19Th August 2012 - Who's Made A Score This Week?

I'm sitting writing this slowly at nighttime on the footing I idea it mightiness go cooler.  It's non - as well as I mightiness merely convey to complete this tomorrow.

It's been 3 weeks since the finally "who's made a score this week" as well as I'm currently recovering from an excess of the Olympics as well as living inwards a weird limbo province before the Paralympics start upward at the terminate of the month.  I alive ii miles from the Olympic Stadium as well as it was really strange watching all those fireworks in the opening as well as closing ceremonies both through the window behind my tv at the same fourth dimension every bit I aw them on the box.

I was amused past times this ship service on the Etsy blog Noted: When Artists Competed at the Olympics.

Artists as well as Art Blogs

'The Day is Done" past times David Poxon
26"x37", watercolour
appearing at OK Harris Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
September/October 2012

Congratulation to David Poxon RI (Art of the Real) and David J Teter (Avid Art), two regular readers of this weblog who convey both been elected to the National Watercolour Society.

David Teter's weblog post Spot-Lighted is most the ikon below which is inwards the 92nd Annual Exhibition of the National Watercolour Society

"PHL Sulfur Pile" (2012) by David J Teter
watercolor on illustration board, 18" x 27" (45.72cm 68.58x cm)
Currently inwards Annual Exhibition of the National Watercolor Society

Critics

This is my weblog ship service most the driblet dead of the Australian fine art critic as well as writer Robert Hughes -
Robert Hughes (1938 - 2012) volition go missed

Drawing as well as Sketching

• After a fleck of a lull I've been sketching a lot latterly as well as am currently means behind amongst posting!  These convey been posted on Travels amongst my Sketchbook 
• Tea at the Orangery, Kew Gardens 
• Rowing Frenzy inwards Victoria Park
• Two views across the Millennium Bridge & 'Tales from the Bridge' Soundscape
• Mansion Pond at Wakehurst Place
• Urban Sketchers London convey announced their side past times side Sketchcrawl - inwards Greenwich Park on 15th September 2012.  That's the house where y'all watched all the horses jumping over fences as well as dancing around the dressage telephone during the Olympics.  That's my sketch from the finally fourth dimension I sketched sat on the loma inwards Greenwich Park on the poster below!

• Andrea Joseph (Andrea Joseph's Sketchblog) as well as Lynne Chapman (An Illustrator's Life For Me!) both went on a recent sketchcrawl inwards the Yorkshire Sculpture Park - I'd convey loved to convey been amongst them.  Take a hold off at these for some smashing sketches of fascinating dependent land matter
• let us non speak falsely now, the hour's getting late
• SketchCrawl at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

The alone i of its kind, Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an international centre for modern as well as contemporary art, experienced as well as enjoyed past times thousands of visitors every year.

• Albrecht Rissler has been teaching workshops latterly as well as his Sketching Artists weblog is total of sketches I beloved - artists working drawn past times an creative soul inwards wonderful, fluid as well as economical lines.  You tin reckon the artists on his Drawing inwards the landscape - a schoolhouse of perceptions course of written report inwards his Drawing landscapes blog.  You tin read most the courses inwards his weblog for the course of written report students Drawing inwards the Landscape.  I'm hugely impressed past times the run that was produced.
• Jeanette Jobson (The Working Tools
• A duet of Urban Sketchers posts which stood out for me:
• Sketching inwards jail
• A Big Sketch on the Cloth

Painting

• I've been interested to reckon how many artists who I reckon exhibiting at the Mall Galleries are starting fourth dimension to pursue the fine art of blogging.  This is the weblog of Pete the Street - every bit Peter Brown is known - which he started before this year.  It's practiced to reckon that Pete has at nowadays managed to conquer the fine art of the epitome upload then that we're getting some smashing sketches of NEAC commission meetings as well as paintings of the Jubilee pageant amongst his posts (see below for his latest exhibition amongst Jane Corsellis)
• I'm hugely enjoying the sharing if wisdom learned over a lifetime as well as the writing of my friend Louise Sackett on her novel weblog Plein Speaking.  She also makes me smiling a lot. Here's a duet of posts:
• Don't go a Lone Ranger
• Letting Go Of What's Holding You Back

Art History

• You acquire lots as well as lots of images when y'all review the posts on the Poul Webb blog.  I'd beloved to know how he sources them.
• Which promoted A review of Thomas Moran on The Art of the Landscape

