1St April 2012 - Who's Made A Compass This Week?

Cold Spring
6" x 6" watercolor
© Jinghua Gao Dalia

I intend this is the get-go fourth dimension "who's made a score this week" has happened on 1st April. I gauge I should conduct hold planned as well as had a prissy elaborate joke at the ready. However I'm non real practiced at pranks as well as jokes thus y'all needn't bother looking for ane because in that location isn't one!

I was likewise out for the solar daytime inward the sunshine virtually every solar daytime in conclusion week (we've only had the 3rd hottest March since records began!) thus non a lot of fourth dimension for reading - but I caught a few items of note.

Art Blogs as well as Artists

We know that some artists demand a piffling assist inward creating their artwork . I establish this article inward the Guardian 'I'd similar xi as well as a one-half tons of resin, please': the artisans behind the artists to live absolutely fascinating

The moral scandalise – the thought that we're all beingness duped because we're paying all this coin as well as the work's non beingness made yesteryear the artists themselves – is ridiculous. What's to a greater extent than interesting is whether a slice is practiced or bad.

Drawing as well as Sketching

I spent 3 days in conclusion calendar week sketching - but at my charge per unit of measurement of getting sketches on to my spider web log y'all powerfulness conduct hold to hold back a spell to run into them all! However I did larn a span upward in conclusion week:

A Postcard from my Walk is coming to an halt - nevertheless I intend there's a conduct chances it volition reinvent itself

Coloured Pencils as well as Pastels

I've got a botanical epitome inward Ann Kullberg's latest Colored Pencil Artists magazine which focuses on Botanical Art as well as has articles yesteryear United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland Botanical Artists Ann Swan as well as Janie Pirie who both operate inward coloured pencils

Landscapes

I'm pursuing a theme of Sprind Landscapes at the minute - as well as I hold finding artists I'd non come upward across before. Here are in conclusion week's examples:

Painting

I was real impressed this calendar week alongside the operate of Jinghua Gao Dalia on her blog Jinghua Gao Dalia - Brush Magic - which highlights she has over 3 decades of Chinese watercolor brush epitome experience. You tin run into the type of epitome she does inward the images at the top of this post as well as below. I honey her peony as well as paintings of minor birds.

Soaring High
© Jinghua Gao Dalia 2012
6" x 6" watercolor
courtesy Jinghua Gao Dalia

Sherrie York had me inward stitches alongside her tale of The Adventures of Use-Only-Five-Colors Woman! on Brush as well as Baren. I hit similar an creative somebody who knows how to write!

Portraiture

Jonathan Jones writes that David Hockney's Stephen Hawking portraits pull greats together. The rarely-seen 1978 portrait yesteryear David Hockney is on display every bit utilization of Stephen Hawking: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 70th Birthday celebration - click the link to run into both Hockney as well as the portrait. There is likewise a novel iPad portrait of Hawking on display every bit well
What is a portrait? is rather funny every bit good every bit beingness educational. Artists, curators as well as staff at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery were asked to attempt to depict what a portrait is. As y'all tin run into it's non slow when you're set on the location - fifty-fifty if y'all hit operate at the SNPG!

Art Business as well as Marketing

artbizblog) - has been late celebrating its tenth birthday - as well as had a special compendium post for readers - Top 10 Marketing Advice Newsletters from Art Biz Coach
Luann Udell (Favorite Source for Business Cards - I hit handgrip alongside her on the value of postcards every bit good every bit line of piece of work organisation cards. I somehow never care to lose the postcards I larn given!

Art Competitions

The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize - encourage creative representational epitome as well as promote the science of draughtsmanship. - threatened to conduct hold over my spider web log this calendar week alongside 3 posts. However I hit know that these are interesting to those who motion into - or intend most entering Art Competitions inward the UK - thus hither are the posts inward order

Art Exhibitions

Major Exhibitions UK

David Hockney RA: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy closes on ninth April. I've seen it 3 times immediately - as well as desire to larn over again earlier it finishes. It thus moves to the Guggenheim Museum inward Bilbao where it volition opened upward on May 15th as well as live on display until 30th December
The Damien Hirst retrospective opens at Tate Modern on 4 Apr as well as continues until ix September. This is the BBC slideshow of images of the exhibition

The exhibition volition include iconic sculptures from his Natural History series, including 'The Physical Impossibility of Death inward the Mind of Someone Living' 1991, inward which he suspended a shark inward formaldehyde.

I saw 3 exhibitions briefly at Tate Britain on Fri (the joys of a members ticket!)

