11Th November 2012 - Who's Made A Scope This Week?

Today is Remembrance Sunday too the eleventh day of the eleventh calendar month - when people all around the Commonwealth recall all those members of the Commonwealth military who convey died inward the line of piece of work of duty that others mightiness live.  On Mon in conclusion calendar week I watched members of the British Legion hammer small-scale crosses alongside poppies on them into regimented boxes on the grass exterior Westminster Abbey.  Each was for a dissimilar component division of the military - alongside the biggest department given over to the unknown soldiers.

However, many of the crosses had names on.

Sometimes the simplest images are the most powerful - although oddly I tin reveal no artwork associated alongside Remembrance Sunday.

A number of the crosses convey names on too messages from loved ones
photographed exterior Westminster Abbey

In the USA:

• Vets save memories of state of war alongside their ain art
• in Houson Texas, an exhibition of state of war photography WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict too Its Aftermath has opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH).  The FT has a slideshow of images of conflict from 1847 to today
• The National Post reports that Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (Illustrated Life) painted too posted a ikon of a poppy for Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (Remembrance

Artists too Art Blogs

Who Painted This?

•  My novel serial of posts is proving to go real pop too everybody seems to go existence expert too sticking to the rules - because this calendar week nobody has worked it out equally yet!  Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (Who painted this? #3 has the response to Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (Who painted this? #2 at the cease of the post too two supplementary clues inward the comments Drawing too Sketching 

• Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (How to pull inward v steps 

Pete Scully (Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (Some thoughts on the challenges facing today's workshop participants

Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (More thoughts on the challenges facing todays workshops participants.  

I think of him equally the Simon Cowell of professional person landscape painting.  You exclusively convey to await at the epitome for the instant post to come across what I mean!

Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (Harold Speed - On Painting a Head, and The Science too Practice of Oil Painting on Underpainting

Sadie J Valeri has also been featured in Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (Sadie J. Valeri.  Very prissy paintings - even thence a commentary appears to go missing.

Women inward the Act of Painting is described as

"an ever-growing collection of fine fine art images that depict women inward the human activity of making visual art: painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking etc."

too includes ane of my favourite paintings of a adult woman painting - adjacent to a Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (Fountain -
past times John Singer Sargent 

The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy past times John Singer Sargent

oil on canvas, 714 mm (28.11 in). Width: 565 mm (22.24 in).

Printmaking

• I liked the curated collection of fine fine art prints on Etsy called Printmaking - Not but another pretty Repro! past times Monique from RedTailStudios

Sculpture

• Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (Henry Moore Sculpture - a real piteous precedent for populace art This is my commentary on the determination past times the Mayor of Tower Hamlets to sell Henry Moore's bronze sculpture "Draped Woman Seated".  The implications for populace fine art are real worrying. Art Business & Marketing

• Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (New construction for Arts Council & an Interactive Map

Alyson Stanfield (Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (28 Questions for When Your Art Isn’t Selling

Open Studios: I wishing I saw to a greater extent than Open Studios producing a map equally expert equally this ane - the Keene Art Tour Map on the Keene Art Tour website (a wordpress site).  Here's the summary of how it all went - too they're already planning for adjacent years!  Does your local fine art grouping range this?

It was a roaring success, past times all accounts. We had tons of visitors. We had nifty sales. (It’s of import for artists to sell thence nosotros tin go along making art!) Our studios convey never been cleaner, too.

Copyright for Artists (see my website Copyright for Artists for to a greater extent than information)

• Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013 - Call for Entries for to a greater extent than details

Derwent announced a novel fine art contest this calendar week of particular involvement to all those who piece of work inward pencils. This is my overview of the Prize - Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (NEW! The Derwent Art Prize - for pencil art.  The contest is opened upward to international artists over the historic menstruum of 18.  The deadline for entries is next 1 July 2013 and the exhibition volition go at the Mall Galleries inward September 2013 prior to a United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland Tour.

 Jordi Ruiz Cirera - winner of the First Prize inward
the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize existence interviewed past times CNN

Exhibitions

• This is my Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (Review: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 in which I highlight the prizewinners, interview the winner too review the themes I detected inward the exhibition of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 at the National Portrait Gallery

This is the British Journal of Photography's coverage of the contest Jordi Ruiz Cirera wins Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 - the comments are a hoot!

At the entrance to the exhibition is the winner of The John Kobal New Work Award The Nine Lives of Ai Weiwei
© Matthew Niederhauser 

• Here's The Judges' View: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 and a photograph of the judges
• I reviewed the Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (49th Annual Exhibition - Society of Wildlife Artists - too would convey written to a greater extent than but lost an electronic mail address of an artist!

