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2Nd September 2012 - Who's Made A Rank This Week?

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At lastly Daily Paintworks has constitute a goodness role for Pinterest - assuming all the artists are happy close having their artwork pinned!  This is the Daily Paintworks Pinterest concern human relationship - amongst xxx boards for dissimilar categories of art.  The artwork posted to Daily Paintworks is assembled inward groups create for people to persuasion in addition to repin.  It also is a non bad means of looking at all the fine art on the same variety of topic.

24 of the xxx galleries on the Daily Paintworks Pinterest Board
There were ii things which struck me.  First how much ameliorate the master copy paintings are than that commonly seen inward similar galleries on places similar eBay - where many people also sell 'daily paintings'.

I also constitute it interesting to encounter which were the top 10 categories of fine art pinned DPW - although it's hard to tell whether this is a production of the artwork which people similar to make or the artwork that people similar to buy.  In other words is this generated past times the artists or past times the fine art collectors?

The top 10 categories of artwork pinned past times DPW are:
  1. Paintings For Your Kitchen 774 followers, 351 pins
  2. Floral Art 766 followers, 218 pins
  3. Art for Your Living Room 757 followers, 216 pins
  4. People inward Art 760 followers, 146 pins
  5. Feathered Friends inward Art 727 followers, 119 pins
  6. Bright in addition to Cheerful Art 773 followers, 100 pins
  7. Nautical in addition to Seascape Art 759 followers, 98 pins
  8. Paintings for Your Office 746 followers, xc pins
  9. Horses inward Art 736 followers, 89 pins
  10. Animals inward Art 736 followers, 86 pins
The Tate Gallery has also got a Pinterest Board - this is The Tate's Pinterest Top Ten Pin List
However this is also a strictly retail operation!

For me Pinterest makes consummate feel if it's laid up by retailers who desire their images online.  A opposite persuasion close the activities of Pinterest is expressed inward the Copyright department below. 

Artists in addition to Art Blogs

Drawing in addition to Sketching
  • Every straight off in addition to in 1 trial to a greater extent than - I allow out a piffling whoop if in addition to when an arrangement or a somebody who I actually similar in addition to admire "likes" my Facebook page.  Today Book Review: The Pastel Book plus "The Oil Painting Book"
  • Peggy Macnamara: Elements of Drawing/Watercolor is the art weblog of Peggy Macnanara, Artist-in-Residence, Field Museum of Natural History in addition to an Adjunct Associate Professor (2001-present), School of the Art at the Institute of Chicago. Here's her essay/blog post on Drawing-Learning to See Parts inward Relationship in addition to Grasp Composition.
The thing close drawing is that it is close to a greater extent than than drawing. When you lot larn to draw, you lot are learning to encounter parts inward relationship.
Vita Sackville West's Tower at Sissinghurst Castle Garden
pen in addition to ink in addition to coloured pencils inward Moleskine Sketchbook, 11" x 14"
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
Dry Media: Pastels in addition to Coloured Pencils
Painting
Wildlife Art
  • James Gurney (Focus on Nature exhibition. Given the reach of this competition/exhibition I thought I powerfulness exercise a follow upwardly post close this.
  • Irene Brady (Back from South Africa
    • I'm going to weblog this over the class of the side past times side several days, equally I'm all the same sorting the dross from the 2500 photos I took. The photos were inward add-on to sketch/journaling 43 pages inward my sketchbook, amongst a issue of additional pages partly begun in addition to inward line for finishing earlier I tin position it upwardly online.
Art Business & Marketing

Selling Art - the Annual Opinion Poll
  • 2012 Poll Results: What's the best house to sell art? (Part 1) contains the responses to my annual survey call for close where were the best places to sell art.  
    • This fourth dimension I asked people to answer to ii surveys in addition to seat which generated the most revenue in addition to which, later expenses were deducted, generated the most profit.  Both  charts create got also been posted to my Facebook Page for those who'd similar to await at a larger version.  (If you've liked my Facebook Page they should popular upwardly inward your word feed)
    • There volition live some other post this calendar week looking at the v yr tendency re best places to sell art. I was gobsmacked to discovery that The fine art Shop on eBay has lost over 60% of its traffic inward the lastly year.
Selling Art - Art Fairs
  • Lisa Call (Charles Saatchi’s £30 1000000 gift to the land goes begging.  Whereas Jonathan Jones told us all Why it's incorrect to spend upwardly Charles Saatchi's gift to the nation.  I create got a fiscal perspective on it. I remember arts commentators to appointment create got neglected to consider the massive taxation advantages of making a gift to the land in addition to the massive revenue implications for the galleries which accept it on.  I'm non surprised that whatsoever publicly funded fine art gallery wants to live "picky" close which industrial plant they accept when the gift does non come upwardly amongst an endowment to pay for its upkeep.  Therein lies the rub - is it a gift - or is it a means of avoiding the large neb for looking later a collection?
    • Art Competitions
    • Threadneedle Prize 2012: names of selected artists includes links to the websites of the selected artists where these could live identified.  Plus I gained ii extra images for the post past times doing this! For the record, if an creative somebody has a website or a regular gallery which shows their work, most names tin live identified pretty speedily through looking at where the creative somebody comes from in addition to where they are exhibiting - in addition to the degree of go they're doing.  However I exercise create got to go past times on those where I'm non certain which website is correct.
    • Portrait Society of America - 2012 honour winners on Facebook I've identified some of the prizewinners in addition to their websites.
    Art Debate
    Art Exhibitions

