NOMINATE: Best Picture on an Art Blog in 2013 - Still Life

The Making a Mark Prize 
(2013) 
for Best Picture 
(Still Life)

This prize aims to celebrate and highlight excellence in artwork - a still life which is contrived or found, a narrative or an accident, large or small

NOMINATE 
the best painting, drawing or fine print 
of a still life 
- as seen on an Art Blog in 2013

Past winners

Winner of Best Still Life on an Art Blog 2012
Folded Lace by Sophie Ploeg

Previous winners of this award include:

• 2012 Folded Lace by Sophie Ploeg (Sophie Ploeg) 
• 2011 Bottles, Bottles, Bottles #736 by Lisa Daria(Lisa Daria's Everyday Painting)
• 2010 Black Grapes #3 by James Neil Hollingsworth (Paintings in Oil)
• 2009 Sometimes I feel you look right through me by Sally Tharp (Sally is painting today....)

Prizewinners in the last three years (2010-2012) are ineligible for this award.

Who can nominate

• Nominations are ONLY accepted from peers i.e. people with an art blog. 
• Anonymous nominations are not permitted. (This is purely to stop spammers as I link to the blogs of all those who have nominated in a later post summarising the nominations!)
• An artist can nominate their own work 

All nominations must be in English.

What you need to do

To nominate - just COMMENT ON THIS BLOG POST  providing all the necessary details (see below) BEFORE 24th December 2013.

Use the comment function on this blog post to:

• nominate an artwork which YOU think is the best artwork about a still life in 2013. You must state:
• the title of the piece
• the name of the artist,
• the size and medium (if possible)
• the name and URL of the blog (eg The Art Blog - http://artblog.blogspot.com)
• the date, title and URL of the blog post in which the artwork appears (you MUST provide a the precise URL for the location of the post and not just the URL for the blog. Try clicking the title or the date of the post - that sometimes gives you the unique URL of the post)
• say WHY you think this still life drawing / painting / fine art print deserves to be nominated
• SAY WHY YOU LIKE THE WORK - this bit is really important so please do the best you can. Remember that nominations are open and transparent and that it's good to share a genuine tribute to a piece of work you like

You need to ask the artist if their work can be posted on my blog - and let me know what the answer is. This can happen after the nomination and BEFORE 24th December.

ELIGIBLE ARTWORK MUST BE:

• original artwork about a still life which is contrived or found, a narrative or an accident, large or small
• a painting (in any media) or a drawing (in any media) or a fine art print (using any method) created using hands. Digital artwork is eligible
• completed in 2013 - and appeared on an art blog in 2013
• by an artist who has an independent art blog(i.e. websites don't count - this is an award for art bloggers!)
• by an artist who has not won the award in the last three years
• submitted with the approval of the artist i.e. you need to identify an image which can be used on this blog.(you can seek their agreement after the nomination and BEFORE the announcement of nominations in a post on this blog on 24th December)

Artwork which is NOT eligible includes:

• photography
• over-reliant on an image taken by another person

The Making A Mark Awards 2013

The Making A Mark Awards (a page on this blog (see top) explains the awards and highlights past winners 

I'll be embedding links to more blog posts about nominations for the following awards over the next week

Winners are announced on 30th December 2012

• Making A Mark Nominations: Best Picture of the Year on an Art Blog
• The Making a Mark Prize (2013) for Best Picture - Person - a formal portrait or a figurative artwork which is predominantly about a single person or group of people
• The Making a Mark Prize (2013) for Best Picture - Place - an artwork which is about a place - urban or rural, land or sea or sky, inside or out  
• The Making a Mark Prize (2013) for Best Picture - Nature - botanical, natural history or wildlife
• Making A Mark Nominations: Generating Art
• The Painting a Day Stickability Shield
• The Best Art Blog Project Virtual Challenge Cup
• The Best Art Society Blog
• Making A Mark Nominations: Getting Out of the Studio 
• The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize
• The Travels with a Sketchbook Trophy
• The Going Greener Gong
• Making A Mark Nominations: Learning about Art & the Art Business
• The FAQs and Answers Really Useful Medal
• The Make Me Think Gong
• The Best Book by an Art Blogger Blue Ribbon
• Making A Mark Nominations: The Home Front
• The Most Gorgeous Mouthwatering (MGM) Studio of the Year
• The Art Innovation of the Year Award
• “The Moose” - the award for the best animal in an illustrated blog