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Review: Lucian Freud Portraits at National Portrait Gallery

2012-02-10T14:00:00.008Z

Lots of people have been looking forward to seeing the Lucian Freud Portraits exhibition which opened yesterday at the National Portrait Gallery - and which travels to Texas later this year. It's now...

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David Hockney on sitting for Lucian Freud

2012-02-09T22:59:00.000Z

David Hockney by Lucian Freud on display in "Lucian Freud Portraits" at the National Portrait Gallery I'm a little late with my review of Lucian Freud Portraits (a new baby arrived in my family...

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Video: Sue Tilley talks about modelling for Lucian Freud

2012-02-08T23:00:00.019Z

Sue Tilley sitting in front of Benefits Supervisor Sleeping Lucian Freud Portraits, National Portrait Gallery copyright Katherine Tyrrell The exhibition Lucian Freud Portraits opens at the National...

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Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2012 - Call for Entries

2012-02-07T18:47:00.005Z

This is a reminder that the deadline for registration and digital entries to The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2012 is 23 February 2012. It gets a little busy! Just a few of...

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RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2012 - Selected artists & artwork

2012-02-06T23:00:00.006Z

149 paintings in waterbased media by 118 artists have been selected for the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2012. This is an annual competition open to non-Members of the Royal Watercolour...

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Phew!

2012-02-06T09:59:00.001Z

snapped in the National Gallery Bookshop Color and Light was found inbetween Masterpieces in Detail and How to paint like Turner What is it about the end of one year and the start of the next which...

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The Best and Newest Art Books in January 2012 - and Urban Sketchers

2012-02-04T23:52:00.002Z

Starting a New Year seems like a good time to make some changes to my monthly posts about Makingamark's Top Ten Art Books and The Best New Art Books for the previous month. I'm going to continue to...

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The Watercolours + Works on Paper Fair 2012

2012-02-03T06:00:00.001Z

I visited the Watercolours + Works on Paper Fair 2012 at the Science Museum in South Kensington on Thursday. It's an excellent Art Fair and well worth a visit if you like watercolours, pastels,...

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POLL: How do you respond to comments on your blog?

2012-02-01T23:00:00.001Z

I'm sure I'm not the first person to wonder what is the best or most effective way of responding to the comments I receive on my blogs. Which is why the Making A Mark Poll for February 2012 focuses...

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What makes you leave an artist's website? POLL RESULTS

2012-01-31T23:00:00.014Z

Does your art website make me people want to leave fast? The Making A Mark Opinion Poll for January 2012 aimed to find out what were the aspects which generated an adverse first impression of an...

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The John Ruskin Prize - A New Look at Nature: Call for Entries

2012-01-30T23:00:00.174Z

The new John Ruskin Prize will be awarded later this year to the best wall mounted artwork on the theme A New Look at Nature. This new art competition is open to anyone over 18 working in painting,...

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Artists who refused Honours

2012-01-29T13:06:00.005Z

In the UK, both the Government and the Monarch confer honours on various people for the contribution they've made to society. David Hockney, for example, has very recently been created an OM by the...

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What are the priorities for an aspiring artist?

2012-01-27T08:00:00.001Z

California Sunset by Albert Bierstadt - a model for all aspiring painters of Californian landscapes? What do you think are the priorities for an aspiring artist? I received an email the other day...

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14th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration - Intent to submit

2012-01-25T18:00:00.282Z

The 14th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation in Pennsylvania takes place in the Autumn / Fall of 2013. However in order to...

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How to become a member of the Society of Botanical Artists

2012-01-24T23:00:00.009Z

This is a post about how to become a member of the Society of Botanical Artists (SBA). "Membership" is a term used in this post to denote botanical artists who have achieved the status of member...

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Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries

2012-01-23T19:45:00.003Z

The Society of Botanical Artists is to be congratulated on having an informative and accessible "how to" webpage for those wanting to submit to artwork to its Annual Exhibition and/or become a...

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22nd January - Who's made a mark this week?

2012-01-22T12:00:00.516Z

David Hockney The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 2 January iPad drawing printed on paper 144.1 x 108 cm; one of a 52-part work Courtesy of the...

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"Pastel" iPad sketch as a movie

2012-01-21T23:00:00.012Z

I'm posting a video of the creation of a sketch using: my iPad Brushes app - which is available from the iPad App Store (and is also available for iPhones and the iPod Touch) Griffin stylus...

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National Exhibition of Wildlife Art Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries

2012-01-20T23:00:00.015Z

In 2011, the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art had a record number of visitors, a record number of entries and record sales. Over 18,000 visitors came to see the exhibition at Gordale,...

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How to produce a large 300dpi TiFF print of an iPad sketch

2012-01-19T23:00:00.001Z

...is the question I've been asking ever since I saw the Hockney exhibition. So far I have established: he uses the Brushes app on his iPad Hockney's people state that to avoid pixellation as the...

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Review: David Hockney RA - A Bigger Picture

2012-01-17T23:00:00.009Z

The new David Hockney exhibition of landscape paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts is like a breath of fresh Yorkshire air. David Hockney RA - The Bigger Picture is one of the most impressive...

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RA Summer Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries

2012-01-16T20:00:00.165Z

Entry forms for the 2012 Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts are now available. This post is about the entry process for the world's largest open submission art competition. for those who...

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15th January 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?

2012-01-15T23:00:00.015Z

Woldgate Woods, 21, 23 & 29 November 2006, 2006 by David Hockney Oil on 6 canvases, 182 x 366 cm Courtesy of the Artist | Copyright David Hockney | Photo credit: Richard Schmidt The PR machine...

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A 5 minute interview with Brian Sewell

2012-01-14T23:00:00.004Z

Brian Sewell seems to be becoming increasingly self-revelatory of late. Maybe it's about getting to 80? Maybe it's because he's recently published his autobiography - Outsider This is a BBC video...

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85% of you love "Color and Light"

2012-01-13T20:03:00.002Z

Top Art Books in 2011: Which is your personal favourite? Last Saturday I listed the books - Makingamark's Top Five Art Books in 2011 - that I'd identified as being the top five books which were...

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