Japanese Body Painting Artist

The Call for Entries for The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2016 has been published.  This is the 29th year of the largest and most prestigious prize for contemporary watercolour painting in the UK.  This is the one that most watercolour painters want to be selected for as a mark of credibility on their CV. The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition aims to celebrate and reward excellence

The National Open Art Competition opened for entries at the beginning of March. The closing date for entries is 10th July 2016. The 2015 competition attracted nearly 4000 entries and awarded around £60,000 in prizes and mentoring opportunities to 35 winning artists. Th 2016 finalists will be exhibited in NOA’s Winter Exhibition at Mercers’ Hall in October where the prize winners will be

The National Original Print Exhibition is run by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers which is the UK's premier printmaking society Call for Entries Deadline for Entries: 21 June 2016 Who can enter The competition is open to international entries - but the entrant is responsible for getting their work to (and from) designated drop off and collection venues What can you enter

The Cumberland Pencil Company announced the Call for Entries from international artists for The 3rd Derwent Art Prize on Monday.  The deadline for entry is 1st June 2016. The competition is now a biannual competition - so the next one will be in 2018. Astri Saunders, Marketing Manager at Derwent, said “We are proud to launch the Derwent Art Prize for the third year. Our aim of the

Every year I write about how to enter the world's largest open submission art competition - the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. You need to know Artists wishing to enter need to know six things up front: If your entry is not one of the first 12,000 entries received you won't be exhibited. This is because, as in previous years, the RA are only accepting 12,000 entries for the

The process, fees and timescales have changed for the call for entries for the 2016 Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists These are explained below. However the key changes to note are: non-members can submit digital entries this year the fees charged have changed and are now much simpler the timescale has changed - non-members wanting to use the new digital entry process need

As more and more art competitions and open exhibitions change over to digital entry, it's becoming more and more important to know how to photograph your artwork. One thing I do know from the very many images of artwork that I see on people's blogs / websites / Facebook is that lots of people do NOT know how to produce a good quality image which avoids photographic distortions loses the grey

The Call for Entries for the BP Portrait Award 2016 was published yesterday on the National Portait Gallery website - so it's time to write my Annual Guide to how to enter and how to improve your chances of being selected! Many of those who've been selected in the past have told me they've found it very helpful. The closing date for digital entries from artists all over the world is 2nd

The 204th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours will be held at the Mall Galleries between 6-16 April 2016. If you're interested in submitting an entry read this post about the Call for Entries! The Private View of the 2015 Annual Exhibition (right click the image to see a larger version in a new tab) How to succeed as a watercolour painter If you want to

The Royal Watercolour Society published their Call for Entries for the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2016 last week. Webpage for the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2016 Call for Entries This is a link to the Application Pack which provides the details about who/what/where and when. Who can enter The Royal Watercolour

The Call for Entries for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2016 has been published. The Prize has two aims: to encourage the very best creative representational painting and  to promote the skill of draughtsmanship It's a well regarded competition and one which looks good on a CV! An exhibition of c. 100 works selected by the Panel of Judges will be held at the Mall Galleries between 7-13th

Below you can find the Key Dates for the Call for Entries for Art Societies belonging to the Federation of British Artists - who will be holding their Annual Open Exhibitions in 2016 at the Mall Galleries Art Society Submit Online - DEADLINE Receiving Day in 2016 Exhibition Dates in 2016 Pastel Society 6 November 2015 9 January 23 February - 5 March Royal Society of British