14Th October 2012 - Who's Made A Orbit This Week?

Killing Time yesteryear David Poxon
watercolour, 18"x27"
Finalist at the Shanghai Watercolour Biennial
© David Poxon

This calendar week I'm starting alongside a watercolour contest which hasn't been mentioned on this weblog before.

Artists from 62 countries this twelvemonth entered watercolour paintings for the The Shanghai Zhujiajiao International Watercolour Biennial Exhibition - the exclusively international watercolour contest held inwards China.  The aim of the contest is to educate the fine art of watercolour paradigm inwards mainland People's Republic of China yesteryear bringing them into contact alongside the finest watercolour artists from roughly the globe - together with their paintings!

The artists who painted the xv paintings alongside the most votes are awarded a cash prize of CNY30,000 (around US$4,700) addition a provide economic scheme bird airfare to Shanghai to attend the opening accommodation together with meals to enable them to attend the opening of the exhibition inwards November.  The winner of the contest gets a full laid of 232 Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors Collection worth nearly $4k.

David Poxon RI NWS this calendar week sent me a listing of laurels winners - together with he's i of them. All except Charles Reid volition endure attending the opening celebration inwards November.

• Anna Ivanova Russia
• Andrew Kish III USA
• Alexander Kryushyn Ukarine
• Dean Mitchell USA depository fiscal establishment check out the website - I've non seen i alongside a domicile page similar that before!  You tin watch a documentary virtually him together with his fine art - I honey his paintings of people - he reminds me of Wyeth
• Ross Paterson Australia
• David Poxon U.K.  David was elected as a signature fellow member of the prestigious National Watercolor Society of America (NWS) inwards August
• Charles Reid USA  I'm a long term large fourth dimension fan of this fabulous painter
• Joseph Zbukvic Commonwealth of Australia - cause got a hold back at his studio!  If you lot hold back at the notes below his paintings you'll encounter he's providing tips on how to hit operate similar this.

The links inwards the names higher upward are to the websites of these master copy watercolourists - definitely worth taking a hold back at!

15 shades of black of pastels, pencils together with ink. Coloured Pencils

• Congrats to all those who won the summit prizes for best inwards the Annual UKCPS Open International Exhibition - for both coloured pencils together with mixed media respectively.  You tin read the listing - together with my observations virtually the exhibition - inwards my Review - UKCPS 11th Annual Open International Exhibition 2012
• Iceland: made it together with back!  This came afterwards the worst of all locomote nightmares - losing the passport Iceland, interrupted
• I wrote virtually my see to Hampton Court Palace together with its 300 twelvemonth quondam Yew Trees - they're massive, they're conical together with they're 300 years old!  There are endless sketching opportunities there.

Yews at Hampton Court Palace, Oct 2012
pen together with ink together with coloured pencils, 8" x 10" inwards Moleskine Sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

Landscapes

• Have you lot e'er noticed how a lot of people look to pigment for sure places - I decided to start a website where I'm aiming to include all The Best Art Books virtually London together with the River Thames.  I've started yesteryear alongside my Book Review: Spanning the Thames (which includes lots of links to the websites of people who pigment landscapes!)

Painting

• I came across an creative individual who's novel to me this calendar week whose paintings I actually like.  Michael Bennallack Hart is an English linguistic communication creative individual who paints landscapes inwards crude together with pastels - most are of landscapes inwards the southern counties.  American artists mightiness desire to cause got a hold back at his gallery of American paintings - which generally look to endure virtually California. Ditto those living inwards Italy mightiness desire to hold back at the 2 galleries of Italian Paintings I together with II. He triggered something inwards my caput virtually what I've had inwards hear to hit alongside my work.
• An article inwards the Daily Mail Revealed: The real-life muses Norman Rockwell.  The modern twenty-four hours equivalent who springs to hear is James Gurney (Gurney Journey)...
• ...who has written a rattling helpful weblog post virtually Painting inwards Bright Light

Art Business & Marketing

Marketing fine art via Facebook

• I encounter that a divulge of artists, similar me, had non seen The Facebook Guide to Facebook Pages earlier they laid their Facebook Pages.
• This includes the Facebook Page Tip: "Publish visually engaging Page posts" - which is good worthwhile paying attending to equally posts alongside a paradigm demonstrate teach twice the audience of other posts 
• CNET has too had a teach at Let's Wrap The Whole Thing Up! on Gatepost Pictures
• Joanne Mattera Marketing Mondays: Exhibition Options. H5N1 Recap

Art Economy together with Art Collectors

• I came across a staggering statistic virtually fine art galleries participating inwards fine art fairs in What's a Fair Worth? Investigating the Economy of the New Event-Driven Art World in BlouinArtInfo.  When you lot intend virtually it busy people are natural springtime to similar fine art fairs equally they tin brand their viewing of alternative options much to a greater extent than time-efficient

Most reported that fine art fairs lonely line of piece of job concern human relationship for an average of lx per centum — together with equally much equally xc per centum — of their total business.

• Alyson Stanfield (Gentle Persistence Pays Off when it comes to communicating alongside fine art collectors
• David Batty at the Guardian observes that U.S. galleries are moving into London - see US fine art dealers brand London scene a battleground

The Menu for the Awards Dinner

Art Competitions

• I had a neat fourth dimension at the Awards Dinner for the Threadneedle Prize on Wed nighttime together with saw a human win the summit laurels - the £30,000 Threadneedle Prize - for the get-go fourth dimension inwards v years for an artwork where key ingredients were java together with tea.  See Threadneedle Prize 2012 - the Award Winners.  Interestingly the winners of both the Threadneedle Prize together with the People's Choice Awards were sculptures!

Art Exhibitions

Exhibitions inwards the UK

• Review: Cotman inwards Normandy - at Dulwich Picture Gallery
• Hockney to Hogarth: H5N1 Rake’s Progress (6 Oct 2012 – three Feb 2013) opened at the Whitworth Art Gallery inwards Manchester

David Hockney’s entire impress serial H5N1 Rake’s Progress (1961-1963) joins William Hogarth’s eighteenth-century serial of the same title, which has been inwards the Whitworth’s collection since 1926. To celebrate the meeting of these neat works, this exhibition showcases both versions, unravelling their tales of transformation, youth, sexual regain together with unrequited love.

Art Society Exhibitions inwards the UK

• The 75th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers runs from:
• 20th September 2012 to 20th Oct 2012 at Art Jericho Gallery, vi King Street, Oxford OX2 6DP. 

Art Exhibitions inwards the USA

• Here's a slideshow of "Dürer And Beyond: Central European Drawings In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, 1400-1700"

Exhibitions inwards Australia

• Capturing Flora: 300 years of Australian botanical art is at the Art Gallery of Ballerat until 2 Dec 2012, 9am to 5pm

Art Education

Tutor vacancy

• The A petty virtually Nicolai Fechin
• 'Lucian wanted us to cause got a baby' is the championship of an interview alongside Celia Paul, i of Freud's ex lovers. (Her boy is the artist Frank Paul)