Who's Made A Mark? #265

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— Grayson Perry (@Alan_Measles) May 19, 2015

Art Competitions

Call for Entries

• The deadline for The Sun Times Watercolour Competition 2015 - Call for Entries is 5pm, Mon 15th June 2014
• The deadline for the Jerwood Drawing Prize: Call for Entries is 5pm on 26 June 2015

Selected artists

• The BP Portrait Award 2015 has announced:
• the shortlist for the prizes - see Shortlist for £30,000 BP Portrait Award 2015 announced
• and the Selected Artists - BP Portrait Award 2015
• I did a calculation after the statement in addition to worked out that Brits lose out inward BP Portrait Award 2015 
• The Judging Panel are currently visiting the Shortlist for the Art Fund Museum of the Year Award 2015 and their determination volition live announced on 1 July 2015 at an effect at Tate Modern.

Other fine art competitions

You tin maintain upward to engagement with the major fine art competitions on my Page (see transcend menu) - Major Britain Art Competitions

I've had it confirmed that:

• the Threadneedle Prize has changed dates and, every bit such, at that spot volition live no exhibition inward 2015. Here's the announcement and online submission opens on thirteen July 2015, 12 noon

The 2015 Threadneedle Prize exhibition, ordinarily held inward September/October each year, is moving to the foremost of Feb 2016. Online submission opens on thirteen July 2015, 12 noon. This alter inward engagement volition laissez passer The Threadneedle Prize fifty-fifty greater visibility. We also computer program to tour a alternative of the 2016 exhibition to Europe. More details volition follow.

• the Derwent Art Prize is non beingness run this yr but you lot tin hold off it to live dorsum inward 2016. The Call for Entries volition croak out inward Jan 2016.

Art Exhibitions

Open inward London

• You tin see A major retrospective of Irish Gaelic paintings in addition to sculpture at the Mall Galleries until the cease of the month.
• The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers exhibition is currently on at the Bankside Gallery - You tin see the exhibition images online and the exhibition until  6 June 2015. Glynn Thomas's etchings of Cambridge are making me desire to larn the plastic out of the wallet! I've but had a major distraction clicking through diverse places I know well!

Open inward the residue of the UK

• I volition definitely live paying a see to the Grayson Perry "Provincial Punk" exhibition at the Turner Contemporary at Margate on the East Coast of Kent with a "beach similar Bondi" according to Perry! 
• ITV has got a skillful interview with him 
• Jonathan Jones withal proves himself to live a pratt - who gives the exhibition 2 stars in addition to writes rubbish similar this Grayson Perry review – 'Like beingness trapped inward a room total of trendy folk talking bollocks'. The 531 comments brand for interesting reading! :)

The thought of ‘Provincial Punk’ is an oxymoron but it encapsulates creatively some sort of spirit inward my piece of occupation that silent goes on to this day. It is a really creative force, a willingness to plough things over, to non convey the fashion in addition to to conduct hold a fight of fun. It is a sort of teasing rebellion; it is non a tearing revolution.”
Grayson Perry

• On the topic of Grayson Perry, there are directly traffic jams inward Wrabness every bit the footing in addition to his married adult woman in addition to kids plough upward to endeavour in addition to run across Grayson Perry's theatre for Essex inward Wrabness - run across Grayson Perry's Dream House - this evening on Channel 4 - which was actually interesting both inward terms of the construction in addition to its content in addition to the agency people responded to it. I'm non surprised it's generating crowds - although I estimate in ane lawsuit the novelty has worn off it volition larn similar Antony Gormley's 100 cast-iron, life-size figures of Another Place on the shifting sands at Crosby Beach.

Open inward New York

• There are great pics of the makeover to create Frida Kahlo's garden at the New York Botanical Garden.

Closing soon

Plate 6: The After Party (2014) past times Henry Hudson
varnished plasticene on board, 183cm x 245cm

• Hogarth in addition to Henry Hudson is my review of an amazing exhibition of a Hogarthian serial of 10 large artworks inward varnished plasticine past times Henry Hudson - showing until the cease of the calendar month at Sotheby's gallery inward London. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Do croak in addition to see, if you lot can, at the Sotheby's Gallery.
• It's the in conclusion 24-hour interval of the Sargent Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery tomorrow
• The really good 25th anniversary exhibition past times some of the artists inward the Shirley Sherwood Collection at Jonathan Cooper's Park Walk Gallery inward Chelsea closes on 30th May.

