11Th March - Who's Made A Rate This Week?

I'm finding Who's made a grade this week? to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than hard to do.  It's my ain error because these posts have got but grown in addition to grown - in addition to they directly accept hours in addition to hours to compile....and I'm afraid procrastination sets in.

They started out every bit a means of highlighting things I read on other people's blogs in addition to items which were interesting but weren't going to arrive into a weblog post.  Thus they were assembled over the course of teaching of the week.  However I directly honor I produce to a greater extent than reading when writing the slice which inward purpose accounts for why it takes in addition to so long to do.

I'm thinking along the lines of:

• making them curt in addition to weekly OR longer in addition to fortnightly
• cutting the topics (but what to cut?)

So tell me which bits you lot similar the best in addition to what you lot would immature adult woman most if it went or were to live on revised / reduced.

Art Blogs in addition to Artists

Artists

• This post is about Artists overcoming disabilities - it starts amongst a discussion of the challenges which many famous artists have got overcome in addition to concludes amongst an update on when in addition to how I'm having operation to learn laid novel eyes!  (In May!)
• Videos: Bankside in addition to Roy Lichtenstein provides you lot amongst 3 videos - 2 of which hand give you lot an insight into Roy Lichenstein in addition to the 3rd shows you lot what it's similar exterior Tate Modern on a Dominicus afternoon - on the means to reckon the RWS opened upwardly exhibition!

Drawing in addition to Sketching

Lower Manhattan from the Empire State Building past times Patrick Vale
You tin reckon a larger prototype here.

• Do accept a await at this video of Patrick Vale Empire State Of Pen - which is how the higher upwardly drawing of lower Manhattan came into beingness in addition to is described every bit follows

One week. Five pens. One pencil. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 1 thou 1000 cups of tea. One iPhone and 1 repetitive strain injury.
Patrick Vale gives you... lower Manhattan from the Empire State Building

and

His fourth dimension lapse film“Empire State of Pen” captured 5 days of intensive drawing in addition to brought critical acclaim across the blueprint in addition to architectural worlds, it clocked upwardly 700,000 plays inward a few weeks. 

• Tiny Pencil is a weblog for graphite groupies.  It's a spin-off of a biannual anthology devoted to the fine art of the pencil and a novel website of the same name which looks promising.  These are the artists who volition characteristic inward the commencement issue.  I did honor it a flake strange that the commencement creative someone they interview genuinely describes herself every bit working mainly inward gouache!

Celebrating all things graphite, Tiny Pencil is an anthology zine in addition to forum devoted to the Pb arts

• In relation to the Tiny Pencil graphite artists I was most impressed amongst the operate of:
• Rachel M Bray - operate inward ink in addition to pencil in addition to pencil in addition to graphite powder
• Vanessa Foley (Vanessa Foley)
• Liam Stevens
• James Gurney (brain scans of artists piece drawing.  James every bit good references his previous post Do Artists See Differently? 
• I used to have got posters of drawings past times Aubrey Beardsley on my wall inward college. It;s so amongst some involvement I came upon Poul Webb's (Art in addition to Artists) serial of posts on Aubrey Beardsley - which have got lots in addition to lots of his heavily stylised monochrome images 
• Aubrey Beardsley – purpose 1
• Aubrey Beardsley – purpose 2
• Aubrey Beardsley – purpose 3
• Aubrey Beardsley – purpose 4

Figures in addition to Portraiture

• Progress on "Desert Hill". 
• Jeff McColl sent me a link to his trouble organisation human relationship of a see to Agawa Canyon - Winter means 2013 (take III) updated.  This is his trouble organisation human relationship of visiting some of the parts of Canada painted past times creative someone members of the Group of Seven in addition to others eg George Reid and spending a wintertime calendar week camping ground inward the Agawa Canyon. Visits are made to the actual locations of paintings past times A.Y. Jackson's icon of the Waterfall at Algoma.  He was intrigued past times how the topography made for such a dramatic shadow inward paintings past times people such every bit Lawren Harris .  You tin reckon all the photos together inward this album

What I constitute genuinely interesting is how the lighting weather I encountered exposed the hush-hush of Mr. Harris's dramatic shadow inward the canyon.

Painting

• I genuinely similar a lot of the paintings I tin reckon on the weblog of Amanda Spencer's weblog Amanda Spencer.  It reminds me of Shirley Trevena's operate - but I'm non sure if I don't similar Amanda's more.  She every bit good does watercolour batik paintings in addition to conducts workshops on this technique.  I've got my real ain batik laid which I bought subsequently a workshop on batik inward Bali inward 1997.  I intend I mightiness but have got to banking concern check out those workshops!
• Do accept a await at Rob Pointon's Year of the Boat - it's real much a weblog in addition to a projection amongst a difference.  It's non many artists who operate out of a narrow boat!  It surely seems to have got given him a novel perspective on how to check interiors into paintings.  Rob has some exhibitions coming upwardly inward the close futurity inward Manchester in addition to Birmingham

Pastels in addition to Pencils

• Ester Roi (Who painted this? #18 however the The commencement someone to learn the right answer this calendar week was Roger Brown (Art Of The Wild past times Roger Brown)
• Here's Who painted this? #19 which every bit good has the answer to #18.  I intend this week's prototype volition appeal to truthful cat lovers.........

