FanArtReview Heritage Award

As a last reminder, the competition for the FanArtReview Traditional Art For The Parks, Photography For The Parks and Digital Art/Photography For The Parks is still on and has a few days remaining. You can still enter on their site. The winners will compete for the National Parks Heritage Award from Arts For The Parks. You can learn more and enter by clicking the link below.

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Still Want To Enter?

Although the deadline for entries has passed (November 30, 2007), the competition for the FanArtReview American Parks Heritage Award remains open. This competition offers three categories (traditional art, photography and digital art) and hundreds of dollars in cash prizes, plus a trophy for the overall winner. Check it out by clicking on the link below and look under the “Contest” tab for all the details.

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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 bearing on  selections for this year’s competition.

Beautiful images of our parks are captured in each of 12 striking illustrations within the 2008 edition of the Arts For The Parks Calendar. Sun-dappled landscapes, tree covered lanes and snow-covered vistas of our parks emerge from every page as portrayed in selected artwork from our annual Arts For The Parks Competition.

Please submit your art by Friday, November 2, 2007. You will be notified by email if your art has been selected for inclusion in the calendar.

Format: DeLuxe Wall
Size Closed:8.50″ x 11.25″
Size Opened:8.50″ x 22.50″
Grid Size: Medium Rectangle
Binding: Wire-O
Time Span: 12-Month

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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 on the FanArtReview.com Website.

FanartReview.com is an online community of traditional artists, photographers and digital artists that are given the opportunity to not only display their art in an international forum but also constructively critique each other’s art through independent comments, contests and other venues.

We welcome FanArtReview.com as a sponsor of this important award and as an avid supporter of National, State and Local Parks.

You can learn more about FanArtReview by clicking on the banner below.

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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 the more difficult things to do.

We’re going to run a two-part series this week that discusses how to photograph your art and also how to manipulate the image to adjust colors and clarity so that the image is accurately portrayed. We’ll also discuss things like dpi, ppi, resolution, pixels and how all this relates to file size and submitting your image.

We’ll keep it simple, basic and try to avoid all the hi-tech camera talk that the photographers and printers throw around so easily.

So stay tuned over the next few days and hopefully we’ll provide some information that will help you with, not only this contest, but future situations that require  high quality photographs of your art.

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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 may submit multiple entries. All entries are free.

Submitted artworks are categorized by District, based upon the particular park depicted in the artwork, not the residence of the Artist. We wholeheartedly encourage artists to portray State and Local Parks as well as National Parks. They benefit from this competition, too. There are nine Districts contained within three Regions (view the map by clicking on the link in the sidebar). The Top 100 artworks are selected from the total pool of District entries.

From the Top 100, three artworks are selected (one from each Region) as Regional Award Winners and a fourth artwork is selected as the Grand Prize Winner.

In addition, there are special categories for the top digital, photographic and plein air works as well as special Judges Awards and specific Sponsor Awards.

All Award Winners will have their art portrayed and promoted in special limited edition prints, calendars, notebooks and other event memorabilia. All Top 100 contestants are awarded certificates. In addition, artworks receiving Judges and Sponsor recognition will receive Bronze Medallion Awards. Regional Winners will receive Silver Medallion Awards and the Grand Prize Winner will receive the Gold Medal. There are also cash awards available in many categories. We will update our awards list from time to time as additional sponsors are added.

Our Beneficiaries are the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) and the particular park depicted in the Grand Prize Winner’s artwork. Seventy-five percent of surplus funds will be donated to the NPCA and the balance will be donated to the organization representing the park depicted in the Grand Prize Winner’s artwork. In this way, State and Local parks can benefit from this competition.

All entrants will have their name and a thumbnail image of their art submitted to Congress in support of NPCA’s efforts to promote the upcoming Centennial Anniversary of the National Park System and to provide more funding for the National Parks in general.

Enter your art. Support a park. Again, all entries are free. More information is contained in the Prospectus (click on it in the sidebar on the right-hand side of this page). Please enter. Our parks need the special kind of support only artists can give.

The deadline for entries is November 30, 2007.

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Your Art, Library of Congress

The Arts For The Parks 2007 Online Competition acts as an Artists’ Referendum to Congress in support of increased funding for our deteriorating National Park System as well as the State Park Systems. You also become eligible for some great prizes and a chance at having your art published and sold nationwide. By entering, your art will be submitted to the appropriate Congressional body and if accepted,  appear in the Congressional Record and be recorded in the Library of Congress for posterity.

We will submit your name, state of residence and a digital copy of your work.

Join in our Artists’ Referendum today. The Entry Form is on the sidebar in the Artists’ Corner. Information we gather here is used for contest purposes only. It will not be shared, sold, spammed or in any other way utilized for purposes other than stated in the contest rules and copyright agreement.

Help our parks and promote your art at the same time. Enter today.

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