Archived Blog Posts 2009 - 13

Below you'll find the archive of past blog posts.  Posts are listed as a reverse timeline (newest first)


2013

January 2013

• How to enter the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition...
• Ten Tax Tips for Artists
• 27th January 2013 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Who painted this? #13
• Exhibition Review: Manet - Portraying Life at the...
• Numbers for Artists: How to work out profit from a...
• How to calculate the cost of entering a juried art...
• 20th January 2013 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Lynn Painter Stainers Prize 2013 - Selected Artist...
• Who painted this? #12
• Society of Botanical Artists: "The Language of Flo...
• Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Annual...
• HRH The Duchess of Cambridge official portrait - m...
• American Watercolor Society: Selected Artists 2013...
• 13th January 2013 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Paul Emsley and the Duchess of Cambridge - two vid...
• Who painted this? #11
• Art Society Exhibitions in the UK 2013 - Key Dates...
• The Art of the London Underground
• Your NEW Favourite Art Books
• Major Art Competitions in the UK in 2013
• Who painted this? #10

February 2013

• Lynn Painter Stainer Exhibition 2013: Review
• Art Society Blog #3 - Recruit a Blog Editor
• Artists overcoming disabilities
• 24th February 2013 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Who painted this? #17
• Art Society Blog #2 - Getting started
• Art Society Blogs #1 - Why blog?
• What it's like for an Artist's Trustee
• The 100th anniversary of the 1913 Armory Show
• Who painted these 10 Popes?
• Vote for your favourite coloured pencils in 2013
• Ash Wednesday, Lent and Art Supplies
• How can you tell when it's a vanity gallery?
• 'Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape' at the RA
• 10th February 2013: Who's made a mark this week?
• Who painted this? #15
• Review: Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch
• Review: Man Ray Portraits at the National Portrait...
• Review - Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Photography Competition
• POLL: What's your best time of day for painting?
• 3 February 2013 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Review: CPSA's 9th Explore This! Exhibition
• Who Painted This #14
• Artists prefer real art books (Poll result)

March 2013

2012

January 2012

• What makes you leave an artist's website? POLL RESULTS
• The John Ruskin Prize - A New Look at Nature: Call...
• Artists who refused Honours
• What are the priorities for an aspiring artist?
• 14th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Iullustration - Intent to Submit
• How to become a member of the Society of Botanical Artists
• Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries
• 22nd January - Who's made a mark this week?
• "Pastel" iPad sketch as a movie
• National Exhibition of Wildlife Art Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries
• How to produce a large 300dpi TiFF print of an iPa...
• Review: David Hockney RA - A Bigger Picture
• RA Summer Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries
• 15th January 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• A 5 minute interview with Brian Sewell
• 85% of you love "Color and Light"
• Major Art Exhibitions in London in 2012
• Consultation on Remedies for Copyright Small Claims (USA)
• Makingamark's Top Ten Art Books in December 2011
• 8th January 2012 - Who's made a mark this week
• Makingamark's Top Five Art Books in 2011
• Gerhard Richter: Panorama at Tate Modern - Review
• Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven - Review
• Major Art Competitions in the UK 2012
• POLL: First Impressions: what makes you leave an art website fast
• The Old Year (2011) and The New Year (2012) & 11 Principles

February 2012

• How Pinterest removed all my pinned images in minu...
• RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2012 - Re...
• Society of Botanical Artists Submission Day - and ...
• Pinterest: How to prevent your Flickr images from ...
• Pinterest: How to prevent your Blogger images from...
• 19 February 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Insurance for Artists - can you help?
• "Lucian Freud Drawings" - a life in line
• Important - complete Copyright Survey by 5pm on Fr...
• Review: "Love Pastels" - The Pastel Society Annual...
• VIDEO: WSJ review of "Lucian Freud Portraits" + B...
• 12 February 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Other Current Exhibitions of Work by or about Luci...
• Review: Lucian Freud Portraits at National Portra...
• David Hockney on sitting for Lucian Freud
• Video: Sue Tilley talks about modelling for Lucia...
• Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibiti...
• RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2012 - Se...
• Phew!
• The Best and Newest Art Books in January 2012 - an...
• The Watercolours + Works on Paper Fair 2012
• POLL: How do you respond to comments on your blog...

March 2012

• Review: Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2012 Exhibitio...
• What aspects of your art and art business do you i...
• Antony Williams wins Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2...
• Royal Watercolour Society Spring Exhibition 2012 -...
• Buying a new camera - Update
• Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2012 - Selected artist...
• 25th March 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Pinterest revises TOS and addresses copyright issu...
• The Threadneedle Space opens at Mall Galleries
• Animal Beauty at the Grand Palais in Paris
• I think I need a new camera - what do you think?
• Finalists for The Archibald Prize 2012 + The Packi...
• Diana Armfield RA, RWS - an appreciation
• 18th March 2012: Who's made a mark this week?
• 7 Gold Medal Winners at RHS Botanical Art 2012
• 200th Exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painter...
• Watch artists who paint in watercolours
• The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours
• Major Degas exhibition opens in Paris
• 11 March 2012: Who's made a mark this week?
• RBA 2012: An exhibition of Middle England?
• Q. Is this a Muslin Brush?
• Annie Williams demonstrates a still life in waterc...
• POLL: Do you insure your art and art business?
• The way you respond to comments on your blog POLL ...
• 4 March 2012: Who's made a mark this week?
• Call for Entries for £30,000 Threadneedle Prize 20...
• Takedown: How Pinterest moved fast to remove my pi...

April 2012

• Artists are Introverts! Discuss...
• 29th April 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Call for Entries: Royal Society of Marine Artists ...
• Life Drawing with Sue Tilley at the National Portr...
• CPSA 20th International Exhibition 2012 - Selected...
• A 'Making A Mark' Profile of Fiona Strickland
• 2012 Prizewinners at Society of Botanical Art's An...
• 22nd April 2012: Who's made a mark this week?
• Certificates of Botanical Merit at SBA 2012
• 27th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical...
• Botanical art, watercolour and art societies
• Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2012 - Call f...
• Top 30 art galleries and museums in 2011
• Hockney is bigger than Van Gogh!
• 8th April 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012: Call for Entries
• BP Portrait Award 2012 - The Shortlist
• International Garden Photographer of the Year 2011...
• Tim Storrier wins the $75,000 Archibald Prize 2012...
• POLL: Artists - Are you an introvert or an extrove...
• 1st April 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?