This is the slideshow for the American Women Artists - 15th Annual Juried Competition Exhibition Finalists inward Arizona. Over 325 artists from the USA too Canada entered the competition. 61 paintings too drawings too fourteen sculptures past times 75 artists chosen

Art Exhibitions

• I'd beloved to see Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings at The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire (named of course of study afterwards this real famous British Sculptor).  This article explains how they came about. It's had some first-class reviews. The expert word is I can! It's a travelling exhibition too dates are equally follows:
• Hepworth Wakefield - seven Oct 2012 –3 Feb 2013; 
• Pallant House, Chichester, xvi Feb –2 June
• Mascalls Gallery, Kent, fourteen June – 24 August 2013
• This is the Barbara Hepworth website.
• For those inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland who've ever wanted to come across photos past times Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) upward closed rather than inward a mass or on a website, the chance to range thence is instantly available. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel exhibition of 100 master copy prints tin go seen in Ansel Adams - Photography from the Mountains to the Sea is instantly on at the National Maritime Museum inward Greenwich, London (9 Nov 2012–28 Apr 2013). This is a slideshow of images inward the exhibition created past times the Guardian.  I'm thinking Untitled 1960 looks real much similar the Lone Cypress on 17 Mile Drive at Pebble Beach - peculiarly since he died inward Monterey. Anybody else agree?
• You tin come across the 76 plant online inward the Salmagundi Club's third Auction Online on Nov 11th starting at 2pm EST.  If y'all sign inward y'all tin come across what artwork sold for.
• The Art of the Real World Tour has arrived inward Edinburgh - at the Open Eye Gallery, 34 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, EH3 6QE - from 12th-27thNovember 2012

Art Museums too Galleries

• Michael Glover inward The Independent has an article about The Hermitage: Bold plans to alter Russia's fine-art tradition The intention is that dry reason museum is expanding to build it to a greater extent than contemporary. 
• It was fascinating to come across the responses past times the Art Museums betwixt Boston too Washington to the imminent onset of SuperStorm Sandy.  Like me (see Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (Albert Bierstadt - Approaching Thunderstorm on the Hudson River) a number constitute interesting images to learn alongside the situation.  I think everyone's favourite was The Met's selection of Wind past times Harold Anchel.  Art Education

• Emeritus Professor Michael Craig-Martin RA of late bemoaned the fate of Art Schools inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland - come across Damien Hirst's sometime instructor attacks 'over-regulated' fine art colleges

Tips too Techniques

• Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (Sealing too Varnishing Art Work on Ampersand Panels

Get Your Work equally Vertical equally Possible!" is the recommendation of Eileen Nistler (Eileen Nistler's Artspan Blog)

Art Studio

• Some people telephone telephone them taborets whereas I telephone telephone opened upward storage on wheels a "trolley". This calendar week I reviewed a potential Studio Product: IKEA Råskog Kitchen Trolley on Making a Mark reviews......
• Rose Welty (Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (Studio: Before too After pictures - also tackling the vertical fine art / standing upward issue Opinion Poll

Watercolour paints - tubes too pans. 
Brands represented hither include
Winsor & Newton, Rembrandt Van Gogh, Schmincke, Maimeri too LeFranc & Bourgeois

This month's Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Poll is considering Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (POLL: Which are the best artist-quality watercolour paints? - even thence the Blogger Poll module started to malfunction too thence started to lose votes.  So I had a fleck of a think.  So.......

• In double quick fourth dimension I produced Which is the best build of watercolour pigment for artists? which is the website I'd intended to range this month.  (It contains a build analysis) In it I incorporated a poll into that - which volition run until the cease of 2013.
• Blogger was stung into activity ;) too cleared upward the problems alongside the master copy poll - thence I switched that dorsum to its master copy seat too removed the link to the novel poll.
• So far at that topographic point are 2 clear build leaders on both polls.
• I thence asked people to vote in Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (The Big Watercolour Debate - Tubes versus Pans Techies

• A real interesting post past times Michael Chesley Johnson (Painting Belgium’s battlefields: Wartime scenes component division therapy for 93-year-old Second World War veteran

too inward Newfoundland, Jeanette Jobson (Monitoring Your Work - How Does It Look On-Screen? - who faces precisely the same employment equally good all so and finally......

Veronica Lawlor too other 1482 illustrators convey created a Hurricane Sandy Fundraiser for to heighten coin for the displaced victims of the storm. Go the http://onedrawingaday.com/ website to come across the prints which are available for a donation of $50 or more.  Here's

• Veronica's contribution - Studio 1482 Fundraiser
• drawings done past times Veronica during the Hurricane Sandy Power Outage inward NYC

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