4 March 2012: Who's Made A Order This Week?
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| A immature Neoregelia Scarlet Charlotte coloured pencils 7.5" x 11.5" copyright Katherine Tyrrell - all rights reserved |
Here's my post nearly the submission procedure lastly Monday Society of Botanical Artists Submission Day - together with a botanical egg. Do allow me know who else has had their run selected likewise - peculiarly if y'all can't larn to the exhibition together with would similar your run photographed 'in situ'.
During my calendar week off I continued to sense problems alongside both my eyes together with my drawing hand. I'd been resisting the inevitable determination that I can't produce detailed run anymore. Or at to the lowest degree until I larn the op together with receive got build novel lenses - together with hence I demand to stick to my "colour field" approach to botanical artwork for at nowadays together with sketchier approach for everything else. Either that or I demand to start working much bigger!
Artists together with Art Blogs
Artists
- I missed The Culture Show Special - Andrew Marr alongside David Hockney on The Art of Seeing - but it's downloading correct at nowadays together with I'll live watching it at nowadays subsequently I've finished this post!
- This is an ArtsDesk review of the programme David Hockney: The Art of Seeing, BBC Two
- This (surprise, surprise Daily Mail!) article provides images of drawings together with etchings past times David Hockney - Sketched self-portrait of David Hockney equally a teenager sells at auction for £22,500
Botanical Art
- Amicus Botanicus is a pocket-sized together with late formed botanical fine art society. It was created past times xi enthusiastic graduates of the 2004 Botanical Painting Diploma Course at The English linguistic communication Gardening School. (For information nearly its exhibition inwards May encounter fine art monastic enjoin exhibitions below)
- Last calendar week I discovered that the Société Française d’Illustration Botanique receive got a Facebook page and a Twitter account and their website is on its way
- Japanese spatial design graduate turned artist Meet the correspondents: Katherine Tyrrell. Other members are Adebanji Alade, James Hobbs, Barry Jackson, Olha Pryymak, together with Zhenia Vasiliev (ex-Moscow correspondent for USK). I wrote nearly it together with the people involved on my sketchbook blog The novel 'Urban Sketchers London' blog
- John Wright (Get Drawing - Five Tips to Break Sketcher’s Block
- The Big Draw at nowadays has its rattling ain weblog on Blogger - The Big Draw weblog - nevertheless I intend whoever is doing it hasn't quite got the manus of resizing images for the web!
- Painting is re-emerging inwards the Great Britain equally an of import agency of creating fine art according to a Telegraph article - Damien Hirst: has stupor fine art lost its bite?
- Many congrats to Tracy Helgeson (New York State, USA) who sold 26 of her paintings at the opening of her novel present lastly nighttime - see Mini-Art at The Harrison Gallery March 2012. My jaw dropped when I saw she was showing 100 pocket-sized paintings together with seven large ones - but I justice together with so they're this size you'd demand a lot. You tin give notice see all the artwork inwards the present here - y'all mightiness desire to live similar people on Sabbatum together with purchase to a greater extent than than one! :) Tracy has reinvented her blogs together with Works past times Tracy has morphed into The Painter's Farm where at that spot is much verbalize of goats!
People were buying 2 together with iii at a time, 1 distich bought 6! Everyone was having fun making lilliputian groupings of them.......
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| Paintings © Tracey Helgeson |
- Colin Allbrook RI
- There's a nifty interview alongside artist Sophie Ploeg on Call for Entries for £30,000 Threadneedle Prize 2012 - which aims to attract the rattling best inwards novel figurative together with representational prototype together with sculpture past times Great Britain together with European artists. My post tells y'all nearly the prize together with unpicks the process
- Better larn your submission create if you're wanting to submit to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - closing appointment for entries is the terminate of this calendar month - encounter RA Summer Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries
- RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2012 - Review is nearly my see to exhibition of the Royal Watercolour Society's Annual Art Competition where all the industrial plant come upwardly from the opened upwardly submission. Well worth going to encounter if y'all bask watercolour
- The Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists opened at the Mall Galleries on 29th February. I've non seen it yet but promise to produce so early on this calendar week - fifty-fifty if I larn drenched! There are a number of talks together with demonstrations scheduled for this side past times side calendar week - encounter the website for to a greater extent than info. James Horton, the President, has an article entitled "High Society" inwards the March 2012 number of Artists & Illustrators mag which describes the pick of artwork for this exhibition.
- If y'all similar watercolour y'all should start planning to see London for the 200th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters inwards Water Colours Midweek xiv - Dominicus 25 March 2012. This is their weblog Artists of the RI
- Botanical fine art lovers volition desire to know that Amicus Botanicus is holding an exhibition called Amicus Botanicus - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 New Leaf at 54, The Gallery, Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London WIJ 7QX betwixt 14-20th May.
