Ann Kulberg - "CP Msterworks, Vol. 2"

The American CP artist (and author of excellent books on CP techniques!) Ann Kulberg is a long time member of UKCPS.

We have received the following announcement from Ann which she has asked to be passed on to all UKCPS members:-

We are currently accepting submissions for "CP Treasures - Colored Pencil Masterworks from Around the Globe - Volume II"

Submissions are open to all colored pencil artists from around the world. No membership or subscription is required to submit work.

 

We are especially interested in colored pencil work from outside the US and Canada. We would appreciate it immensely if you could please help make this a truly international book by forwarding the news to your membership. 

 

Accepting entries: Now through October 22, 2013. 

 

Information and entry terms here: http://annkullberg.com/products/cp-treasures-entry-fee

 

Thank you so much! We appreciate whatever help you can provide us in getting the word out internationally.

 

Sincerely, Ann Kullberg

Richard Klekocuik - Exhibition

Our Australian member, Richard Klekocuik, down there in far off Tasmania, has sent in a link to his website with an invite to view the 'Exhibiting' section.  Take a look - there's some lovely stuff in there!

www.artkleko.com

'Best of British' - Competion

Belated congratulations to UKCPS overseas member, Maria Villioti, for her winning entry to the Derwent 'Best of British' drawing competion.

Maria's entry [45 cm x 61 cm) is entitled "Raining in London" and was completed using Caran D'Ache 'Luminance' pencils on Ampersand pastelboard.

You can view more of Maria's work via her blogspot: http://breathsofart.blogspot.gr/  .

Note the 'gr' - Maria is a Greek member!  eu'ye! Maria

Maria Villioti - New blog link

Maria Villioti, a UKCPS member in Greece, has a new blog.  See the link in 'Members Blogs' (scroll down the column on the right) entitled: http://breathsofart.blogspot.com/.

The link takes you to her home page which is set out in Greek, but there is a simple to use facility which translates the page into a number of languages.

Paula Kuitenbrouwer - Web site

Greetings to Paula Kuitenbrouwer,  an overseas UKCPS member living in Antwerp, Belgium.  You can now link to her website 'Mindful Drawing' via the members blog list [right-hand column - scroll down].

The Complete Colored Pencil Book -Bernard Poulin

Bernard Poulin, [See Blogpost: 22 Feb. 2011], the well known Canadian portrait artist, and one of the three judges for this year's UKCPS Open Exhibition, has revised and updated his book "The Complete Colored Pencil Book", the front cover of which is illustrated on the right.

I can commend this book both for beginners, and the more experienced CP artist, as it is a mine of good information.  Buy it from Amazon [£13.50, last time I looked] using the link on the UKCPS website, and UKCPS will get a commission on the sale! Go to: www.ukcps.co.uk/ukcps/books.php

PS.  I think I am right in saying that Bernard will be at the exhibition Preview.

10th Open Exhibition - List of successful artists

The following is the list of successful artists for 10^th UKCPS exhibition. The more discerning of you will note that your Blogmaster's name does not appear in the list, thereby proving that membership of the society Exec. does not guarantee an entry if your work does not meet the standard of art required by our three Judges.  I shall immediately retire to the countryside, cut off my ear, and tell everyone I meet that nobody understands me!

Congratulations everyone!!