Already closed

These were the exhibitions which opened in addition to shut inward the in conclusion 2 months

• This was my Review: RWS 'Watercolour Etc' Exhibition at the Bankside Gallery
• The Bigger Picture Exhibition involved the participants inward the BBC's Big Painting Challenge
• I visited the UKCPS Annual Exhibition 2015 for the foremost fourth dimension inward a piece - every bit it came dorsum to London in addition to the Menier Gallery.
• This was my post service speculating nigh Who volition win the NEW £15,000 'Conversations Prize'? at the RP's Annual Exhibition and these were the Prizewinners at the 124th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. 
• This was Daphne Todd at Messums

Opening side past times side month

• The RA Summer Exhibition opens on eighth June in addition to lasts until 16th August
• The Not the Royal Academy Exhibition opens on June ninth at the Llewlleyn Alexander Gallery at the Cut inward Waterloo. This is the annual exhibition, inspired past times the original Salon des Refuses, which features plant originally rejected past times the RA Summer Exhibition Selection panel.  
• I'm non quite certain where that leaves the accepted but non hung plant - in addition to I know ane friend has ane of these this year.....

The BP Portrait Award website looks a fight dissimilar this year

• The exhibition for the BP Portrait Award opens to earth on xviii June in addition to continues until xx September at the National Portrait Gallery. As commons I volition live doing my normal extensive coverage on this weblog og the prizewinners in addition to the exhibition.
• The Annual Exhibition of the New England Art Club opens at the Mall Galleries on 17 June (for Private View) in addition to and hence continues until Sabbatum 27th June (10am -5pm; closes 2pm on in conclusion day). You tin run across the Catalogue for the Exhibition online. This provides images of piece of occupation inward the exhibition in addition to also details prices.
• Earlier inward the month, the Mall Galleries volition live hosting the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Women Artists (5-13 June).  You tin run across the names of the selected artists on their website
• The Society of Graphic Fine Art has an exhibition - 'Drawn Together' - at Bankside Gallery which runs from xxx June to v July.
• A novel exhibition Watercolour: Elements of nature opens at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge on 16 June in addition to continues until 27 September. Free admission.  At the same fourth dimension at that spot volition live an exhibition of Ruskin's Turners.  I experience a journeying upward to Cambridge coming on....

The exhibition includes plant past times non bad masters of the medium from its origins to the 20th century, with portrait miniatures past times Nicholas Hilliard in addition to Isaac Oliver, bloom drawings past times Pierre Joseph Redouté, every bit good every bit a serial of stunning landscape watercolours past times John Constable, Peter de Wint, John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer, J. M. Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro in addition to Paul Nash.

Announced for afterwards inward the year

The National Portrait Gallery announced a novel exhibition volition live opening inward September - run across Simon Schama's The Face of Britain - in addition to selfies

Art Books

• Paul Riley in addition to the magic of watercolour flowers - For those who'd similar a dissimilar perspective on how pigment flowers - this is nigh a novel book, video in addition to exhibition - nigh the magic of watercolour flowers - past times ane of my sometime tutors.

Art Business

• I announced the launch of my novel website Art Business - for Artists. I've got to a greater extent than silent to exercise on Art Business for Artists and it's beingness developed section past times section. This calendar month I've been highlighting:
• How to Write an Artist's statement
• How to Write an Artist's CV, Resume or Biography
• I've directly added inward a novel department nigh Selling Art - in addition to conduct hold got the foremost pages upward - of which to a greater extent than anon. 

Art Materials

• Artists in addition to Illustrators has a non bad article - 7 steps to improve pastels - I've been wanting to read for a long time. It's all nigh how Pastel Society fellow member Sarah Bee uses acrylics, charcoal in addition to gesso tin assist you lot larn the most out of your pastel art

Botanical Art

• My novel website nigh Botanical Art in addition to Artists has been upward for but over a calendar month - in addition to it's changed quite a lot since I foremost published it
• It directly also has a tidings blog and this post explains how I volition operate inward time to come to highlight tidings from botanical artists every bit good every bit changes to the website

A tidings weblog for Botanical Art in addition to Artists - featuring tidings from Botanical Artists
every bit good every bit changes to the website

