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How to develop a professional portfolio
Having a strong and artistic portfolio can help you get your work and yourself noticed and help you move, you and your artistic career forward. Here are some interesting ways of presenting your work…
Giacomo Burattini
Giacomo Burattini: “I am an artist from Italy and I draw mostly portraits and urban landscapes. I use graphite pencils. My hyperrealist work begins by drawing from a photo but my work amplifies what is not normally seen, uncovering a hidden feeling or aspect making it almost diverse to the original photo.”
International Artists Competition Landscape
Be sure to enter this art competition of the International Artist if you like drawing and painting landscapes. Artists from all over the world can join in this art competition. You could win art awards, subscriptions to art magazines and be featured in the International Artist magazine.
Concord Prize
If you like listening to music while you create your art work, then perhaps you will be inspired by this art cometition – the Concord Prize. Select a piece of music from their music list and start creating… There is a great prize to win!
Chiamonwu Joy
Chiamonwu Joy from Lagos in Nigeria: “I love drawing or painting Humans. And I love to dress them up traditionally, to look like the African historical figures I want to portray in them. Because that has always been my focus and where my fascination lives.” see her work and read here art story…
3 Color Portrait Drawing
Ken Goshen, a popular artist from New York in the USA, specialises in realism. This workshop demonstrates the process of drawing a masterpiece portrait using the classical 3-color (“Tricolor”) dry media palette: charcoal, white chalk, and red chalk. Learn more about the online art course here…
Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year
Any artist above the age of 18 can join this art competition. Especially if you inspired by the natural beauty in landscapes. Whether you are a plein air artist or a studio painter, see if this art competition is for you.
Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize 2021
The Ruth Borchard Collection established a national Self-Portrait Prize. This competition is open to all artists. The winner will be awarded the £10,000. Artists of all backgrounds and from any location are invited to enter. All variations of work – figurative or abstract, alone or in a group, from life or from memory – will be accepted.
Wonderful White
Jean Elliot writes about the meaning of colour in her new series. This time around it’s about the colour white. White carries the meaning of freedom, innocence and purity, cleanliness and coolness. Get some useful mixing hacks using the colour white, come and check it out…
Alex Kasyan
Alex Kasyan “Oil is my main speciality, however I recently introduced pastel to my practice and am planning on exploring further this material.”