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You are invited to vote for
the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Award
for the best artwork on a spider web log inward 2011

Earlier this month, y'all were invited to nominate artwork for the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Awards for Best Picture inward dissimilar categories.  I posted the results inward the 4 posts published on Christmas Eve (listed at the cease of each category below).

You tin straightaway VOTE for what YOU intend is the best picture in the FOUR polls for the best artwork for each category - based on the artwork shortlisted from the nominations as well as my ain nominations

Before the display of images of the shortlist I've said a few words virtually why I chose the works that I did.

What YOU induce got to practice straightaway - VOTE!

DECIDE WHICH ARTWORK YOU LIKE THE BEST (see images below) inward each of the FOUR dissimilar categories below as well as hence vote inward the poll relating to each category - but exclusively ane vote per category please! ;)
  • Make sure y'all teach the resultant correct commencement fourth dimension every bit you'll live blocked from changing your vote 
  • The deadline for voting is 6.00am (GMT/London) on Fri 30th Dec 2011
  • I volition hence formally denote the winner of each category inward the 2nd business office of the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Awards inward a transportation subsequently on the 30th December.
  • You'll exclusively live able to view the percentages of the vote which each slice attracts. However the travel which attracts the most votes inward total volition also live declared Picture of the Year!
I advise y'all click on the images earlier voting hence y'all tin view all the travel properly. When you've voted y'all tin hence sentiment the results past times clicking on the 'view result' link inward the bottom left paw corner (just higher upwards the polldaddy link).

You tin also portion a link to whatever of the polls on your ain blog.  Just click the 'share this' link for the poll you'd similar to share.

You straightaway induce got 4 days to vote for which is the best artwork inward each category (see below). There are FOUR polls below - delight induce got your fourth dimension as well as vote on each.

Please note: Lobbying is non allowed beyond a selected creative mortal posting a link to this transportation on their ain spider web log as well as explaining how to vote.  Others tin experience gratis to portion a link to this vote if y'all desire to encourage people to await at the options generally.



The Making a Mark Prize for 
Best Artwork - Portrait / Figures 2011

aims to celebrate as well as highlight excellence inward portraiture and/or artwork 
on an fine art spider web log predominantly involving figures 

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This category attracted the largest issue of nominations as well as in that location are 4 paintings inward the vote-off.

The Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Awards likes to highlight figurative paintings as well as drawings every bit good every bit conventional portrait paintings.  This twelvemonth I had a surfeit of caput portraits.  It's almost every bit if people seat the give-and-take portrait alongside the give-and-take "face".  (On the other paw when nosotros view the Google images results for the give-and-take "portrait" you're inward skilful company!)

I'd similar to become far clear that paintings of the whole figure as well as figurative paintings of groups of people are also really welcome inward this category.  (Also contrast the resultant of a search for Google images for the search "figurative painting"!).  I went searching for figurative paintings - but there's non a lot to live institute despite the fact in that location is a huge tradition of creating paintings alongside several total length figures inward fine art history.  I'd telephone outcry upwards that a niche ripe for exploiting!
  • My nomination is a paradigm - Sophie Ploeg (Sophie Ploeg)'s "Dream" which I've truly seen inward existent life every bit good every bit on an fine art spider web log - as well as I induce got to say it's fifty-fifty to a greater extent than impressive when y'all view the existent thing.  That fact I've also got freckles could also live something to practice alongside it - I intend they're really hard to paint!  (This is the idiosyncratic chemical constituent of selection!)
  • I ever similar to endeavour as well as include a drawing inward the portrait department if possible as well as this twelvemonth I had a choice of two.  For me "Black Sun" by Dirk Dzimirsky (Dirk Dzimirsky - Drawings) had the edge. He demonstrates an first-class mastery of the fine art of the pencil as well as the tonal range. However it was corking to view a silverpoint drawing nominated for this award. I'm ever really pleased to view the total gain of traditional portrait media beingness nominated.  
  • I liked the fact that "Leah at Sea" past times Taryn Day  (Awake as well as Painting) was painted past times a large brush painter as well as although exclusively small-scale inward size, she kept her "big brush" approach when dropping downward to smaller size.  There was also something virtually the agency the other elements of the portrait, the ocean inward the background as well as the anorak, acted both every bit explanations of who this mortal is as well as provided a foundation for telephone commutation elements inward the palette used to pigment this portrait
  • Painting children is perchance the most hard thing a portrait painter ever has to do.  The proportions of the caput are all completely dissimilar  when they're babies as well as the freshness of the pare complexion as well as surface texture is completely dissimilar to that of an adult.  Then the're the fact they sit, stand upwards etc differently.  I truly liked "Scarlet" by Zachary Proctor (Sketchbook), the fact that she "looked like" a kid (the oral cavity is a joy!) as well as that the palette was complementary inward a agency which spoke of a childish time.  Lots of understatement inward this really effective portrait.
Links:
"Dream" © Sophie Ploeg
oil, 30x40cm
Nominated past times Katherine Tyrrell
"Black Sun" © Dirk Dzimirsky (Dirk Dzimirsky - Drawings)
Graphite on paper, heightened alongside white ink
25.6" x 20.5" (65 x 52 cm)
Nominated past times Jessica Rosemary Shepherd
"Leah at Sea" © Taryn Day (Awake as well as Painting)
crude on panel
6"x6"
Nominated past times Rose Welty
"Scarlet" © Zachary Proctor (Sketchbook)
24" x 24", oil
Nominated past times Regula Scheifele




The Making a Mark Prize for 
Best Portrayal of a Place 2011
aims to celebrate as well as highlight excellence inward creating pictures
about places inward our environment
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Having started The Art of the Landscape spider web log I am straightaway than a chip familiar alongside an awful lot of landscape fine art blogs. I could induce got filled all the nominations myself as well as nevertheless had some spare. Consequently I needed to await for aspects which had non been satisfied past times the nominations which I selected for the shortlist.

