24Th February 2013 - Who's Made A Order This Week?

A petty patch ago, an creative mortal called Aine Divine (Aine Divine Paintings) wrote to give cheers me....

Thank y'all for the slap-up data y'all locomote yesteryear on, y'all ever terminate upward answering those annoying questions close opened upward submission competitions as well as therefore on.

having been prompted to write yesteryear my post close the cost of getting artwork to opened upward exhibitions as well as competitions.

Mathew yesteryear Aine Divine
Runner Up inwards the Royal Watercolour Society Open Competition 2013

She'd also written to tell me ii of her plant had been accepted for the A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it posted on her blog close this)

It right away turns out that 1 of them has been selected equally 1 of the 3 runners upward for the original prize (see above).  See:

• RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition - Prizewinners 2013
• RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013 Successful Entries

The exhibition for the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition opened on Fri as well as runs until 3 March at the Bankside Gallery.

She's got links to 3 mag articles on her website.

• Portraits of Character. The Artist Jun 2011
• Painterly Portraits. The Artist June 2009
• Dr Mo Mowlam: Art of England Jul/Aug 2005

Plus an exhibition side yesteryear side month - Greywalls – H5N1 Work of Art at which her portraits of golfers who direct maintain played at Muirfield volition hold upward on display. She also has a blog alongside just 1 weblog post as well as she manifestly needs to hold upward encouraged to practice to a greater extent than equally her articles hollo for she's articulate as well as writes good close process.

Artists as well as Art Blogs

This is a real video oriented post this week.

If you're wondering why no exhibition reviews it's because I've been stuck within alongside the interminable coughing which has been letting me know it doesn't similar mutual frigidness air or also much exertion.

Animal Art

See what happens when y'all comment on a weblog post of mine? You tin terminate upward beingness featured on my blog!  (Laura left a helpful comment on my post close fine art stores inwards New York - reckon 'Art Supplies' below)

This is animal portrait painter Laura Ellis - equally featured inwards this Odd Jobs: Animal Portrait Painter video report by the Wall Street Journal on the agency she approaches commissions .  Plus this delightful article which explains how she came to motility from Vermont to New York as well as became an creative mortal who paints dogs for a living.  Listen to the video all the agency through to cheque out the NYC committee prices she charges!



Drawing as well as Sketching

• This is A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it Chatting alongside Danny on her weblog Liz as well as Borromini

Liz Steel: An Illustrated Journey from DannyGregory on Vimeo.

• Lori Field is a Post-Apocalyptic Romanticist creative mortal alongside aesthetic-compulsive disorder who renders obsessive narratives alongside colored pencil, silverpoint as well as encaustic.  Thanks to Sophie Ploeg for highlighting her piece of work on Facebook.  This is her website and this is where y'all tin purchase her work.  These are her
• silverpoint drawings
• coloured pencil as well as encaustic paintings

Drawing is a passion, as well as I intend for the piece of work to hold upward drawing-based, concentrating on the operate of non-traditional media as well as arcane materials, ever submitting to an obsession alongside obsessiveness. The mediums tin vary: some are colored pencil drawings on vintage slate chalk boards, others are meditatively drawn silverpoint renderings on gessoed paper

• I'm incredibly impressed alongside Sketchwalk Chaophyra inwards Bangkok which involves Urban Sketchers from other Asian countries as well as Commonwealth of Australia as well as a sketchwalk along the river which runs through Bangkok.  The Program as well as itinerary was looking real organised on Facebook at the start as well as the photograph albums are looking fifty-fifty to a greater extent than organised now! 

Click to reckon a larger version
Photographers credit:- โฆสิต จิตต์ไพโรจน์ (kosit jitpiroj)
- The Royal Photographic Society of Thailand (RPST)
yesteryear Mr. Jirawat Phuengsomwong และคุณอ๊อด

• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it Side yesteryear Side inwards Idle Talk
• This is an former interview I came across finally calendar week when searching for data close what equipment people operate to depict inwards pen as well as ink - as well as it's an interview inwards The Paris Review with R. Crumb - The Art of Comics in which he talks close his personal preferences for nibs as well as paper.
• These are In Pictures: Andy Warhol - Early Drawings

Painting

• Barbara Benedetti Newton - winner of the Making H5N1 Mark A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it Best Picture of 2012 on an Art Blog - right away has an Etsy Store.  Some readers volition hollo back Barbara equally the co-author (with Janie Gildow) of 1 of the most pop books on coloured pencil fine art - Colored Pencil Solution Book. One of the plant included inwards her novel store was inwards that majority (on page 97)!

