Nominate the Best Art (Still Life) on a blog in 2012

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

The Making a Mark Prize (2012) for Best Picture - Still Life

This prize highlights and celebrates excellence in creating pictures

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

This weekend I'm publishing the Call for Entries for the Making A Mark - Best Picture Awards.

The third Call for Entries invites nominations for The Making a Mark Prize for Best Picture - Still Life 2012

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 all ineligible for this year's award - are:

• 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....

Bottles have provided the subject matter for two winners.  Will glass again feature in this year's winning still life painting?

Last year's winner in this category also provided the runaway frontrunner in the poll to find the The MAM Award for Best Picture of the Year on an Art Blog 2011

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Tell us all whose artwork involving portraiture or figures you appreciated in 2012.

Eligible artwork (drawings / paintings / prints):

Nominate the Best Picture of a Place on an Art Blog in 2012

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

The Making a Mark Prize (2012) for Best Picture - Place

This prize celebrates and highlights excellence in
creating pictures about places in our environment

Today is the Call for Entries for the Making A Mark - Best Picture Awards.

The second of the Call for Entries invites nominations for The Making a Mark Prize for Best Picture - Place 2012

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 all ineligible for this year's award - are:

• 2011: Pacific Passage by Robin Purcell (Robin Purcell - Watercolours in the Plein Air Tradition)
• 2010: Joint Winners:
• Canal Sunrise by Loriann Signori (Loriann Signori's Painting-a-Day)
• Waiting by Michelle Basic Hendry (Artscapes – Musings on Art & Life)
• 2009: Lazy River by Casey Klahn (The Colorist)

Interestingly we've had artwork in pastels, acrylic and watercolour - but an oil painting has not yet won this prize.  Will this change in 2012?

This call for entries is also going to highlighted on my The Art of the Landscape blog. If you'd like to nominate I suggest you go take a look at some of the blogs in the blogroll of that blog - it includes some excellent landscape and plein air artists!

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Tell us all whose artwork involving portraiture or figures you appreciated in 2012.

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Nominate the Best Picture of People on an Art Blog in 2012

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

The Making a Mark Prize (2012) for Best Picture - People

This prize aims to celebrate and highlight excellence

in portraiture and/or artwork predominantly involving figures

Today is the Call for Entries for the Making A Mark - Best Picture Awards

It starts with an invitation for nominations for The Making a Mark Prize for Best Picture - People 2012

This post covers:

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

Previous winners of this award include:

• 2011: Joint Winners (see images below):
• Dream by Sophie Ploeg (Sophie Ploeg)
• "Leah at Sea" by Taryn Day (Awake and Painting)
• 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)

Prizewinners in the last three years (2009-2011) are ineligible for this award.

Will it be another female artist who wins in 2012?

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Who Painted This? #7

This is the seventh "Who Painted This?" - except this week it's not a painting, it's a drawing.  Please read The Rules (below) for how to submit your answer.

Since you're all getting so good at googling words I thought I'd make it a bit more of a challenge by making the words rather more commonplace.  Which means looking at the mark-making and thinking about where you've seen this before!

I've no doubt somebody will get this one quickly - however it'll be interesting to see how many other people also get it and how they get there.

There is one big clue - but I'm not giving you that yet!

Who Drew This?

How to Participate in "Who Painted This? #7"

I'm very pleased to hear all about how much you're enjoying the hunt and how much you're finding out en route.  That was always one of the intentions behind this challenge - firstly, to find out more about artists and artworks and secondly, to enjoy the process as well as find the answer.

PLEASE make sure you read the rules before posting a comment - and ONLY POST ON THIS BLOG what you think is the answer.

THE RULES for participating in this challenge are as follows:

Best Pictures and Best Art Blogs 2012 - a review

Welcome to the start of my SEVENTH END OF YEAR REVIEW of top art blogs, top artwork and the art economy!

This is my 'master plan' post which keeps me on track and focuses on the arrangements and timeline for nominations, voting and announcements relating to:

• The MaM Award for Best Picture on an Art Blog - across 4 categories
• The Making A Mark awards for Top Art Blogs - across 4 categories

Plus dates for my own personal end of year review of what happened to art in 2012 and what I've been getting up to.

UPDATE: Shortcuts to the posts inviting nominations for the various awards are posted at the top of the right hand column

The Making A Mark Art Blog Awards 2012 

- Best Picture on an Art Blog

Nominations

This Saturday 8th December I will post four separate posts on this blog.

These will invite you to nominate the BEST PICTURE in the different categories associated with the Making A Mark Art Blog Awards.  

These are as follows:

• Best Portrait / Figures - portrait of a single person (or animal) or group or an artwork which is predominantly figures
• Best Landscape / Interior - an artwork which is about a place - urban or rural, land or sea or sky, inside or out
• Best Still Life - contrived or found, a narrative or an accident, large or small
• Best Nature - botanical, natural history or wildlife

Do not write to me yet! To submit a nomination you will need to leave a comment on the relevant blog post once it's published on Saturday.

VOTING: The Making a Mark Prize for Best Picture on an Art Blog 2012

On Monday 24th December I will post the nominations received for the following Making A Mark Awards

• The MaM Prize for best rendition of person or persons
• The MaM Prize for the best portrayal of a place
• The MaM Prize for best still life
• The MaM Prize for best celebration of nature

The Short List for each category will be posted on Wednesday 26th December 

You will then be invited to vote - after Christmas - on the shortlist of candidates for best artwork in the different categories. 

The voting

• starts on Wednesday 26th December
• closes a minute after midnight on Sunday 30th December

The Best Picture in each category - plus the runners up - will then be announced on Monday 31 December 2012.

The Overall Winner of the Making A Mark Best Picture of 2012 on an Art Blog is also announced in the same blog post.

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The Making A Mark (MaM) Awards - Best Art Blogs 2012

Below you can see the previous winners of The Making A Mark Awards for the Best Art Blogs.  I'm sure you will agree that the names of those who have won these awards makes for an impressive line up!

My current thinking is I'll stick with the same awards as last year - but you never know......

Nominations:  I'll be publishing posts about the Making A Mark Awards for the Best Art Blogs in 2012 next week (week commencing 10th December) for each of the four categories and inviting nominations from you.

Announcements of Awards: I will then post the details of who has won each MaM Award will be posted in two posts on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th December

GENERATING ART

These awards relate to generating art either as an individual artist or as an art group - formal or informal.