• Last calendar week I also created a novel page about This post details which artists conduct hold had their past times weblog posts highlighted amongst the relevant assignment
• For the record, these are the weblog posts nigh in conclusion month's annual exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists

• Review: 30th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists
• Prizewinners at the Society of Botanical Artists' Annual Exhibition 2015
• Society of Botanical Art: Certificates of Botanical Merit 2015

Drawing in addition to Sketching

During Apr in addition to May London Urban Sketchers visited:

• Kew Gardens - Palm Houses in addition to Pagodas on a sunny sketching 24-hour interval at Kew Gardens
• Silvertown
• Urban Sketchers croak to Silvertown
• Urban Sketchers croak to Silvertown (part 2)
• St Pauls in addition to the Thames - run across St Paul's in addition to the Thames - we've got to exercise it again!

The side past times side sketchcrawl is Let's Draw Hampstead - 13th June 2015.  

This is the Urban Sketchers London Facebook Group.

Obituaries

• We said goodbye to Sargy Isle of Man 1937 - 2015

Odds in addition to sods

Here are a multifariousness of posts which I can't intend of a heading for!

• This was the Advice on Painting from John Singer Sargent
• People are still Drawing in addition to Sketching - Every Day inward May - although I've establish my drawing has switched to drawing my truthful cat Cosmo.

Cosmo - drawn using pastel sticks inward Sketchbook Pro app on my Mini iPad.

• Celebrate a visual creative individual on the side past times side £20 note - interesting responses to this post service on Facebook - but I neglect to run across why some of the suggestions for woman individual contenders conduct hold quite the weight of manly individual visual artists who mightiness live inward the running.  Anyway - at the cease of the 24-hour interval it volition all depend on who gets nominated!
• The Royal Academy of Arts is getting a multi-million pound major overhaul with the assist of a Heritage Lottery Grant - A major overhaul for the Royal Academy of Arts campus - in addition to I got to exercise a Press View with Alan Yentob in addition to a TV crew from the BBC.

Techie stuff 

Photographing artwork

• How to photograph your artwork is a really skillful article inward Artists & Illustrators nigh photographing artwork which goes beyond the normal materials that gets written. So far it's been shared 24.5k times!

 Videoing artwork

• In Tested for you: Periscope (iOS app)  Ilaria Rosselli del Turco describes how she experimented with a novel app for videoing artists piece they work. It was skillful but looks every bit if it needs quite a fight of thinking in addition to working out to larn it to piece of occupation good during a alive broadcast

Google in addition to websites

• First off - the actually of import alter - which relates to how Google directly ranks websites when viewed on mobile devices.  In Apr - but earlier the alter to the algorithm - I asked Are your sites mobile friendly - or are you lot facing Mobilegeddon?. Since in addition to hence Google has been sending out messages - via Google Webmaster Tools - to all those webmasters who demand to lick theur sites into shape.
• Last calendar week Google Webmaster Tools morphed into Search Console - run across this post service for to a greater extent than details from Google Announcing Google Search Console - the novel Webmaster Tools

Statcounter Analysis in addition to Review of Search Traffic past times Browser

•  Surprisingly Google directly generates less than 75% of search stats- run across this post service past times Statcounter  Yahoo gains farther the States search part inward January.  Remember when nosotros thought the footing would forever live dominated past times Microsoft in addition to Internet Explorer?

Responsive websites

• It was specially skillful to run across an fine art company taking the ascent of mobile browsing in addition to the demand for responsive templates seriously.  Brand novel website raises pattern criterion for fine art societies was my post service nigh the Royal Institute of Painters inward Watercolour's novel website .

I'm silent trying to update websites in addition to I'm silent trying to represent inward a proper break. It's non working also good hence far.

and finally......

As I indicated in 14 skillful years my truthful cat Cosmo, who starred inward Sketching 365, is coming to the cease of his life. It's 24-hour interval past times 24-hour interval at the 2nd - with every 24-hour interval after the cease of this calendar month beingness a bonus. Early this calendar week he was actually downward in addition to today he's been (relatively speaking) quite perkie - in addition to I'm upward in addition to downward with him also....

If I disappear for a piece you'll know why.

Cosmo asleep - drawn using a pen in addition to ink app on my iPad Mini

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