12 February 2012 - Who's Made A Seat This Week?
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This calendar week has been a really Lucian Freud calendar week amongst 2 tours of the novel exhibition on Wednesday, a see to Christies to see The Printer's Proof: Etchings yesteryear Lucian Freud from the Studio Prints archive this afternoon (which is at auction on Wednesday) in addition to tomorrow forenoon I'm off to come across a PV of a comprehensive exhibition of his drawings
I've had other priorities inwards the in conclusion few weeks in addition to the major (time-consuming) post which is "who's made a grade this week" has really much been squeezed. Accordingly this post has rather to a greater extent than of my posts than park - equally I know people role this post to grab upward on my blog.
Art Blogs
Botanical Art
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Lucian Freud La Voisine (The Neighbour), 1947 Crayon 41.3 x 34.3 cm (16.26 x 13.5 in) Blain|Southern - Lucian Freud: Drawings |
Art Blogs
Botanical Art
- Vicki Lee Johnston (Getting started .... again for some other twelvemonth of the Society of Botanical Artists Diploma Course. This post is really helpful inwards outlining how she plant in addition to tips she's got from other students
- Janene Walky (The Road Map and hither is the halt result Cornus capitata Fruit
- I don't intend I've posted a link to an fine art weblog similar this before. This is the tumblr site Artists for the NHS. Here's a slideshow of some of the images on the blog - which is campaigning to heighten awareness of the devastating NHS reforms proposed yesteryear the wellness in addition to social aid bill. Plus this is ArtInfo's article virtually the reasons why artists are protesting inwards the U.K. - UK Artists Protest the Government's Plot to Privatize National Health Service
- Jana Bouc (Wallace Collection: Sketching Venice yesteryear Canaletto - this 1 taught me a lot virtually composition in addition to tonal values
- Wallace Collection: Sketching Venice yesteryear Bonington - this prototype demanded to hold out sketched
- Cornish Cream Tea at the Wallace Restaurant - what tin I say?
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| Sketch of Venice: the Bacino di San Marco from San Giorgio Maggiore yesteryear Canaletto 11" x 16", pen in addition to ink in addition to coloured pencils inwards Moleskine Sketchbook |
- I forgot to post my Postcard from my Walk sketch which went to Albrecht inwards Heidelburg. This is Victoria Park: The Chinese Pagoda in addition to the novel Island
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| The Chinese Pagoda in addition to the novel Island 165mm x 240mm, pen in addition to sepia ink in addition to coloured pencils on Mountboard copyright Katherine Tyrrell |
- I was really sorry to listen the intelligence via the a gallery of Stephanie's artwork and feline friends.
- Deborah Paris (more virtually the projection inwards this post
The Lennox Woods Project is a muti-year projection of creative somebody Deborah Paris to explore in addition to tape the pristine beauty in addition to magnificence of the Lennox Woods Preserve inwards northeast Texas. Underwritten in addition to sponsored yesteryear Galerie Kornye West of Ft. Worth, Texas, the projection volition embrace over 50 plant of art- including paintings, drawings, etchings in addition to drypoints-to hold out exist exhibited inwards multiple venues during 2014 in addition to beyond.
- Yesterday's post on Hockney: 51 iPad drawings on newspaper - Winter to Spring inwards Woldgate - it has a video which shows them off genuinely well.
- One of the themes of The Art of the Landscape is "places to paint". I role it to highlight places artists yesteryear in addition to acquaint similar to paint. This calendar week I found a website yesteryear somebody who has researched places inwards East Yorkshire which get got been painted yesteryear David Hockney. I found a pair to a greater extent than myself. See for yourself inwards today's post Places to Paint: David Hockney in addition to East Yorkshire
- "February" yesteryear Stanley Roy Badmin RWS is virtually an creative somebody who I rediscovered at the Watercolours in addition to Works on Paper Art Fair. I've afterwards bought a majority which has this prototype - in addition to the remainder of the months of the twelvemonth - for a really reasonable price. (Make that 2 books - bought some other 1 on his engravings this afternoon!)
Painting
- Angus McEwan RSW ARWS, David Poxon RI, Denis Ryan ARWS, Sandra Walker RI have developed a projection to get got realism inwards watercolour to exhibitions around the earth - come across
Art of the Real Tour dates 2012, their novel weblog the article inwards the Apr edition of Watercolour Artist - In Mystery, Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns)asserts that charm is the 1 lineament that volition redeem a prototype amongst whatever other fault.
- I get got a major projection starting - which I'm hoping to kicking off this calendar week - lookout out for The Big Art Book Project
- I've changed my monthly review post of the best in addition to tiptop rated books - in addition to the amend novel fine art books.
- For 2012, the categories for Makingamark's Top 10 Fine Art Books will be Drawing, Painting, Artists, Art History and Art Business
- In 2012, the monthly review volition hold out posted on Makingamark's Top Ten Fine Art Books inwards Jan 2012....
