Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Feb 11, 2012, 9:00 am
There are two other exhibitions of work by or about Lucian Freud (b.1922 – 2011) in London this month.  These are: Lucian Freud Drawings Lucian Freud: Studio Life - Photographs by David Dawson Both...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Feb 10, 2012, 9:00 am
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Feb 9, 2012, 7:59 pm
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Feb 8, 2012, 6:00 pm
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Feb 7, 2012, 1:47 pm
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Feb 6, 2012, 6:00 pm
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Feb 6, 2012, 4:59 am
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark reviews...... - Feb 5, 2012, 6:00 pm
Find out about the the Top Ten Fine Art Books sold in January 2012 - and which new art books were published.  You can see more about: the Top Ten art books in January 2012 in Makingamark's Top 10 Fine Art Books the best NEW books in January 2012 in...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Travels with a Sketchbook in....... - Feb 5, 2012, 6:04 am
After limbering up with Mr Bonington (see Wallace Collection: Sketching Venice by Bonington), I moved to the next gallery at the Wallace Collection and got to grips with a big painting of Venice...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Feb 4, 2012, 6:52 pm
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Travels with a Sketchbook in....... - Feb 4, 2012, 5:00 am
This is the first sketch I did before the Cornish Cream Tea. It's a sketch of the painting of Venice: the Piazza San Marco by Richard Parkes Bonington(1802 - 1828) in one of the galleries of the...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Feb 3, 2012, 1:00 am
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Travels with a Sketchbook in....... - Feb 2, 2012, 6:57 am
Cornish Cream Tea at the Wallace Restaurant, Wallace Collection 11" x 16", pen and sepia ink and coloured pencils in Moleskine Sketchbook copyright Katherine Tyrrell Last Friday I was totally...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Feb 1, 2012, 6:00 pm
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Jan 31, 2012, 6:00 pm
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Jan 30, 2012, 6:00 pm
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Jan 29, 2012, 8:06 am
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Jan 27, 2012, 3:00 am
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Jan 25, 2012, 1:00 pm
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Jan 24, 2012, 6:00 pm
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Jan 23, 2012, 2:45 pm
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Jan 22, 2012, 7:00 am
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Jan 21, 2012, 6:00 pm
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark reviews...... - Jan 21, 2012, 11:06 am
I want to do a review of different styli (styluses) used for iPad Sketching. That's because this week I bought my second stylus for sketching having seen both the Hockney Exhibition at the RA on Tuesday - which includes his ipad sketches - and a...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Jan 20, 2012, 6:00 pm
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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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Jan 19, 2012, 7:56 pm
...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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Katherine T. posted an article on Travels with a Sketchbook in....... - Jan 19, 2012, 1:46 pm
Constable and the National Gallery Children - Room 34 8" x 10", pen and ink and coloured pencils in Moleskine Sketchbook copyright Katherine Tyrrell Yesterday I met up with Jackie Simmonds (Jackie...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark reviews...... - Jan 19, 2012, 10:00 am
A Yorkshire Sketchbook - by David Hockney Back in 2006-7, I nearly became a conduit for David Hockney fans all over the world who wanted a copy of the DVD of David Hockney's sketchbooks.  (See David Hockney: Fifteen Sketchbooks 2002-2003 - Update on...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Travels with a Sketchbook in....... - Jan 18, 2012, 2:50 pm
A couple of quick sketches from yesterday.  After visiting the preview of the new David Hockney exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, I grabbed some lunch in a pleasantly empty Friends Room. I...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Travels with a Sketchbook in....... - Dec 28, 2011, 7:48 am
Lunch at Chez Guy in Gevrey-Chambertin 11.5" x 16.5", pen and sepia ink and coloured pencils in Moleskine Sketchbook copyright Katherine Tyrrell Yesterday it was frog's legs and today it's escargots...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Travels with a Sketchbook in....... - Dec 24, 2011, 5:46 am
Interior of Les Quatre Saisons in Bourg en Bresse Dinner at Les Quatre Saisons in Bourg en Bresse was interesting rather than pleasurable.  I felt a little bit like I'd stepped into a 1980s time warp...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Travels with a Sketchbook in....... - Dec 22, 2011, 4:00 am