Pastels as well as Pencils

• German pastel creative mortal Astrid Volquardsen (A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it A Moment With Two of Our Explore This! nine Winners  - A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it Review: CPSA's ninth Explore This! Exhibition)
• CPSA is also listing on its website links to the specialist magazines for coloured pencil artists.
• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it Simply Getting There provides a brilliant idea yesteryear my friend as well as plein air painter Louise Sackett (Plein Speaking) for getting from motorcar to the site of the easel as well as the thought for your plein air painting.

Printmaking

• Jeanette Jobson (Illustrated Life) has come upward up alongside a skillful thought for how to fund her novel printmaking studio - see Fishy Bits - a yr of original fish prints.  I'm thinking of having a modest investment myself.......

Who painted this? 

• This is A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it Who painted this? #17 which inwards plow provides the respond to the epic post A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it Who painted these 10 Popes? !  I am amazed so many of y'all got it right.  However Jane Gardiner (Glasgow Painter) led the way. 
• This week's ikon has everybody stumped!  I'll hold upward posting a clue on Monday.  

Art Business & Marketing

• My post A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it How tin y'all tell when it's a vanity gallery? has prompted quite a word on the Art Business grouping on Linked In
• At 1 extreme nosotros direct maintain indicators of a meaning motility inwards the agency top artists sell their fine art - inwards this article Move over galleries: artists sign alongside agents inwards The Art Newspaper (makes feel to me!).......
• and at the other extreme nosotros direct maintain Artsy Shark's 125 places to sell art
• Artsy Shark has ii to a greater extent than articles of interest:
• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it What it's similar for an Artist's Trustee is for those who direct maintain ever wondered what it would hold upward similar should they direct maintain to administer an artist's estate - or anybody contemplating it for the future
Art Auctions, Collectors as well as the Art Economy

• This Financial Times article The Art Market: pay up, pay upward as well as play the game By Georgina Adam highlights how Christies has raised the cost of buying fine art at auction which follows its closure of its Haunch of Venison Gallery.  Is this growth inwards cost of sale a skillful idea?  One collector commented to the reporter

“When y'all add together inwards premium, VAT, artists’ resale correct ... y'all tin hold upward looking at over thirty per cent on the hammer price, I don’t think it volition construct whatever difference, collectors volition merely direct maintain to pay more.”

• BBC News - Lucian Freud sketches sell for £16,300 at auction - creative mortal Maggi Hambling has sold 3 ink on paper life studies by Lucian Freud thought to direct maintain been drawn inwards the 1940s, inwards Dedham, Essex.  Hambling was given the life drawings yesteryear Cedric Morris, who taught her as well as Freud at unlike times equally business office of the East Anglian School of Painting as well as Drawing.
• Investors are right away suing fine art galleries for non doing plenty to sell their art!  Read this New York Times article A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it Art Gallery Sued Again Over Sale of Paintings
Art Competitions

• The April number of the Pastel Journal has the prizewinners inwards the 14th Pastel 100.  This post  14th Annual Pastel 100 Competition: Meet the Grand Prize Winners has the images as well as prizewinners
Art Education

• This is a long (1 hr 46 minutes) video lecture at the Art Students League of New York called Never H5N1 Day Without H5N1 Line: Drawing Panel Discussion 2013
• Michael Gove has been wallying around all over the position alongside honor to what should comprise hereafter educational subjects as well as certificates within English linguistic communication secondary schools.  This article Turning Gove threat into golden opportunity  suggests in that location is much to hold upward done when it comes to defining fine art instruction inwards schools.  It also queries whether subjects taught equally business office of the Foundation curriculum might hold upward ameliorate taught inwards schools.
Art Exhibitions



UK Exhibitions - Major Galleries

• Lichtenstein: H5N1 Retrospective opened at Tate Modern finally calendar week as well as continues until 27 May.  Initial indications are that it is proving real popular.

Lichtenstein: H5N1 Retrospective is the initiative off full-scale retrospective of this of import artist inwards over xx years. Co-organised yesteryear The Art Institute of Chicago as well as Tate Modern, this momentous demo brings together 125 of his most definitive paintings as well as sculptures as well as volition reassess his enduring legacy.

