Maybe you or another artists have improved their studio?
Or maybe an innovation has made life at home and in the studio for the artist that bit better?
YOU are invited to nominate art blogs for one or more of three awards:
- The Art Innovation of the Year Award
- The Most Gorgeous Mouthwatering (MGM) Studio of the Year
- “The Moose” - the award for the best animal in an illustrated blog
Details at the end for how to nominate - in summary, you leave a comment on this blog with the name of the blog, the award and the reason for the nomination.
All nominees and nominators are linked to both from this blog and my main website page where all the past awards and nominees are listed
The Most Gorgeous Mouthwatering (MGM) Studio of the Year
- 2011 The Award was shared between:
- Carol Marine (and David) In the summer of 2011, Carol lost her home AND her brand new studio built by her husband to the Texan wildfires. It even had its very own blog - Building My Studio - which, in the end, recorded its birth back in 2009, its studio warming this summer and its death in September in just over two years. It must have been especially galling to have just got it properly finished only to lose it a very short while later.
- Loriann Signori (and Daddio) Just as Carol's new studio was reduced to ash, Loriann Signori was breaking the ground for her new studio in September this year. She entertained me in the latter part of 2011 on her blog Loriann Signori with the development of her studio. Just before the awards were announed she posted The birth of a studio: the whole story - and is now in and painting away! You can see all the posts on her new studio label.
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| Loriann Signori's brand new studio - 27 December 2011 |
- 2010 Cathy Johnson Shed of Reality: a place called sanity The brilliant thing about this project was that Cathy set up a blog to track the whole process of creating a new studio in a shed. It not only provides a record of the various trials, tribulations and achievements, it's also a marvellous source of information with lots of links for anybody else trying to tackle a similar project.
- 2009 Lisa Call (Lisa Call - Contemporary Taxtile Art) - For me there was no contest - this was a really heavy duty makeover and it was all photographed and documented using photo archives and blog in Lisa Call's studio makeover
- 2008 Tracy Helgeson (Works by Tracy Helgeson) plus Doug and Ginger and all those who helped with the new studio. Tracy moved her studio, had a new floor laid, new walls and storage sorted, painted it all, bought and installed new studio furniture and then renovated her ex studio/new sitting room - and took photos and took us all through the process with her. Talk about comprehensive! [This award was originally made under The “Tales from the Frontline” Amusing Musings Trophy - now retired. It prompted the creation of this new award in 2009]
| The Art Innovation of the Year Award is awarded to highlight those artist bloggers who experiment and/or create and/or share innovations which help the practice of other artists. The sharing may be through:
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This award was new last year and was won by two new innovations by two popular art bloggers
- the Icarus Drawing Board™ - conceived and produced by Ester Roi (Ester Roi). This has been an enormous success with coloured pencil artists since it greatly reduces some of the time usually required to layer coloured pencils to achieve saturated colours. It can also be used with crayons, oil pastels and encaustic painting. Ester has now shipped Icarus Drawing Boards internationally to: Canada, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Luxembourg, Japan,Venezuela, Belgium, Scotland, and France.
- the Paint On Tabletop Easel - conceived and produced by Karin Jurick (A Painting Today) and Brett (the easel guy). This was designed specifically for Karin's requirements and came to the market at the beginning of 2011 and has been steadily selling out on a regular basis ever since. At present, the easel is only available in the USA.
“The Moose” - the award for the best animal in an illustrated blog
is named after the first winner of this award. The animal can be wild or domestic, a perennial subject or the studio pet.
- 2011 the drawings of birds on Debbie Kotter Caspari(Drawing the Motmot) She predominantly draws nature from life in all its different guises - in different parts of the world. I particularly enjoy her drawings of birds - and the fact she draws using pastels! Check out the bird sketches in this post Binoculars…bugspray…sketchbook? and who else sketches porcupines In 2010, Debbie's home was hit by a tornado in 2010, after which there was a very long absence from blogging while she put her life back together and found a new home. In 2011, she started to blog again properly in 2011 and it was a renewed delight to see all her sketches in 2011.