Alan

Brian Ainsworth

Ginette Amis

Elisabeth Aubury

Joan Barnes

Elizabeth Barton

Alexandra Bastien

Katie Bird

Lyn Blake-John

Kevin Bond

Robin Borrett

Carol Bramley

Linda Brand

Tiffany Budd

Julie Burdon-Stone

Jean Canter

Jackie Chang

Philip Cheater

Kate Clarke

Sue Clinker

Diana Connor

Karen Coulson

Beverley Courtney

Jackie Cox

Lesley Crawford

Malcolm Cudmore

Jackie Cunningham

Lene Daugaard

Katherina Dennett

Gale Dickinson

Elizabeth Diggins

Galini Dimitriadou-Spriggs

Margaret Edwards

Pamela Flintoff

June Lesley Fox

Elissa Frohlich

Anja Fuhrbach

Lesley Galton

Irina Garmashova-Cawton

Jo Goudie

Brenda Green

Margaret Hall

Amber Halsall

Angela Hammond

Debra Hanley

Maggie Hatherley-Champ

Pat Heffer

Judith Heilbronn-Crown

Shirley Henderson

Suzy Herbert

Jane Holford-Atkin

Derek Hollings

Deborah Holman

Cathy Holtom

Sarah Hope

Amy Horton

Denise Howard

Maureen Howard

John Hurford

Betsy Jones

Carole Keen

Jess Knowles

Shirley Leslie

Bev Lewis

Roger Lewis

Alastair Lockwood

Julie Longdon

Pauline Longley

James Lyes

Morryce James Maddams

Ann James Massey

Karen Middleton

Steve Millward

Jean Baptiste Morlot

Barbara Murray

Jonathan Newey

Stephen Parkinson

Victoria Parsons

Alison Perkins

Rachel Pesterfield

Janie Pirie

Susan Poole

Pamela Preller

Gerard Radegonde

David  Richards

Jan  Robertson

Heather Rolleston

Lesley Sharman

Sue Smith

Hilary Steel

Janet Suffield

Ann Swan

Edwin Thornber

Liedia van de Mortel

Martin Vela

Ranjini Venkatachari

Maria Villioti

Jo Wallace

Kay Wallbanks

Catherine Ward

Judith Waugh

Rosellen Westerhoff

Janet Wilkinson

Ursula Williams

Helena Wilsen-Saunders

Glynis Wilson

Lesley Woodhouse

Peter Woof

Sonja Wray

Debra Zamperla



Maria Villioti - Competion winner

Congratulations to one of our overseas members, Maria Villioti, from Greece, who has won a competition to illustrate one of six  stories with the CP picture shown on the right.
Maria will recieve an E-Book featuring the six stories and their winning illustrations.
You can view more of Maria'swork via her blogsite using the link in Members Blogspots [down and to the right on this page]. The link to Maria's blog is the one in Greek.

A little bit of good news from Japan

As I write, the ongoing situation in Japan is terrible. Good to hear then, that UKCPS friend, and founder of the Coloured Pencil Society of Japan, Takako Ikuta, is safe and well in Osaka. The best wishes of UKCPS go to her, and to the people of Japan, at this time.

Richard Klekociuk - Drawing Prize

Our international member, Richard Klekociuk, in Tasmania, Australia won the Drawing section of the 23rd Cradle Coast Rotary Art Exhibition at Ulverstone, on Tasmania’s Northwest Coast.

Natural Graffitiscape

60 x 40 cm. Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils on Canson pastel board

copyright Richard Klekociuk

As Richard said in his blog:

This year’s exhibition attracted 250 entries vying for 10 prizes featuring painting, drawing and mixed media.

I was fortunate to win the same section last year, and was thrilled to win it a second time.

In this drawing I ‘dragged’ the natural marks and colours of the rocks down, across the lower half of the composition. I like the balance of realism and abstraction.

You can see more of Richard's work on his recently updated gallery page at the UKCPS website and his own website.

Richard Klekociuk wins $1,000 First Prize

Symbolic Still-Life

40 x 80 cm, Prismacolor and Polychromos Pencils on Canson Pastel Board

copyright Richard Klekociuk

Last Friday Richard Klekociuk won the Launceston Art Society's Triple A Art Award, with a coloured pencil drawing. The prize is worth $1,000 AUD

The Launceston Art Society in Tasmania is one of the oldest art societies in Australia.  It has been operating and exhibiting since 1891. Many of Australia’s celebrated artists have exhibited with the society at various times since its foundation.

Links

• Richard Klekociuk website
• Richard Klekociuk - Glover Prize finalist

Julie Douglas wins CPSA award

Jeff George has won the Best in Show at the CPSA 17th International exhibition for the second time - and two years running! His work Life and Death is in an unusual panoramic format ( 8.5” x 32”) but that's not its only surprise which I won't spoil by revealing on this blog. I'll just suggest you look very carefully as it's very difficult to see in the size posted on the exhibition gallery site. You'll get a better view of it on his website.

Interestingly I happen to know that this work got rejected last year - but only because only one work from each member can be successful in going forward to the final exhibition. Which means in 2007 he entered two works both of which have been judged best in show in successive years.

Click this link to see all the works which won awards at the exhibition

Top award for UKCPS member

UKCPS Member Julie Douglas won $1,000 and one of the top awards - the Staedtler Award for Exceptional Merit - for Boy on a Swing.

Boy on a Swing
Julie Douglas (Ireland)
coloured pencils 15.7 x 10.2"
copyright the artist

You can see a bigger version of her work on her website - click the image to see the big version.

Julie studied graphic design and illustration and worked for 12 years as a successful illustrator working with top advertising agencies and design groups. She has also illustrated books for publishers such as Penguin, MacMillan, Mitchell Beazley etc. She now teaches art in Ireland.

Prior to this award she has also won the Association of Illustrators Award on two occasions and her work on an American Express brochure won a New York Advertising award.

You can read more about Julie on her UKCPS gallery page - but I'll be asking her to reveal more in an interview for this blog in the near future.

UKCPS Annual Exhibition - the entry results!

No - I don't mean who's got in!

I mean that Pat Heffer, the Exhibition Secretary has now released the figures for the 8th UKCPS Open International Exhibition 2009 - how many people sent how many entries and how these have changed since last year.

So if you want to know what your entry is up against, read on!

	Last Year	This year	Change
No. of entries	153	162	+9
No. of artists	72	72	no change
No. of entries from the UK	55	61	+6
No. of overseas artists	17	11	-6
No. of artists from:
Canada		1
France		2
Ireland		1
Israel		1
Italy		1
Japan		1
Spain		2
USA		2

It's very likely that the credit crunch has had an effect on the number of entries from overseas - due to the cost of shipping work to the exhibition.

The space available in the gallery at Birmingham is, I understand, bigger than that which has previously been available for UKCPS exhibitions. So we can now all wait with baited breath to see if that means more works are going to get hung this year!