Art Competitions

• In my in conclusion "who's made a grade this week" I characteristic Aine Divine in addition to her watercolour icon of Mathew which won 1 of the prizes inward the Royal Watercolour Society's contemporary fine art competition.  This calendar week I reviewed the exhibition for the produce goodness of those who were unable to see in addition to those who mightiness desire to submit their operate adjacent twelvemonth - see RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013 - exhibition review
• This is my review of the Lynn Painter Stainer Exhibition 2013: Review
• These are the RHS Botanical Art Show 2013 - Selected Artists.  Botanical artists volition wishing to authorities notation the dates of the exhibition in addition to the fact that it's beingness held inward Apr at the same fourth dimension every bit the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists.  No excuse for botanical fine art fans non to endeavor in addition to see BOTH exhibitions.

Art Education

• a fundraising exhibit at Gale's Restaurant - to produce goodness the Pasadena Humane Society.

Art Societies

• The Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists opened at the Mall Galleries in conclusion calendar week in addition to continues until 23rd March.  Click the link to reckon the members' operate inward the exhibition on the website.  You tin every bit good persuasion the Exhibition Catalogue online. The remaining demonstrations are:
• Tues twelfth Mar, 12.00 - 15.00 Drypoint demonstration, Mick Davies in addition to Melvyn Petterson
• Wed 13th Mar, 12.00 - 15.00 Acrylic demonstration, Alfred Daniels and Nick Tidnam
• Thurs 14th Mar, 12.00 - 15.00 Landscape in addition to architecture demonstration, David Sawyer

I every bit good authorities notation they've got a much improved novel website.

Two sets I created inward Rijksstudio (by makingamark)

Art Galleries in addition to Museums

• Pinterest meets the Rijksmuseum is my accept on the redevelopment of the accessibility to the collection of the Rijksmuseum inward Amsterdam.  They have got a novel website in addition to a novel means of allowing people to access the artwork in addition to reinterpret it using downloads in addition to impress on need websites.  It's quite something in addition to different anything I've seen elsewhere when roaming the cyberspace looking at museum websites (which is something I produce a lot!).  You tin reckon what I did at makingamark
• The Telegraph has published an article Brilliant, beautiful in addition to British: the fine art you lot aren't allowed to see.  I intend the curators of publicly funded fine art museums and galleries who intend curation is nearly the evolution of the body of noesis nearly fine art history in addition to their ain career evolution should live on made responsible for beingness accountable to the populace for but how much fine art inward populace ownership is never e'er seen. 

What is in addition to so incorrect amongst the thought of museums in addition to galleries celebrating the form of British painting?

• The New York Times has an article on Cautious Approval for a Plan to Merge a City’s Museums (re. Los Angeles). 

Art Supplies

• Ed Terpening (Life Plein Air) has been testing Testing Solvent-Free Oil Paint

Art on Film in addition to TV

• Your Paintings: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Culture Show Special - a Culture Show Special on the BBC demonstrated that the Your Paintings projection has uncovered the creative someone behind some of the artwork which has previously been inaccessible.  
• London Underground. The artwork comprises 270 enamel plaques (one for every station!) of labyrinth designs.
• The Pre-Raphaelites on BBC4 is every bit good available on iPlayer. There's 3 days left to lookout adult man it.
• Finally there's Treasures of the Louvre - every bit good available on iPlayer in addition to available until Sat, sixteen Mar 2013

The interesting affair is that none of these are listed nether the Factual / Arts Culture in addition to the Media purpose of iPlayer which seems to have got buy the farm every bit bad every bit Amazon at categorisation!

Opinion Polls

• The results of the Feb Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Poll divulge iv distinct tendencies every bit to when people prefer to pigment - see Painters prefer icon inward the early on morning time (Poll result)
• The March Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Poll volition live on published this week.

Techies

Computers

• I've directly had my Apple iMac for 3 years - in addition to I gather a few of you lot have got had iMacs for nearly that long! ;)  This is post asking Which is the best figurer for artists? and it's had some fantabulous in addition to long comments

Blogging

• The adjacent instalment inward the serial of posts nearly blogging for Art Societies is Art Society Blog #3 - Recruit a Blog Editor.  This highlights that a Blog Editor is much to a greater extent than similar a Newsletter Editor rather than a webmaster.  In other words it's nearly communication in addition to  marketing rather than techie stuff!

and finally

This is the persuasion you lot tin learn of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence on the Google Art projection - in addition to so fifty-fifty if you lot can't learn to Italy you lot tin have got a virtual tour of the Uffizi.

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