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SEVENTH END OF YEAR REVIEW of overstep fine art blogs Best Pictures together with Best Art Blogs 2012 - a review
Welcome to the start of my SEVENTH END OF YEAR REVIEW of overstep fine art blogs, overstep artwork together with the fine art economy!

This is my 'master plan' postal service which keeps me on rails together with focuses on the arrangements together with timeline for nominations, voting together with announcements relating to:
  • The MaM Award for Best Picture on an Art Blog - across 4 categories
  • The Making H5N1 Mark awards for Top Art Blogs - across 4 categories
Plus dates for my ain personal halt of yr review of what happened to fine art inwards 2012 together with what I've been getting upwards to.

UPDATE: Shortcuts to the posts inviting nominations for the diverse awards are posted at the overstep of the correct manus column

The Making H5N1 Mark Art Blog Awards 2012 
- Best Picture on an Art Blog

Nominations

This Saturday eighth December I volition postal service iv carve upwards posts on this blog.

These volition invite y'all to nominate the BEST PICTURE in the dissimilar categories associated amongst the Making H5N1 Mark Art Blog Awards.  

These are as follows:
  • Best Portrait / Figures - portrait of a unmarried individual (or animal) or grouping or an artwork which is predominantly figures
  • Best Landscape / Interior - an artwork which is nearly a identify - urban or rural, province or ocean or sky, within or out
  • Best Still Life - contrived or found, a narrative or an accident, large or small
  • Best Nature - botanical, natural history or wildlife
Do non write to me yet! To submit a nomination y'all volition postulate to travel out a comment on the relevant spider web log postal service 1 time it's published on Saturday.

VOTING: The Making a Mark Prize for Best Picture on an Art Blog 2012

On Monday 24th December I volition postal service the nominations received for the next Making H5N1 Mark Awards
  • The MaM Prize for best rendition of individual or persons
  • The MaM Prize for the best portrayal of a place
  • The MaM Prize for best withal life
  • The MaM Prize for best celebration of nature
The Short List for each category volition hold upwards posted on Wednesday 26th December 

You volition thence hold upwards invited to vote - afterwards Christmas - on the shortlist of candidates for best artwork inwards the dissimilar categories. 

The voting
  • starts on Wednesday 26th December
  • closes a infinitesimal afterwards midnight on Sunday 30th December
The Best Picture in each category - addition the runners upwards - volition thence hold upwards announced on Monday 31 Dec 2012.

The Overall Winner of the Making H5N1 Mark Best Picture of 2012 on an Art Blog is also announced inwards the same spider web log post.
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The Making H5N1 Mark (MaM) Awards - Best Art Blogs 2012

Below y'all tin run across the previous winners of The Making H5N1 Mark Awards for the Best Art Blogs.  I'm certain y'all volition handgrip that the names of those who convey won these awards makes for an impressive line up!

My electrical current thinking is I'll stick amongst the same awards every bit final yr - merely y'all never know......

Nominations:  I'll hold upwards publishing posts nearly the Making H5N1 Mark Awards for the Best Art Blogs inwards 2012 adjacent calendar week (week commencing tenth December) for each of the iv categories together with inviting nominations from you.

Announcements of Awards: I volition thence postal service the details of who has won each MaM Award will hold upwards posted inwards ii posts on Saturday 29th and Lord's Day 30th December


GENERATING ART

 These awards relate to generating fine art either every bit an private creative individual or every bit an fine art group - formal or informal.

The Painting a Day Stickability Shield. 

Previous winners include:

The Best Art Blog Project Virtual Challenge Cup

The Best Art Society Blog Prize (NEW inwards 2011)
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GETTING OUT OF THE STUDIO
    This category of awards is all nearly people who depict 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're also awards for people who identify an emphasis on sharing.

    The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize. 

    This accolade has previously been won by:
    The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy (which absorbs the 'Get Off Your Blogging Bottom together with Sketch' Brass Plate)

    Previous winners convey been:
    • 2006 - Laura Frankstone (Laurelines) won the “Travels amongst a Sketchbook Award primarily for blogging her sketches of Paris inwards October
    • 2006 - Julie Oakley won the “Get off your Blogging Bottom together with Sketch” Brass Plate for her One Mile from Home blog).
    • 2007 - Martha (Trumpetvine Travels) won the novel combined award
    • 2008 - posthumously awarded to Cindy Woods (Learning Daily)
    • 2009 - Enrique Flores (Cuatro cosas)
    • 2010 - Liz Steel (Liz + Borromini, Sydney Australia)
    • 2011 - The Urban Sketchers


    The Going Greener Gong

    For (artwork nearly nature / amongst a light-green theme)

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    LEARNING ABOUT ART AND THE ART BUSINESS

     This especial department of the awards focuses on our personal evolution - whether that's via:
    • regular posts on a spider web log wholly focused on the evolution of artists 
    • a actually adept serial of posts on a especial theme of major relevance to artists
    • a novel fine art pedagogy book
    • a novel majority nearly the creative individual together with the fine art business
    The FAQs together with Answers Really Useful Medal

    For sharing useful data (for free)

    The Make Me Think Gong

    The previous winners of this 'gong' perish on to furnish many posts which are both interesting to read together with also brand me think. They are:
      The Best Book past times an Art Blogger Blue Ribbon

      For the most helpful majority written/produced past times an fine art blogger
      .......................

      THE HOME FRONT

      The 4th department of theAnnual Making H5N1 Mark Awards relates to those matters relating to the practical aspects of our artistic fine art and/or brand life at domicile amongst the creative individual that flake better.

      The Most Gorgeous Mouthwatering (MGM) Studio of the Year

      For the Most Improved Studio of the Year. It reflects the continuous efforts of many artists to improve our studio together with working environments
      (Note: There needs to hold upwards a spider web log postal service documenting this improvement on the studio owner's blog.  Some people fifty-fifty convey their really ain dedicated fine art blogs for the process!)
      The Art Innovation of the Year Award (NEW inwards 2011)

      Awarded to highlight those creative individual bloggers who experiment and/or create and/or part innovations which aid the practise of other artists. The sharing may hold upwards through:
      • the conception of a novel tool or fine art medium to assist artists
      • testing together with reviewing a novel fine art medium or material
      • experiments amongst existing or novel fine art media, materials or equipment together with the creation of a novel means of doing things
      This accolade was novel inwards 2011.

      “The Moose” Award for the best animate existence inwards an illustrated blog - named afterwards the maiden off winner of this accolade - who was a cat! The animate existence tin hold upwards domestic together with or thence the domicile or wild. 

      Previous winners convey been:

      Review of Blogging together with Art inwards 2012

      Your reviews

      Do allow me know if you're doing a review of 2012 every bit I'll hold upwards highlighting these inwards my "who's made a grade this week?"

      The Bigger Picture - End of Year review

      This is where I human face dorsum at 2012 together with my predictions, comment on the affect of things nobody expected (now what were they?) together with mostly essay together with come upwards up amongst some predictions for 2013.

      Before Christmas Eve, I'll hold upwards reviewing:
      • what happened inwards 2012 inwards price of social media - including blogging - for artists together with illustrators inwards 2012 
      • what happened to the fine art concern inwards 2012
      Contributions together with suggestions of things to highlight are most welcome together with volition hold upwards credited.

      My Personal Review

      At the outset of Jan I'll write a postal service which looks backwards at 2012 together with looks forwards to 2013.  

      Today I constitute out that I should acquire novel lenses inwards my eyes at some indicate inwards the maiden off 3 months of 2013 - thence that's got to hold upwards good!


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