Nominate the Best Artwork (Natural World) on a blog in 2011

You are invited to NOMINATE an artwork on an art blog for

The Making a Mark Prize for Best Portrayal of Nature in 2010
This prize values the natural world and its plants and animals and

celebrates excellence in portraying every aspect of nature 

The final category for the Best Picture on Art Blog in 2011 is the Nature.  You are invited to nominate for the Making A Mark awards - starting with a call for entries for The Making a Mark Prize for Best Picture - Natural World 2011.

This post covers:

• eligibility of the artist 
• eligibility of the artwork
• who can nominate
• how to nominate

This award was created in 2010 and last year's winner (who is ineligible for this year's award) was The Right Side by Gayle Mason (Fur in the Paint)

Winner of The MAM Award for
Best Picture of the Year (Natural World) on an Art Blog
The Right Side
by Gayle Mason (Fur in the Paint)
10 x 8", coloured pencils and acrylic

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Nominate the Best Art (Still Life) on a blog in 2011

You are invited to NOMINATE an artwork on an art blog for 

The Making a Mark Prize for Best Portrayal of a Still Life in 2011

This prize highlights and celebrates excellence in creating pictures

which help us to reflect on how the small and inanimate can be beautiful 

Making A Mark Awards 2010
The MAM Award for Best Picture of the Year (Still Life) on an Art Blog
Black Grapes #3 by James Neil Hollingsworth

Today the nominations open for the Making A Mark awards - starting with a call for entries for The Making a Mark Prize for Best Picture - Still Life 2011.

This post covers:

• eligibility of the artist 
• eligibility of the artwork
• who can nominate
• how to nominate

Previous winners of this award (created in 2009) - who are ineligible for this year's award - are:

• 2009:  Sometimes I feel you look right through me by Sally Tharp (Sally is painting today....
• 2010:  Black Grapes #3 by James Neil Hollingsworth (Paintings in Oil)

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Nominate the Best Art (Place/Landscape) on a Blog in 2011

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The Making a Mark Prize for Best Portrayal of a Place 2011
This prize celebrates and highlights excellence in
creating pictures about places in our environment

Today the nominations open for the Making A Mark awards - starting with a call for entries for The Making a Mark Prize for Best Picture - Place / Landscape 2011.

This call for entries is also going to highlighted on The Art of the Landscape blog.  If you'd like to nominate take a look at some of the blogs in the blogroll of that blog - there are some excellent artists!

Joint Winner of
The MAM Award for Best Portrayal of a Place on an Art Blog 2010
Canal Sunrise 
by Loriann Signori (Loriann Signori's Painting-a-Day)
pastel

This post covers:

• eligibility of the artist 
• eligibility of the artwork
• who can nominate
• how to nominate

Previous winners of this award (created in 2009) - who are ineligible for this year's award - are:

• 2009:  Lazy River by Casey Klahn (The Colorist)
• 2010:  Joint Winners:
• Canal Sunrise by Loriann Signori (Loriann Signori's Painting-a-Day
• Waiting by Michelle Basic Hendry (Artscapes – Musings on Art & Life)

Will another pastel artist win in 2011?

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Review: 124th Annual Exhibition of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters

The 124th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters opened today at the Mall Galleries and continues until 18th December 2011.  The show is largely figurative within the realism/impressionism range with a range of subject matter across portraits, landscapes and still life.

There are 243 paintings in the main part of the exhibition.  Plus a further 19 paintings in the Winsor & Newton Young Artists section.  I understand there were about 700 paintings submitted to this open exhibition by both UK and international artists.

You can read more about the painters who won prizes and the ones who caught my eye below.

Ken Howard painting June Mendoza painting Ken by June Mendoza OBE RP ROI

I was at the Private View yesterday and managed to catch up with Adebanji Alade (Adenbanje Aladi) who now has Provisional ROI status and a portrait in the show - which sold yesterday at the PV.  We also share an enthusiasm for the paintings by David Curtis of which more anon.

As with the NEAC show, most of the West Gallery was devoted to members' work.  Work by non members tends to be on the small side.  I think this might be because the ROI was not exhibiting in the North Gallery this year.  (It has an excellent exhibition by a very skilled potter)

I wonder if this means smaller paintings by non-members have a better chance of being selected?

Below is the wall underneath the bookshop where I found a lot of non members work.

A sample from the Wall of small works in the West Gallery

Nominate the Best Art (Portrait/Figures) on an Art Blog in 2011

You are invited to NOMINATE an artwork on an art blog for

The Making a Mark Prize for Best Picture - Portrait / Figures 2011

This prize aims to celebrate and highlight excellence 

in portraiture and/or artwork predominantly involving figures 

Today the nominations open for the Making A Mark awards - starting with a call for entries for The Making a Mark Prize for Best Picture - Portrait / Figures 2011

This post covers:

• eligibility of the artist 
• eligibility of the artwork
• who can nominate
• how to nominate

SHORTLISTED IN 2010

"Harvest"

by Antti Rautiola (Antti Rautiola)

100 x 70cm, 2010 

Previous winners of this award include:

• 2010: Hands of Time an oil painting by Karin Jurick (A Painting Today) 
• 2009: Palm Sunday by Karin Jurick (A Painting Today) 
• 2008: The Best Portrait by a Female Artist on a Blog (one year only): Zen by Nicole Caulfield (Nicole Caulfield Art Journal)

Will it be another female artist who wins in 2011?

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