Free Art Resources
Monthly portrait prize, art jobs & competitions, free art tools & online courses, printmaking magazine
Free Drawing Reference Sites
Hi folks. Following on from last year’s free stuff issue here’s a helpful and kind of hilarious free reference tool for drawing animal heads at various angles. Head over to Reference Angle for the human version.
Line of Action is a fine resource for all things figure and animal drawing with timed photos for practising while Bodies in Motion has some figure reference sections. Jeannette A’s Twitter thread has more (graphic art themed) free resources.
And don’t forget our mammoth list of public domain image collections.
Free Printmaking Resources
Researching DIY printmaking I came across this excellent collection of free PDF downloads from pressing matters magazine.
Live near Gloucester? Harry Rochat presses have an old litho press going free including rollers and stones if you can pick it up.
Free Online Learning
Free on-air art & design classes at Creative Live. Lisa Congdon’s Become a Working Artist course screens for free on March 10th
Free tutorials for Illustrators on Domestika.
Free arts courses from The Open University.
14 day free trial of all courses at Skillshare.
5 months for $5 art & craft at Creative Bug.
New Art Competitions
Portrait Artist Of The Past is a new monthly competition from Brave Fine Art Gallery inviting artists to create a version of a specific historic portrait in their own style. Post your submission on Instagram and tag it with #portraitartistofthepast for a chance to win £200 and have your work displayed in the gallery and online.
Silverlake Sculpture Competition - up to £25,000 for work in Dorset estate (11th Jul)
Hampstead Art Society - £1,500 1st prize & Fitzrovia Gallery exhibition (1st May)
UK Art Competitions - 27 prizes open.
Children’s Art Prizes
Design a Robot - £5,000 tech vouchers, design a robot of your dreams (8th Mar)
Bottle Moments - Exhibition & your cartoon professionally illustrated (21st Mar)
Children’s Art Competitions - 10 open.
New Damien Hirst Prints
Cherry blossom prints from Mr Marmite himself on sale until 8am Thursday (GMT). $3,000 each (dollars or crypto). See our Damien Hirst page for more expensiveness.
Art Opportunities
New arts jobs this week in England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland & UK wide.
Art opportunities Worldwide from Art Deadline, Art Rabbit & ArtistOpenCalls.
Hardship Fund for Creative Freelancers (in Scotland) is open for applications for up to £2,000 from £9 million of Scottish Government funding (closes 22 March)
Media Picks
Ellie Pennick of Guts Gallery and art critic Hettie Judah on Creating Visibility for Emerging Spaces (6pm GMT 3rd Mar)
Emily Young: Stone carver & environmental artist, an inspiring listen on BBC Sounds.
WTF are NFTs? Why crypto is dominating the art market - Art Newspaper podcast helped get my head around the digital art world.
Grayson’s Art Club - submit your work on theme ‘Dreams’ (by midnight Wed 3rd).
Three artists report on their findings using Jackson’s odourless paint thinner and brush cleaner while working from home.
Please let the disco goats live here…
See you next week,
Grant