22Nd April 2012: Who's Made A Rank This Week?
Thursday, 19 March 2020
art,
art apps,
art blogs,
exhibition,
exhibition review,
landscape painting,
plein air,
who's made a mark this week?
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| A Postcard from my Walk projection Postcards sent past times Katherine Tyrrell |
You tin shipping away encounter the paradigm Ronell made of my postcards above. It looks equally if I similar drawing trees side past times side to water! Do click it to encounter a much larger paradigm of all the postcards which are immediately inwards diverse countries around the world.
The employment for this postal service this calendar week is I wasn't inwards London for one-half of it!
I got dorsum from my brusque pause inwards the middle of the week. Then when I got dorsum I was doing things - similar seeing the annual exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists or tending a life drawing workshop linked to the Lucian Freud Portraits Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. I'll go posting some of my drawings from the flush this side past times side week.
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| Sue Tilley - who modelled for Benefits Supervisor Sleeping - which sold for $33m inwards 2008 was the model for the life drawing degree at the National Portrait Gallery |
Art Blogs - Plein Air Convention
So my references to artists blogs this calendar week volition focus on the recent Plein Air Convention which had a lot of bloggers attending.Plein Air Convention
The 1st Annual Plein Air Convention together with Expo was held over 4 days between Apr 12-15th, 2012 at the Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa just exterior Las Vegas inwards the picturesque Nevada desert. I get together it was a large success. My friend Louise went hence I've already heard something nearly how it went. It wasn't simply icon together with included Eric Rhoads' Marketing Boot Camp and a merchandise demo for the fine art suppliers. Here are comments past times others who also attended what looks similar the outset of many.
- Michael Chesley Johnson (A Plein Air Painter's Blog) had a distich of posts
This has been a peachy convention. Over the weekend, I ran into a lot of onetime friends together with folks I've met over the years: Anne Laddon, Kim Lordier, Margi Lucena, Anita Louise West, Scott Prior, Brad Holt, Ed Terpening, Jeanne Mackenzie, Paul Kratter, Scott Gellatly...the listing goes on, together with I apologize if I've omitted anyone!
- Lynn Whipple (a pic of a distich of her pastel paintings in situ together with hence the paintings themselves in Las Vegas Plein Air #1&2, Soft Pastels on Canson, 9"x12"
- Becky Joy (Becky Joy Fine Art) painted Yuccas at Red Rock, Nevada
- Marina Laliberte (Plein Air Convention inwards Las Vegas 2012
- Brian Mark Taylor was ane of the artists who did a demonstration at the Convention
- Karen Margulis came dorsum alongside a commitment to pigment plein air - see Why We Need to Paint en Plein Air) - together with to practise 5 stone oil studies a calendar week which she volition go posting to her Miles of Canvas blog
- You tin shipping away also check out Plein Air Convention on Facebook
- Here's the Plein Air Magazine video of the lawsuit - plus this is one artist's video of the event
- It seems probable that side past times side year's lawsuit volition go held the same calendar week - but inwards Monterey, California.
iPad sketching
- Here are 2 sketches of the same dependent area thing - my mother's magnolia together with garden inwards Apr - both on Travels alongside a Sketchbook
- one is on newspaper - The magnolia inwards April
- and the other was created on my iPad together with comes consummate alongside Brushes iPad video to Blogger via YouTube - Apr garden inwards Cheshire
- In the latter I tape the procedure of how I got my the sketching actions inwards the Brushes app off my iPad together with to this spider web log postal service via YouTube
Art Business & Marketing
- in Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2012 - Call for Entries has been published
Art Education
- Richard McKinley (Pastel Pointers) has published a distich of posts about
- The Two Ts of Painting | Theory together with Technique, Part 1 | The Contrast Effect which discusses simultaneous contrast
- Pastel Pointers | Commercial Pastel Primers together with Grounds covering manufactured pre-mixed pastel primers/grounds
- Karen Margulis (Painting my World) has tips for plein air artists working inwards pastel - see
- Plein Air Tip #1 Mounting Pastel Paper
- Where to acquire Great Stuff for Your Studio focuses on how to store paper
- I love Linda Blondheim's Artist inwards Residence Project - it's such a proficient thought for plein air landscape artists wanting to expand their sense together with repertoire
Art Exhibitions
Major Museums
- The major exhibition at Tate Britain this tumble volition be the outset major survey of the Pre-Raphaelites together with the biggest demo of their function inwards thirty years. This is the Guardian on the theme of Pre-Raphaelites exhibition celebrates 'revolutionary' art
- The queues for the Hockney exhibition at the RA continued until the really destination - see Hockney is bigger than Van Gogh! I went to the finally nighttime for my 4th see together with the house was packed.
Regional UK
- For those who savour watercolour, there's an exhibition of function past times Albert Goodwin RWS (1845-1932) at the Young Gallery, Salisbury until 26 May 2012. You tin shipping away encounter an online exhibition of Albert Goodwin's work on the Chris Beetles website. I know Chris is of the catch that Albert Goodwin is ane of the finest watercolour painters the Britain has always produced. Goodwin trained alongside the pre-Raphaelites, was inspired past times Turner together with supported past times Ruskin.
