Art For Your Ears

Art audiobooks offer, public domain art, online drawing mannequin, art on TV, art jobs & opportunities...

Nov 10, 2021

“Bat-eared fox” by Robert Jacob Gordon (1773) in the public domain.

Art Audiobooks Offer

Hi hi. Lots to get through so I’ll start with 10 art themed audiobooks in Audible’s 3 months for 99p offer (for new & trial eligible members). Enjoyed the 5 I’ve listened to, the other 5 are on my wish list. Most are read by the authors.

Widow Basquiat, a memoir – Jennifer Clement

Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking – David Bayles & Ted Orland

Talk Art - Everything You Wanted to Know About Contemporary Art but Were Afraid to Ask – Russell Tovey and Robert Diament

Ninth Street Women: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art – Mary Gabriel

Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy: How to Be Creative, Show Your Work, and Keep Going – Austin Kleon

How to Be an Artist – art critic Jerry Saltz

Becoming a Curator – Holly Bruback

Find Your Artistic Voice – Lisa Congdon

Just Kids – Patti Smith (on her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe)

The War of Art – Stephen Pressfield

Link: Get 3 months of Audible for 99p

New Art Competitions

Open to all countries unless noted:

Annual Open Exhibition 2022 - £1,000 1st prize, Conwy group show (15 Nov)

Repairing the Present - €40,000 fee, art & technology collab (21 Nov)

Boyne Emerging Artist Award - $4,000 1st prize, artist run award (23 Nov)

Future Art Awards - 11 x $5,000, ‘re-imagine life on Earth’ (US only, 1 Dec)

In Search of Refuge - £10,000 commission, refugee focused work (17 Dec)

Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize - $30,000AU prize & show (25 Feb)

Engage Art - $15,000 1st prize, Christian themed art contest (14 Apr)

UK Art Competitions - 14 prizes open.

Online Drawing Mannequin

Set Pose is a free reference tool for drawing the human figure. Create your own dynamic poses or use presets for running, sitting or sports. Add props like a bike, racket or chair. Found it easy to use and handy for shadows and lighting too.

New Kids Competitions

World Children’s Haiku Contest - 3 x Canon Cameras prizes (28 Feb 22)

YPO Art Competition - £250 voucher towards school art materials (17 Dec)

Children’s Art Competitions - 11 open.

“The nature of being a songwriter, or a painter, or whatever, is to retain a beginner’s mind. The search is the point. The flailing around is the point. The process is the point.” - Thom Yorke & Stanley Donwood talk art.

Ukranian artist Iryna Maksymova studio show

Art on TV

Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Kermode’s 5 star review nails it, ‘mesmerising’ (BBC iPlayer)

Art for a Sustainable Future - Scottish artists engage with the issue (BBC iPlayer)

Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues

Beautiful illustrations of ‘daylight bombshells and parachute light-balls’ from the ever excellent Public Domain Review (hat tip Kottke). Also updated our Public Domain Images for Artists page while on the subject.