameliorate than having an involvement inwards nature an ecology. She genuinely teaches people close it together with to brand fine art close it!  Blogs are hugely useful to tutors if used properly. Sarah's utilisation of her weblog for educational purposes was i aspect I constitute impressive inwards 2013.
      • She teaches botanical fine art together with natural history illustration, for the Hants & IOW Wildlife Trust, Peter Symonds College AHED inwards Winchester together with at Paxton Pits Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire - together with she sets out details of what's on offering on her weblog e.g. Botanical Art & Natural History Drawing & Painting Courses 2013 - 2014. It's a overnice pitch betwixt proverb plenty to live informative without swamping people amongst detail.  
      • She's equally good got a serial of videos on YouTube and she equally good demonstrates her approach to her fine art using footstep past times footstep posts on her blog.
      • She writes fantabulous together with informative reviews of exhibitions close wild animals fine art e.g. Sagrada Família)
      • makes certain he gets his sketches scanned, posted together with published!  (Which equally whatsoever inveterate sketcher volition tell yous is the genuinely hard bit!)

      The 2013 winner of
      The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy is
      Pete Scully (Pete Scully)





      The Going Greener Gong


      The Going Greener Gong is awarded to the fine art weblog which I've constitute most stimulating inwards relation to getting us inwards touching amongst nature together with the environment.

      Past winners include:
      In summary, this is an creative someone who is using her weblog to link inwards a structured agency to the residue of her online presence together with to highlight the teaching together with the resources she's making available to those who desire to larn to a greater extent than close making fine art involving nature.

      The 2013 winner of
      The Going Greener Gong is
      The Natural Year past times Sarah Morrish

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