Nominate The Best Motion Painting Of A House On An Fine Art Weblog Inwards 2012

You are invited to NOMINATE an artwork on an fine art weblog for

The Making a Mark Prize (2012) for Best Picture - Place

This prize celebrates as well as highlights excellence in
creating pictures most places inward our environment

Today is the Call for Entries for the Making H5N1 Mark - Best Picture Awards.

The mo of the Call for Entries invites nominations for The Making a Mark Prize for Best Picture - Place 2012

This postal service covers:

• eligibility of the artist
• eligibility of the artwork
• who tin nominate
• how to nominate

Previous winners of this respect (created inward 2009) - who are all ineligible for this year's respect - are:

• 2011: Pacific Passage by Robin Purcell (Robin Purcell - Watercolours inward the Plein Air Tradition)
• 2010: Joint Winners:
• Canal Sunrise past times Loriann Signori (Loriann Signori's Painting-a-Day)
• Lazy River by Casey Klahn (The Colorist)

Interestingly we've had artwork inward pastels, acrylic as well as watercolour - but an stone oil ikon has non nonetheless won this prize.  Will this alter inward 2012?

This telephone recall for entries is likewise going to highlighted on my The Art of the Landscape blog. If you'd similar to nominate I advise you lot acquire bring a hold off at some of the blogs inward the blogroll of that weblog - it includes some splendid landscape as well as plein air artists!


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Tell us all whose artwork involving portraiture or figures you lot appreciated inward 2012.

Eligible artwork (drawings / paintings / prints):

• subject matter: the artwork must last predominantly most a place - urban or rural, province or body of body of water or sky, within or out.
• 2D artwork created using hands is eligible - artwork tin last a ikon (in whatever media) or a drawing (in whatever media) or a fine fine art impress (using whatever method).  Photography is NOT eligible.
• Artwork must stimulate got been completed inward 2012 and has appeared on an fine art or illustrated weblog inward 2012 as well as prior to eighth Dec 2012
• Work is NOT eligible if it appears to last 1 or to a greater extent than of the following:
• was non completed inward 2012
• has non appeared on an fine art weblog inward 2012
• over-reliant on a photograph non taken past times the artist
• subjected to lots of digital manipulation/tweaks (over as well as higher upwards that needed to acquire inward read 'true' on screen)
• a photograph
• For the artwork to last shortlisted, the nominated creative someone must concur inward writing to their run existence displayed on Making H5N1 Mark as utilization of the shortlist (you tin seek their understanding after the nomination as well as BEFORE the annunciation of nominations inward a postal service on this weblog on 24th December)
Please last careful to cheque the appointment of the artwork as well as when it was posted to ensure eligibility.






Winner of The MAM Award for Best Picture of the Year (Place) on an Art Blog
Pacific Passage 
© Robin Purcell (Robin Purcell - Watercolours inward the Plein Air Tradition)
14" x 14", watercolour

Eligible artists

• In 2012, whatever creative someone creating artwork predominantly involving places - as well as posting their run to their personal fine art or illustrated weblog tin last nominated.
• An creative someone who has NOT won this prize inward the final 3 years (ie 2009-2011) - equally listed at the hand of this post
• Only artists amongst independent fine art blogs operating inward 2012 are eligible. (The awards exclude all corporate blogs and/or paid blogging.)
• An creative someone tin last nominated to a greater extent than than 1 time - past times dissimilar people - for dissimilar works
• An creative someone tin last nominated to a greater extent than than 1 time - past times dissimilar people - for the same work
• No canvassing is allowed (Canvassing = repeated mentions and/or touting for votes on other sites)
• Artists tin denote the awards on their weblog and/or the fact they stimulate got been nominated 
• Artists tin reference on their fine art weblog only
• the fact they stimulate got been shortlisted and 
• the postal service on this weblog where the vote is taking house .
• Neither the creative someone nor the someone nominating tin sail for votes - canvassing volition number inward disqualification. 
Who tin nominate