Two more plein air sketches - of a dinner at a restaurant called Le Mas des Vignes with a fantastic view of a sunset. Dinner at Le Mas des Vignes 30 June 2011 First the preamble.  On Thursday 30...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Travels with a Sketchbook in....... - Dec 21, 2011, 4:00 am
Lunch at La Maison Jaune, St Remy de Provence 29 June 2011 11.5 x 16.5", pen and sepia ink and coloured pencils in Moleskine Sketchbook copyright Katherine Tyrrell One of the things I really enjoy...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Travels with a Sketchbook in....... - Dec 19, 2011, 7:55 am
My postcard from my Walk for October - trees reflected in a lake at Sheffield Park pen and ink and coloured pencils on matboard I was late sending this to Alyson and then she was away in Australia...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Travels with a Sketchbook in....... - Dec 18, 2011, 8:32 am
Drawing dinner at the Restaurant du Vieux Four, Crillon Le Brave 16 June 2011 11.5" x 16.5", pen and sepia ink and coloured pencils in Moleskine sketchbook copyright Katherine Tyrrell The first time...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Dec 14, 2011, 12:00 pm
You are invited to nominate those who promote learning about art and being a successful artist.   The next section of the Making A Mark Awards relates to Learning about Art and the Art Business....
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Dec 13, 2011, 7:00 am
Today NOMINATIONS ARE INVITED for the Making A Mark Awards which are all about getting out of the studio! You are invited to nominate artists and their art blogs for the awards summarised below. The...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Travels with a Sketchbook in....... - Dec 13, 2011, 6:12 am
The Winter Garden 11" x 16", pen and sepia ink and coloured pencils in Moleskine Sketchbook copyright Katherine Tyrrell Continuing my series of sketches of my mother's garden in Cheshire - this is a...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Dec 12, 2011, 6:44 pm
Since 2006, the aim of the Making A Mark Art Blog Awards has been to identify: excellence in blogging about art and artists; and  the art blogs which set high standards and are the most influential....
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Dec 11, 2011, 7:00 am
Flora MacGregor by Jo Fraser, 2011© Jo Fraser The National Portrait Gallery has published the Call for Entries for the BP Portrait Award 2012 - which has a first prize of £25,000. Before I start,...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Dec 10, 2011, 7:00 am
You are invited to NOMINATE an artwork on an art blog forThe Making a Mark Prize for Best Portrayal of Nature in 2010 This prize values the natural world and its plants and animals and celebrates...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Dec 9, 2011, 7:00 am
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 2011This prize highlights and celebrates excellence in creating pictureswhich...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Dec 8, 2011, 5:45 am
You are invited to NOMINATE an artwork on an art blog for The Making a Mark Prize for Best Portrayal of a Place 2011 This prize celebrates and highlights excellence in creating pictures about places...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Dec 7, 2011, 6:00 pm
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...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Dec 6, 2011, 5:09 am
You are invited to NOMINATE an artwork on an art blog for The Making a Mark Prize for Best Picture - Portrait / Figures 2011This prize aims to celebrate and highlight excellence in portraiture and/or...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Dec 5, 2011, 3:00 pm
Today I'm starting the SIXTH END OF YEAR REVIEW since my first in December 2006. As always I start with a plan of what's going to happen this month and, most importantly, how YOU can get involved...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Travels with a Sketchbook in....... - Nov 22, 2011, 8:54 am
At long last, after far too long, the water and birds are beginning to return to the West Lake in Victoria Park in East London.  The swans are back as are are the gulls and the geese - but there's no...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Nov 2, 2011, 3:50 pm
For the third year running, this post about the Call for Entries for The Pastel Society's Annual Exhibition needs to highlight the fact that the dates for entry and submission have changed yet...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Nov 1, 2011, 7:37 am
24 hour clock by Paulo Uccello This month the Making A Mark Opinion Poll is going to focus on just one aspect - the time spent by an artist in marketing their art. The question is What proportion of...
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Katherine T. posted an article on Making a Mark - Oct 31, 2011, 3:30 pm
Making A Mark Poll October 2011 - The Results 214 people responded to the October Making A Mark Poll which asked "Do you sign and date your artwork?". The poll results can be seen below as numbers...
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