- ...and here's The Best in addition to Newest Art Books inwards Jan 2012 - in addition to Urban Sketchers and The Best NEW Art Books inwards Jan 2012.
- Congratulations to Gabi Campanario (The Sketch Journalist) in addition to the 100 Urban Sketchers (Urban Sketchers) who participated inwards the production of the Urban Sketchers book. The Best New Art Book inwards Jan 2012 is The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing On Location Around The World which at the halt of Jan had secured the #10 inwards the tiptop 100 books inwards the Arts in addition to Design Category on Amazon (which instantly includes music) - BEFORE it had fifty-fifty been published. My re-create has instantly arrived after an initial delay which, from all the ratings in addition to rankings, would appear to relate to difficulty keeping upward amongst purchases!
- Ann Kullberg has a novel majority out CP Treasures - which seems to hold out a flake similar the "the best of coloured pencil" insofar equally it's coloured pencil masterworks from around the globe
- I'm really much inwards 2 minds about Pinterest - it seems to me it's a recipe for problems where the prototype becomes detached from the originating site. However I exercise similar what Daily Paintworks has done with the Daily Paintworks Pinterest board. I intend it's inside the rules. David's done a adept task of working out categories in addition to it for certain has impact!
- Alyson Stanfield (15 Steps to Take After Completing Your Artwork
- This is my post virtually the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2012 - Selected artists & artwork - you lot tin both come across the artwork selected in addition to click on the links to the websites in addition to blogs of the artists who get got been selected - where I could notice their sites. It's also worth noting that this is a 100% opened upward competition - in that location are no plant yesteryear the RWS members inwards the exhibition.
- This is a novel prize - The John Ruskin Prize - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 New Look at Nature: Call for Entries - in addition to a issue of you lot get got expressed interest.
- The closing appointment has instantly passed - yet some of you lot may wishing to annotation this 1 for side yesteryear side time
14th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration - Intent to submit
Art Societies
Call For Entries
Call For Entries
- Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries is a reminder the deadline looms large - it's 27th February
- How to go a fellow member of the Society of Botanical Artists describes the procedure for applying
- This is my post virtually the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2012 - Call for Entries. This is a Society which attracts a lot of people who desire to committee artists to pigment portraits - in addition to if this is what you lot desire to exercise this is the fine art guild to endeavor in addition to join.
Exhibitions
- You tin come across Jelaine Faunce's operate "Now Being Served" inwards the National Association of Women Artists Annual Open Small Works Exhibition inwards New York betwixt instantly in addition to Feb 27, 2012.
Exhibitions at major U.K. Galleries
This has been a flake of a Lucian Freud calendar week for me.
- Lucian Freud Portraits opened at the National Portrait Gallery on Th - in addition to I saw it twice on Wednesday. Both the Guardian and The Telegraph made it a 5* exhibition. Lucian Freud: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, review: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 exhibit that proves Freud’s greatness.
- Here's my Review: Lucian Freud Portraits at National Portrait Gallery plus the views of 2 sitters virtually what it was similar having you lot portrait painted yesteryear Freud plus.....
- David Hockney on sitting for Lucian Freud and ......
- Video: Sue Tilley talks virtually modelling for Lucian Freud - which links you lot to my novel YouTube video of "Big Sue" who modelled for "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping", the prototype which broke a earth record when Christies sold it to Roman Abromovich at auction for $33,641,000 thirteen May 2008) on viii Feb 2008.
- Plus inwards the Observer today Lucian Freud's assistant, frequent model in addition to friend David Dawson tells Tim Adams virtually their 20-year working human relationship David Dawson: 'Lucian chose people who were punctual'
I'm sure it was a privilege to hold out his friend, did it always experience a burden?
Never a burden, only for certain a commitment. Even though Lucian said he was non a brute of habit, the 1 matter he did exercise every unmarried twenty-four lx minutes menstruum of his life was acquire into the studio every morning. In our 20 or hence years he did non immature adult woman a day, literally. And I had to hold out in that location showtime matter every morning, 7 days a week, to laid upward it for him.
- Two other exhibitions connected to Lucian Freud are on display this month
- Lucian Freud Drawings - I'm going to the PV for this on Monday
- Lucian Freud: Studio Life - Photographs yesteryear David Dawson - this has already opened in addition to this is the in conclusion tranche of photos yesteryear Freud's Studio Manager, model in addition to friend. I saw a video on The Culture Show on Fri that Dawson recorded on Freud's in conclusion always twenty-four lx minutes menstruum of prototype of the human at operate - which is apparently the exclusively tape of him genuinely painting
- Read Other Current Exhibitions of Work yesteryear or virtually Lucian Freud to notice out to a greater extent than virtually these exhibitions
- Next calendar week Picasso in addition to Modern British Art opens at Tate Britain. Jonathan Jones offers his views on the exhibition.
