15Th July 2012: Who's Made A Score This Week?

I've been reading virtually too viewing the photos which receive got been emerging from San Domingo where the Urban Sketchers Symposium was held lastly week.  Plus Sabbatum was the worldwide sketchcrawl #36 too many of those who were out sketching too posted their run to the Urban Sketchers weblog - this was a real impressive effort 

These are the posts to the urban sketchers weblog past times Lapin (Lapin - the blog)who was the official reporter for the symposium

• live from santo domingo - usk symposium 24-hour interval 1
• live from santo domingo - usk symposium 24-hour interval 2
• live from santo domingo - usk symposium 24-hour interval 3

You mightiness too desire to hold an oculus on the blogs of some of the instructors at the symposium namely: Frank Ching Seeing.Thinking.Drawing - this is his post USK Santo Domingo with pictures of the people who attended workshops he ran amongst Liz Steel (Liz too Borromini) addition the "end of term" photo!  Liz has too posted a huge number of photos on her Flickr account and this is her July archive on Liz too Borromini to appointment which is packed amongst posts virtually the trip - including the 2 days she was in that location earlier the balance of the sketchers started to arrive.

The 24-hour interval earlier sketches past times Liz Steel

Artists too Art Blogs


Drawing too Sketching

• Pete Scully has been Drawing Kit - My Portable Sketching Materials

Coloured Pencils

• How to transform coloured pencils into gallery wrapped canvas!  See Print shop past times Nicole Caulfield

Painting

• Susan Abbott (A Painter's Year) is currently epitome inwards Provence - lots of lovely colourful watercolour paintings to await at - which I'm enjoying every bit I know quite a few of the places she is painting.
• Rebecca Latham (Latham Studios) has written a very useful post which explains What is Miniature Painting?

Art Business too Marketing

• These are 10 Ways to Ruin Your Art Business - produce y'all produce whatever of them?
• Leah Markham was the invitee blogger on 4 Lessons from Naked Marketers
• Eyes vs Ears about buyers who pay real large sums of coin for art.

if the solely argue you're considering buying a run of fine art is that mortal talked y'all into it, you're likely making a error you'll regret.

Art Debates

• Thank y'all to all of the people who commented on What is "Decorative Art"? DISCUSS.  There were some real interesting comments too perspectives 

Art Exhibitions too Art Fairs

Major Museums UK

• The Tanks: Art inwards Action has opened at Tate Modern - this is a fifteen-week festival celebrating functioning too installation fine art (18 July – 28 Oct 2012).  Here's a BBC video amongst Nicholas Serota explaning how the tanks volition work.  The tanks used to concur the crude for the ability station.  Should live interesting!  (However Richard Dorment of The Telegraph signs off amongst a caustic comment inwards his review)

"a house where y'all tin sack run across the corking classic plant of the lastly forty years"

Art Societies

• The Society of East Anglian Watercolourists is having a Members Open Exhibition at the
  Edmund Gallery, Bury St Edmunds betwixt 21st too 26th July.  These are the members - some of whom win prizes at the RWS shows inwards London.  I'm a fan of the all the same life paintings of Tessa Shedley Jordan too the rural landscapes of Phillip Rundall

Artists too Art Bloggers

I've been a fleck preoccupied this calendar week amongst getting create for the real start Exhibition past times Urban Sketchers London.  I'm non quite certain how nosotros managed it only the same calendar month every bit nosotros fix nosotros got  the nod to an exhibition inwards Foyles at the same fourth dimension every bit they promoted the book.  Of course of study nosotros therefore had to hold back weeks too weeks for the majority to live reprinted for the tertiary fourth dimension therefore they could genuinely teach their hands on some copies!

Anyway here's a twain of posts

• first - all my sketches seat out on my kitchen flooring for their photocall! The Art of Urban Sketching - at Foyles inwards London 
• second - Urban Sketches - printed, matted, framed, too hung! after than hang yesterday
• PLUS this is The London Sketchbook Challenge - Call for Entries which relates to the side past times side Sketching Exhibition to live held past times Foyles afterward this month.

On to other artists

• Belinda del Pesco (Belinda del Pesco Fine Art) too Laura Wambsgans are having a articulation exhibit Pavement to Pastures at Gale's Restaurant inwards Pasadena, California.  The exhibit continues until 22nd September
• Haidee-Jo Summers who lives inwards Britanny - too who nosotros lastly saw getting real moisture on the Milennium Bridge epitome the Jubilee River Pageant has her 2012 Exhibition coming upward -  'Ma vie en couleurs' takes house at the Nottingham Society of Artists Trust Gallery inwards Nottingham betwixt the 16th too 22nd July.

Art Fairs

• In a normal twelvemonth 25,000 people plow upward to run across c. 400 demonstrators at Art In Action is at Waterperry House, Waterperry, Oxfordshire, OX33 1JZ betwixt nineteen July 2012 - 22 July 2012.  These are the demonstrating artists. I state inwards a normal twelvemonth because we've had such unprecedented pelting of late (record months for rainfall inwards Apr too June - too July is bidding to produce the same!) that major outdoor events are beingness cancelled all over the country!  I'm non at all surprised to run across their website amongst the njunction to "Bring Your Wellies"!

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