In contrast to a number of the reviews which were published I'd say that Picasso as well as Modern British Art (until fifteen July 2012) was worth seeing if entirely to watch the evolution inward British Modern Art. The Picassos are a bonus - peculiarly seeing the drawings as well as how some of the paintings developed. My jaw likewise dropped when I saw some of his real early on paintings
The Tate Britain Commission 2012: Patrick Keiller (until fourteen Oct 2012) is a must run into - if entirely to appreciate alternative ways of displaying art. It was excellent, an conception as well as all inward all quite a revelation. Pity the labelling wasn't on a par. Here's a Guardian article most the exhibition which explains why it's a chip unlike - How Patrick Keiller is mapping the 21st-century landscape
I was less impressed alongside Migrations - although it made a real practiced instance for how much added value migrants to the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland conduct hold brought to the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland fine art scene.
You'd intend to expect at the Tate Britain website that the Tate actually didn't desire y'all to watch whatever of these exhibitions. There are much amend ways of using taxpayer's coin to tell people what an exhibition is about

Art Society Exhibitions

The Wapping Group: sketchbooks as well as photos of artists epitome plein air

The Wapping Group of Artists is currently belongings its Annual Exhibition - London as well as Its River - inward the novel Threadneedle Space at the Mall Galleries (until fifth April). I missed it in conclusion twelvemonth as well as in that location seems to conduct hold been some turnover inward members inward the interim. However it's soundless 100% a bloke's epitome group! I must say I preferred the exhibition when it was almost all most the River Thames

Art Exhibitions USA

The Getty Center inward Los Angeles has an exhibition of Renaissance Drawings from Deutschland as well as Switzerland, 1470–1600 March 27–June 17, 2012. This is an article most it inward artdaily - German as well as Swiss masters featured inward newest drawings exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum

Exhibitions involving Art Bloggers as well as Artists mentioned on this blog

Antony Williams - winner of the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2012 has operate inward an upcoming exhibition at Messums which focuses on contemporary representational art. The Hard Won Image can live seen at the Gallery at 8 Cork Street betwixt 3rd as well as 14th April. Other artists include Daphne Todd as well as Saied Dai

the representational survives, as well as fifty-fifty thrives inward contemporary art.

Trevor Chamberlain ROI RSMA is non an fine art blogger but he is a favourite watercolour creative somebody of many of this blog's readers. I was chatting to him at the exhibition yesteryear the Wapping Artists on Fri as well as he and Bert Wright are having an exhibition inward May at Island Fine Arts on the Isle of Wight between 2nd as well as 31st May 2012
Strelitzia reginae
silk epitome © Tessa Spanton

Tessa Spanton (Colours as well as Textures) has a span of exhibitions of her operate coming upward this month

an exhibition of her silk paintings, cards as well as express edition prints at Pashley Manor betwixt 23rd Apr as well as 29th September - run into Paintings at Pashley.
She volition likewise conduct hold iv of her silk paintings inward the annual exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists - run into Botanical Celebration - at Central Hall Westminster 20th-29th Apr 2012

Art Education

Do y'all ever wonder most fine art materials every bit used inward the past. Lost recipes as well as other stories of painting's past focuses on this theme on Two Coats of Paint
Jeanette Jobson has made drawing tutorials available on her website

Art Studio as well as Art Supplies

Richard McKinley (Pastel Pointers) has a post most Commercial Pastel Primers as well as Grounds
Karen Margulis (Painting my World) has written a span of real useful posts most pastels:

first that rare post - most the utilization of fixative alongside pastels - see What I Like About Fixative on Pastels
next she has a actually neat solution for helping students conduct which pastels accommodate them best - using the Dakota sampler box - read all most it in Getting Started alongside Pastels...Choosing a Pastel Set

Copyright

Even if y'all attempt to hit analysis as well as write guidance for others, it's ever real comforting when somebody whose sentiment y'all abide by feels the same means every bit y'all do. Which is the argue for highlighting Kirsten Kowalski's latest post on the Pinterest saga - What aspects of your fine art as well as fine art line of piece of work organisation hit y'all insure? POLL RESULTS. This month's novel poll coming upward tomorrow.

Websites, blogging as well as the Internet

Pat Flynn (The Smart Passive Income Blog) has written A Step Towards Ethical Link Building – What Happened as well as What Now? for those edifice links to their websites or blogs. It's been produced after Google de-indexed thousands of blogs inward blogging networks, as well as wiped out real many paid backlinks that were helping a lot of websites rank high inward the search engines.

and finally......

Matt Cutts (Head of the webspam squad at Google) announced on Twitter today that Google had introduced a Really Advanced Search. It's for sure different!