May 2012

• Art that keeps you coming back again and again
• BP Portrait Award 2012 - 55 Selected Artists
• Hilliard Society of Miniaturists - 30th Annual Exh...
• Wildlife Artist of the Year - Karen Laurence-Rowe
• 27th May 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• A Picture of London
• Journal and sketchbook Illustrations by Queen Vict...
• Review: 'The Queen - Art and Image' at the NPG
• Transparent Watercolour Society - Annual Exhibitio...
• Video: Andy Goldsworthy speaks about his work
• 20th May 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• The Art of Urban Sketching Book Launch - London 19...
• A New Leaf - an exhibition by Amicus Botanicus
• How to create a 'search description' for your Blog...
• 13th May 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Art of the Real
• Painting the Queen
• Review: Royal Society of Portrait Painters - 121st...
• Analysis of open entry to RSPP Annual Exhibition
• 6th May 2012: Who's made a mark this week?
• The Scream - the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold ...
• The History and Story of Unison Colour
• Antony Williams wins Ondaatje Prize 2012
• POLL: How long do you spend looking at a painting...

June 2012

• Poll Results - Size Matters!
• Review: David Nash at Kew - A Natural Gallery
• Working on site: David Nash in the Wood Quarry at ...
• 'Built" : recording and responding to the construc...
• 24 June 2012 (+1) - Who's made a mark this week
• A Profile of Aleah Chapin
• Video of BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012
• Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 (Part 2)...
• Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 (Part 1)...
• Aleah Chapin wins £25,000 BP Portrait Award 2012
• Pastel Paper and Pastel Boards
• 17 June 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Why do wealthy people invest in art?
• Threadneedle Prize 2012: Analysis of entries / sel...
• Call for Entries: ING Discerning Eye 2012
• Have you heard about NGA Images?
• Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012: ...
• 10 June 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Review: 244th Summer Exhibition at the Royal Acade...
• Review: Rosie Sanders "Against the Light"
• POLL: How do you decide the size of your artwork?
• Paintings for the Diamond Jubilee
• The Big Diamond Jubilee Art Challenge

July 2012

• BP Portrait Award: Inspiring portraits by teenager...
• Art Business: Taxes and bookkeeping for artists
• 29th July 2012: Who's made a mark this week?
• How to get people to subscribe to your blog
• See Olympic Athletes at the National Portrait Gall...
• Andy Warhol: The Portfolios Dulwich Picture Galler...
• How to make labels for an art exhibition
• Techie: How to create a customised URL for your Bl...
• Artist Quality Pigments & Artists' Colourmen
• If you buy art books on Amazon......
• The Next Generation - Portraiture for Teenagers
• 15th July 2012: Who's made a mark this week?
• Urban Sketches - printed, matted, framed, and hung...
• What is "Decorative Art"? DISCUSS
• The London Sketchbook Challenge - Call for Entries...
• The Exhibitionists
• Show Me the Monet - X factor for Artists?
• 8th July 2012: Who's made a mark this week?
• Carl Randall wins BP Travel Award 2012
• Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012: Selected Artists
• BP Travel Award 2011: Jo Fraser travels to Peru
• POLL: Do you and your art have a presence on Face...
• Artists on Facebook - The Scope and The Rules
• 1 July 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?

August 2012

• Portrait Society of America - 2012 award winners o...
• The Tate's Pinterest Top Ten Pin List
• Review: RE Open - contemporary printmaking at the ...
• Nicole Caulfield and her Mobile Art Studio / Galle...
• Selected Artists - UKCPS 11th Open International E...
• Feline art in London - two exhibitions
• The Hesketh Hubbard Art Society - Annual Show
• Exhibition: Federation of British Artists Presents...
• Two botanical art exhibitions - in the UK and USA
• Threadneedle Prize 2012: names of selected artists...
• 19th August 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Review: Damien Hirst at Tate Modern
• How to obtain free images from the National Portra...
• RWS 'Picturing Britain' at Bankside Gallery
• What computer skills do artists need?
• Robert Hughes (1938 - 2012) will be missed
• Advice on Shipping Art and Crafts
• Coloured Pencil Society of America Annual Exhibiti...
• ANNUAL POLL: What's the best place to sell art in ...
• Poll Results: Is Facebook replacing Forums for Art...

September 2012

• Threadneedle Prize 2012: The Making a Mark Select ...
• How do you send large images of your artwork?
• Review: Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2012
• OCAD / Pearson Art Textbook Update
• Threadneedle Prize 2012 - Shortlisted Artists
• 24th September 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?...
• Art History - a set text book with no pictures!
• Last Weekend for Impressionists
• Landscape Painting: 2013 Jolomo Bank of Scotland A...
• Mark Elsmore wins Sunday Times Watercolour 2012
• POLL: What's the best method of promoting art sale...
• Threadneedle Prize 2012 - Exhibition now Online
• 16th September 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?...
• Do you have a problem leaving comments on Blogger ...
• Karolina Glusiec wins £8,000 Jerwood Drawing Prize...
• Review - Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde at...
• Review: Florum 2012
• I went sketching instead!
• John Moores Painting Prize 2012 - Shortlisted Arti...
• Review: BITE 2012 - Artists making prints
• Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 - ...
• The Best Place to Sell Art - More Trends
• What's the best place to sell art? (Part 2 - The T...
• Hokusai and Hiroshige: Great Japanese Prints
• 2nd September 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• 2012 Poll Results: What's the best place to sell a...

October 2012

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• New structure for Arts Council & an Interactive Ma...
• Review: 49th Annual Exhibition - Society of Wildli...
• RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2013 - Ca...
• 28th October 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• RHS Gold Medal winning Botanical Photography
• Who painted this? #1
• Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 - Call for Entrie...
• Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 - Call for Entrie...
• Pumpkin Paintings
• Exporting Art (Part 1): The Invoice
• 21st October 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Review: 2012 Exhibition of the Royal Society of Ma...
• Review: 2012 Annual Exhibition of the Royal Societ...
• Poll Results: The Best Method of Promoting Art Sal...
• Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Photography Competition
• Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2013: Call For Entries...
• 14th October 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Review - UKCPS 11th Annual Open International Exhi...
• Threadneedle Prize 2012 - the Award Winners
• Review: Cotman in Normandy - at Dulwich Picture Ga...
• The Facebook Guide to Facebook Pages
• 7th October 2012 (+1) - Who's made a mark this wee...
• Reverse Glass Painting
• Verre Églomisé - an introduction
• American Society of Botanical Artists - 15th Annua...
• Botanical Painting Diploma Course - 2013 Scholarsh...
• Timescale approaches in figurative paintings
• ING Discerning Eye 2012 - Selected Artists

November 2012

• Who painted this? #6
• Makingamark's Top 10 Fine Art Books in November 20...
• London Art Exhibitions - Autumn/Winter 2012
• What is Archival Paper?
• 26th November 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• About Arthur Streeton - Australian Landscape Paint...
• Who painted this? #5
• Self - a new £20,000 prize for self portraiture
• Owen Bullet wins £5,000 ING Discerning Eye Prize
• How to make an effective Facebook Interest List
• A Guide to Facebook Interest Lists (Part 1)
• 18th November 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• About Childe Hassam
• Who painted this #4
• Georgia O'Keeffe - 125th Birthday
• 10 x 10 Drawing the West End of London
• Inside the National Galleries of Scotland - with t...
• 11th November 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Who painted this? #3
• Henry Moore Sculpture - a very poor precedent for ...
• Review: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize...
• NEW! The Derwent Art Prize - for pencil art
• POLL #2: Best professional watercolour paints
• Who painted this? #2
• POLL: Which are the best artist-quality watercolou...

