Final Deadline For Calendar Art

Final Notice! This is the last day to submit your art to be eligible for the Calendar 2008. The deadline expires at 12 midnight, Eastern Time.

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Two Days Remaining…

Just a reminder. There are only two days remaining to submit entries to be considered for the 2008 Calendar. These are publishers picks and do not in any way affect the judging for the contest awards and prizes. This method is an accomodation for our abbreviated 2007 competition schedule. All artwork submitted by the November 30 contest [...]

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Photographing Art

Perhaps one of the most difficult things to do is photograph artwork, especially oils and acrylics. Anyone who’s tried it knows what we’re talking about. Light reflects off the paint, of course but also, each little “tooth” in the canvas is raised and digital cameras really exaggerate the light coming off the teeth of the canvas.
Here [...]

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Attention Artists: Calendar 2008

The submission deadline to have your art selected for the Arts For The Parks Calendar 2008 is Friday,  November 2, 2007. Artwork submitted after that date will not be considered for this year’s calendar (it will be considered for next year’s calendar). Artwork is selected by the publisher and inclusion in the calendar has no [...]

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Dpi, Ppi, File Types, Resolution

This is the first part of a two-part posting about photographing art. It’s meant for traditional artists faced with the difficult task of photographing and submitting art in digital formats.
There are lots of different file types (jpeg, tiff, png, etc.) but the more common applications revolve around Tiff vs Jpeg files.
Once a Tiff file is [...]

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Welcome To FanArtReview.com

Arts For The Parks is extremely proud to announce the addition of the “American Parks Heritage Trophy” to our list of awards. This award is sponsored by FanArtReview.com, and will be presented annually to the FanArtReview.com Member whose traditional, digital or photographic art best depicts the beauty and majesty of our National Parks  as determined in a series of independent contests [...]

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Photographing Your Art

How do I photograph my art?  
This is a common problem for traditional artists. You’d think with modern digital cameras and “point and shoot” technology that photographing paintings done in oils, watercolors, acrylics and the like would be simple; but any artist, amateur photographer or professional photographer who’s tried will tell you that it’s one of [...]

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A Brief Note

There was some great art submitted last week and this is shaping up to be a great contest. Thanks to all the artists that submitted their artwork and supported our parks.
We have some exciting announcements coming up in the next week. More cash awards and sponsor awards are in the works.
Help us reach our goal [...]

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Contest Summary

The Arts For The Parks 2007 Competition is an international competition open to all traditional, digital and photographic artists who desire to portray their appreciation of America’s National, State and Local parks through the beauty of their own art. Artists may portray any National, State or Local Park, regardless of where they actually live and [...]

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Converting JPEG To TIFF

A few of our entrants have asked this question as we require that TIFF files be submitted, so we’ll discuss it here and add it to the list of FAQ’s.
Q:   How do I convert a JPEG file to a TIFF file.
A:   Photoshop and Microsoft Picture Manager work much the same way in this respect. Open your image [...]

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