DATES: Finally a reminder of the key dates

• Notification to entrants: 21st August
  
• Handing in day: Sunday 20th September 2009
• Exhibition dates: Monday 21st September to Saturday 3rd October 2009

I'm going to do a reminder about framing once we've got exhibitors have been notified. Please email me if you'd like to send me any tips you have for mats and frames.

Richard Klekociuk - Glover Prize finalist

Wholemeal Landscape, Northern Tasmania
90 x 75cm framed (35" x 29.5"), Prismacolour pencils on Canson Pastel Board
copyright Richard Klekociuk

Richard Klekociuk is an international member of UKCPS who lives in the state of Tasmania in Australia. This year, Richard was one of 43 finalists in the Glover Prize - an art competition which has the biggest prize for landscape art in Australia.

The prestigious Glover Prize is the richest landscape prize in Australia. It is awarded each year for the best new (previously unexhibited and less than a year old) painting depicting the Tasmanian landscape. The winner receives $30,000 and a maquette of John Glover
John Glover Prize website

This is the artist's statement which Richard had to submit with his entry, Wholemeal Landscape, Northern Tasmania.

This drawing celebrates the strong bond between bread and the landscape.

Bread is made from grain (and water), which in this case, comes from the fertile areas of Northern Tasmania.

Bread as an object has strong landscape qualities. Its colour, structure and texture, is reminiscent of its agricultural origin and landscape surrounds.

Ancient Egyptians considered bread the “staff of life”.

In Christianity bread symbolises the body of Christ.

We consider bread and water to be the most basic necessities of our diet.

Despite modernisation, the pressures on farming and our environment, we are still able to grow our own food on rich, fertile land.

Tasmania is indeed a special place.

Glover Prize 2009 By artkleko

Richard is a retired art teacher whose artwork has always focused on the Australian landscape. At present he specialises in symbolist landscapes in coloured pencils. You can see more of his work - landscapes and symbolist landscapes - on his website and you can read more about him in his member gallery on the UKCPS website or in his curriculum vitae page on his own website.

Richard's solo exhibition in Launceston, Tasmania opens on April 4 titled "Bread". He intends to post each of 13 drawings (Baker's dozen) on his blog, one each day starting on April 5.

Note: For UK readers AUS$30,000 translates to around £14,250.

Links:

• The Glover Prize
  
• Richard's blog Artkleko’s Weblog (see side column re. member's blogs)
  
• Richard's website artleko - the artwork of Richard Klekociuk

Patsy Lindamood UKCPS in PaintAmerica Top100

Tern Talk by Patsy Lindamood
18 x 24 color pencil & water color pencil
with water soluble wax pastel (Caran d’Ache Neocolor II) on Ampersand Pastelbord
copyright Patsy Lindamood

A coloured pencil work "Tern Talk" by Patsy Lindamood PSA, UKCPS, AFC has been selected as one of the Top100 winners in the 2008 PaintAmerica competition. This is is an annual juried competition and exhibition designed to illustrate American life. Her work will now be seen as part on an annual on-line (to be posted soon) and touring exhibition during 2009.

You can see images of the exhibition prizewinners in PaintAmerica Annnounces 2008 Top100 Winners! on the PaintAmerica blog

Patsy lives in Gainesville Florida and is one of UKCPS's American members. She became a signature member last year when she had her work exhibited at the Annual International UKCPS exhibition for the third time in three years. Prior to this she won the Faber Castell Award in 2007 for Wood Stork Watch.

For those who like the details “Tern Talk” is an 18 x 24 color pencil & water color pencil with water soluble wax pastel (Caran d’Ache Neocolor II) on Ampersand Pastelbord. "Tern Talk" was also accepted into the 16th Annual Colored Pencil Society of America International Exhibition held in Seattle, WA, July 2 - September 29, 2008.

You can see more of Patsy's artwork on her website Wild Things Artwork. On her home page she has a number of pieces where she talks about where and how she got her reference photographs and comments on her observations about the animals or birds that she photographed. This is what she had to say about Tern Talk.....

"Tern Talk" is based on a group of terns I photographed extensively at the beach at Sebastian Inlet, FL, over the Thanksgiving holiday 2007. I lay on the beach for some half an hour watching these birds interact with other. A select few of these birds engaged in a kind of squawking behavior, always directed at one individual bird. For me, it looked like "she" was giving "him" a piece of her mind, saying "if you would only. . . and if you had just . . ." while he just gazed out over the ocean as if he didn't hear a word of it!

A second piece by Patsy, “Glacier Blues” (pastel), was also accepted into the competition.

Glacier Blues by Patsy Lindamood

UKCPS members interested in this competition will want to note that artists from anywhere in the world may enter, but that their paintings must depict any of the 50 states.

Entries should also be representative art that depicts the beauty and grandeur of American nature, landscape, seascape, cityscape, etc. Paintings may also represent lifestyle scenes from America.

Note:
UKCPS members whose coloured pencil artwork is accepted into national art competitions or other significant art competitions/exhibitions are invited to contact the UKCPS Blogmaster and/or the Talking Point Editor with details of their news plus a file copy of the relevant image. See the side column for contact details.