- Drawing Now Paris - the Contemporary Drawing Fair is the commencement European fine art fair devoted alone to contemporary drawing. You tin give notice encounter it at the Carousel of the Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris. This is the shopping/exhibition inwards the Louvre Palace below the drinking glass pyramid. It's opne to Blue Planet betwixt 29 March together with 1 April.
Life Drawing
- I've signed upwardly to produce a life flat on twenty Apr at the National Portrait Gallery together with I larn to pull Sue Tilley who was Freud's Model for Benefit Supervisor sleeping. I'm actually pleased because when I met her at the PV for the Freud exhibition I call upwardly thinking she'd live terrific fun to draw.
- Richard McKinley (Pastel Pointers) has been writing a serial of posts nearly pastel techniques
Copyright infringement
I've larn a consummate Pinterest bore this week! However at fourth dimension I've felt rattling inclined to start a "civil rights for images" campaign!
- Let's STOP ("stop taking our pictures") accepting that images e'er larn taken!
- Let's STOP beingness passive victims of bad behaviour!
- Would y'all but bring it if soul mugged y'all inwards the street?
- Why produce nosotros together with so bring people taking our images without bespeak permission?
- what Pinterest has to tell nearly copyright
- the basics nearly copyright, fair purpose together with Blue Planet domain
- commentary nearly "the number alongside the images" from a number of unlike perspective - the lawyers, the geeks, line of piece of work organisation journals, the newspapers, the fine art line of piece of work organisation blogs together with me
- tips together with tutorials for those needing a fleck of assistance alongside watermarks
- This post on Business Insider sets out the nub of the number - Pinterest Might Be Enabling Massive Copyright Theft. It contains a FAQ interview which focuses on whether the purpose of the images past times Pinterest is transformative together with tin give notice thence live declared fair purpose (eg Google Images is transformative - it creates thumbnails - together with has been declared to live "fair use" inwards a Court of Law). (BTW This is also the mag which has identified that the p*rn manufacture has moved into Pinterest - Yuk!).
- This post Is Pinterest a Haven for Copyright Violations? past times Ellen Brundige (Greekgeek) also provides an fantabulous introduction to the nature of the occupation - a recommended read.
- Standing at the crossroads of what's yours is mine is a rattling idea provoking post on Crafthaus. It discusses how the prototype of the artwork is the production ie what actually interests people - NOT the artwork itself. The number beingness the prototype is to a greater extent than valuable than the artwork. That gives the quondam encephalon cells a mental stretch - but read the post twice together with for me it made consummate sense within the electrical current context.
- Kirsten Kowalski, who's a lawyer equally good equally a photographer, told me her bandwidth had been completely blasted (200 GB) together with her site crashed subsequently her legal analysis of the province of affairs inwards this post Is the Pinterest Problem Really a Problem? - Art Biz Blog
- How Artists Can Harness the Power of Pinterest - Art Biz Blog (written but earlier the viral surge re Pinterest together with copyright infrongement)
- Artists upset alongside Pinterest over copyright issues together with alleged copyright infringement? - FineArtViews Blog past times FASO
- Photographers receive got been campaigning for a rattling long fourth dimension of the demand to recognise that their belongings - inwards price of digital files - needs to live protected. PhotoMetadata was created past times the Stock Artists Alliance together with is a site which is a dwelling line of piece of work solid to the crusade together with diverse tutorials nearly how to protect your images.
- However I'm wondering how many of those who embed their copyright information into their images are aware that it is removed past times rattling many sites. The Top 12 Myths nearly Embedded Photo Metadata is a recommended read for everybody who is putting photos of their artwork on the Internet.
As of belatedly 2010, over one-half of the diverse social media or photograph sharing sites either take away all embedded metadata on upload, or take away it from images that are processed to intermediate preview together with thumbnail images.Opinion Polls
the Copyright Notice, Source, Creator, together with Contact Info, comprise what is referred to equally "Copyright Management Information" together with removal of these is against the police inwards the U.S. of A. of America nether the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)
The Top 12 Myths nearly Embedded Photo Metadata
Pinterest hijacked the normal end/start of the calendar month routine re the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Opinion Poll together with I'll live remedying that inwards the coming week.
Internet, webware together with blogging
- Picnik is closing inwards April. For those looking for an choice together with without the budget to live afford the total blown version of Photoshop, I receive got to tell I'm rattling happy alongside Photoshop Elements - although I've yet to upgarde to v10.
I've only but noticed but my weblog obviously went through 2 MILLION page views a piece back. It's a number which is so large it's slightly mind-numbing. Many cheers to everybody who has visited together with commented on my posts - it's your back upwardly which keeps me going.......
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