International Artist April - May 2018/ No.120

Many of you have taken advantage of our watercolor workshops we offer around the globe. As you are well aware, our teachers travel wiThstudents to places like Australia, Canada, Ireland, England and Tuscany each year to paint on location and offer instruction and insight on how to do so. However, for the first time, we are now able to offer travel workshops in oil! We’ve been waiting years to be able to do this and now it has become a reality. Our first oil workshop takes places October 7-19 with Robyn Collier. This workshop offers 13 days of painting and adventure in spectacular South Australia, with highlights including the wilderness of Kangaroo Island and the rugged scenery of Flinders Ranges. Robyn is one of the most respected oil painters working…

Grand Prize Jesse Lane Texas, USA, Labyrinth, colored pencil, 29 x 23" (74 x 58 cm) Grand Prize is a four-page editorial feature in American Art Collector magazine Drawn to Life In the colored pencil drawings of Texasbased artist Jesse Lane, the overall narrative is one of the most defining factors of the work. The pieces are autobiographical in nature—with many being self-portraits — and rely on themes of personal struggle, recovery and discovering newfound strength. The stories are open-ended, which allows the viewer of the pieces to interpret their own meaning and connection to the artwork. Lane has worked hard at honing his skills over the years. He says, “People refer to artistic ability as a gift. But the truth is, art was never a gift for me. When I…

FULL COLOR DIGITAL PRINT-OUTS Use the Official Entry Form over the page ONLINE Visit our website to upload digital files of the images you want to enter and pay for them using our secure server. www.internationalartist.com To upload your entries you need to prepare your image files to be at least 400 pixels at the shortest edge. Once you are in the Official Online Entry page simply select which challenge you wish to enter then follow the prompts and finally pay the entry fee via our secure server. There you can also see other entries received along with past winners of our competitions. HINTS FOR PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR ARTWORK •Set your camera to the highest quality available. •Shoot your paintings dead square on and fill the frame as much as possible. We…

For your convenience there are three International Entry Points. You can pay your Entry Fee by Visa or MasterCard. 1 USA/CANADA THE AMERICAS Send your entry and payment of US $9 per entry/picture to: International Artist magazine Challenge No. 106: People & Figures 7530 East Main Street, Suite 105 Scottsdale, AZ 85251, USA Enter your Credit Card details on the Entry Form below or include a Check/Money Order made payable to International Artist. (Checks must be in US Dollars and drawn on a US bank) 2 UNITED KINGDOM/EUROPE AFRICA Send your entry and payment of £5 (or ∊8) per entry/picture to: International Artist magazine Challenge No. 106: People & Figures 7530 East Main Street, Suite 105 Scottsdale, AZ 85251, USA Enter your Credit Card details on the Entry Form or…

I’m sure you’ve asked yourself just what is a print and what is printing. Printing is a process where multiple images are identical to the others in the series. Each image is called a print and a series of prints is referred to as an edition. Thus, for an image to be a print, there has to be more than one identical print produced. Common prints are pictures in books, on placemats, greeting cards and posters. In the art world, the term “print” refers to two different kinds of printing process: original prints and reproduction prints. What are reproduction prints? » If there’s an image, from which the prints have been copied, then it’s a reproduction print. » It is a reproduction of an original work. » The original will…

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