  • I absolutely concord alongside both William Wray (William Wray) as well as Casey Klahn virtually this painting!
  • Too few people practice paintings of Interiors - as well as yet this is a discipline which attracts commissions.  Sarah Wimperis (The Red Shoes) added some other string to her bow this twelvemonth inward paintings of aspects of domestic environments.
  • I've been watching Nigel Fletcher's (Painting Adventures inward the Limousin) paintings since the summertime as well as commend his spider web log to you
  • I honey Robin Purcell's (Point Lobos series
Links:

Back Door © William Wray
Post: Backdoor 24x24
Nominated past times Casey Klahn
"A Soft Light" © Sarah Wimperis
Nominated by: Maud Guilfoyle
Last Light © Nigel Fletcher
Nominated by: self nomination
Pacific Passage past times Robin Purcell
fourteen x fourteen watercolour
Nominated past times Katherine Tyrrell




The Making a Mark Prize for 
Best Still Life 2011
aims to highlight as well as celebrate excellence inward creating pictures
which assist us to reverberate on how the small-scale and/or nevertheless tin live beautiful
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The 2 nominated works I select for the brusque listing are both hyper realistic - albeit really dissimilar inward their compositions as well as palettes.
  • I've admired Jelaine Faunce's travel for a long while.  To me she really oftentimes meets that tricky challenge for the realistic creative mortal - where ane clementine looks pretty much similar some other clementine - of finding discipline affair as well as blueprint which lifts a paradigm out of the conventional as well as makes it "of the artist".  
  • I'm non at all familiar alongside Alex Zonis's travel but tin sure as shooting vouch for the fact that the paradigm is indeed a painting!
  • I decided to uncovering a contrast to the realistic images as well as nominate a travel which was to a greater extent than impressionistic.  Lisa Daria was concluding year's winner of the Painting Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Day Stickability Shield (which has a issue of good known winners).  What I liked virtually the paradigm I chose was that it illustrated for me how a pretty calorie-free muted palette as well as skilful blueprint tin live used to create a paradigm which says "look at me".
  • I've also selected a contemporary nevertheless life  by Nicole Caulfield (Nicole Caulfield) with a narrative employment inside the paradigm as well as ane which is also business office of a series.  Both features are really much associated with classical nevertheless life fine art as well as are all to oftentimes missing from a lot of the nevertheless life travel I view online.  
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'Glass & Floral II' © Jelaine Faunce
12"x12" - crude on canvas
Nominated past times David Teter
Bottles, Bottles, Bottles © Lisa Daria
Nominated past times Katherine Tyrrell
Lemonade © Nicole Caulfield
6" x 18", Coloursofts on Pastelbord
Nominated past times Katherine Tyrrell




The Making a Mark Prize for 
Best Portrayal of Nature 2011
values the natural earth as well as its plants as well as animals
as well as celebrates excellence inward portraying every aspect of nature
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This honour got off to ho-hum start concluding twelvemonth as well as it's non been a lot improve this year.  I'm going to laissez passer it ane to a greater extent than twelvemonth as well as a bigger dose of marketing inward advance side past times side twelvemonth to view if I tin generate to a greater extent than involvement from the really many artists who pigment nature, animals as well as botanical subjects.  They're a shy lot! :)
  • Australian creative mortal Vicki Lee Johnston (Vicki Lee Johnston) explained that she couldn't teach me a improve paradigm for the nominated paradigm every bit it's currently inward the U.K. beingness assessed for the Diploma inward Botanical Illustration which she's studying alongside the Society of Botanical Artists.  Those thinking of doing the Diploma should induce got a await at Vicki's blog.
  • I was really impressed alongside Suzanne Berry's other insects inward the insect serial on her blog (Suzanne Berry).
  • I've viewed Tracy Hall's paintings on her spider web log Watercolour Artist Diary as well as inward exhibitions for a piece now.  The miniature paradigm inward watercolour of a Sanderling is an first-class event of the purpose of an odd format as well as of giving surround context to a discipline inward nature.  Note also the size.
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Alyogyne huegelii 'West Coast Gem'
© Vicki Lee Johnston
Ant © Suzanne Berry
16x16" crude on cradled hardboard SOLD

Sanderling © Tracy Hall 2011
4" x 1.75" Watercolour on rag board



Selection of work

There is, of course, no correct or incorrect answer to which pieces should live selected from those which were nominated.

If you're interested inward why travel gets chosen, read a twain of posts which furnish context for making a selection - hither are my thoughts on Selection, jurying as well as must-see lists and Juried fine art competitions - does size matter?.

For the record, ane of the things I practice earlier selecting each travel is review other travel on the artist's spider web log to view if it is example of their travel during the year.

Also, ane of the reasons why I halt trying to review an artists travel is when it's only also difficult.  I couldn't quite believe how many of the artists I similar become far hard to access travel done inward the past!  I'll live writing a transportation virtually this inward the New Year.

Do y'all concord alongside the selection?  Which travel would y'all induce got selected?  Do y'all induce got a slice y'all wishing you'd nominated?

I'm straightaway taking a brusque interruption as well as volition live dorsum on 29th Dec alongside the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Art Blog Awards

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