Here's a cool painting competition that we can all enjoy. The Royal Watercolouring Society have swung open their doors and cried "Come all, come all, let us see you paint, forsoothe!", and they're giving the best of the bunch an incredible cash prize! Of course, the real prize is all that art that will be on show, and the satisfaction that only making art gives. So give it a go! Here's the details...
Competition Details
Type : Painting
Name : Royal Watercolour Society Painting Competition
Description : The RWS Open Competition, previously called 21st Century Watercolour, is an annual open painting competition organised by the Royal Watercolour Society. The aim of the competition is to encourage innovation in the use of water-based media on paper and to stimulate fresh approaches to what are considered to be watercolour’s traditional strengths.
Site Name : http://www.royalwatercoloursociety....
Prize : $15969.20
Held : Online Competition
Address : Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street
City : London
State : Null
Zip : SE1 9JH
Country : United Kingdom
Contact Number : 020-7928-7521
Email :
info@banksidegallery.com
Registration Link :
http://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/uploadedpdfs/Entry%20form%202010.pdf
Registration Fee : Null
Terms and Conditions Link :
Null
Start Date : 01/07/2010
End Date : 03/14/2010
And here's my own entry!
"Hi guys,
I’m really excited about entering your painting competition! I saw it and thought, “Wow! Money for watercolouring? I’m in business!” , because I did more than a few nights of a Community Arts course last February, which included, among other things, the noble art of painting with water. I really enjoyed it, and it really helped with my nightmares and my circulation. Unfortunately, when I went to work on my pieces, my female lodger, Mrs Paterson, was in the shower, drawing all of the precious creative fluid elsewhere. Rather than just throw my hands up and scream and give in, though, I struck upon an incredible idea – if I can’t paint in real life, why not in digital life?!? So I fired up Microsoft Paint on my home PC, and got cracking! I’ll let the results speak for themselves!
My first piece is an ensemble piece, featuring myself and my best friend Helen dancing to a selection of Eminem songs. There are also some trees (to the left) and a logo idea for your society. I didn’t really have time to colour it in, but if you use your common sense (the trees are a nice green, my blazer a favourite-brown, etc), it should look fine.
The second piece, I’m sure your thinking, looks too good to be true, and it is! I’ve just taken a jaypeg image from the internet and computer painted over it. I bet you’ve seen lots of landscapes by now (I bet you’ve even thought “I’ll kill the next landscape I see!”! I wouldn’t – I love the countryside!!?!), so I’ve saved you the trouble of having to judge my second piece with that in mind. I’ve instead tried to tell the tale of friendship, a story that never gets old. I’ve also tried to incorporate the cat-sun god of Marin-gdok, who still watches over all hillwalkers, even the bad ones, even to this day.
If you’d like a copy of either of my works, I can print you off a copy (I have a quite- good photo printer that I bought from Currys Digital last month). I’m not sure if there’s an entry fee for this competition (my female lodger was disqualified from owning her own business for not being competitive, or something) but feel free to take it off whatever I might win from these entries. If I don’t win, then forget that I entered! But I’m really proud of what I’ve produced, so I think I’m in with a shout.
Take care, guys! Hope to hear from you soon!
Arthur Boudin
(Avid water-artist)"
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