December 2012

• Best Picture of 2012 on an Art Blog
• The Home Front - The Making A Mark Awards 2012
• Learning about Art & the Art Business - Making A M...
• Getting out of the Studio - Making A Mark Awards 2...
• Generating Art - The Making A Mark Awards 2012
• Introducing The Making A Mark Art Blog Awards 2012...
• VOTE for the Best Artwork on an Art Blog in 2012
• Merry Christmas!
• Nature Nominations for Best Artwork | MAM Awards 2...
• Still Life Nominations for Best Artwork | MAM Awar...
• Landscape Nominations for Best Artwork | MAM Award...
• Portrait Nominations for Best Artwork | MAM Awards...
• Reviewing Art Business in 2012
• Reviewing Art on the Internet in 2012
• Who painted this? #9
• A delayed Who's made a mark this week?
• RIP - artists who died in 2012
• Royal Institute of Oil Painters - Annual Exhibitio...
• 'Legal' coloured pencils for CPSA International Ex...
• Andrew Wyeth's studio and first TV interview
• Who painted this #8
• The Home Front - Making A Mark Art Blog Award Nomi...
• Learning about Art & the Art Business - Making A M...
• Daphne Todd Exhibition at the Mall Galleries
• Getting Out of the Studio - Making A Mark Art Blog...
• Generating Art - Making A Mark Art Blog Award Nomi...
• Nominate the Best Artwork (Natural World) on a blo...
• Nominate the Best Art (Still Life) on a blog in 20...
• Nominate the Best Picture of a Place on an Art Blo...
• Nominate the Best Picture of People on an Art Blog...
• Who Painted This? #7
• Best Pictures and Best Art Blogs 2012 - a review
• Review: New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 201...
• BP Portrait Award 2013: Call for Entries
• J.R.R. Tolkien - the artist
• 2nd December 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?
• W&N: the best brand of watercolour paint for artis...

2011

January 2011

• 30 January 2011: Who's made a mark this week?
• Are you a left handed artist? (Poll Results)
• How to enter the Pastel Society's 112th Annual Exhibition
• Major Art Exhibitions in London in 2011
• Two opportunities to be Wildlife Artist of the Year 2011
• How to identify favourite portrait painters
• Introducing 'A Postcard from my Walk'
• Out to Lunch
• Techie: 9 Reasons Why the Title is Important
• Annual Exhibitions of Scottish Art Societies
• The Queen: Art and Image
• Watercolourists: Call For Entries 2011
• Making A Mark achieves #2 in Top Ten Blogs of 2010
• 9th January 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Techie: Ten top reasons to use tags on your blog
• Major Art Competitions in the UK 2011 - a timetable
• Making A Mark's Top 10 Fine Art Books in December 2010
• UK National Art Societies: 2011 Open Exhibitions - dates and deadlines
• POLL: Are you a left handed artist?
• 2nd January 2011: Who's made a mark this week?
• 01.01.11 - Looking back (2010) and forward (2011)

February 2011

• Which service do you trust when you post or ship a...
• 27th February 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Pouring a painting
• Natural History Museum - new "Images of Nature" Ga...
• The Times would like to feature my blog!
• Artwork accepted into "The World of Plants"
• View Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel artwork online
• 'How to do a Bail-In' connects video art and arts ...
• 20th February 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• CPSA Explore This! and juror's statement - now onl...
• The exhibition checklist
• In need of a title - again!
• Georg Ehret's sketchbooks - botanical illustration...
• "Pure Gold": an exhibition celebrating 50 years of...
• Art and Greetings Cards
• 6th February 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• POLL: Which service do you trust when you post or...
• Entry conditions for Society of Botanical Artists'...
• Introducing Google's Art Project - streetview for ...
• Making A Mark's Top 10 Fine Art Books in January 2...

March 2011

• Practice, experience and style
• Review: Royal Watercolour Society - Spring Exhibition
• 27th March 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - Call for En...
• Make your own art!
• Plagiarism or 'passing off' - it's got to stop
• How Google works - and has shaped the web
• How to enter the RHS Botanical Art Show
• RHS Botanical Art Show & Five Gold Medal Winners
• 20th March 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Fancy painting in Provence in May?
• Art Museums in Japan
• After Bonnard
• A new Making A Mark Guide
• The Top Five at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• 13th March 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• 10 minutes of Picasso
• Why your colours onscreen don't look the same when...
• Color Interaction
• My Postcard from Provence
• Happy Birthday to my iMac
• 6th March 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Watch Andrew Wyeth paint Thomas Hoving
• Pastel Society of America: Call for Entries - 39th...
• The Best New Art Books in February 2011
• Makingamark's Top Ten Art Books in February 2011
• Art Supplies Around The World - Resources for Artists
• POLL: How much do you spend on your art habit annually

April 2011

• How much do you spend on exhibition frames on average?
• Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011 - Call for Entries
• Top 10 Art Exhibitions in the UK in 2010
• Threadneedle Prize 2011 - a new selection process
• Review: The Pastel Society's Annual Exhibition - Colour 2011 (updated)
• Making A Mark notches up 1 million visits
• Ben Quilty's portrait of Margaret Olley wins 2011 Archibald Prize
• BP Portrait Award 2011 Shortlist
• 17th April 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Certificates of Botanical Merit at SBA Exhibition 2011
• How do you share what you do as a painter?
• Review: Society of Botanical Artists Exhibition 2011
• Botanical Art under fire
• Top 30 art galleries and museums in 2010
• POLL: Exhibition frames: How much do you spend per frame on average?
• The Best Art Books in March
• Review: 199th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour
• Poll Results: Annual Spend on Art Materials

May 2011

• Do you price your art on your website / blog? (Poll results)
• Which are the best books about oil painting?
• 29th May 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Are Alkyd paints like real oil paints?
• ING Discerning Eye 2011 - Call for Entries
• Drawings Of Georgia in 1736
• Four Go Painting in Provence
• 2011 International Print Awards - Entries Deadline...
• 22nd May 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Two videos - painting people
• Review: 'Watercolour' exhibition at Tate Britain
• Turner finished my sketchbook
• Lost and found - one sketchbook
• Three women artists win Threadneedle Prize in firs...
• 15th May 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Watercolour - Who's your favourite painter?
• 10th UKCPS Open International Exhibition 2011 - Re...
• Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 - ...
• Assess how your website or blog ranks for quality ...
• 8th May 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• The Best Art Books in April 2011
• Review: Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual ...
• Review: Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual...
• POLL: Do you price your art on your website / blo...
• 1st May 2011: Who's made a mark this week?

