Top tips for art competitions - a precis

My article 8 Tips for Entering Art Competitions is featured in Ann Kullberg's Colored Pencil Magazine for February 2015.

You can buy a digital version via

• Ann Kullberg's website - which also gives you access to back copies of her popular magazine
• or MagCloud - I'm very impressed with MagCloud in terms of accessibility.

So that means:

• last month I was in a top UK art magazine (see My Favourite Things)
• this month I've got an article in a popular USA art magazine; and 
• later this month I'm meeting up with the Editor of a top art magazine in the UK to discuss options around writing articles in the future for that magazine.  

I like writing! :)

Top tips for art competitions

I've written many blog posts about art competitions over the years. Here are links to some of them.

What's your top tip for entering art competitions or open exhibitions of art societies?

For art competition organisers

• To all organisers of art competitions and open exhibitions - this focuses on aspects of running art competitions which are vital to get right or have an unhappy habit of going wrong. In particular it highlights aspects of marketing and publicity which not everybody gets right!

International entries

• VAT for non-UK artists and UK exhibition organisers - this relates to the changes in the VAT rules for artists wanting to enter UK art competitions but living outside the UK

For art competition novices

• How to calculate the cost of entering a juried art exhibition - it's so exciting creating work for an art competition and hitting all your deadlines. So much so that artists often forget to look at the options and costs of getting their artwork to a competition - and back again if unsold.  You can download my free spreadsheet if you need a checklist of what to think about and how to cost out how much an entry actually costs - see A Making A Mark Guide: Analysing the cost of entering a juried art exhibition
• Juried art competitions - does size matter? - For those concerned about what size to paint
• 20 tips for entering art competitions - What do you need to know when thinking about entering an art competition? These are my twenty tips - what's yours?

You've passed the first hurdle - what next?

• Pre-selected, selected, long listed, shortlisted, prizewinner - what's in a phrase? - I regularly come across artists who use the wrong terminology to describe the stage they've reached - so here's a short explanation.

RHS Botanical Art Exhibitions - for those wanting a Gold Medal

• Ten Top Tips for winning an RHS Gold Medal for Botanical Art - this is very popular with botanical artists around the world who want to win one of the coveted Gold Medals from the Royal Hortucultural Society at the exhibition which is the equivalent of the Chelsea Show for botanical artists!
• More Top Tips for winning an RHS Gold Medal for Botanical Art - more top tips for the gold medal winners
• 15 Top Tips for presenting work at an RHS Botanical Art Exhibition - because it's not just about the calibre of the work, it's also about how you present your exhibit