    Exhibitions ending soon

    Jenny Saville inward conversation amongst Nicholas Cullinan - Curator of International Modern Art at Tate Modern 29/06/12 from Modern Art Oxford on Vimeo.
    (53 minutes)
    I'm trying to live close to a greater extent than warning to telling people close exhibitions earlier they happen!

    Exhibitions inward London
    • Renaissance to Goya: prints in addition to drawings from Spain is close to opened upwardly at the British Museum in addition to volition run from 20 September 2012 until 6 Jan 2013
    • This is my Review: RE Open - contemporary printmaking at the Bankside Gallery - printmakers wanting to submit go for side past times side yr should banking concern complaint that it achieved a really high standard.  Plus I liked the means they organised the exhibition.
    • Two major printmaking exhibitions inward London are close to open:
      • London Printmakers are at the Bankside Gallery from the Wedesnday 5 - xxx September 2012 - the quote below is from the London printmakers blurb
      • BITE is at the Mall Galleries Mon three - Saturday xv September 2012, Daily 10am-5pm. (but banking concern complaint it's shut all 24-hour interval on nine in addition to 10 September)
    Printmakers, who create Etchings, Lithographs in addition to Linocuts, go straight onto the printing surface, using drawings,sketches in addition to fifty-fifty paintings for reference. This is non a method for reproduction of an original, but a "conversation amongst the medium", a creative procedure that amongst fourth dimension in addition to expertise gives a unique result.
    Art Societies
    Exhibitions inward New York
    Focus on Nature XII is a juried exhibition of natural in addition to cultural history representative that features artwork from around the world. Artists describe biological, geological, in addition to archeological subjects using a broad hit of media, from traditional watercolor to late developed digital techniques. The footing for pick of these industrial plant is scientific accuracy, technical skill, aesthetic qualities, in addition to originality.
    Upcoming Exhibition inward French Republic 2013
    • Les Pastellistes de France June 29-September 1, 2013 in Feytiat, Limousin   Sally Strand and a few other artists has been invited to stand upwardly for the Pastel Society of America as guests of observe at the most prestigious annual exhibition past times the oldest in addition to largest pastel association inward France. 
    Art Education

    Art Books in addition to e-publishing
    Classes in addition to Workshops
    Tips in addition to Techniques
      If you lot don’t create got a studio amongst northward light, you lot demand artificial lighting. Period. You can’t properly pigment your sail without accurate light.
        Art Materials in addition to Supplies 
        • Pastel Demo...I constitute my Stan Sperlak Pastels! Karen Margulis.  I'd never heard of these earlier - but it turns out on reading that this is some other box of pastels selected past times an artist. I similar the thought but I rarely come upwardly across anything informative close artists selections online.  Would that it were different!
        • The Jacksons Art Supplies Newsletter highlighted a FREE online color mixing tool created past times Golden Acrylics.  It industrial plant on whatsoever browser, Mac, PC, iPad or Android. The interface was designed to go on touching screens in addition to then artists tin role it on tablets right at their canvas. It's both fun in addition to frustrating - essay out it in addition to you'll encounter what I mean
        • This is the Ampersand blog - what i similar close it is that it does non bad interviews amongst artists who role their products in addition to provides decent technical posts such as Sealing in addition to Varnishing Art Work on Ampersand Panels
        Copyright
        Techies
        and finally......

        You volition all create got read or heard past times straight off close how an octagenarian lady Cecilia Gimenez approached decided to laissez passer on the Christ icon "Ecce Homo" by Elias Garcia Martinez a "restoration".
        assuming all the artists are happy close having their artwork pinned 2nd September 2012 - Who's made a score this week?

        Apparently thousands are straight off flocking to the church building to live photographed side past times side to the painting!

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