17 June 2012 - Who's Made A Order This Week?

London from Greenwich Park (exhibited 1809) - JMW Turner 
fossil oil on canvas, 902 x 1200 mm
Collection:  Tate Britain

I've been channelling Turner this week......

First in that location was Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors

Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about BBC4 - Turner's Thames - which is even thus available to sentry in 1 trial to a greater extent than on iPlayer!

Then I started to query all the unlike places he lived side past times side to or nigh the Thames - which turned out to go rather to a greater extent than than I thought.

.....and finally I started to channel Turner on my iPad - below is my version of London from Greenwich  - a catch which is real familiar to me.  Don't arrange your spectacles or screens - I'm afraid that the lineament of the moving ikon hasn't translated real good from my iPad.

Artists together with Art Blogs

I'm non quite sure whether Hannah Freeman realised that June 2012 was going to go quite thus moisture - but she sure enough made an apt alternative for the Guardian's Reader's Art - June.   The topic is "Weather"!  Those who alive inward the Great Britain may good cleft a wry smiling at this point!

Botanical

• Various journals lead been highlighting the exhibition of Ellsworth Kelly's Plant Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art inward New York.  This is Green Fingers past times Julie Belcover of the FT

Drawing together with Sketching

• Back inward May, Pam Johnson Brickell (Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors
• Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about Fast Sketching together with Building a Journal Page on Artists Journal Workshop

Landscape

• This is an first-class post about Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors
• Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about Dealing alongside summertime greens.  I loved the chip virtually "smuggling reds"
• Tina Mammoser - who paints landscapes of the coast Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors
• Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about What Size to Paint?  How Art Size Matters and explains her ain rationale for how she chooses what size to paint.

Printmaking

• The Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors
• Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about Making a Deeply-Bitten Etching Printed every bit a Relief.  I'm a chip puzzled every bit to why in that location lead been no posts since March.

Sculpture together with Land Art

• Richard Long has given an interview - Richard Long: 'It was the swinging 60s. To go walking lines inward fields was a chip different'
• Jonathan Jones wrote a thought-provoking post virtually lost fine art - Lost fine art comes dorsum to haunt us - which highlighted a work 'House' by Rachel Whiteread in my local expanse which I saw earlier (as a house), during (its life every bit a variety of the inside) together with afterwards (the demolition)

Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors

Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about Flatware No.2 | eighteen x eighteen | fossil oil on panel

© Neil Hollingsworth

Still Life

• Neil Hollingsworth (Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors
• Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about Watercolor: Did You Just Say "Out-of-Cat-Food"?  For those non familiar alongside Belinda del Pesco's weblog Belinda del Pesco Fine Art she has keen quotes virtually fine art together with artists at the destination of her posts.
• A parachuting rat past times Banksy inward Melbourne was destroyed past times a builder's pipework

Art Books

For all those who mean value they mightiness go creating an fine art e-book inward the hereafter in that location are issues to produce alongside what road y'all select to publication.  Here are a twain of interesting posts past times Joe Konrath on A Newbie's Guide to Publishing:

• Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors
• Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about The Slippery Slope - or the utilization of Amazon inward the mass marketplace.  It's had 211 comments thus far......
• Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors
• Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about Joe's Letter to the DOJ is the contents of Joe Konrath's alphabetic character inward which he argues that the means model sucks together with Amazon has truly encouraged contest non killed it.

Art Business & Marketing

• Alyson Stanfield (Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors
• Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about What is your thought of co-op galleries? and got a lot of responses

Art Collectors & the Art economy

• Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors
• Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about Why produce wealthy people invest inward art? is my review of a Barclays written report called "Profit or Pleasure? Exploring the Motivations Behind Treasure Trends" inward relation to art.  A survey suggests the reasons why wealthy people invest inward fine art are much to a greater extent than to produce alongside the emotional reasons rather than fiscal ones
• Here's an article inward the FT which lifts the shades on Fair selection panels: Behind the scenes

Art Competitions

Three posts from me this calendar week virtually Great Britain Art Competitions

• Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors
• Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about Threadneedle Prize 2012: Analysis of entries / selected artists - this year's Threadneedle Prize volition run into 3 times to a greater extent than artists than in conclusion twelvemonth exhibit many to a greater extent than artworks (153 industrial plant compared to 59 industrial plant inward 2011).
• Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors
• Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about Call for Entries: ING Discerning Eye 2012 This is the hap fine art contest inward the Great Britain for people who similar creating pocket-size works. The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition is created from pocket-size artworks selected past times ii fine art critics, ii artists together with ii collectors from an opened upwards submission together with invited artists.  However I produce wonder whether all those submitting entries through the opened upwards contest are subsidising all the artists invited past times the selectors to submit works. Surely the required ratio of open/invited ought to go to a greater extent than similar 50:50? Especially every bit it's the opened upwards entry industrial plant which produce thus good inward the sales!
• Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors
• Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012: Call for Entries You lead until nine July 2012 to submit entries for the £12,000 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012.  Last year's exhibition was excellent.

This calendar week I'll go at the National Portrait Gallery on Tuesday eve for the proclamation of which of Constable’s fossil oil sketches by Charley Parker on Lines together with Colors

Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has a useful post about the iv shortlisted artists has won the BP Portrait Award.  Then dorsum in 1 trial to a greater extent than on Midweek morn to photograph the exhibition and, if I recall to accuse the battery, to cinema it too.