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Sculpture forming part of one of the pillars supporting the organ loft in St. George's Hall, Liverpool.

A4 DALER - ROWNEY Fine Grain 120g/m, 4B, 2B, H, 5H Derwent Graphic pencils.

Rowland Frederick

Rowland Frederick Hilder OBE (1905–1993) was an English marine and landscape artist and book illustrator. He has been called 'the Turner of his generation', and according to the Dictionary of National Biography 'The description "Rowland Hilder country" (attached primarily to the weald of Kent) evokes a landscape as distinctive and personal as "Constable's country" along the Suffolk Stour.'

A working artist all his life, Rowland Hilder had a fervent ambition to be known as a marine artist when he left Goldsmiths College, London. However, through a chain of circumstances - learning to work plein-air during a bitterly cold winter, living in a freezing cottage with wife-to-be Edith (chaperoned by his mother), and culminating in a legal action over publishing rights - he became known as the pre-eminent exponent of English landscape in winter.

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An army Camouflage Officer during the war, he then became a mainstay of the Ministry of Information. At the end of the war, advertising guru George Rainbird was inspired to commission a series of landscapes for Whitbread that led in turn, to Rowland and Edith creating the hugely successful Shell posters together. His landscapes as the backdrop and her exquisitely detailed flowers in the foreground were a winning and enduring combination.

'with a bit more time, I could get the hang of this' - Rowland Hilder

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ART PRIZE LIVERPOOL 2013

SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED FOR LIVERPOOL ART PRIZE 2013

Liverpool Art Prize is now in its sixth year and we are delighted to announce this year's shortlist:

Kevin Hunt, Tabitha Moses, Julieann O'Malley and Laurence Payot

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A Bonsai Baggins Hobbit Home

Chris Guise is an artist and bonsai enthusiast from Maidenhead, England. A mechanical engineer by trade, Chris has a beautiful collection of Bonsai trees that he has cultivated on his Flickr page. In the Bonsai below, entitled Bag End Bonsai Trayscape, Chris created the home of Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee; where both the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit tales begin and end.

The level of detail is stunning and it’s truly a fantastic piece of living artwork. To see this and many more beautiful Bonsai trees, check out Chris Guise’s stream on Flickr.

My Sketchbook 2012

Ding Dong

My Sketch 12

Artigiana

http://www.artigiana.co.uk/#!/page_contact

Artigiana Artists' Residencies

Artist run residency program based in Milazzo, Sicily. Located in converted farmhouse, barns and stables, parts of which date back to the 18th century. Surrounded by orchards and farmland. 
 Program provides an opportunity to refocus and develop work in a peaceful environment and also exchange ideas and creative approaches with fellow artists.

Monte Baldo

Lake Garda Italy 

Eagle study

Pavel 183

P183

Birth name   Pavel Pukhov

   Born            11 August 1983

                             Moscow, Russia

    Died                        1 april 2013

                             Moscow, Russia

Nationality        Russian

Field         Street Art

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http://www.183art.ru/

BBC: Street artist 'Russia's answer to Banksy'

My Sketch

Eye Nose Ear Lips studies

Sebastien Del Grosso

That's one way to draw attention to yourself: Artist who takes self-portraits and sketches himself into the pictures

Sebastien DEL GROSSO

personal portraits photography Art by Sebastien Del Grosso. Around the world lot of artists that do self portraits. professional self portraits is very difficult art and portrait sketching artists requires lot of concentration. self portrait photo tips are very hard to find as compare personal portrait painting thats why we call it portrait specials however

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Jean-Yves Lemoigne

Jean-Yves Lemoigne is an advertising photographer since 2004. He works with the top creatives agencies in the world : DDB, BBH, EuroRSCG, Saatchi&Saatchi, BBDO, TBWA, Wieden & Kennedy … His advertising work does not look like classic advertising and has been awarded many times (CannesLions, Epica, Euorbest, Clio, New-York Festival,…)
 He also work with magazines : Amusement, Le Monde2, Technikart Mademoiselle, WAD.
 His surrealistic photos turn our boring everyday life into another dimension.