1 July 2012 - Who's Made A Order This Week?

Angus McEwan RSW RWS (Angus McEwan, Scottish Artist) has won the ‘International Prize “Marche d’Acqua” Fabriano Watercolour 2012’ alongside his icon Taking the Strain 

Taking the Strain 2
watercolour on handmade Fabriano, 77 x 56.5cm (Unframed)

© Angus McEwan

"... for extraordinary technical skill, for the masterful role of low-cal too colour, for the splendid mightiness to sympathize too value the paper produced specifically for laurels from paper masters of the paper museum. 

This is a biennial too genuinely international exhibition.  The Paper too Watermark Museum conceived the thought too collborates alongside InArte too Ava (Venetian Watercolour Association) to choose international artists to exhibit inwards the exhibition

The artists participating inwards the exhibition are 51 from all over the globe (15 unlike Countries) of which 21 are immature emerging artists, selected past times the ‘Accademie di Belle Arti Italiane’ too International Art Schools too Accademy for their creativity.

The jurors were international:

• England's David Paskett, President of the British Royal Watercolour Society, 
• the Spaniard Pedro Cano, i of sixty artists invited past times the Vatican on July four in conclusion year, to pay homage to Benedict XVI for the 60th anniversary of his ordination
• Lynn Sures, a professor of the prestigious Corcoran College of Art too Design inwards Washington DC, 
• John Carabelli, president of the Italian watercolor, 
• Angelo and Toni Gorlini Vedù, internationally renowned artists.

Plus the artists came from 15 nations alongside Italy having 35% too the residuum coming from the USA, England, Scotland, Belgium, Spain, France, Finland, Japan, Egypt, South Korea, Portugal, China, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan too Syria.

You tin run into the exhibition inwards the novel gallery at the Paper too Watermark Museum until August 26th and finally - a travelling exhibition is due to see South Korea, Portugal, USA, Espana too Italy between September 2012 too the terminate of 2013.

Artists too Art blogs

This is a bright interview Five Minutes With: Grayson Perry.  My admiration for this human is on an exponential crease at the moment.


Drawing too Sketching

• Instructors are limbering upwards for their workshops inwards the Dominican Republic for the Urban Sketchers Symposium.  Liz Steel is posting her preparations for her trip on her spider web log Liz too Borromini and you lot tin read to a greater extent than inwards the Contributors page on the Symposium portal
• Albrecht Rissler (New drawings of the olive tree close Orient/Mallorca.  Do create got a await at the other posts on his spider web log - he is a fabulous sketcher.
• I posted Lunch inwards the Portrait Restaurant - which stalled halfway through when I recognised somebody who I ofttimes run into on idiot box inwards the background of my sketch!

Lunch at the Portrait Restaurant - June 2012

11" x 16" pen too sepia ink inwards Moleskine sketchbook

Coloured Pencils too Pastels

• Ann Kullberg has position her 13th Annual Members Show online
• Richard McKinley (Pastel Pointers) has a fascinating postal service about 5 Sketching Techniques alongside Glass too Dry Markers
• Nicole Caulfield (Nicole Caulfield) has constitute a novel subject for her coloured pencil artwork involving food.  She's taking orders!

Citrus Squared
8" x 8" Colored Pencil on Pastelbord
© Nicole Caulfield

Landscapes

• Bill Guffy's Thailand

Painting

• The Dark Side  is almost painting dark lace too using dark paint.  Sophie also reference this site The Color Black | Artists’ Pigments for Black Paint on facebook 
• David Teter (the procedure he used to develop the painting which has been juried into the National Watercolor Society's 2012 Annual Exhibition hither inwards San Pedro
  

Printmaking 

• This is a postal service past times Collagraph too acetate drypoint workshop inwards Kenora Ontario

Street Art

• The Guardian provides an splendid slideshow of novel pieces past times some of the world's overstep street artists  - including Sheperd Fairey - which tin instantly live on seen at the London Pleasure Gardens 

Art Business

• Alyson Stanfield (ArtBizBlog) asks Why Does One Artist Sell Better Than Another? and the answers are really interesting
• This is an interesting article inwards The Art paper which questions whether the pressure level from fine art fairs for artists to create to a greater extent than operate is sustainable inwards the long run.  See Fair or foul: to a greater extent than fine art fairs too bigger laid upwards galleries, but is the model sustainable?