- This is the link to Yayoi Kusama ix Feb – v June 2012 at Tate Modern - in addition to this is a review of the exhibition Yayoi Kusama – review - in addition to this is a slideshow of Seeing spots: Yayoi Kusama exhibition at Tate Modern - inwards pictures
All fine art is attention-seeking, only few artists get got always taken their demands to hold out noticed to the extremes of Yayoi Kusama. Now 82, in addition to resident yesteryear alternative for the yesteryear 35 years inwards a psychiatric aid domicile inwards her native Tokyo, Kusama is currently seeing all her wishes come upward true.
London in addition to Regional U.K. galleries
- There's to a greater extent than indian paintings inwards Oxford - see Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford until 22 April
- There's a Royal Collection touring exhibition to grade the Diamond Jubilee of the Queen. Ten Drawings yesteryear Leonardo da Vinci: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Diamond Jubilee Celebration is currently at Birmingham Museum in addition to Art Gallery (13 Jan – 25 March 2012) in addition to volition hence motion to Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (30 March – 10 June 2012)
- David Shrigley has an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery on the SouthBank - David Shrigley - Brain Activity. It's the artist's showtime major exhibit inwards London. He's best known for his drawings that construct witty in addition to wry observations on everyday life. The exhibition covers the total hit of Shrigley’s operate including drawing, photography, sculpture, animation, prototype in addition to surprising interventions. This is a video of Shrigley talking virtually art, 'one of the most fun things that 1 tin exercise that's fun'
The most deadpan human inwards fine art was nearly a cartoonist earlier seeing the calorie-free – or the darkness – in addition to turning to the blackly comic plant for which he is famous.
Exhibitions at Major Galleries inwards North America
- Van Gogh Up Close has opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (February 1, 2012 - May 6, 2012). This exhibition focuses on a menstruum of feverish artistic experimentation that began when van Gogh left Antwerp for Paris inwards 1886 in addition to continued until his kicking the bucket inwards Auvers inwards 1890.
- Picasso is exhibiting both sides of the pond! Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition January 29–May 6, 2012 is at West Building Ground Floor of the National Gallery of Art inwards Washington
- Two of import exhibitions opened upward at the halt of the calendar month at The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art
- Rembrandt in addition to Degas: Portrait of the Artist equally a Young Man February 23–May 20, 2012
- The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, in addition to the Parisian Avant-Garde February 28–June 3, 2012
- Rembrandt inwards America at the Cleveland Museum of Art (I exercise wishing museums wouldn't get got empty-headed pop upward screens which lack URLs for of import information virtually an exhibition. There's no agency to reference it online!). The Rembrandt inwards America exhibition also travels to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts from June 24–September 16, 2012. (I exercise similar museums amongst civilised links to hereafter exhibitions! :)
Rembrandt inwards America volition hold out unique inwards offering the populace a rare chance to examine the evolving opinions in addition to methods of scholars in addition to collectors regarding what constituted an autograph Rembrandt prototype over a menstruum of to a greater extent than than a century.
- I had a corking fourth dimension at The Watercolours + Works on Paper Fair 2012. I'd non been earlier only I'll hold out sure to go again.
Art Education
- There's been a lot of involvement in What are the priorities for an aspiring artist? Have you lot given your views yet - or read those of beau readers?
- Winsor & Newton have opened The Gallery, an exciting novel infinite for graduates in addition to established artists, at Winsor & Newton’s novel caput office, at the Studio Building, Evesham Street, London W11. There's an Artists Studio in addition to workshop infinite inwards the same location.
Tips in addition to Techniques
- These are recent posts virtually basic techniques for using pastels from Richard McKinley's Pastel Pointers Blog,
- Basic Pastel Techniques Part One | Blending, Scumbling, Glazing
- Basic Pastel Techniques Part Two | Hatching, Cross-Hatching, Feathering
- Robyn Sinclair (iPad represent the artist
Art Studio
- Sherrie York (Brush in addition to Baren) has a Studio Redux and has been learning to a greater extent than virtually how to create the correct studio space
- I notice that the Winsor in addition to Newton Resource Centre is an fantabulous house to notice technical information in addition to adept articles virtually artists materials - this is their spider web page virtually artists brushes
Opinion Poll
- The Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Opinion Poll for Feb is focusing on POLL: How exercise you lot response to comments on your blog? You tin come across the poll inwards the correct manus column
- At the halt of Jan I published the results of January's poll - What makes you lot acquire out an artist's website? POLL RESULTS. Apart from having manifestly created a spam comment magnet, this poll attracted 239 responses in addition to provides definitive see of what artists don't similar virtually fine art websites. Do you lot know what are Top Three Pet Hates?
Internet - websites, webware in addition to blogging
- Interestingly, I learned this calendar week that David Hockney has been next the reactions to his exhibition at the Royal Academy on Twitter
- Socialfresh has looked at the best times of twenty-four lx minutes menstruum to blog. Shame they forgot to hollo upward that the earth has fourth dimension zones.......
- Rollip provides filters for your photos
and finally......
I found 1 inwards v teenagers volition experiment amongst art on Weknowmemes. It seems to hold out rather popular!
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