The Great Broadway Portrait Paint-Off
Sun June 15 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm BST
| £20.00Do you love the TV series Portrait Artist of the Year? Then this is for you…
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Running alongside our famous plein air competition, The Great Broadway Paint-Off, this year we will also have a portrait painting competition taking place inside the main marquee on the village green. Amateur and professional artists from around the UK will spend the day painting the portrait of one of our ‘Broadway Legends’ from our local community, competing for prizes. There will be approximately 5 artists per model, the identity of which won’t be revealed until the day!
The painting zones will be roped off, but the general public will be able to view the artists at work from a pathway down the centre of the marquee.
There are main prizes plus a visitors’ choice prize voted on by visitors to the free exhibition of entries at the end of the afternoon.
Judging will be done by the talented alla prima portrait artist Peter Keegan, along with Festival Ambassador Margot James who is the former Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries.
How does it work?
- Buy your ticket through the website well in advance (note: this event is likely to sell out weeks before).
- Turn up with your blank canvas and your kit at the marquee on the village green in the centre of the village to check in and get your blank canvas stamped & numbered on the reverse.
- Select a pre-marked position to set up and await the arrival of your model, who will arrive at 10am.
- Spend the day creating your masterpiece. Note we will need to give the model a short break each hour and a longer break for a bite to eat at lunch.
- Complete your portrait and hand it in at the desk in the marquee from 2pm, but by 3:30pm at the very latest. If you have used an easel, please leave it on your easel for display in the exhibition.
- If you would like to sell your work (we imagine the models may well be interested buyers), tell us the price when you hand it back in.
- The entries will then form a selling exhibition and judged (all artists will need to leave the marquee during the judging). Prize-winners will see a ribbon on their piece when the exhibition opens at 4pm.
- The selling exhibition is then open to the public for all to enjoy from 4pm to 5pm.
- Only artwork started and completed on the day will qualify.
- Artwork can be in any medium & any size, however we cannot accept photography or iPad art as a medium for a number of reasons.
- We process all artwork sales at the exhibition through our card machine and then transfer 90% of the sale price directly to your bank account in the following days. 10% of all sales are retained as commission to help cover the costs of running the competition. You will receive a text if your entry sells at the exhibition.
Tickets: £20
There are 30 tickets available for this event and they need to be purchased in advance, by 30th May at the latest.
Participants will need to bring their own paper, canvas and art supplies. These will not be provided.
Timings:
- Registration: 9-9:45am
- Models arrive and painting starts: 10am
- 30 min break for lunch: 1pm
- Hand in completed portrait: 2-3:30pm
- Judging: 3:30-4pm
- Exhibition open: 4-5pm
Broadway Arts Festival accepts no responsibility for loss, damage or injury during the day.
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