June 2011

• Van Gogh and St Paul de Mausole
• Bedoin Market 27 June 2011
• Lunch at Bedoin Market
• Olives of Provence
• A stairway in Crillon Le Brave
• Demoiselles des coiffees
• Lavender Field near Sault
• Gordes - one of 'les plus beaux villages de France...
• L'Isle sur la Sorgue markets
• Vineyard housekeeping
• FIne dining at home in Provence
• After plein air painting
• Oil painting of Mont Ventoux
• Cherries from the orchards
• Bread from the boulangerie
• The Vineyard
• Sunrise over Mont Ventoux
• Making A Mark is on holiday
• Your favourite watercolour painters
• POLL: How many Art Societies are you a member of?...

July 2011

• 31st July 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• How much do you spend on art societies? (Poll results)
• The Cornwall Big Paint In - on a beach!
• The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013
• The NEW Daily Paintworks website
• 24th July 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Techie: How NOT to lose all your Blogger Pics!
• Lucian Freud (1922-2011) - an appreciation
• A Timeline of Daily Painting Practices and Marketi...
• Your Paintings
• Colored Pencil Society of America 2011 Exhibition ...
• Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011 - selected artists anno...
• 17th July 2011 - Who's made a mark recently?
• The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution - Gang...
• Blogger has a new Interface (in draft)
• POLL: How much do you spend on Art Societies?
• How many Art Societies are you a member of? (Poll ...
• The latest Art on the BBC
• 2011 Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - select...
• Champagne vineyards near Epernay, France
• Sunflower
• Dentelles de Montmirail - sunset
• Pantiles and roof stones in Provence

August 2011

• What's the MAIN way you have sold art in the last 12 months (poll results)
• Review: Society of Feline artists - Annual Exhibition
• A pigment conundrum for you!
• 28th August 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• BP Travel Awards: 2010 (Paul Beel) and 2011 (Jo Fr...
• BP Portrait Award 2011: links to Selected Artists
• Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2011
• Review: Bite - a NEW Contemporary Print Exhibition
• New website: John Ruskin and The Elements of Drawing
• 21st August 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Art Exhibitions in London & Art Trails - September 2011
• Making A Mark remains #3 in top 25 art blogs in UK...
• Top tips for travelling artists - pastels
• Review: "High Watermark" at the Mall Galleries
• Top tips for travelling artists - oil painters
• 14th August 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• UK Art Society Open Exhibitions: Deadlines for entry
• Cremnitz White and Freud
• ING Discerning Eye - selected artists archive published
• Thanks
• #riotcleanup - across London
• London's burning
• 7th August 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Techie - Thoughts on Tumblr?
• UKCPS Annual Exhibition 2011 - Selected Artists
• Makingamark's Top Ten Art Books in July 2011
• Elizabeth Blackadder - a retrospective
• ANNUAL POLL: What's the MAIN way you have sold art in the last 12 months?

September 2011

• Drawings of caricature and satire
• Review: UKCPS Annual Exhibition 2011
• Threadneedle Prize: The Making a Mark Select Seven...
• 25th September 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?...
• Translating and Updating an Artist's Statement
• Review: Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2011
• makingamark - a daily photo
• NPG announces details of Lucian Freud Portraits Ex...
• How do you earn the title of "artist"?
• 18th September 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?...
• BP Portrait Award 2011: People's Favourite & Stati...
• The Degas Exhibition - notes for pastellists
• REVIEW: Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement
• REVIEW: Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition 2011
• John Hunt wins Sunday Times Watercolour Competitio...
• ING Discerning Eye 2011 - Selected Artists
• 11th September 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?...
• Exhibition Review: Florum 2011 - in Sevenoaks
• Shortlist for Threadneedle Prize 2011 dominated by...
• American Pastel Society to honor Bill Creevy
• Makingamark's Top Ten Art Books in August 2011
• 4th September 2011 (+1) - Who's made a mark this w...
• Special Loan Exhibition of Royal Portrait Miniatur...
• POLL: What makes somebody buy a painting?

October 2011

• Do you sign and date your artwork? (Poll results)
• 30th October 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Review: Society of Wildlife Artists - Annual Exhib...
• Key Dates for UK National Art Society Exhibitions ...
• Artist and Illustrator - Artist of the Year 2011
• NEW two-stage digital pre-selection process for FB...
• How to do a reverse image search
• Chris Dunn wins The Bath Prize 2011
• 23rd October 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Which art society exhibition sells the most works ...
• Do you draw or paint water?
• How do you define a "professional artist"?
• How to paint miniature portraits
• 16th October 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• How to sign an art print
• Review: Royal Society of Marine Artists - Annual E...
• REVIEW: Miniature Art Society Annual Exhibition 2...
• Degas, Hockney and the freeze frame
• New Books about Drawing and Sketching in 2011 (and...
• Henriette Simson wins Threadneedle Prize 2011
• POLL: Do you sign and date your artwork?
• What makes somebody buy a painting? (Poll results)...

November 2011

• Time spent on marketing by artists (poll results)
• Review of Specialist Art Couriers in the UK
• 27th November 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Review: New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 201...
• How you can generate a title for your art
• Why you should give a title to your artwork
• How to get a visa to live in the UK as an artist
• Cultural Olympiad 2012 - Artists taking the lead
• 20th November 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Royal Society of British Artists: Call for Entries...
• How to avoid being labelled a spammer
• Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2012: Call For Entries...
• Georgia O'Keeffe's birthday is 15 November
• John Moore Painting Prize 2012: Call For Entries
• 13th November 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Review: ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2011
• Review: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Priz...
• The Da Vinci Queue
• The ING Art Collection
• The Big Artists Survey 2011
• 6th November 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Makingamark's Top Ten Art Books in October 2011
• The Artist's Calendar - for 2012
• Call for Entries: Pastel Society 112th Annual Exhi...
• POLL: What proportion of your art time do you spen...

December 2011

• Best Picture of 2011 on an Art Blog
• The Home Front - The Making A Mark Awards 2011
• Learning about Art & the Art Business - Making A M...
• Getting out of the Studio - Making A Mark Art Blog...
• Generating Art - The Making A Mark Awards 2011
• Introducing The Making A Mark Awards 2011
• VOTE for the Best Artwork on an Art Blog in 2011
• MAM Awards 2011: Portrait Nominations for Best Art...
• MAM Awards 2011: Landscape Nominations for Best Ar...
• MAM Awards 2011: Still Life Nominations for Best A...
• MAM Awards 2011: Natural World Nominations for Bes...
• Reviewing Art Business in 2011
• Reviewing Art on the Internet in 2011
• Art Exhibitions in London over Festive Season
• Creating Christmas Products from your art (Poll Re...
• Christmas e-cards 2011 - by artists, art galleries...
• 18th December 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• The Home Front - MAM Art Blog Award Nominations 20...
• Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012 - Call for Entrie...
• Call for Entries: RWS Contemporary Watercolour Co...
• Learning about Art & the Art Business - MAM Art Bl...
• Getting Out of the Studio - MAM Art Blog Award Nom...
• Generating Art - Making A Mark Art Blog Award Nomi...
• Call for Entries: BP Portrait Award 2012
• Nominate the Best Artwork (Natural World) on a blo...
• Nominate the Best Art (Still Life) on a blog in 20...
• Nominate the Best Art (Place/Landscape) on a Blog ...
• Review: 124th Annual Exhibition of The Royal Insti...
• Nominate the Best Art (Portrait/Figures) on an Art...
• Making A Mark: End of Year Review 2011
• 4th December 2011 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Making A Mark on Art
• Makingamark's Top Ten Art Books in November 2011
• POLL: Do you create Christmas products from your a...

