Saturday, December 08, 2012

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

Making A Mark Awards: Best Picture - Place - on an Art Blog in 2012
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:

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.

Eligible artwork (drawings / paintings / prints):
  • subject matter: the artwork must be predominantly about a place - urban or rural, land or sea or sky, inside or out.
  • 2D artwork created using hands is eligible - artwork can be a painting (in any media) or a drawing (in any media) or a fine art print (using any method).  Photography is NOT eligible.
  • Artwork must have been completed in 2012 and has appeared on an art or illustrated blog in 2012 and prior to 8th December 2012
  • Work is NOT eligible if it appears to be one or more of the following:
    • was not completed in 2012
    • has not appeared on an art blog in 2012
    • over-reliant on a photograph not taken by the artist
    • subjected to lots of digital manipulation/tweaks (over and above that needed to make it read 'true' on screen)
    • a photograph
  • For the artwork to be shortlisted, the nominated artist must agree in writing to their work being displayed on Making A Mark as part of the shortlist (you can seek their agreement after the nomination and BEFORE the announcement of nominations in a post on this blog on 24th December)
Please be careful to check the date of the artwork and when it was posted to ensure eligibility.


Winner of The MAM Award for Best Picture of the Year (Place) on an Art Blog
Pacific Passage 
© Robin Purcell (Robin Purcell - Watercolours in the Plein Air Tradition)
14" x 14", watercolour
Eligible artists
  • In 2012, any artist creating artwork predominantly involving places - and posting their work to their personal art or illustrated blog can be nominated.
  • An artist who has NOT won this prize in the last three years (ie 2009-2011) - as listed at the top of this post
  • Only artists with independent art blogs operating in 2012 are eligible. (The awards exclude all corporate blogs and/or paid blogging.)
  • An artist can be nominated more than once - by different people - for different works
  • An artist can be nominated more than once - by different people - for the same work
  • No canvassing is allowed (Canvassing = repeated mentions and/or touting for votes on other sites)
    • Artists can announce the awards on their blog and/or the fact they have been nominated 
    • Artists can reference on their art blog only
      • the fact they have been shortlisted and 
      • the post on this blog where the vote is taking place .
    • Neither the artist nor the person nominating can canvas for votes - canvassing will result in disqualification. 
Who can nominate
  • Nominations are ONLY accepted from peers i.e. people with an active art blog. 
    • In order to nominate you must have an art or illustrated blog and be capable of being identified by me.
    • Anonymous nominations are not permitted. (This is purely to stop spammers as I link to the blogs of all those who have nominated in a later post summarising the nominations!)
  • An artist can nominate their own work 
  • All nominations must be in English
How to Nominate

To nominate - just
COMMENT ON THIS BLOG POST providing all the necessary details (see below)
BEFORE 24th December 2012.

Your nominations MUST identify:
  • the title of the piece
  • the name of the artist,
  • the size and medium (if possible)
  • the name and URL of the blog (eg The Art Blog - http://artblog.blogspot.com)
  • the date, title and URL of the blog post in which the artwork appears (you MUST provide a the precise URL for the location of the post and not just the URL for the blog)
  • SAY WHY YOU LIKE THE WORK - this bit is really important so please do the best you can. Remember that nominations are open and transparent and that it's good to share a genuine tribute to a piece of work you like
  • You need to ask the artist if their work can be posted on my blog - and let me know what the answer is. This can happen after the nomination and BEFORE 24th December.
What happens next
  • Nominations close just after midnight on 23rd December 2012
  • On 24th December 2012, a list of all nominations is posted - including a link to the person who nominated 
  • I will then select a shortlist of three works from the nominations 
  • The shortlist will be posted on 26th December 2012.  YOU will be invited to vote for your favourite artwork for The Making a Mark Prize for Best Artwork 2012 - Place
  • This winner of the category prize is also eligible for the overall Making A Mark Prize for The Best Picture on an Art Blog in 2012.
  • The winners will be announced on this blog on 30th December 2012
Please also NOMINATE for other MAKING A MARK AWARDS - calls for entry will be posted this weekend and next week.

Please read Best Pictures and Best Art Blogs 2012 - a review and consult the links below (to be posted) to find out more about the other Making A Mark Awards.

