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Getting Out Of The Studio - Making A Seat Awards 2012

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This minute post inwards the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Art Blog Awards is well-nigh the category of awards for all those people who depict together with pigment exterior their studio - sometimes producing finished sketches or paintings plein air together with sometimes producing textile to educate farther inwards the studio.

They are:
  • The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize
  • The Travels alongside a Sketchbook Trophy
  • The Going Greener Gong
They're also awards for people who identify an emphasis on sharing.

The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize

The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize for excellence inwards plein air painting plus a rigid commitment to sharing information


The past times winners are:
I hasten to add together that the prize is:
  • an abide by for people who practice to a greater extent than than but pigment plein air.  The winners are also people to part data - that's what the "plus" is all about; together with is
  • NOT confined to those who hit finished paintings plein air
This twelvemonth I desire to abide by this prize to an creative soul together with a weblog which this twelvemonth has reminded me of the sheer pleasance of ikon plein air - inwards all circumstances together with all weathers.  As she reminded me before this week
I've painted inwards 4 countries this twelvemonth through wind, rain, snow, fog, drizzle together with fifty-fifty sunshine - on occasion!
I showtime 'met' Haidee-Jo Summers online every bit she had been i of the artists invited to pigment on the Millennium Bridge every bit the Queen's 60th Jubilee River Pageant passed along the Thames.  We corresponded inwards advance, she told me which wearing clothing she was going to wearable - together with therefore lo together with behold nosotros had i of the wettest summertime days anybody had ever seen inwards London.  Throughout it all Haidee-Jo continued to pigment inwards the pelting together with fifty-fifty smiled for the BBC photographic tv camera every bit she did her TV interview!  (see BBC coverage of the Thames Pageant)
The rain was coming inwards sideways together with underneath my umbrella together with my palette was getting wetter together with wetter! The sail was getting a fine spraying, together with H2O was swirling around my feet! Some of the artists started to leave of absence every bit their work, anything on newspaper particularly, was suffering besides much. Easels started to autumn over. I held my umbrella every bit closed together with every bit depression every bit I could! (see Paintings for the Diamond Jubilee)
Haidee-Jo Summers talking to Anneka Rice
- piece beingness filmed for the BBC coverage!
Carol Lee Beckx (Art Matters) felt the same agency every bit me together with nominated Haidee-Jo for this award.
Her paintings are fresh, vibrant together with of a really high standard.
The addition component on Haidee's blog Haidee-Jo Summers creative soul - ma vie en couleurs is personality addition sharing what together with how she paints when working plein air.  What I actually similar well-nigh Haidee's weblog is that it's but similar coming together her - sunny, chatty together with confident.   You larn without realising that she's handing out useful snippets together with tips. It makes you lot retrieve you lot tin stimulate got upward your brushes together with acquire exterior together with pigment but similar her - alongside exuberant color inwards her extremely competent alla prima mode.  You tin reckon a review of Haidee-Jo's twelvemonth inwards a review on her weblog - why non stimulate got a read together with reckon what I mean!
The 2012 winner of
The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize is
Haidee Jo Summers (Haidee-Jo Summers creative soul - ma vie en couleurs)



The Travels alongside a Sketchbook Trophy
combined alongside the 'Get Off Your Blogging Bottom together with Sketch' Brass Plate from 2007 
The Travels alongside a Sketchbook Trophy goes to the most intrepid and/or industrious artist travelling alongside a sketchbook.

Previous winners are
  • 2006 Laura Frankstone (Laurelines of North Carolina USA) 
  • 2007 Martha (Trumpetvine Travels of Berkeley California) 
  • 2008 Cindy Woods. (Learning Daily USA) This was a posthumous award 
  • 2009 Enrique Flores (Cuatro cosas Madrid, Spain) 
  • 2010 Liz Steel (Liz + Borromini Sydney Australia) 
  • 2011: The Urban Sketchers of the 2d International Symposium inwards Lisbon
While many people bear a sketchbook, non everybody travels alongside one.  One of the characteristics of the people who stimulate got won this prize to appointment is that they stimulate got all travelled to other countries together with made sketches of what they've seen on their travels.

This twelvemonth I'm going to abide by this prize to somebody who routinely carries his sketchbook alongside him together with sketches piece travelling to operate together with his studio inwards Chelsea on the other side of..... London.  So no overseas trips - but lots of sketching!  Check out this post for an illustration of what gets posted - Sketches on the Bus, Train together with Tube inwards Oct I. For those who stimulate got never tried drawing on populace carry before, I stimulate got to say you lot that cast of sketching is a challenge! Bear inwards heed the carry does non supply for a polish journeying together with you lot never ever know when your dependent acre is going to acquire upward together with leave!

Adebanji Alade (Adebanji Alade: My art, my passion for sketching) is something of a utilisation model for all those who desire to acquire improve at drawing together with ikon people.  He keeps his expenses on hiring models to a minimum.  Ever since I've known him - which is similar a shot quite some fourth dimension - he's drawn the people he sees piece travelling on populace carry inwards London.  In doing therefore he has built upward his science marking at the same fourth dimension every bit developing a portfolio of sketches to utilisation every bit a footing for his paintings.  His weblog is total of sketches done on journeys across London.  The bonus is that he therefore also shows on the weblog how he works when translating sketches typically drawn monochromatically in pencil or charcoal into portraits painted inwards oil.  

He also sketches homeless people inwards London every bit a footing for his formal portraiture work.  Adebanji worked at St Mungo's - a good regarded charity which works with homeless people - for ix years together with met many homeless people together with inwards doing therefore gained an agreement of life on the streets.  His paintings of homeless people somehow nurture their personalities together with their identities together with enable them to locomote from the pavement together with on to the walls of galleries inwards key London.  Hence it gives me bang-up pleasance to announce......

The 2012 winner of
 The Travels alongside a Sketchbook Trophy is 
Adebanji Alade(Adebanji Alade)



The Going Greener Gong

The Going Greener Gong is awarded to the fine art weblog which I've found most stimulating inwards relation to getting us inwards affect alongside nature together with the environment.

Past winners include:

This abide by includes all those who weblog well-nigh animals, birds, flowers together with plants. Blogs are non required inwards whatever agency to confine themselves to but those topics but they practice need to stimulate got a experience for beingness greenish together with sustainable well-nigh them. They also acquire extra points for getting out together with well-nigh together with drawing from life!

This twelvemonth I'm awarding this prize to a weblog which is written every bit a resources rather than past times an artist.
ArtPlantae is a resources provider whose aim is to encourage an involvement inwards plants, to brand phytology a to a greater extent than palatable subject, together with to reach both through the utilisation of drawing every bit a learning tool.
Tania Maren's ArtPlantae Today is essential reading for all those interested inwards botanical fine art together with drawing.  Regular posts are frequent together with e'er 'on topic' together with total of high character data well-nigh all the sorts of things that botanical artists are interested in.  They include interviews alongside established botanical artists of some renown together with intelligence well-nigh workshops, exhibitions together with novel books.   I've been reading it for years together with stimulate got the highest regard for its content together with author.

The 2012 winner of
The Going Greener Gong is
Tania Maren's ArtPlantae Today

Tomorrow the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Awards switch to:
  • Learning well-nigh Art & the Art Business 
  • The Home Front

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