- 2010 Jeanette Jobson's (Illustrated Life) three-legged cat Tripod won this award. Tripod rules the roost and the turkeys at the Jobson home in Newfoundland despite only having three legs. By 2010 he also had the added distraction of an artist in the family who's rather interested in fish! Tripod has featured in very many drawings and paintings over the years and has always come across as an animal with a strong male character. He's become a bit fussy with age (don't they all?) and only occasionally now consents to model - for a fee!
- 2009 Kimberly Santini (The Painting a Dog a Day Project) - This award reflects Kimberley's total commitment to her painting a dog a day project started in 2006. By 2009 she had created over 800 furry faces, continued to post consistently and to a high standard and won the Fifth Annual AKC/Eukanuba National Championship Commemorative Art Poster Competition . In addition Kimberley and her patrons have, through sales of her paintings, raised over $5,500 to benefit animal welfare
- 2008 Tracy Hall (Watercolour Artist). This Award is just one of the many which Tracy has won in 2008 with various Miniature Art Societies in the UK and USA. This Award is for "birds" in a generic sense and a rook in particular and recognises two of her principal achievements in 2008.
- 2007 Gayle Mason (Fur in the Paint) - “Out of Sight” She has consistently produced excellent drawings of both dogs and cats during the course of the year – and shared her art materials and approaches as well on her blog
- 2006 Maggie Stiefvater (Greywaren Art ) - Moose No contest - Moose won by a mile. Maggie Stiefvater characterised her (now deceased) cat Moose as a "criminally insane cat, furry muse, catcher of moths, grabber of ankles". I thought he was a total star. He's been breaking ACEO records and also featured in an article in Art Calendar about daily painting blogs. Moose got the prize for being most often featured in uncommon but totally typical images of a cat.
This is the last of the posts inviting nominations for the Making A Mark At Blog Awards for 2012.
I've been keeping a list of art blogs which have had "made a mark" during the course of the year but I'd also really like to hear from YOU as to which art blogs have had an impact on you.
What YOU need to do - it's very simple!
- WHICH AWARD:
- Identify the title of the Making A Mark Award that you want your nominee to be considered for
- Leave a comment on the post on this blog inviting nominations for that award - BEFORE 24th December
- WHICH BLOG: Identify
- the name of the blog, its URL (eg "The Art Blog" http://theartblog.blogspot.com) and
- the name of the blogger
- (Note: prizewinners who have won in the last three years are not eligible - but only in relation to the specific award that they won)
- WHY: Say WHY you think this blog should be considered for a Making A Mark Award.
I'll collate all your nominations and comments in relation to each award and consider alongside those blogs which I have in mind as being worthy of consideration.
The Making A Mark Awards will be announced on the 29th and 30th December.
So over to you - who do you think merits being nominated for these three awards? Answers as a comment on this post please.
Other Making A Mark Art Blog Awards
Please also NOMINATE for other MAKING A MARK AWARDS
Links to the other posts seeking nominations can now be found at the top of the right hand column
BEST PICTURE ON AN ART BLOG 2012
BEST ART BLOGS IN 2012
- The Making A Mark Art Blog Awards (static page at top of blog - references previous years)
- Best Pictures and Best Art Blogs 2012 - a review
- The Making A Mark Art Blog Awards 2006-2011 See my Making A Mark website for the aims of each prize, a list of previous award winners and an outline of the reasons why they won.
I really love what you do here, Katherine. I can't wait to see who your winners are!
ReplyDeleteFirst I need to get some nominations!
ReplyDeleteI'll throw my studio into the ring (or is it the hat). I'm not sure it's MGM grand, but I love it and it's my favorite place in the world to be. I have everything I need with a place for everything, flexibility to do any kind of work, room for teaching, great lighting, comfort whether it's hot or cold out, and the ability to work any hours I want with a great sound system playing music or audio books.
ReplyDeleteWHICH BLOG: Janas Journal, http://JanasJournal.com, Jana Bouc
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April 24, 2012