2010

January 2010

• Art competition: Wildlife Artist of the Year
• Major Art Competitions in the UK - a timetable
• The Real Van Gogh - Portraits
• The Visual Telling of Stories
• 24th January 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• How to enter the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition...
• The Real Van Gogh at the Royal Academy
• Exhibition review: Turner and the Masters at Tate ...
• Pastel Society Workshops 2010
• A map of Van Gogh's London
• 17th January 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Artists supporting Haiti relief efforts
• Society of Botanical Artists - Silver Jubilee Exhi...
• RIP Moose
• Reflections on landscape painting after 1900
• 10 reasons to study art history
• 10th January 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• The Pastel Society 111th Annual Exhibition - Call ...
• UK National Art Societies: 2010 Open Exhibitions -...
• Landscape art instruction book for artists who rea...
• MAM Poll (Jan. 2010): How do you archive your dig...
• MaM Poll (Dec. 2009) Results: Which art gift would...
• 3rd January 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Techie: How to create a top 10 list of your blog p...
• Making A Mark in 2010 - The Plan

February 2010

• 28th February 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Where do you start when making art? (MAM Poll RESU...
• Two works in the Society of Botanical Artists Exhi...
• PC vs Mac update: questions about the iMac
• In praise of older art books - used and low cost
• In praise of older art books - free and digital
• Selling Art Online and Site Traffic
• 21st February 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Decision time: pros and cons of PC vs Mac for arti...
• PCs versus Apple Mac - for artists (Part 2)
• PC vs Mac for artists
• The Practice and Science of Drawing
• The Most Wanted Paintings on the Web
• SBA Submission day at Central Hall
• 14th February 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Malcolm Cudmore wins Derwent Artists Pencils compe...
• Van Gogh and the Yellow House in Arles
• 20 tips for entering art competitions
• Making A Mark Awards 2010 - The Contenders
• How to make Blogger pages work for you
• 7th February 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize 2010
• CPSA - Explore This! 6 now online
• How to critique art
• Where do you start when making art?
• Drawing London: 2-24 February 2010
• How do you archive your images? (MAM Poll Results)...

March 2010

• What's your favourite software for editing digital...
• What are fugitive colours?
• Drawing London 2010
• Not waving but ever so slightly drowning...
• Which are the best art books about watercolour pai...
• 21st March 2010 - who's made a mark this week?
• Sitekreator template updates
• Understanding image file formats
• BOOKS: how to draw animals, plants, flowers and n...
• Image file formats for artist bloggers
• Does your city need to create an art revolution?
• Henry Moore at Tate Britain
• 14th March 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Journal of an iMac Virgin #2
• A new look blog!
• Rosie Sanders and large scale flower painting
• Review: Paul Sandby - Picturing Britain Exhibition...
• Does your artistic creativity need a stimulus?
• Journal of an iMac Virgin #1
• Mac Matte displays and slamming fingers!
• Exhibition review: RWS Open Competition
• The top ten art galleries and museums
• What's your favourite software for editing digital...

April 2010

• What types of art book do you like best? (MAM Poll...
• Exhibition: RI Painters in Watercolour
• BP Portrait Award 2010 - Shortlist announced
• CPSA 18th Annual Exhibition: selected artists and ...
• Top 10 Art Exhibitions in the UK in 2009
• 25th April 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Society of Botanical Artists 2010 Prizewinners
• Call for entries: Sunday Times Watercolour Competi...
• Threadneedle - just another art prize in 2010?
• Talk and Draw at the National Gallery
• Botanical art in coloured pencils
• 18th April 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• The Virtual Field Herbarium
• A Making A Mark Interview with Mary Ann Scott
• EXHIBITION: Society of Botanical Artists 2010 #1
• The Pastel Society - Annual Exhibition 2010
• My Botanical Art Week starts
• Egg Tempera in three steps
• 11th April 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• The buying habits of fine artists
• The Jerwood Drawing Prize - how to enter
• Top 30 art galleries and museums in 2009
• The farce of the Digital Economy Bill
• Henry Moore Deluxe: Books Prints & Portfolios
• The Real Van Gogh - Orchards and Blossom
• 4th April 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• What's in the iPad for artists and illustrators?
• What types of art book do you like best?

May 2010

• Have you bought a painting DVD? (MAM Poll results)...
• 30th May 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• The Top Ten Best Art Books in May
• Modern Masters - Art Walks in UK Cities
• What's your favourite Art Business Book?
• Adam Binder wins Wildlife Artist of the Year 2010
• 24th May 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• I'm off to the park to draw irises!
• Techie: How to remove a CD or DVD from an iMac
• Who failed to switch on the alarm?
• The amazing Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource
• Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 - ...
• Review: Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual ...
• 16th May 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Watercolour in Britain
• Museums at Night starts tonight!
• Tate Modern is 10
• Win a copy of Ann Swan's new book
• Amazon assigns ludicrous categories to Art Books
• 10 questions for artists to ask event organisers
• 9th May 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Keep Calm and Carry On - the best motivational pos...
• How many people agree with Nick?
• Art magazines in the UK and USA - can you help?
• Techie: Ning announces new terms
• Art Exhibitions in London - Summer 2010
• 2nd May 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Have you bought a painting DVD?

June 2010

• What's your FAVOURITE magazine for artists? (resul...
• The Top 10 Art Books in June
• Amazon has crashed!
• Threadneedle Prize: selected artists
• 27th June 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• BP Portrait Award: Michael Gaskell's unparalled re...
• Two American Artists win BP Portrait Prizes
• Video - BP Portrait Exhibition 2010 opens today
• Daphne Todd wins BP Portrait Award 2010
• For Georgia O'Keeffe fans
• 20th June 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• The very best painter of French cheese I know...
• The Websites of Contemporary Painters in the UK
• John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize 2010: shor...
• Art for animals and birds in Gulf oil disaster
• Artists and illustrators drawing in pen and ink
• 13th June 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Stephen Fry's perspective on art, artists and view...
• Gayle Mason at Patchings
• The American Drawing Book
• Dos and Don'ts for Invitations to a Private View
• Journal of an iMac Virgin #3
• 6th June 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Storm clouds over Westminster
• What's your favourite magazine for artists?

