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18Th December 2011 - Who's Made A Score This Week?

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Nativity (1654) - etching past times Rembrandt
Just a calendar week to go to Christmas Day! Here's wishing y'all too yours all the best inwards this festive season.

I go on to get got "green" difficulties amongst sending out masses of Christmas cards to people too volition hold out limiting them to unopen solid unit of measurement members too unopen friends too making a donation to the Save the Children Fund instead.

The Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Art Blog Awards 2011

I've similar a shot got all the Calls for Nominations posted (see links below).  This twelvemonth in that location are two novel awards inwards 2011
  • The Best Art Society Blog Prize
  • The Art Innovation of the Year Award
In addition, in that location are a lot to a greater extent than grouping fine art blogs around inwards 2011 too it's worth mentioning that grouping blogs volition inwards full general hold out looked at nether The Best Art Blog Project Virtual Challenge Cup

I've been making lots of notes most fine art blogs which I remember are eligible for different awards.  However I've non had a lot of nominations equally yet.  I volition hold out adding inwards my nominations too I won't hold out entirely adding inwards i or two.  However y'all won't run into mine until the shortlisting

Ester Roi demonstrated real effectively yesterday how to acquire your fine art weblog nominated i.e. by making a uncomplicated proclamation most the honor on her weblog too showing people what they get got to do if they want to nominate her weblog (and inwards this instance her fine art innovation).

You tin do this too!  What y'all cannot do is antechamber for nominations (or votes) exterior your ain fine art weblog equally the intended audience for these awards is fine art bloggers only.

The Wisdom of the Crowd

One of the benefits of blogging is that nosotros tin all acquire a improve outcome past times sharing our experiences - through the wisdom of the crowd.

Please present your appreciation of your swain bloggers too NOMINATE an fine art blogger y'all remember should acquire a MAKING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MARK AWARD

These are the links to the invitations to nominate.
If you've got whatever queries don't hesitate to contact me - details of how to do this are inwards the side column.

I'll hold out posting the nominations for the Best Picture honor on the 24th too thence inviting y'all to vote on the 26th.

Artists too Art Blogs

Drawing too Sketching

Dinner half dozen months agone - on the 16th June 2011
Botanical art

I'm real fond of botanical art.  Hence i of my Best Picture Awards relates to the Natural World too i of the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Art Blog awards is most those artists who promote awareness of nature too the greener side of life.

If y'all similar botanical fine art y'all mightiness similar to banking concern check out these Botanical Artists Blogs
  • Mindy Lighthipe's Botanical Painting.  She's latterly been involved amongst a botanical fine art projection - the xxx hateful solar daytime Botanical Leaf Challenge.
  • Dianne Sutherland lives inwards Scotland and has non yet completed the challenge but in that location are some impeccable painted leaves on her weblog Dianne Sutherland
  • Renata Barilli is a botanical illustrator who lives inwards Italy and has a botanical fine art weblog (in Italian) Aperta Mente Botanical Art,
  • Claire lives inwards West wales too has been producing some beautitful botanical artwork of Autumn Treasures on her weblog Red Berries she highlights a lightfastness  problem amongst the watercolour Opera Pink
  • Botanical Illustration is a bang-up weblog associated amongst the Denver Botanic Gardens' Botanical Art too Illustration Certificate Program
Did y'all know in that location is a Nature Blog Network?  These are the blogs which are most Art too Nature

The Wildlife Art Journal seems to get got a weblog notwithstanding it doesn't get got a URL which allows us to selection upwards the latest post independently of that post's URL (ie in that location is no abode URL for the blog!)