Art Business & Marketing

• My weblog ship service about Advice on Shipping Art as well as Crafts
• A really audio slice of advice from Alyson Stanfield (Why I Never Advise You To Follow Your Passion
• Plus a smashing ship service from Liz Crain on Alyson's weblog - Ripping Through the Veils of Illusion Around Online Art Marketplaces
• How to toll paintings by Stephen Doherty, the Editor of Outdoor Painter 
• Pricing Strategies: How to Price Your Product or Service–To Avoid Killing Your Business by Erica Douglas (erica.biz)- this is a really generic ship service but a position out of the points made are really relevant to artists

ArtWork Archive is software designed for those who consigns pictures to galleries as well as exhibitions - but convey they got the pricing right?

This is a digest of weblog law written past times an attorney who blogs

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Art Books

• These are The Best New Art Books: May - July 2012
• Some of y'all may know Dover Books every bit a beginning of books most images from the past. I ain a position out of them as well as they're a jolly practiced purchase if y'all merely desire to hold off at images - especially drawings from the past.  I never knew they had a store inwards Covent Garden but champaign The Dover Bookshop is located at xviii Earlham Street.

Art Exhibitions

Tate Modern as well as the Millennium Bridge from the Thames Pathway
11.5" x 16", pen as well as ink as well as coloured pencils
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

Major Art Galleries

• This is my Review: Damien Hirst at Tate Modern.  One department is titled "The formaldehyde years"
• Designed to Impress: Highlights from the impress collection at The Fitzwilliam Museum inwards Cambridge finishes on eighth October.  If y'all can't acquire to it the website is worth a look.

Art Societies

• This is my ship service most the Coloured Pencil Society of America Annual Exhibition 2012 - Awardwinners.  The exhibition continues until 30th August.
• The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers are having the RE Open until 2 September 2012

The RE Open is a build novel printmaking exhibition, selected from a large opened upward submission past times a distinguished grouping of artists, academics, curators, impress dealers as well as collectors. The exhibition comprises an exciting alternative of run from the Britain as well as overseas, including installation pieces, artists' books as well as wall mounted pieces. All run is for sale.

• FBA Futures will showcase the Federation of British Artists' pick of the 2012 arts grade shows inwards the novel Threadneedle Space at the Mall Galleries.  It's the initiatory of all fourth dimension I tin retrieve that the FBA convey made such an overt as well as similar a shot link amongst fine art students
• The Hesketh Hubbard Art Society Annual Exhibition is at the Mall Galleries betwixt Tue 21 - Saturday 25 August 2012
• The Surrey Sculpture Society Trail is at RHS Wisley from 25 August to xxx September

Artists as well as Art Bloggers

• The Albany Gallery inwards Cardiff is having a two-man demo roofing the paintings of ii members of NEAC - Peter Brown as well as Jane Corsellis (17th August 2012 to eighth September 2012)
• Anne Blankson-Hemans, i of the artists on Show me the Monet has been raising the coin for her side past times side exhibition Sunshine as well as Music through a crowd-sourcing website. 

Art Education

• My ship service most fine art pedagogy for teenagers sponsored past times the BP portrait Award - BP Portrait Award: Inspiring portraits past times teenagers

The rut has beaten me.  Come dorsum tomorrow to read an update which volition include the residual of this section!

Art History

• There was a major measuring forrard amongst major fine art gallery websites finally calendar week - reckon my ship service about How to obtain costless images from the National Portrait Gallery
• Albrecht Durer invented apparatus to accomplish right perspective in drawings- yet this weblog article asks Poll Results: Is Facebook replacing Forums for Artists?  It reveals that reveals that around 75% of respondents convey a Facebook Account but alone a 3rd of artists actively marketplace their fine art on facebook.
• This is my ANNUAL POLL: What's the best house to sell fine art inwards the finally year? - which is separate into ii polls inwards the right manus column focusing on turnover as well as profit.  The betoken of having an annual poll is to endeavour as well as abide by trends inwards the best places to generate fine art sales

Techies

• I asked What estimator skills do artists need? and the ship service has attracted some interesting comments
• Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox offers advice on SEO as well as Usability - it's a recommended read for those wanting to tweak their websites or blogs to attract the right form of traffic.

and finally......

This is a Bob Ross Remix - Bob Ross PBS Remix Puts Us on ‘Happy Little Cloud’ Nine - courtesy of Mashable 

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