Getting Out Of The Studio - Making A Order Fine Art Weblog Awards 2011

This category of awards is all virtually people who depict together with pigment exterior their studio - sometimes producing finished sketches or paintings plein air together with sometimes producing cloth to railroad train farther inward the studio.

They are:

• The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize
• The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy
• The Going Greener Gong

They're also awards for people who house an emphasis on sharing.


Painting Plein Air Plus Prize

The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize for excellence inward plein air painting plus a rigid commitment to sharing information

The past times winners are:

• 2006 Ed Terpening (Life Plein Air)
• 2007 William Wray (Urban painter William Wray)
• 2008 shared by:
• Michael Chesley Johnson (A Plein Air Painter's Blog)
• Linda Blondheim (Linda Blondheim Art Notes)
• 2009 shared by
• Loriann Signori, (Loriann Signori's painting-a-day) .
• Marc R. Hanson, (Painting My Way Through Life
• 2010 Adebanji Alade (Adebanji Alade, South London)

I hasten to add together that the prize is non confined to those who hit finished paintings plein air.

It's worth highlighting whatsoever break of fine art bloggers who are intrepid and/or industrious plein air painters.  These include:

• David Pilgrim (David Pilgrim Art) who is a founding fellow member of the  Plein Air Brotherhood and painted all over the U.K. together with inward Venice this year
• Painter The Cornwall Big Paint In - on a beach! - inward reply to the notion that artists could non pigment on the beaches inward Cornwall
• Sarah Wimperis - who lives inward Cornwall posted regular paintings of her local river inward all weathers together with times of twenty-four hours on The Red Shoes inward the firstly role of the year.  Then painted non-stop inward Provence inward June (Four Go Painting In Provence)
• Robin Purcell (Robin Purcell, watercolors inward the plein air tradition) - who does most of her landscape epitome inward watercolour plein air - together with produces some wonderful paintings equally a result.

However this is an accolade for people who hit to a greater extent than than merely pigment plein air.  The winners are also people to part data - that's what the "plus" is all about.

Enrique Flores  (this spider web log dorsum inward May.

This calendar week I've been watching 1 of my favourite sketchers Enrique Flores (4ojos) posting reportage sketches virtually the amazing peaceful protests past times immature people inward Madrid inside the context of today's elections. This, inward a way, is the Castilian version of the revolutions which get got been sweeping through the Arab footing since the offset of the year.  It's ever worth recording the fact that those who sketch together with spider web log tin give the sack also contribute to a much wider agreement of how life is lived inward some parts of the world. It's the drawing version of the cameraphone!

He later on created a specific house to popular off on all his watercolour reportage sketches from the protests which went on for days prior to the election. Now my browser offers me automatic translation of the whole page I tin give the sack at to the lowest degree read what he was proverb inbetween his watercolour sketches!

The paintings are non hugely good developed but merely await at the quantity together with the means inward which he captures a alive lawsuit - non knowing what was going to occur side past times side at whatsoever time.  Bear inward heed he's also standing together with epitome wherever he tin give the sack inside the context of a crowded foursquare inward Madrid.  It's a genuinely remarkable tape - I've never seen anything similar it before.

The 2011 winner of
The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize is
Enrique Flores

Sketch past times Enrique Flores

The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy 
combined amongst the 'Get Off Your Blogging Bottom together with Sketch' Brass Plate from 2007  

The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy goes to the most intrepid and/or industrious artist travelling amongst a sketchbook.

• 2006  Laura Frankstone (Laurelines of North Carolina USA)
• 2007  Martha (Trumpetvine Travels of Berkeley California)
• 2008  Cindy Woods. (Learning Daily USA) This was a posthumous award
• 2009  Enrique Flores (Cuatro cosas  Madrid, Spain)
• 2010  Liz Steel (Liz + Borromini Sydney Australia)

There's no inquiry that the contributions coming from the Iberian Peninsula get got been outstanding this twelvemonth - or that at that topographic point was solely ever 1 candidate for the Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy

My argue for proverb this is that 200 or so Urban Sketchers from over 20 countries descended on Lisbon for the sole purpose of sketching together with talking virtually sketching during the sec International Urban Sketching Symposium - July 21-23, 2011.  It was a resounding success.

This is

• where they sketched inward Lisbon
• the slideshow of the official Urban Sketchers Lisbon Symposium set on Flickr
• the Group Pool on Flickr
• the Symposium blog where at that topographic point are write-ups of the dissimilar workshops together with accounts of dissimilar people's experiences

Their output was genuinely impressive - equally were the videos of people sketching people sketching!

The 2011 winner of
The Travels amongst a Sketchbook Trophy are
The Urban Sketchers of the sec International Symposium inward Lisbon

The Going Greener Gong

The Going Greener Gong is awarded to the fine art spider web log which I've constitute most stimulating inward relation to getting us inward touching on amongst nature together with the environment.

Past winners include:

• 2007:  Richard Bell's nature diary Wild West Yorkshire. 
• 2008 Shared by:  
• Irene Brady (Nature Drawing together with Journaling Workshops) and 
• Debbie Kotter Caspari (Drawing the Motmot) 
• 2009  Sketching inward Nature - a grouping spider web log started inward Apr 2009 past times Cathy Johnson. 
• 2010  Jeanette Jobson (Illustrated Life) 

What I oft acquire from the people who win this accolade is the sheer pleasance inward their experience of nature together with life inward the wild - no affair what shape it takes.

The accolade includes all those who spider web log virtually animals, birds, flowers together with plants. Blogs are non required inward whatsoever means to limit themselves to merely those topics but they hit ask to get got a experience for beingness light-green together with sustainable virtually them. They also acquire extra points for getting out together with virtually together with drawing from life!

The blogs I considered this twelvemonth included the following:

• Sherrie York Brush together with Baren inward Salida, Colorado
• Mindy Lighthipe The Art of Mindy Lighthipe for her participation inward the 30 day daily leafage challenge
• Martin Stankewitz's How to Draw a Tree who keeps coming upward amongst novel perspectives on the tree inward the landscape (try Tree trunks equally barcodes)

(Incidentally - for those who relish nature drive the Nature Blog Network)

My favourite spider web log - together with 1 which I ever brand a indicate of reading inward a leisurely means - is Sherrie York's Brush together with Baren.  I beloved the means her linocuts emerge slow - through the cutting processes together with the dissimilar inks until a wonderful epitome emerges at the end.  The combination of construction together with inventiveness is awesome!

What is particularly noteworthy is Sherrie has the mightiness to brand you lot await to a greater extent than carefully at nature - at what you lot accept for granted when out together with about.  I run across what she tin give the sack brand of something together with experience inspired to hit the same.  Her artwork speaks volumes virtually her beloved of her environs together with the natural footing - together with the video below does quite a expert chore too!

The 2011 winner of
The Going Greener Gong is
Sherrie York

PPLD Off the Wall - Feb 2011 from PPLD TV on Vimeo.

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