Creativity
  • James Gurney has posted a 10 business office serial most the origins of Dinotopia on Gurney Journey
Painting



Portraiture
  • Sarah Wimperis (The Pie Miniature - which is an instance of Sarah's novel paintings inwards miniature format.  The watercolour is hatched.
Plein air painting
printmaking 
I wanted the protester to come upwards across equally serious, but non scary. Most of the protesters I’ve met are normal, idealistic, immature adults, thence I thought the “person adjacent door” experience was important. Ironically, I constitute out that the discipline of the photograph I illustrated from is an LA resident too employee of the Robert Berman gallery who I get got worked with
Sculpture
wildlife art
Art Business & Marketing
  • For all those who demand a fleck of a prompt too a helping mitt most their financial records - this is bookeeping 101 past times bizladies 
  • For those who remember that everything volition come upwards correct if y'all could simply acquire to grips amongst the social media opportuntiies - this is a recommended read - Call for Entries: BP Portrait Award 2012.  If you're interested do get got a await at the linked sites equally they furnish y'all amongst a lot of insight into the type of portraits which are entered for this major international fine art competition.
  • On Th I posted the Call for Entries: RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2012.  This exhibition past times the Royal Watercolour Society is dissimilar the exhibitions of other national fine art societies where the images past times candidates for membership are displayed.  This is an exhibition which is non an annual exhibition inwards the conventional sense - too is much to a greater extent than similar a conventional exhibition.
  • On Fri I posted most 2 calls for entries past times the 2 Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012 competitions run past times the David Shepherd Foundation too the BBC respectively.  You tin discovery my summary of the differences too most of the details most who, what too how to go inwards in Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012 - Call for Entries (x2)
Winners
Art Exhibitions

UK
  • The Royal Academy of Arts are advising Friends of the RA - too other people - planning to see David Hockney RA: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Bigger Picture to volume a fourth dimension slot now.  Advanced booking has been introduced inwards reply to feedback most overcrowding too queues at the to a greater extent than pop exhibitions at the RA. 
  • Travelling Light, opened at the Whitechapel Gallery in conclusion week. It's an exhibition of fine art held past times the Government Art Collection which is non unremarkably seen. The exhibition explores the British want to go too do a distinctly British sentiment inwards depictions of people too places overseas.  The plant get got been selected past times Simon Schama.
  • The Haunch of Venison Gallery's exhibition Conversations betwixt 10 British Post-War painters focuses on a grouping of 10 British painters who revived landscape prototype too portraiture - Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Patrick Caulfield, William Coldstream, Lucian Freud, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Leon Kossoff and Euan Uglow - many of whom get got gone on to acquire real influential inwards relation to the exercise of contemporary painters.  The Guardian has a slideshow of some of the paintings on display.
  • I'm real fed upwards that I missed the exhibition of botanical illustrations past times Beatrix Potter at the Victoria & Albert Museum - notwithstanding I discovered the the spider web page amongst examples of her operate is soundless upwards on the website (However y'all get got to know it's in that location equally "past exhibitions" are non listed except equally business office of the site programme too when y'all acquire to them the exhibitions get got no archive.  Shame on the V&A - this is real piteous exercise inwards the context of museums to a greater extent than oft than non too is such a waste matter of a learning opportunity.  I wishing they'd realise that people larn via the website too informative pages most past times exhibitions are an fantabulous agency of learning! )
  • Monet waterlily paintings are going to hold out on exhibition at Tate Liverpool adjacent year
USA
Since its inception inwards 1990, the exhibit serial Focus on Nature has reflected the standards, materials, too skills of contemporary natural history illustrators.
Art Education
Art History / Art Museums too Galleries

The Nativity past times Piero della Francesca
Art Societies

The Royal Academy of Arts has been having a major shake-up too changing "the bums on seats" - painters too women to the front end please!
Diana Armfield RA, a figurative painter, said Emin had a “great talent for celebrity”. She told the Times she had seen what “I suppose are drawings” past times Emin inwards the Summer Exhibition too “wouldn’t get got thought that her talents were that way”.
  • Fiona Rae RA has been appointed equally Professor of Painting.  There' been a much to a greater extent than subdued reply to this appointment.
Copyright
Internet, webware too blogging
  • David Pilgrim ( Getting Mobile - most the tools he has been using to improve his website too display his fine art - amongst especial reference to access past times mobile technology.  He highlights the testing capacity offered bythe Opera mobile emulator
  • I honey the agency the prototype inwards the championship expanse of the Light too Color weblog changes amongst every refresh. I wonder how that works? 
and finally......

This BBC article has a video which explores the origins behind the colours of Christmas

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