July 2010

• Best Art Books about Drawing and Sketching just ha...
• Shortlist for £25,000 Threadneedle Prize 2010 anno...
• Summer Slow Down
• 18th July 2010: Who made a mark last week?
• BP Portrait Award 2010: List of Exhibitors and Bri...
• Ted Seth Jacobs and Sadie J. Valeri
• BP Travel Award - 2009 and 2010
• Making A Mark is now #3 in top 25 art blogs in UK
• Photography in Public: a government review
• Tonking and Henry Tonks
• 11th July 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Leonard Rosoman OBE RA (b.1917)
• ING Discerning Eye 2010 - Call for Entries
• Sargent and the Beach
• National Portrait Gallery Appeal for Freed Slave P...
• Estate Planning for Artists
• 4th July 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Where would you prefer to have an art studio?

August 2010

• A Lightfastness Standard for Pastels: current stat...
• August 2010 - Who's made a mark this month?
• Shaun Downey and Blue Coco
• Botanical Sketchbook publishes in the USA
• Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010 - The Shortlist
• Confusing terminology re online submission for RWA...
• AWS gold medal controversy - the final word
• Coloured Pencil Art Societies and Exhibitions - an...
• Juried into UKCPS 9th Annual UKCPS International O...
• Caldecott Medal Winners
• The Mall Galleries has two doors!
• Society of Wildlife Artists - Receiving Days
• What's the MAIN way you have sold art in the last ...
• Where would you prefer to have an art studio? (Res...
• The Top Ten Fine Art Books in July
• Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2010 - Call for Entrie...
• CPSA 2010 - Awardwinners announced

September 2010

• Record-breaking Gauguin Restrospective opens at Ta...
• Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010 won by Virginia Verran
• 26th September 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?...
• ING Discerning Eye 2010 - selected artists
• New Channel 4 art programmes this autumn
• Which is the best book for people wanting to learn...
• Favourite Coloured Pencil Brand - 2010 Poll Update...
• New BBC Art Programmes this autumn
• 19th September 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?...
• Keith Coventry wins £25,000 John Moores Painting P...
• Patricia Cain wins £25,000 Threadneedle Prize 2010...
• My Threadneedle Prize shortlist
• Kurt Jackson and the River Dart
• 12th September 2010: Who's made a mark this week?
• The BP Visitors Choice Winner is...
• POLL: Which performance measure matters most to y...
• Painting from photos
• The Top Ten Fine Art Books in August
• 5th September 2010: Who's made a mark this week?
• What's the MAIN way you have sold art in the last ...
• Threadneedle Prize 2010 Exhibition opens today
• Exhibition Review: London by Frank Kiely

October 2010

• 31st October 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• CPSA Explore This 7! call for entries
• International Association of Pastel Societies - 17...
• 65 Artists selected for Lynn Painter-Stainers Priz...
• Call for Entries: Royal Watercolour Society Open C...
• Exhibition Review: Thomas Lawrence at National Por...
• How to use an iPad as your artist's portfolio
• 24th October 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• REVIEW: Royal Society of Marine Artists - 65th Ann...
• What the comprehensive spending review means for a...
• REVIEW: Miniature Art Society - Annual Exhibition...
• 17th October 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Does teaching art generate copying of art?
• The most influential people in art? (2010)
• Notice Me! Creating a popular art blog
• Emma Haworth wins Sunday Times Watercolour Competi...
• Watch Parliament scrutinise funding of the arts LI...
• Notice Me! (or why you should get an art blog)
• Drawing, books and more drawing books
• Problems with the 2010 State of the Blogosphere Su...
• The Big Drawing People Book Review
• Contemporary Drawing Practice
• The Top Ten Fine Art Books in September
• Jerwood Drawing Events in October
• Call for entries: Bursary for artists with a disab...
• 3rd October 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• POLL: What do you do when not being an artist?
• Which numerical performance measure matters most t...

November 2010

• What price is affordable art? (Poll Results)
• 28th November 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• "Color and Light" and Making a Mark
• The Denman Ross Value Scale
• 'Wild Turkey' by John James Audubon
• REVIEW: Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2010
• Art Exhibitions in London - Autumn/Winter 2010
• 21st November 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Axis Art Map - Cardiff
• REVIEW: The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2010
• Call for Entries: RA Summer Exhibition 2011
• An Interview with Lauren Archer
• An interview with Rachel Levitas
• Rachel Levitas wins Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 20...
• Events - Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize Exhibition 201...
• 14th November 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Pastel Societies - Resources for Artists
• Review: Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2010...
• Laurence Binyon and the Ode of Remembrance
• Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 - ...
• UK Copyright law to be reviewed
• Cacti on parade!
• 7th November 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Colour and Light - a YouTube Preview
• Fine Line Artists Exhibition at Mission Trails, Sa...
• State of the Blogosphere - needs a lesson in stats...
• How to write an Artist's Résumé or CV
• POLL: What price is affordable art?
• What do you do when not being an artist? (POLL RES...
• Makingamark's Top Ten Art Books in October

December 2010

• Best Picture of 2010 on an Art Blog
• The Making A Mark Awards (Part 4 - The Home Front)...
• The Making A Mark Awards 2010 (Part 3 - Generating...
• The Making A Mark Awards 2010 (Part 2 - Learning a...
• The Making A Mark Awards 2010 (Part 1 - Getting Ou...
• Vote for the best artwork on an art blog in 2010
• MAM Awards 2010: Nominations for Best Artwork (Nat...
• MAM Awards 2010: Nominations for Best Still Life
• MAM Awards 2010: Nominations for Best Landscape/Pl...
• MAM Awards 2010: Nominations for Best Portrait/ Fi...
• Reviewing Art in 2010 (#2) - the art business
• Reviewing art in 2010 (#1) - the art blog
• Are you selling or giving art for Christmas? (Poll...
• Now we are 5! (12 Top Tips for being a Long Term '...
• 19th December 2011: Who's made a mark this week?
• How to price art
• Making A Mark Nominations: The Home Front
• Making A Mark Nominations: Learning about Art & th...
• Making A Mark Nominations: Getting Out of the Stud...
• Making A Mark Nominations: Generating Art
• 12th December 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Review: Royal Institute of Oil Painters - 123rd A...
• Read my review of Color and Light
• NEW!!! Nominate the Best Artwork (Natural World) o...
• Nominate the Best Artwork (Still Life) on a blog i...
• Nominate the Best Art (Place/Landscape) on a Blog ...
• Winsor and Newton Oil Painter Awards
• Nominate the Best Art (Portrait/Figures) on a Blog...
• Why be an art blogger?
• 5th December 2010: Who's made a mark this week?
• Makingamark's Top Ten Art Books in November
• Call for Entries - CPSA 2011
• Making A Mark: End of Year Review 2010
• CALL FOR ENTRIES: BP Portrait Award 2011
• REVIEW: New English Art Club Annual exhibition 201...
• POLL: Are you selling or giving art for Christmas...

