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Art Award Opportunity

5/13/2019

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Small Scale Art Award

ENTRY CLOSES 17TH MAY

The Lethbridge Art Award is open to national and international artists for small-scale artworks. Entrants may submit 2D artworks up to 61cm (24 inches) in height or width. The Judging is based on three equally evaluated criteria of creativity, originality and skill.

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One Year Watercolour Plan

4/12/2018

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The Watercolour Challenge

Similar to my "One Year Drawing Challenge" I added now another year plan for watercolour. I intend to extend it later on in the year for oil as well.

Hope you love it.

Martina Pook
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One Year Drawing Plan

4/12/2018

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The One Year Drawing Challenge

The hardest part is to start, all else follows more naturally.
Check out my new one year drawing plan. The idea is to get into the habit of drawing by sketching 6 days a week for 10 minutes only.  There is no excuse for 10 minutes a day and often you get into it and stay at it longer than expected, yet the next day you only have 10 minutes in front of you again.

Images and suggestions are provided for each day and even if the pictures are taking longer than 10 minutes, you just do what you get done. Never stress over work that remains uncompleted. On the seventh day you can get back to some of the weekly images.

Hope you like it.

Martina Pook

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November 29th, 2016

11/29/2016

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Gateway Public Art Commission

Gold Coast City Council

The Gold Coast City Council is in search for an artist to deliver iconic gateways to the Gold Coast. The artwork should be bold, expressive and memorable as the city itself.

The tender is open from 26 November to 23 December 2016. There is a briefing for all interested artist on the 2nd of December at 8.30am. For details contact:

source2contract@goldcoast.qld.gov.au
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D'Arcy Doyle Awards

8/1/2016

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D'Arcy Doyle Winners

1st Prize Landscape

Graeme Schreiber
1st Prize Portrait
Otto Schmidinger
1st Prize Still Life
Steve Hillier
It was a privilege to be invited to co-judge this years D'Arcy Doyle Award. 

I congratulate all winners and hope to see you next year again.

Martina
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And the Winner is....

7/4/2016

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2016 Sculpture Society Gold Coast

Winners announcement.

The Sculptors Society Members Exhibition was a pleasant night and judging was as expected not  easy. The first Prize Winner was a clear winner. But all following prizes were hard to decide. Many artworks were worthy of winning, but a decision has to be made.

The winners of the 2016 Sculptor Society Gold Coast:
1st Prize: The John Cooper Award -Jutta Pilz
2nd Prize The Tony Palmer Award - Colin Gosling
3rd Prize Rosly Curry
4th Prize Dion Parker

I congratulate all winners.
Martina
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    Martina Pook has been involved in the art industry since 1982 and held many positions within the arts scene. With a degree in commercial illustration / graphic design and some classical training in the arts, she is a teaching artist, an art show judge and conducts art workshops and art business presentations and seminars.

    Privately, her first passion is Christian humanitarian work, helping neglected and abused children and is deeply interested in the combat against child slavery and human trafficking. 

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      • Drawing Introduction >
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        • Atmospheric Perspective
        • Shading Laws
        • Composition
      • Painting Introduction
      • Portrait Drawing Introduction >
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        • The Ear
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