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| Pure Gold - British Shorthair Blue Cream by Jacqueline Gaylard Winner of the Llewellyn Alexander SOFA Award for 2011 Acrylic on Board (£1,900) |
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| Artwork by Jacqueline Gaylard |
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| The phials unpacked in their container (images courtesy Peter Hunt) |
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| RSMGS - Annual Miniature Art Exhibition - in preparation |
to allow artists to experience working in a different environment on a project related to portraitureThe winner gets a £5,000 bursary to spend on the project of their choice - as described in the proposals which won the award.
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| BP Portrait Award 2011 - Catalogue |
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| A view of part of the BITE contemporary printmaking exhibition |
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| The Elements of Drawing website |
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| Threadneedle Prize - Panel Discussion |
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| Invite to the Private View of the Society of Feline Artists Annual Exhibition 2011 |
Each post aims to
- provide some links to useful information
- invite people to identify the blog posts on which they have discussed what they do
- ask people to contribute their three top tips for travelling with different types of media
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| My Unison Pastels flew to Walden Pond in Massachusetts and collected a new Artbin Backpack en route! |
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| Paintings of Thames Bridges by the Presidents of the RI and RWS at HighWatermarks Exhibition (left) Ronald Maddox PRI Hon RWS - Summer, Hungerford Bridge (right) David Paskett PRWS - St Paul's and Millenium Bridge in the Snow |
The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) and the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) are joining forces once again to promote the very best of British watercolours and fresh work in water-soluble media – a highlight of the summer calendar. Exhibition organised in association with Bankside Gallery.The first half of the exhibition was at the Bankside Gallery in July. There are:
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| High Watermark - Annual Joint Exhibition 2011 by members of the RI and RWS |
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| Artist at work in Provence |
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| The Big Cornwall Paint In - on Portreath Beach photo courtesy Simon Cook |
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| The Devastations occasioned by the Rioters of London Firing the New Gail of Newgate and burning Mtr Akerman's Furniture, June 6, 1780 |
for a fascinating account of this period. I had no idea how big an event this was and how much disruption it created for the different artists. I highly recommend this book) |
| How to look after your brushes while painting on a beach |
, "the world's first street art disaster movie" was shown on Channel 4 last night in the UK. An absolutely fascinating film - my jaw kept dropping towards the end. There's a strong view that the whole thing is a hoax perpetrated by Banksy. Here's a link to Guetta states in the film that his work largely consists of "scanning and photoshopping," acts which are carried out by hired assistants
in just over six weeks, we’ve moved from innovators to early adopters to early mainstream users visiting the new social network.
'The Hodge Award is the most intelligent competition because the entrants have to enter a set. Competitions featuring single images are like presenting a novel by only entering one chapter. Photojournalism has to be about a body of work.'
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| Mall Galleries - Receiving and Exhibition entrances Google Maps link |
In the mid-1970s, he began using the heavy, granular pigment called cremnitz white, which he has since then reserved for the painting of flesh.I'd never heard of Cremnitz White before I read about this aspect of his technique - so decided to do some research - hence this post.
Tate - Lucian Freud - Technique
In Lucian Freud's pictures, the human skin has almost infinite nuances, from delicate opalescent pink to blood red and the full range of cream, oncre and bistre tones. The discrimnatory power of the painter's eye enables him to go further than what we could ourselves. The nakedness of the bodies is intensified by this, while the roughness, overloading and impasto of the paint itself imbues the skin with an almost tactile reality: skin as fragile and sensitive as an exposed mucous membraneWhat is Cremnitz White?
Lucian Freud: The Studio
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| Presumably a somewhat historical image on the Michael Harding website given current EU requirements re supply? It looks so much nicer in the tubes though! |
Pure Lead Carbonate in a binder which makes a heavy, tactile white with a very robust surface. The ideal white for furrowed, granular or impasto mark-making.
In 1992, lead was banned in the EU in household paints whilst artists' materials manufacturers successfully gained an exemption for artists' colours. The EU has continued to legislate against lead, in a number of categories. From the 31st July 1995 in the UK, lead compounds and products containing lead compounds were reclassified as ‘toxic for reproduction'.For the UK this has the following implications:
i] Products labelled as toxic require child resistant closures if sold to the general public.
ii] Products labelled as toxic require tactile warnings of danger if sold to the general public.
I quote below the precedence taken by Winsor & Newton in early July 1995.The mandatory guidelines affect the retailer/supplier as follows:
- Flake White, Foundation White and Cremnitz White can no longer be supplied in tubes.
- These products are available in 150ml childproof tins.
- Each tin is labelled with mandatory warnings and a further special instructions leaflet is provided in the outer box.
- These products will not be displayed on open shelves. They will either be behind the counter or in a locked display.
- 2010: There were 218 artists and 445 works exhibited.
- 2009: There were 224 artists represented by 505 works in 2009.
- 2008: There were 244 artists represented, 178 (about 70%) accepted from the open submission. The total number of works was 572, with about half from the open submission. Sales of works were up 25% from 2007 at almost £120,000 (purchase prizes added a further £10,250), with over 27% more works sold than in 2007.
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| London Riots: (left) fire at Sony Distribution in Enfield on horizon (right) Olympic Stadium |
They hurt themselves, too, in the LA riots (and I will not dignify them by calling them by the PC term "civil unrest". The merchants simply didn't rebuild in the burned out areas. And then the residents complained that the good retailers were dissing them by not going back in. Well, duh. You can't force someone to rebuild when they know they'll eventually be burned out again. The insurance costs must have been through the roof. So who lost jobs, access to close by shopping and other aspects of the economic engine? They did, in the long run.
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| Google Map of places in London affected by the Riots on Monday 8th August 2011 |
“Sometimes instead of buying from a showroom,” she says, “you can buy directly from the artist at a better price."
"There are challenges ahead for galleries. Especially smaller and newer ones. " - Edward Winkleman
I've found certain shows very political inasmuch as they won't consider artists without art degrees. Do you have any suggestions for non-degreed artists regarding shows and artist resumes, etc.?
What constitutes a No? For me it’s work that looks derivative (if Sean Scully has already done it, you don’t have to), conceptually undeveloped (what, exactly am I looking at and why?), formally unresolved (it doesn’t “work”) or technically inadequate (incompetent execution).
Yale Center Exhibition Examines Hoax on Prominent 18th Century British Artists http://t.co/yxElQgUI really don't know what happened to this site - it used to be good - but it is no longer. National art museums / galleries
What unites them is that it is all in the worst possible taste.Art societies
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| Provence Potager by Sarah Wimperis - available from Beside the Wave Gallery |
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| Lavender Shadows by Sarah Wimperis - available from Beside the Wave Gallery |
A giant sculpture by Oliver Voss, 'Die Badende' (The Bather), lies in the Binnenalster lake in Hamburg, Germany. The sculpture is made of styrofoam and steel and measures 4 metres high by 30 metres long.