• Nominations are ONLY accepted from peers i.e. people amongst an active fine art blog. 
• In social club to nominate you lot must stimulate got an fine art or illustrated weblog as well as last capable of existence identified past times me.
• Anonymous nominations are non permitted. (This is purely to halt spammers equally I link to the blogs of all those who stimulate got nominated inward a afterwards postal service summarising the nominations!)
• An creative someone tin nominate their ain work 
• All nominations must last inward English
How to Nominate



To nominate - only COMMENT ON THIS BLOG POST providing all the necessary details (see below) BEFORE 24th Dec 2012.


Your nominations MUST identify:

• the championship of the piece
• the call of the artist,
• the size as well as medium (if possible)
• the call as well as URL of the weblog (eg The Art Blog - http://artblog.blogspot.com)
• the date, championship as well as URL of the weblog postal service inward which the artwork appears (you MUST furnish a the precise URL for the location of the postal service as well as non only the URL for the blog)
• SAY WHY YOU LIKE THE WORK - this fleck is actually important so delight produce the best you lot can. Remember that nominations are opened upwards as well as transparent as well as that it's proficient to part a genuine tribute to a slice of run you lot like
• You require to inquire the creative someone if their run tin last posted on my weblog - as well as permit me know what the respond is. This tin move on after the nomination as well as BEFORE 24th December.
What happens next

• Nominations unopen only after midnight on 23rd Dec 2012
• On 24th Dec 2012, a listing of all nominations is posted - including a link to the someone who nominated 
• I volition thence select a shortlist of 3 plant from the nominations 
• The shortlist will last posted on 26th Dec 2012.  YOU volition last invited to vote for your favourite artwork for The Making a Mark Prize for Best Artwork 2012 - Place
• This winner of the category prize is likewise eligible for the overall Making H5N1 Mark Prize for The Best Picture on an Art Blog inward 2012.
• The winners volition last announced on this weblog on 30th Dec 2012
Please likewise NOMINATE for other MAKING H5N1 MARK AWARDS - calls for entry volition last posted this weekend as well as adjacent week.

Please read Best Pictures as well as Best Art Blogs 2012 - a review and consult the links below (to last posted) to observe out to a greater extent than most the other Making H5N1 Mark Awards.

Invites to nominate for the remaining dissimilar categories associated amongst the Best Picture Award are listed below. The social club of telephone recall for entries for the remaining nominations this weekend is equally follows:

• The Making a Mark Prize (2012) for Best Picture - People - a formal portrait or a figurative artwork which is predominantly most a unmarried someone or grouping of people
• The Making a Mark Prize (2012) for Best Picture - Still Life - contrived or found, a narrative or an accident, large or small
• The Making a Mark Prize (2012) for Best Picture - Best Nature - botanical, natural history or wildlife
Nominations for the other awards follow inward the calendar week commencing twelfth December

• Making H5N1 Mark Nominations: Generating Art
• The Painting a Day Stickability Shield
• The Best Art Blog Project Virtual Challenge Cup
• NEW IN 2011 - The Best Art Society Blog
• Making H5N1 Mark Nominations: Getting Out of the Studio 
• The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize
• The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy
• The Going Greener Gong
• Making H5N1 Mark Nominations: Learning most Art & the Art Business
• The FAQs as well as Answers Really Useful Medal
• The Make Me Think Gong
• The Best Book past times an Art Blogger Blue Ribbon
• Making H5N1 Mark Nominations: The Home Front
• The Most Gorgeous Mouthwatering (MGM) Studio of the Year
• The Art Innovation of the Year Award
• “The Moose” - the respect for the best animate existence inward an illustrated blog


Links:

• The Making H5N1 Mark Art Blog Awards 
• Best Pictures as well as Best Art Blogs 2012 - a review
• The Making H5N1 Mark Awards 2006-2011




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