• Tate Britain is reorganising as well as refurbishing its galleries at acquaint - as well as is also revising the agency nosotros await at art. See this article inwards the Guardian Tate Great Britain launches novel direction which comments on Painting, video as well as photography greats paired together equally fine art across 300 years combines for Looking at the View exhibition at Tate Great Britain "The Home of British Art". You tin View some of the artworks inwards this display
• Rare Andy Warhol polaroids locomote on demo inwards London at Privatus until 1 March. Viewing yesteryear appointment only.
• My review of A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it 'Constable, Gainsborough, Turner as well as the Making of Landscape' at the RA
USA Exhibitions

• Last sun my weblog post commemorated a real famous exhibition - A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it The 100th anniversary of the 1913 Armory Show when modern fine art from Europe came to the USA for the initiative off time
• Thanks to James Gurney for the warning close a novel exhibition inwards Boston, Massachusetts, called: Anders Zorn: H5N1 European Artist Seduces America. 
• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it A Painterly Eye Capturing a High-Flying Muse
Art Bloggers
• Art bloggers Vandy Massey (A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it this is Mark's
Art Societies

I've started a serial of posts close Art Blogs for Art Societies.  Knowing a  little of the issues involved inwards getting an fine art weblog for an Art Society upward as well as running, I started correct dorsum at the real start - as well as am missing null out!.  Here are the initiative off two

• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it Art Society Blogs #1 - Why blog? - discusses the potential benefits of blogging when compared to a website
• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it Art Society Blog #2 - Getting started - looks at 3 essentials which demand thinking close at the beginning: the departure betwixt a website as well as a blog; the mention the weblog as well as its URL
Art Studio

• This is a New York Times slideshow of Winslow Homer's Maine which includes views within his studio
• Happy Camper Art Gallery is some other inwards the mobile fine art studio/galleries which are sprouting inwards New Hampshire. This 1 belongs to Kristina Wentzell (Kristina Wentzell Fine Art)
Art Supplies

• The results of the polls to position the best coloured pencils inwards 2012 were identified in:
• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it The Favourite Coloured Pencil Awards! (2012 Brand Poll Results)
• A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it The Favourite Watercolour Pencils Awards! (2012 Brand Poll Results)
• This nautical chart shows how large a alter occurred inwards artist-grade pencils inwards 2012 - Prismacolor would appear to direct maintain serious problems.  Right click the paradigm as well as opened upward inwards a novel tab to reckon a much larger chart.

Changes inwards coloured pencil construct preferences 2008 - 2012
• Coloured Pencil artists were as well as therefore asked to vote for the best coloured pencil inwards 2013 inwards two NEW polls on my website Coloured Pencils - Resources for Artists  - which has also had a major update inwards the brands section.
• 2013 POLL: Which is the best construct of creative mortal flat coloured pencil?
• 2013 POLL: What's your favourite watercolour pencil?
• I've developed a novel department within my website USA: Art Supply Stores & Online Art Supplies called The Best Art Supplies Stores inwards New York.  However, although I could position a number of the stores, I ran into a problem.   Despite years of reading reviews of Pearl Paint as well as other fine art stores etc on blogs of a precipitous they are nowhere to hold upward found.  It's equally if Google has buried the ordinary fine art blogger inwards favour of larger review sites!  
• Hence my Making H5N1 Mark Reviews weblog post - also called A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it The Best Art Supplies Stores inwards New York -  which therefore far has generated ii real useful contributions.  Many cheers to Jane Gardiner (A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it Art Supplies New York City) as well as Laura Ellis which direct maintain right away been incorporated into the novel section.  
• I'd honey to remove heed from to a greater extent than people close their views close which are the best fine art supplies stores.
• If you're ever write a review of an fine art supplies store or online website delight practice non hesitate to arrive affect as well as allow me know what the link is.
• There were some interesting responses to A conversation alongside Liz Steel from “An Illustrated Journey”.  Here's Liz's post close it Ash Wednesday, Lent as well as Art Supplies when I asked What detail of fine art supplies would YOU notice the MOST hard to surrender for Lent?  
Opinion Poll


The Making H5N1 Mark Opinion Poll for Feb - What's your best fourth dimension of Painting? - finishes merely subsequently midnight inwards London on Thursday.  If you've non answered yet, you'll notice it inwards the correct manus column.  There's no correct respond but the responses therefore far are interesting.


and finally......

After The King inwards the Car Park nosotros right away have King Richard III's life as well as decease told through graphic-novel trend art - as well as displayed equally a slideshow on the BBC website




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