2009 

January 2009

• Lines and Values, Notan and the Cut-Out Tool
• Selling art online - 10 benefits of a recession
• How to identify and assess value and tone quickly
• Selling original art online - auctions, galleries ...
• Selling art online - print on demand services for ...
• 25th January 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Feedburner: Techcrunch and transferring my feeds
• Selling art online - email newsletter software
• Bullrushes on claybord - work in progress
• "Selling Art Online - Resources for Artists" (is a...
• What do you want to know about selling art online?...
• Living the dream - how conscious are you of your o...
• Being creative on Blue Monday
• 18th January 2008 - Who's made a mark this week?
• American artist Andrew Wyeth dies age 91
• CPSA announce artists accepted for "Explore This!"...
• What sort of art book is missing from our bookshel...
• Do you need an art dictionary?
• Your favourite art books - what you like
• The Open College of the Arts
• The Ecology Park Ponds - an introduction
• 11th January 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• I'm improving my botanical knowledge
• Art Books #2 - the economics of publishing
• Security Suite blues
• Art Instruction Books #1: different ways of learn...
• Outstanding performance - a talent or 10,000 hours...
• Working in a series - drawing and painting ponds
• 4th January 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• How to find out what are the most popular posts on...
• MAM Poll: How often do you post to your blog?
• Making A Mark in 2009 - The Plan

February 2009

• MAM Poll results: Improving your art education
• Lesson learned - don't forget to do your updates
• Is Maggie Stiefvater the next JK Rowling?
• I'm freshening up my blog roll
• Is printmaking becoming the new 'painting a day'?
• Originals 09: The Contemporary Printmaking Show
• Google gmail / googlemail is down
• Book review: The Coloured Pencil Artist's drawing ...
• 22nd February 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Major art competitions in the UK in 2009 - dates a...
• National Art Societies in the UK - Open Exhibition...
• Marketing Art - How to write an Artist's Statement...
• Marketing art - people buy you as well as your art...
• How does a recession impact on artwork and art job...
• 15th February 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Favourite Art Books - Resources for Artists
• Art Schools in the UK - Resources for Artists
• Book review: The Art Atlas
• Marketing Art: "Don't put all your eggs in one ba...
• The National Portrait Gallery has a new website
• Marketing 101 for Artists - an introduction
• 8th February 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Society of Botanical Artists - Annual Exhibition e...
• Society of Women Artists - Annual Exhibition entry...
• Sell Daily Paintings - Resources for Artists
• Resources for Artists - Selling Art Online
• A Million Ponds - and two views in a series
• CPSA: Explore This! 5 is now online
• MAM Poll: What's the most effective way of improv...
• 1st February 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• How often do you post to your blog? - RESULTS

March 2009

• Results of "How do you price your art?"
• Hello Computer!
• 29th March - who's made a mark this week?
• Botanical Artists: Elizabeth Blackwell and 'A Curi...
• Guidance on pricing art
• Botanical artists - Franz and Ferdinand Bauer
• Review: Royal Watercolour Society - Spring Exhibit...
• Where artists lived and worked in London
• Botanical artist - Pierre-Joseph Redouté
• Meet the kittens - back in a week
• 15th March 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• northern print biennale 2009 - call for entries
• What is watercolour?
• Change of dates for Pastel Society Annual Exhibiti...
• Constable Portraits: The Painter and his Circle
• Two works juried into SBA Annual Exhibition
• Stretch! (and scream ever so quietly!)
• 8th March 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Wet Canvas changes its User Agreement
• My favourite art shop is......
• The linocut adventure begins............
• Exhibition review: Wapping Group of Artists - 63rd...
• Exhibition review: "21st Century Watercolour" at t...
• American Watercolor Society Gold Medal - the final...
• MAM Poll (March): How do you price your art?
• 1st March 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?

April 2009

• Genres and the results of "What's your favourite s...
• The biggest exhibition of coloured pencil artwork ...
• Thomas Bewick - wood engraver and naturalist
• Who are the "best and the brightest" artists?
• 26th April 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Exhibition Review: Society of Botanical Artists #2...
• Exhibition Review: Society of Botanical Artists #1...
• Auditioning for SOFA
• Earth Day - and how to draw a tree!
• Call for entries - 2009 RWS/Sunday Times Watercolo...
• A "Making A Mark" interview with Ann Kullberg
• 19th April 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Exhibition review: From Bruegel to Rubens - Master...
• A "Making A Mark" interview with Alyona Nickelsen ...
• If you like talking about art supplies and art boo...
• Wildlife Artist of the Year 2009 - the online exhi...
• 12th April 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• More computer problems
• Threadneedle Prize Registration Opens
• Botanical Artists: Margaret Mee
• How do you draw? #1
• A new blog - Making a Mark Reviews
• How much are you paying yourself?
• 5th April 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Computer and out!!!
• Sydney Parkinson and the Endeavour botanical illus...
• MAM Poll April: What's your favourite subject mat...

May 2009

• 31st May 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• MAM Poll May RESULTS: Preferred media for drawing ...
• BP Portrait Award - who enters and who gets select...
• BP Portrait Award 2009 - the shortlist
• How do you draw? #2
• 5 guidelines for beginning to use soft pastels
• 24th May 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• SEO for Artists - which factors help or hinder?
• 5 approaches to avoid on your art website or art b...
• 5 more ways of helping your art website to rank we...
• The Contemporary Art Bubble and Art Omerta
• 5 positive ways to help your art website rank well...
• 17th May 2009 - Who made a mark this week?
• The Government Art Collection
• Hokusai, Van Gogh and the iris paintings
• Art of the state - and the state of the art
• Exhibition review: Kuniyoshi at the Royal Academy ...
• Creating a signature on your art
• 10th May 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Could you be the next Melanie Phillips?
• Exhibition review: Royal Society of Portrait Paint...
• Exhibition review: The Intimate Portrait
• 17th Annual CPSA International Exhibition 2009 - s...
• A Making A Mark Interview with Margaret Stevens
• Creative Spaces - the National Museums Online Lear...
• 3rd May 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• MAM Poll May: Which media do you like using for drawing?

June 2009

• MAM Poll June RESULTS: Preferred plein air painti...
• When you want to show the computer who's boss!
• 28th June 2009 - Who's made a mark this week? #102...
• National Gallery - new website and paintings for i...
• Calling all bibiliophiles and art historians
• The One Show's Summer Exhibition
• Exhibition review: The Royal Academy's Summer Exh...
• ING Discerning Eye 2009 - call for entries
• The Magic Hour
• 21st June 2009 - Who's made a mark this week? #101...
• Exhibition Review: BP Travel Award 2008 - Emmanou...
• Exhibition review: BP Portrait Award
• Sue Rubira makes her mark on BP Portrait
• Peter Monkman wins first prize in BP Portrait Awards 2009
• The Urban Sketchers Manifesto - final draft
• Highlights from "who's made a mark this week"? (Ju...
• 14th June 2009 - Who's made a mark this week? (#10...
• A pastels workshop with Felicity House
• Working with Pastels - Tips #1
• Does your art society do events and workshops?
• Exhibition review: The Pastel Society's 110th Annual Exhibition
• Sketchercise - now on Flickr too!
• Sketchercise!
• 7th June 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Exhibition review: "The Power of Plants" at Kew Gardens
• Exhibition Review - In Search of Gingers
• Exhibition review: Contemporary Australasian Botanical Artists
• Plein air art - 10 tips for working with sunshine and shade
• Exhibition review: Wildlife Artist of the Year 200...
• MAM Poll June: Which is your preferred media for plein air painting?

