18Th November 2012 - Who's Made A Reach This Week?

Last summertime I spent nearly iii weeks sketching the scenery - too the meals - inward Provence (see Four Go Painting In Provence and my sketch below)

Four days ago, Julian Merrow Smith (Postcard from Provence) announced to his mailing listing that side yesteryear side summertime at that topographic point are going to hold upwards Postcard from Provence Painting Holidays.  They're non inexpensive exactly dates for the 2 courses already announced are already fully subscribed too consideration is directly beingness given to adding to a greater extent than dates.  So if you lot desire to hold upwards icon the Vaucluse on a postcard side yesteryear side summertime you lot postulate to hold upwards on the mailing listing if you're non already!

The persuasion from Crillon Le Brave
pen too sepia ink too coloured pencils inward Moleskine Sketchbook, 11" x 16"
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

I've had a actually dreadful caput mutual coldness all calendar week hence accept non been reading equally much equally usual.  Mercifully the mutual coldness is finally coming to an halt which is practiced equally I'm totally lemsipped out!

Artists too Art Blogs

Drawing

• This calendar week I flora out most the projection 10 x 10 Drawing the West End of London.  It's hence interesting to encounter the drawings too urban sketches of much to a greater extent than famous names!
• Urban Sketchers London - Sketchcrawl 3 has been announced on the Urban Sketchers London weblog - and we're going to the Museums inward South Kensington on Sabbatum Dec 1st. The Natural History Museum Skating Rink volition also hold upwards up too running if you lot desire to sketch skaters - equally per my sketch the finally fourth dimension I visited it 

Painting

• I forgot to brand a banker's complaint of where I came across this recommended interview alongside Daniel Sprick - Liminal Spaces: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Conversation alongside Daniel Sprick (on Painting Perceptions) - but it's a practiced read too there's lots of practiced icon to await at too.
• Last calendar week at that topographic point were diverse celebrations for Georgia O'Keeffe - 125th Birthday
• I created a website About Childe Hassam - which I've been pregnant to do for ages.  However this was also because he was the artist responsible for Who Painted This? #3

At the Cafe (1887-1889) - Childe Hassam
38.1 cm (15 in.), Width: 45.72 cm (18 in.) pastel on paper

Pastels too Coloured Pencils

• Childe Hassam used pastels (see Who Painted This? #3 and above) exactly he also used coloured pencils for sketching! See yesterday's post.  Suddenly all becomes clear equally to why I similar this man!
• Vivien Blackburn's artwork is behind the flyer for the novel Derwent Art Prize too finally calendar week she was demonstrating at the Art Materials fare.  Demonstrating for Derwent at the NEC. Vivien is coming dorsum to us afterwards some really necessary fourth dimension out related to the disease too and hence passing of her hubby finally month. 
• Click the link if you've non come upwards across the CPSA Facebook Page before.

Who Painted This?

• The winner of Who Painted This #3 was Sue Smith (Sue's Sketch Blog). She did it the right (and hard) means too says she learned a lot most American Impressionists en road to the right answer.
• Who painted this #4 was posted on Fri afternoon too I'm directly asset a issue of comments which correctly position the artist.  I won't hold upwards publishing them until Fri hence you lot nevertheless accept fourth dimension to encounter if you lot tin approximate it.  I'm loving the explanations I'm getting for why people got it!  For those who haven't got it yet, it's worth noting that it was painted plein air without an easel!

Art Books

• I've created a novel website NEW Drawing Books inward 2013
• Those buying fine art books via Amazon inward the Britain powerfulness desire to brand a banker's complaint of an article inward this week's The Bookseller which summed upwards the recent House of Commons Review of the means global companies avoid paying firm taxation inward the Britain - see Amazon’s firm taxation slammed yesteryear HOC committee.  If all the countries too states which desire to brand Amazon pay taxation all got together - would at that topographic point hold upwards anywhere left for Amazon to go?

Art Business too Marketing

• Robert Genn wrote a thoughtful approach most the dissimilar approaches to fine art of Two artists 

Art Collectors too Art Economy

• The Art Newspaper had a yoke of articles most "market corrections
• Brand names skid equally marketplace position starts to correct After the party, the hangover: fine art stars Koons, Hirst too Murakami lose their shine
• The London gallery shuffle On the keen fine art Monopoly board, Americans are moving in, Cork Street is inward crisis too Victoria is on the up
• While ArtInfo comments on:
• some crazy auction sale prices inward "This Is Nuts": Christie's $412-Million Postwar too Contemporary Auction Stuns
• following on from Sotheby's Scores Its Biggest Night Ever With a Smashing $375-Million Auction
• Plus The Art Market Without Tears? Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Company Will Guarantee You Can't Lose, For a Fee
• at the same fourth dimension others accept been commenting on how much fine art was destroyed yesteryear Superstorm Sandy - here's Tyler Green Inside the National Galleries of Scotland - alongside the BBC
• The London gallery shuffle is an article inward The Art Newspaper which identifies too comments on what's happening to commercial fine art galleries inward London
• ArtInfo suggests that the Metropolitan Museum Sued for Consumer Fraud Over "Suggested" Entry Fee

The lawsuit cites a survey of 360 visitors to the Met, inward which 85 percentage didn't know museum admission was free.

• A London Evening Standard article identifies America's Art Cities

Art Materials too Supplies

• Don't forget to vote inward this month's resurrected Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Poll - Which are the best creative mortal character watercolour paints? See the right mitt column for the poll too this post for what it's about (see POLL: Which are the best artist-quality watercolour paints?)
• Art Supplies by Katherine Tyrrell - this is my Facebook listing of Facebook Pages / Accounts relating to Art Materials and is a world listing (if you're logged into Facebook)
• Tim Fisher's Fisher 400 fine art paper - developed specifically for icon alongside pastels, exactly also used yesteryear coloured pencil artists - is now available inward the USA via ProartPanels
• Cass Art inward London has a whizzy novel website

Art Studios

• Architectural Digest repeated a photospread they did of Georgia O'Keeffe's abode too studio at Abiquiu AD Revisits: Georgia O'Keeffe . It's a masterpiece of shape too shape too business too colour!

Copyright

• Friending the Court is a really interesting article yesteryear the  blog of the Art Institure of Chicago concerning 2 important copyright cases alongside potential implications for museums too the art-loving public.

Techies

• I've been noticing some really strange things happening alongside posts to Facebook.  This Inside Facebook article perhaps explains what's going on too why our posts are getting seen yesteryear fewer people - News Feed, EdgeRank too page posts: what’s actually going on alongside Facebook? 
• I've finally worked out how to do lists on Facebook too made several finally calendar week - too this calendar week volition hold upwards posting most how to do this too tweak them hence they do what you lot desire to do.

and finally......

The Royal College of Art celebrated its 175th birthday finally week. Here's a Guardian slideshow which displays go yesteryear some of its to a greater extent than famous ex-students too a few insights into what it was similar inward the yesteryear - such equally Slide 21 which is a photograph of "A women's life modelling class inward 1905" - all long smocks too naked manful mortal torsos!

It's also hosting an exhibition The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art (16 Nov – 3 Jan 2013).  You tin encounter to a greater extent than of what they're getting upwards to on their Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/RCA.London

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