tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post609667124805221975..comments2023-06-13T08:29:39.914+00:00Comments on MAKING A MARK: NOMINATE: Best Picture on an Art Blog in 2013 - PeopleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-18058527471556346842013-12-23T19:24:05.998+00:002013-12-23T19:24:05.998+00:00Slightly embarrassed to be nominating my own work,...Slightly embarrassed to be nominating my own work, but hey my blog hasn't got many followers!<br />http://ianpriceart.co.uk/2013/12/22/portrait-completed-just-in-time-for-a-happy-christmas-art-painting-portrait/<br />I like it partly because it's completed in time for Xmas so I can relax but mainly that I think it has a good balance of a strong composition with linking darks, loose strong mark making combined with enough subtlety to make an accurate likeness.<br />The size is 12 by 10 inches and its oil on gessoed MDF. The sitter was a 15 year old boy which I think is probably a tricky age to capture.<br />A thought perhaps the low response might be due to the demise of Google Reader this year, I know it's impacted my blog reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-32263521826833939102013-12-23T19:23:12.571+00:002013-12-23T19:23:12.571+00:00Slightly embarrassed to be nominating my own work,...Slightly embarrassed to be nominating my own work, but hey my blog hasn't got many followers!<br />http://ianpriceart.co.uk/2013/12/22/portrait-completed-just-in-time-for-a-happy-christmas-art-painting-portrait/<br />I like it partly because it's completed in time for Xmas so I can relax but mainly that I think it has a good balance of a strong composition with linking darks, loose strong mark making combined with enough subtlety to make an accurate likeness.<br />The size is 12 by 10 inches and its oil on gessoed MDF. The sitter was a 15 year old boy which I think is probably a tricky age to capture.<br />A thought perhaps the low response might be due to the demise of Google Reader this year, I know it's impacted my blog reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-50409964747995035322013-12-23T12:39:03.320+00:002013-12-23T12:39:03.320+00:00Jeremy Lipking, http://underpaintings.blogspot.co....Jeremy Lipking, http://underpaintings.blogspot.co.uk/ The artist is having a huge exhibition at the moment, one of the paintings presented in the blog touching upon everything happening in the artworld. <br />The artist has a soft slightly impressionist style, at moments reminding of impeccable Anders Zorn. This painting is a reference to Waterhouse' "Ophelia" but it is not morbid, the girl is just floating on the river of fantasy and beautiful dreams, the river of dreams, the joy of childhood and innocence. Gorgeous.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03753082309790545278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-54233730543074623472013-12-23T12:33:42.012+00:002013-12-23T12:33:42.012+00:00My nomination is "Sisters" by Kate Stone...My nomination is "Sisters" by Kate Stone. http://paintingstufftolooklikestuff.blogspot.co.uk/<br />The artist has a highly technically accomplished, slightly reserved and cold in choosing characters, but in extremely alluring style. Nevertheless in this particular painting the gentle emotional bond between sisters is so tender and the height of character rendering is so profound, that i would see it as a prize worth work.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03753082309790545278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-65844085148124699542013-12-23T12:25:47.009+00:002013-12-23T12:25:47.009+00:00My nomination: "The Night Scene" By Ther...My nomination: "The Night Scene" By Therese Oaxaca, http://teresaoaxaca.blogspot.co.uk/ The artist is fairly young but extremely productive, having created a body of work in distinctive style which i would call neo baroque or neo victorian, at the same time showing deep mastering of narrative classical realist style and tecnique. She has everything it takes: guts, style and depth, and her artwork are highly demanded and fashionable among conoisseurs. <br />"The Night Scene" deserves the prize because never before a contemporary artist has shown such depth of raw emotion in a portrait and at the same time kept to the stylistics and story.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03753082309790545278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-28231702339936615932013-12-23T12:18:37.747+00:002013-12-23T12:18:37.747+00:00My nomination is: "Night Scene" by There...My nomination is: "Night Scene" by Therese Oaxaca, http://teresaoaxaca.blogspot.co.uk/.<br />The artist is very young and extremely productive and blessed with talent, guts and wit. Her works are both done in highly fashionable new baroque or neo-victorian stylistics, but they also show profound and mature classical realist command. Her portraits are highly emotional, have huge character, the colour use is out of the magical world.<br />"The night scene" deserves the prize because it shows raw raving emotion set in familiar society atmosphere. Never before have i seen character captured so deeply and and at the same time keeping such purity of style.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03753082309790545278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-62397516416449768982013-12-18T10:19:01.283+00:002013-12-18T10:19:01.283+00:00I would like to nominate(The Stone House)by Heathe...I would like to nominate(The Stone House)by Heather Horton,Oil on canvas, 10"x30 <br /><br />http://heatherhortonartwork.blogspot.com/<br /><br />You can see the work at http://heatherhortonartwork.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-stone-house-and-gift-of-giving.html Make sure you click on her painting to see the full image.<br /><br />Although some may feel it does not fall into the traditional portrait genre,it reminds me a little of Andrew Weyeths painting (Christinas world)where it encapsulates both the person and his/her surroundings.<br /><br />I like this painting in that she has managed to combine both a portrait and a landscape in one, and yet inevitably your eye is always drawn back to Gayle whom I feel is her main subject.Great composition,and wonderful loose but soft brush strokes.Roger Brown Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08787662831366768403noreply@blogger.com