July 2009

• Title please - plus time for a short break
• National Portrait Gallery images: Flickr vs Wikip...
• Making A Mark - reviewing goals and themes
• 26th July 2009 - Who's made a mark this week? #106...
• Review: SAA Art Event
• 10th Annual FMP Member Show 2009
• Society of All Artists - It's All About Art
• Review: "Desperate Romantics" is dire dramatic dri...
• "Meet the kittens" on SOFA front cover
• Imagekind - why I'm looking for an alternative pri...
• 19th July 2009 - Who's made a mark this week? #105...
• Correcting colour: another way to stop your white ...
• National Portrait Gallery versus Wikipedia - Round...
• Downloading my colour memory
• Exhibition Review: The Highgrove Florilegium at th...
• What have you learned from blogging?
• 12th July 2009 - Who's made a mark this week? #104...
• An international exhibition at Mission Trails Regi...
• The Final Channel 4 Life Class in Series 1
• Back on track with the Life Class
• It's getting embarrassing in the Life Class!
• Life Class - with Humphrey Ocean
• Review: 'Life Class - Today's Nude' on Channel 4
• 5th July 2009 - Who's made a mark this week? #103
• Correcting colour: How to stop your white paper lo...
• David Hockney - recent exhibitions
• Review: David Hockney - A Bigger Picture
• MAM Poll July: Which are your preferred media for ...

August 2009

• MAM Poll (August) results: the MAIN way you've sol...
• 30th August 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Watercolour pencil techniques
• Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2009 - deadline 21st S...
• Printers come...and printers go....
• Musée Picasso in Paris now closed until 2012
• 23rd August 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Techies: SEO for artists
• smARThistory - an online resource with a differenc...
• Exhibition review: Magritte at the Magritte Museu...
• CPSA - 17th Annual CPSA International Exhibition -...
• Signature membership
• 16th August 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Threadneedle Prize - exhibition goes online today
• Exhibition review: RWS and RI - High Watermark 200...
• MAM Poll: What's the MAIN way you have sold art i...
• MAM Poll (July) Results: Preferred media for studi...
• 9th August 2009 - Who's made a mark this week? #10...

September 2009

• Follow my travels........
• UKCPS Exhibition now online
• Society of Wildlife Artists - Annual Exhibition 20...
• BP Portrait Tour & Portrait of the Nation
• Kate Clarke wins Best in Show in UKCPS Annual Exhi...
• à bientôt!
• Sheila Wallis wins £25,000 Threadneedle Prize 
• Exhibition Review - Royal Watercolour Society / Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition
• 13th September 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?...
• RWS/Sunday Times Exhibition - two workshops
• The end of the art holiday exhibition
• A "Little Break to Brussels" competition
• Scottish portrait artists
• Scottish artists - The Scottish Colourists
• You cannot copyright nature
• 6th September 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Selection for Threadneedle Prize & my shortlist
• Wanted: an art competition!
• Exhibition Review: Society of Feline Artists 2009 
• Exhibition review: The Threadneedle Prize - the shortlist
• MAM Poll (September 2009): What's your style of a...

October 2009

• MAM Poll (October) Results - What has influenced y...
• Video: Claude Monet at the Musée d'Orsay
• Video: Vincent van Gogh at the Musée d'Orsay
• The Musée d'Orsay
• 25th October 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• MAM #4 in Top 25 UK Arts & Culture Blogs
• Monet's Nympheas in the Musée de l'Orangerie
• Exhibition Review: Beatles to Bowie - 60s exposed...
• MAM Poll: What has influenced your style of art?
• Landscape photographer of the year 2009
• 18th October 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• MAM Poll (September) Results: Preferred style of a...
• 82 works selected for Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize
• Twitter - Be careful
• Travels with a sketchbook (and camera) in France
• Today is Big Draw Day

November 2009

• MAM Poll (November 09) Results: What makes a good ...
• 29th November 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• The Artists and the Economic Recession Survey
• From sketchbook to studio
• 10 questions for Art Society websites
• All About Cats
• 22nd November 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Cindy Woods - One year on
• Sketchcrawl is 5! (Plus 25th Worldwide Sketchcraw...
• An Interview with Toby Wiggins RP
• Art Societies in the UK - Resources for Artists
• Exhibition review: Toby Wiggins wins Lynn Painter...
• Exhibition Review - ING Discerning Eye 2009
• 15th November 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• How to highlight your exhibition (artist bloggers ...
• Marianne North Gallery reopens at Kew Gardens
• Exhibition review: The Art of Plant Evolution
• The garden behind the paintings - Giverny
• Exhibition Review - Royal Institute of Oil Painter...
• 8th November 2009: Who's made a mark this week?
• Techie - Customize your art news
• The state of Technorati - and the blogosphere in 2...
• The Louvre Museum in Paris
• Shortlist for Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2009 ann...
• Making A Mark is now on Facebook
• MAM Poll (Nov. 2009): What makes a good art teache...
• 1st November 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?

December 2009

• Making A Mark in 2009 - the results
• The Making A Mark Awards 2009 (Part 2)
• The Making A Mark Awards 2009 (Part 1)
• Vote for the best artwork on an art blog in 2009
• Seasons Greetings
• Making A Mark Awards 2009: Nominations for the bes...
• Making A Mark Awards 2009: Nominations for the bes...
• Making A Mark Awards 2009: Nominations for the bes...
• Reviewing Art in 2009 (#2) - the art business
• Reviewing art in 2009 (#1) - the art blog
• The RWS Open Competition 2010
• Christmas e-cards by artists, art galleries and mu...
• The Making A Mark Awards - nomination links
• 13th December 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Nominate for Making A Mark Awards #7
• Nominate for Making A Mark Awards #6
• Nominate for Making A Mark Awards #5
• Nominate for Making A Mark Awards #4
• Nominate the Best Art (Portrait/Figures) on a Blog...
• Nominate the Best Artwork (Place) on a blog in 200...
• Nominate the Best Artwork (Still Life) on a blog i...
• Making A Mark: End of Year Review
• 6th December 2009 - Who's made a mark this week?
• Exhibition Review: New English Art Club - Annual E...
• Review: The Wallace Collection
• Imaginative Realism - highly recommended
• BP Portrait Award 2010 - Call For Entries
• MaM Poll (Dec. 2009) - Which art gift would you li...