Art Economy

• The terra firma of the economic scheme - too the banks - way that Wary Buyers Still Pour Money Into Contemporary Art according to the NY Times
• Phil Miller (@PhilipJEMiller) Arts Correspondent of The Herald newspaper, Scotland  alerted me to research past times Creative Scotland which provides a comprehensive movie of the contribution of the Arts too Creative Industries to the wider Scottish economy.

Art Competitions

• I volition live on posting almost the BP Travel Award but am currently waiting to take heed dorsum from Jo Fraser who was in conclusion year's winner too exhibited her operate this year.
• If you lot were thinking of entering the Lord's Day Times Watercolour contest you're likewise belatedly - the deadline was in conclusion week.

Art Exhibitions

Art Exhibitions inwards London

• The Edward Munch Exhibition has opened at Tate Modern.  This is the Guardian review
  Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye
• David Nash at Kew - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Natural Gallery at The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew This is:
• my Review: David Nash at Kew - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Natural Gallery
• my video of the industrial plant - David Nash at Kew -  I saw when nosotros visited Kew Gardens in conclusion week.  I learned how to hit annotations this week!
• plus this is a video of Working on site: David Nash inwards the Wood Quarry at Kew
• My review of an exhibition at the Mall Galleries 'Built" : recording too responding to the structure process.  It had a splendid mind-stretching symposium in conclusion Tuesday.
• This is a skillful review of the BP Portrait Award 2012 in The Independent.
• This article inwards the Evening Standard - London 2012 Festival: galleries - lists the exhibitions which cast business office of the Cultural Olympiad
• From Paris: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Taste for Impressionism – Paintings from the Clark opens at the Royal Academy on seven July

Art Exhibitions inwards the USA

• Lucien Freud: Portraits has opened at The Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth inwards Texas.  The exhibition continues until Oct 28 too Fort Worth volition live on the only U.S. venue. 
• You volition never always acquire some other adventure to run into an exhibition similar this - it attracted huge numbers inwards London alongside to a greater extent than than 200,000 tickets sold to run into the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
• Podcasts of the lectures associated alongside the exhibition will live on available on this link are available here, 2 weeks later on presentation date.
• I met the Curator of the Fort Worth exhibition at the NPG when the exhibition opened there.  This is am article almost the interview he secured alongside Lucien Freud too his see to his studio - Poll Results - Size Matters! for the June Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark poll which asked POLL: How hit you lot create upwards one's heed the size of your artwork?
Techies
• Today Apple closed downward their former syncing service today too removed the iDisk too MobileMe Gallery apps from the App Store.  Artists who create got previously had their website alongside Apple MobileMe create got had to transfer their websites to novel sites too the URLs for their websites create got changed every bit a result. One such creative individual is Karin Jurick (Linking to my Website and tin instantly live on constitute on http://www.karinjurick.com/
• I lost my mobile telephone on Fri - So if you've got my mobile position out you lot can't instantly contact me! However I tin instantly confirm that Lookout works.  I was able to 
• locate it precisely (and it had "walked" from where I lost it - I got sent a Google Map alongside the precise location)
• locked it
• wiped the information from the phone
• I only demand to operate out instantly whether the bloke who phoned me on Fri dark to state he had it is genuinely genuine too genuinely wants to render it to or whether I instantly demand to study it every bit stolen.  If you're reading this delight create got the telephone to Brentford Police Station too I volition collect it from at that spot too ship you lot a reward.
• Recommendations for a novel mobile telephone which operate for artists who role the cyberspace too create got pics too videos are welcome.  I'm thinking of moving from Android to iPhone.

and finally.....

I came upon this website only past times accident - too I don't always retrieve seeing it talked almost before.  I give you lot The Google Cultural Insititute.

• This is the site which includes the Google Art Project
• but it also includes some other google site I'd never heard of The World Wonders Site

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