Paintings For The Diamond Jubilee

David Pilgrim paradigm on the Millennium Bridge - looking downstream
alongside the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant inwards the background

This is a ship service nigh fine art created to brand a tape of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II together with covers those who:

• painted the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant patch fighting the air current together with the pelting on the Millennium Bridge!
• responded to The Big Diamond Jubilee Art Challenge to create a drawing or a paradigm or a impress or a sculpture to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee.

River Thames - artists paradigm on the Millennium Bridge

Painted past times Haidee-Jo Summers inwards the midst of the activity together with the thick of the weather!
The canvas is moisture through together with the crude pigment volition no longer 'stick'!

The BBC invited artists to apply to pigment on the Millennium Bridge during the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant.  The artists were selected to ensure a attain of artistic mediums together with styles were represented.  Artists participating ranged inwards historic catamenia betwixt xix together with seventy together with were professionals, semi-professional, students together with amateurs.

This is the BBC's recording of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee - The Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant which has interviews alongside 3 of the artists starting at 3:06:55 - inwards the middle of the torrential pelting which started partway through the afternoon.

Here's the artists I've been able to position who were invited past times the BBC to lead keep business office - addition some of their paintings

• This is a link to a BBC slideshow of the paintings they produced - In pictures: Millennium artists at the Jubilee pageant.  
• Below yous tin sack detect descriptions of the challenge they faced together with links to their websites.

As good equally a challenge of paradigm a flotilla of boats together with thus a constantly moving subject, the artists also had a huge weather condition challenge.  The 24-hour interval started equally predicted - greyish together with mutual depression temperature - alongside the rigid air current which I'd experienced the previous 24-hour interval alongside pelting predicted.  I decided to remain home! The weather condition so deteriorated quite alarmingly during the afternoon as the flotilla progressed downward the river to the dot where the pelting was absolutely torrential.

I idea the artists did amazingly good - especially those similar David Pilgrim together with Haidee-Jo who managed to remain on the couple together with move on to pigment inwards the pelting together with make paintings of the boats inwards the flotilla inwards their paintings of the scene from either side of the Bridge.

This is the essence of British plein air paradigm spirit!

Haidee-Jo Summers paradigm on the Millenium Bridge - looking due west towards Blackfriars Bridge

• Haidee-Jo Summers (Haide-Jo Summers Artist - ma vie en couleurs) - 2 paintings.  Haidee-Jo was 1 of the artists chosen past times the BBC to pigment on the Millenium Bridge.  She had bought a really patriotic together with smart red, bluish together with white wearing clothing for the occasion before realising she was going to lead keep to wrap upwards warm inwards waterproof gear on Lord's Day - together with went for the plastic mac together with reddish bobble chapeau expression instead!  She was the get-go creative mortal to live interviewed past times Anneka Rice for the BBC  
• Tower Bridge alongside jubilee bunting was painted during her recce of the expanse on Saturday
• Diamond Jubilee River Pageant includes her work organisation human relationship of what it was similar trying to pigment on what started off equally mutual depression temperature together with so became a really moisture 24-hour interval - together with the value of her Jullian umbrella (in Jubilee colours!).  Above together with below are her paintings, a photograph of her paradigm before the boats arrived. together with an extract from her weblog ship service which indicates the weather condition the artists were having to fence with.  It's a RECOMMENDED READ

The rain was coming inwards sideways together with underneath my umbrella together with my palette was getting wetter together with wetter! The canvas was getting a fine spraying, together with H2O was swirling unopen to my feet! Some of the artists started to move out equally their work, anything on newspaper particularly, was suffering equally good much. Easels started to autumn over. I held my umbrella equally unopen together with equally depression equally I could!

Painting of the crowds before the boats
past times Haidee Jo Summers

• David Pilgrim (As (not) seen on TV!  Another RECOMMENDED READ

I had some problem alongside the easel given to us (the lower ledge was at a fixed height) so I ended upwards bending forwards all 24-hour interval together with trying to halt the air current blowing my board into the palette alongside bits of masking tape. I was also trying to concord upwards my broken easel umbrella which was practically useless inwards the wind. Tricky! By the cease of the 24-hour interval I wasn't certain whether it was medium or H2O inwards my dippers. I regularly had to drip H2O off the palette together with past times 5pm the pigment refused to stick to anything.

Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant past times David Pilgrim AROI
8x16in, crude on board

• Gillian Burrows painted using her iPad - see London Celebrates the Diamond Jubilee - together with also tried to prepare a paradigm using gouache.
• Paintings of the Thames Pageant and 1 done before equally practice Boat Studies for The Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant

The weather condition forecast had been for pelting inwards the afternoon together with it was pretty much bang on! I'd remembered the weather condition channel proverb 1/2 inch of pelting would autumn together with past times the cease of the 24-hour interval when I emptied my plastic pot alongside construct clean brushes inwards at that spot was at to the lowest degree 1/2 inch inwards there!

• Ali Cockrean - who was the minute creative mortal to live interviewed (see slideshow)

Last photograph of my function before it got washed away! Will live working on it today patch retentivity is fresh...pic.twitter.com/UfGvJiYy

• Peter Vaillant was the 3rd creative mortal to live interviewed past times Anneka Rice.  You tin sack encounter the artwork he produced in BBC The Queens Diamond Jubilee Pageant
• Rob Pepper drew a really intricate panorama (150cm x 40cm) inwards pen together with ink - see Diamond Jubilee Flotilla
• Sue Jelley who is the President of the Society of Women Artists (see slideshow)
• Robert Newcombe (see slideshow)
• Caroline de Payrecave - who has a photograph on Facebook of the scene
• David Porteus-Butler (see slideshow)
• Florian Alexander Schmidt who is a PhD educatee at the Royal College of Art - drew faces on the couple (see slideshow)
• James Milroy - used an A2 sketchbook together with pens which manifestly survived the pelting - see the fine art materials he used here
• Derek Baker
• Mary Smith
• Anthony Garratt
• Fiona Graham

If yous desire to lead keep a larn for yourself, yous tin sack attempt watching shorter version - the highlights programme of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant (Highlights) inwards iPlayer

Avenue of Sail s June 2012
Thames Sailing Barges together with Jubilee Bunting
inwards front end of the Shard - from Old Billingsgate
11" x 16", pencil together with coloured pencils
inwards Large Moleskine Sketchbook

This is my sketch - done on Sat afternoon when it was windy together with sunny - of business office of the Avenue of Sail: Thames Sailing Barges & The Shard.  (You tin sack see my Avenue of Sail photos on Flickr)

The Thames sailing barges were moored side past times side to Old Billingsgate Market equally business office of the The Avenue of Sail business office of the Pageant.  I had guessed correctly that they'd live inwards position before the pageant proper started on Sunday.  It was depression tide (hence the overstep one-half solely beingness sketched).  I had idea the barges were to a greater extent than or less stationery exactly inwards fact they moved the whole fourth dimension due to the launder from other boats going upwards together with downward the Thames!

Here are another paintings generated over the Diamond Jubilee weekend

I invited artists to lead keep business office in The Big Diamond Jubilee Art Challenge with some considerable flexibility equally to what they produced.  I intend perhaps the 3 days notice over what was a busy weekend for many turned out to live a bigger challenge than I'd expected!  However it was cracking to have an entry from the USA!

Portraits of the Queen

• Lesley Humphrey (Red Queen (27.5 X 39.25ins - mixed media).  (Lesley had to do a novel weblog so she could lead keep part!)

Red Queen past times Lesley Humphrey

• Olha Prymakk tried a self-portrait of herself equally Queen Elizabeth II encounter Self-portrait equally Queen Elizabeth II 

Self Portrait equally Queen Elizabeth II
past times Olha Prymakk

Other Coronation / Jubilee inspired paintings

• Katy Gilmore (Katy Gilmore) from Port Townsend, WA created a digital paradigm of King Edward's Chair - used for the Coronation inwards 1953 together with for every coronation prior to that since 1308. See Happy Events

• Kristina U (Decor-Art) produced her drawing patch watching the Diamond Jubilee Concert - encounter Diamond Jubilee Art Challenge. Her detail challenge has been to attempt to come upwards up alongside lx things which were both really British together with reminded her of the Queen. I intend she did really good to larn equally far equally 39!  Her ship service also identified other fine art she institute past times other artists.

Royal United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland 2012 past times Kristina

Many thank yous to all who participated inwards the diverse Challenges together with permit me ship service their paintings to my blog!

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