Art Societies UK
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| Part of the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists |
- The Society of Botanical Artists' 27th Annual Exhibition at Central Hall Westminster prompted these posts past times me
- Botanical art, watercolour together with fine art societies in which I asked why the first-class watercolour artists who pigment botanical fine art practise non bring together watercolour societies
- 27th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists - which reviews the show
- Certificates of Botanical Merit at SBA 2012 reveals the artists together with images which this twelvemonth won the coveted CBM
- There volition go 2 to a greater extent than spider web log posts side past times side calendar week volition go nearly the prizewinners together with an interview with Fiona Strickland
- UK Coloured Pencil Society - 'The 10th 'World of Coloured Pencil' Exhibition 2012 opens at the The Cumberland Pencil Museum, Keswick, CA12 5NG inwards the Lake District side past times side Sunday, 29th April. The exhibition finishes on Sabbatum 26th May.
Regional - Europe
- Paradises together with Landscapes on The Art of the Landscape provides an overview of the exhibition at the Museum Carmen Thyssen inwards Malaga - runs until Oct 2012. This Art Daily article also comments on the exhibition Exhibition of paradises together with landscapes inwards the Thyssen Collection opens inwards Málaga
Major Museums USA
- There's a lot of involvement inwards a New York Times article nearly it. It is preceded by
- “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” a monumental 12-part sculptural suite past times Ai Weiwei which is installed around the perimeter of the springtime on the museum’s plaza. The function volition go on catch from Apr xix until Feb. 24, 2013.
- the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery volition acquaint “Perspectives: Ai Weiwei” from May 12 to Apr 7, 2013 and
- the Corcoran Gallery of Art volition exhibit “Untitled,” from September 22 to Jan 13, 2013.
- The exhibition “Dürer together with Beyond" covers Central European Drawings inwards The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400–1700 (April 3–September 3, 2012). This is the New York Times article nearly the exhbition - A Master Opens the Door to an Empire. This link takes you lot to images of some of the plant inwards the show. One mightiness intend this "Small Piece of Turf" peradventure prompted the thought of Dürer's Great Piece of Turf but for the fact the latter was painted by Dürer some 80+ years earlier!
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| A Small Piece of Turf (1584) Hans Hoffmann (German, Nuremberg ca. 1545/1550–1591/1592 Prague) Brush alongside gouache together with watercolor over traces of charcoal underdrawing Dürer together with Beyond: Central European Drawings inwards The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400–1700 |
Art Galleries together with Museums
- Before my pause I took at await at the Top thirty fine art galleries together with museums inwards 2011 and identified the go on 5 cities for visiting fine art galleries together with museums.
Art Supplies
- Thanks to the PSA Facebook grouping I learned nearly the next video - Video - Sennelier Colours past times Dominique Sennelier - inwards which the grandson of the human who founded Sennelier talks nearly the diverse products together with how they are made
Publishing Art Books
- Ever wondered why the toll of ebooks is hence high? Those thinking nearly publishing fine art books mightiness similar to accept a await at this postal service The Agency Model sucks on A Newbie's Guide to Publishing. It discusses the human relationship betwixt the toll of ebooks, Amazon together with the large publishers
Internet, apps, webware together with blogging
spider web browsers
- Statcounter announced inwards March that its stats showed that Chrome was the world's issue ane browser for a day. Its increment has been phenomenal (unlike Google+) . I personally siwtched because it was much faster.
iPad apps
- Karen Margulis gives an iPad app "Paper" a rave review.
and finally......
The Princes Foundation for Children together with the Arts created a Face Britain art project
This is an interesting article talking nearly how the projection worked
The projection has also organised the creation of portraits past times celebrities together with famous artists which are beingness auctioned to back upwards function alongside disadvantaged children acrothe UK. There are to go 2 auctions and you tin shipping away encounter images from the two auctions here.
Face Britain is the UK’s largest always majority collaborative fine art project, designed past times The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts, to celebrate the nation’s children together with immature people during the Pb upwards to HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee together with the London 2012 Olympic together with Paralympic Games.This finally week, children's artwork generated past times the projection has been used to practise huge images of the Queen projected onto the facade of Buckingham Palace. Thousands of children's self-portraits were roofing Buckingham Palace every nighttime until Saturday. More than 200,000 self-portraits possess got been crested to render imagery at every venue around the country.
This is an interesting article talking nearly how the projection worked
The projection has also organised the creation of portraits past times celebrities together with famous artists which are beingness auctioned to back upwards function alongside disadvantaged children acrothe UK. There are to go 2 auctions and you tin shipping away encounter images from the two auctions here.
- eBay from 3-13 May, where nosotros volition auction self-portraits from celebrities including Cilla Black, Adele, Alan Rickman, Jamie Oliver together with many more.
- Christies - nine May: a really exceptional auction to sell the artists’ self-portraits, including plant past times Tracey Emin together with Maggi Hambling.
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