Invites to nominate for the remaining different categories associated with the Best Picture Award are listed below. The order of call for entries for the remaining nominations this weekend is as follows:
Nominations for the other awards follow in the week commencing 12th December
    • Making A Mark Nominations: Generating Art
      • The Painting a Day Stickability Shield
      • The Best Art Blog Project Virtual Challenge Cup
      • NEW IN 2011 - The Best Art Society Blog
    • Making A Mark Nominations: Getting Out of the Studio 
      • The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize
      • The Travels with a Sketchbook Trophy
      • The Going Greener Gong
    • Making A Mark Nominations: Learning about Art & the Art Business
      • The FAQs and Answers Really Useful Medal
      • The Make Me Think Gong
      • The Best Book by an Art Blogger Blue Ribbon
    • Making A Mark Nominations: The Home Front
      • The Most Gorgeous Mouthwatering (MGM) Studio of the Year
      • The Art Innovation of the Year Award
      • “The Moose” - the award for the best animal in an illustrated blog

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    5 comments:

    1. TITLE: Saint Andrew's Cathedral, Wells, Somerset, England
      ARTIST: John Simlett
      SIZE & MEDIUM: 22 inches x 16 inches (56 cms. x 42 cms.) Pen and Ink on Cartridge paper (300gsm)
      URL: http://gatepostpicture.blogspot.co.uk/
      DATE/TITLE/POST: 8th December 2012 - "Finally Posting Again! WELLS CATHEDRAL" - http://gatepostpicture.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/finally-posting-again-wells-cathedral.html

      SAY WHY YOU LIKE THE WORK - I am nominating my own work and am therefore restricted in the use of 'praise.' However, ill health kept me out of art for many years, but now as I approach 75 I return to it once more (driven by my granddaughter). I started blogging this February and the support I received in Blogland has allowed me to develop to the point when I feel that this drawing takes me beyond the heights I reached in my younger days. This drawing is a new departure for me - the limited use of colour really works, and the perspective exceeded my hopes. The values, although just black and white in the main, are such that they allow the viewer to 'enter' the picture and move about the cathedral.

      PERMISSION & AUTHORITY TO USE THE ARTWORK:

      As I am the artist, I authorise you to use my artwork on your blog

      ReplyDelete
    2. TITLE: Basilica Palladiana

      ARTIST: Jane Minter

      SIZE & MEDIUM:32 x 41 cm, Watercolor

      NAME & URL OF BLOG: Jane Minter's Sketchbook - http://janeminterssketchbook.blogspot.com/

      DATE, TITLE, & URL OF BLOG POST: March 25, 2012, Basilica Palladiana-section of facade, http://janeminterssketchbook.blogspot.com/2012/03/basilica-palladiana-section-of-facade.html

      WHY I LIKE THE WORK: I love this watercolor for so many reasons. The painting is loose and suggestive rather than being overly realistic and predictable. It is an interpretive depiction of the basilica, and the colors and technique convey a nostalgic dreamlike quality, as if thinking about the basilica after visiting it. I like a painting to convey the medium it has been used in, and this one exhibits the many attributes of watercolor that make it such an expressive medium. The painting applies the techniques of the watercolor wash to the subject of architecture, which in my opinion is very unique and inventive. It also leaves some things to the imagination and therefore, makes one want to learn more about the basilica after seeing the painting.

      I have emailed the artist, and they have given permission to have their work nominated.

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    3. TITLE: ''Raining in London''

      ARTIST: Maria Villioti

      SIZE & MEDIUM: 45cmX61cm, colored pencils on Ampersand pastelbord

      Blog:''Breaths of art'' http://pnoestexnis.blogspot.gr

      Post: ''The end of the road'' 12/01/2012
      http://pnoestexnis.blogspot.gr/2012/01/blog-post_12.html

      It was a challenge for me to paint such a picture with colored pencils. It's one of my favorite works. It gave me the opportunity to meet many new friends. Now belongs to one of them.

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    4. Nominate for place :
      Time and Again, Terry Miura, oil 40 x 30
      http://terrymiura.blogspot.com/2012/04/risks-and-rewards.html
      April 27th, Risks and Rewards.

      I will email Terry for permission as soon as I leave this comment.

      There is something that haunts me about this image even small and on the computer screen, the atmosphere around the cathedral makes me think about the spiriyual purpose of the architecture.

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    5. I would like to nominate Robert Lafond's cityscape.

      Title: Classon Near Pacific
      Artist: Robert Lafond

      This painting just draws me in, I want to visit Brooklyn just to take a walk down Classon on a sunny, cloudless day. Absorbing the urban colors, the rough sidewalk, and how you can still feel so alone in such a densely populated area. I am not sure if this was the goal of the artist when he created this painting, but this is how I react to it.

      http://markandremark.blogspot.com/2012/10/classon-near-pacific.html

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