We are grateful to our amazing sponsors:
Raymar Panels is sponsoring the Best Figurative Award.
Rosemary & Co. is sponsoring the Best Still Life Award
Lyme Academy is sponsoring the Drawing Category.
The mission of the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts is to teach the foundational skills of drawing, painting, and sculpture in the figurative tradition. By its commitment to training students in these skills and an engagement with contemporary discourse, the Academy will empower a new generation of artists. Through its programs, the Academy is committed to enriching the cultural life of the community.
The Florence Academy of Art is sponsoring the From Life by Graduated Students Category.
The Mission Statement was written in 1995, and has changed only slightly over the years. We may not refer to it often, but it remains the guiding principal of our school, and underlies our philosophy, curriculum and teaching, and all of our decision-making:
To provide the highest level of instruction in classical methods of drawing, painting and sculpture for students wishing to pursue careers as professional artists in the Realist tradition.
Turner Colour Works is sponsoring the Portraiture Category.
Based in Osaka and old for more than 70 years, Turner Colour Works Ltd. is famous for it's wide range of products.
Products stimulating your sensibility. Beautifull colours. Colouring your life. Colours' has a mysterious shining power.
Turner Colour Works Ltd. crossed over the frame of a 'Paint manufacturer' to become a 'Colour manufacturer', providing an unique colourful experience fin your lifestyle.
Michael Harding handmade artist materials is supporting The Almenara Art Prize providing additional prizes for the following categories:
- Best Figurative: $500 in MH product
- Best portraiture: $500 in MH product
- Best Landscape and Plein Air: $500 in MH product
Michael Harding handmade artist materials is also offering the MH Watercolor Award to the best watercolor work in The Almenara Art Prize
Chelsea Classical Studio Fine Art Materials is supporting The Almenara Art Prize providing this additional prize:
Best portraiture: $500 in Chelsea Classical Studio product.
Since 1977 Kremer Pigmente has provided products for preservation, restoration and art worldwide. Kremer Pigments offers Raw Materials for Art & Conservation, historic and modern pigments, mediums, binders, dyes, vegetable color paints, oils, brushes, tools, linen, books and many more.
Kremer Pigmente offers a $500 gift coupon to the second best work in the Fantastic Realism Category.
Modern Impressionist Magazine is a bi-monthly print and digital magazine, featuring Modern Impressionist artists and their stories. The magazine is beautifully designed, written and curated to highlight and showcase the masters of this modern movement back to impressionism. Through incredible artwork, riveting articles and step-by-step demonstrations, we hope to inspire and educate contemporary Modern Impressionists. Join us in celebrating this inspiring movement!
Fine Art Connoisseur serves art collectors and enthusiasts with innovative articles about representational paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints — both historical and contemporary, American and European. Over the past decade, the magazine has developed a particularly strong reputation for its editorial coverage of realism, a field of artistic excellence generally overlooked by other periodicals. Published six times per year, Fine Art Connoisseur is now a widely consulted platform for the world’s most knowledgeable experts, who write articles that inform readers and give them the tools necessary to make better purchasing decisions.
Published bi-monthly, PleinAir magazine is focused on landscape paintings by historical and contemporary artists, art collections, events, and the process of creating plein air paintings. Beautifully designed with rich reproductions on high-quality paper, PleinAir features the top artists and artworks from around the world
TOSEE is a family-owned Swiss art gallery dedicated to connecting art lovers with unique and inspiring works by talented artists from around the world. As practicing artists ourselves, we understand the challenges of visibility and fair representation, which is why TOSEE functions not only as a gallery but also as a supportive platform offering fair, accessible opportunities for exposure.
Our carefully selected artists and artworks are chosen for their emotional depth and unique artistic vision. In addition to our online gallery, we publish the TOSEE Art Magazine twice yearly and regularly participate in major fairs such as YouNique Lugano and Art Salon Lausanne, bringing our artists meaningful visibility to collectors, curators, and cultural institutions.
EARTHBERRY is a premium handmade artist pastel free of toxic substances. This is a family business born from the needs of one of our family members for quality materials. Our mother, a chemist-biologist, dedicated her life to science and creativity. Initially, she made pastels for herself, and over time it grew into a family production
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Jack Richeson and Co. is based on a belief in theimportance of Art...its relevance... its necessity in life. We search the world to provide quality materials for artists. What we can’t find, we make ourselves.
Jack Richeson Manufacturers of Fine Art Materials offers $590 in materials to the second best work in the Still Life Category
Geneva Artists' Oil Color is premium-grade artists' paint. We do not add driers to our paint or to the medium we mix into it, and therefore it dries slowly and remains wet on the canvas for about 5 to 10 days (depending on the pigment, paint thickness, and ambient temperature). In general, Geneva paint was formulated to benefit artists who like to work alla prima (wet-in-wet).
PrintLitoArt is the italian laboratory dedicated to the production of fine-art lithographs. It is not a marketplace and does not carry out sales activities; rather, it operates as an independent production partner serving artistic creation, supporting artists and galleries through a rigorous, traceable, and certified artisanal production process.
Rooted in the territory of Salerno and the Amalfi Coast—an area with more than eight centuries of history in papermaking—PrintLitoArt establishes a temporal bridge between the Magistri in Arte Cartarum and the masters of fine-art printing. Drawing from this cultural continuity, the atelier reproduces artworks following the traditional processes of fine-art lithographic printing.
The resulting lithographs—numbered, certified by the Magister, and signed by the Artist—represent the tangible outcome of this collaboration: certified, collectible editions that extend the circulation of the artist’s work, contributing to the dissemination of harmony and beauty through reproduction and making artistic production more inclusive and accessible. Driven by a passion for the Art of Printing Art
We are a group of artists who are committed to improving our art and who appreciate using the highest quality painting equipment available. Once you are part of the family we continue to provide support so you can find joy and success in your painting adventures!
Strada Easel offers a Strada Mid easel to the second best work in the Religious and Spiritual Art Category
M. Graham & Co. was founded 25 years ago by two artists with a passion for oil painting and the Renaissance masters. Both founders graduated with fine art degrees in the 1970s, exactly at the time when artists were beginning to voice concerns about the health effects from toxins in their art materials. They set out to create a fine art supply company that would serve artists by providing them with safe, high-quality, solvent-free oil colors that would be worthy of the masters. M. Graham is a pioneer in bringing back the traditional art of hand-crafted, small batch paint made with the historic natural bases of walnut oil and honey.
M. Graham & Co. offers an additional award certificate, good for a 12 color set of our M Graham artist paint to the second best work in the Landscape and Plein Air category. The winner can select between oil, acrylic, gouache, or watercolor and depending on the media selected the retail value ranges between $230 - $315.
You don't have to choose between creativity and making a living. What is smART Coaching all about?
I’ve grown up around artists my entire life. I have a vast knowledge within the art business and I want to share all I know. I understand your passion, dedication and struggle of turning creativity into a career. Too often, artists are left guessing when it comes to the business side to things. That’s where smART COACH comes in.
We inspire artists to inspire the world because creating art creates magic. And the world is in desperate need of magic. We offer free and paid media, information, education, community, apps and sites.Join us, because Fortune Favors the Bold Brush.
Faso/Boldbrush award: One Free Yearly Gold Membership ($312) with $200 in BoldBrush Ad credits
SCHAAL est une marque de peinture artisanale française de qualité professionnelle. Des couleurs intenses et authentiques pour une créativité sans limites.
Schaal Artists´ Colors is offering two art materials prizes in The Almenara Art Prize: for the third best work in the Landscape and Plein Air Category and for the third best work in the Portrait Category
These are our partners in our adventure:
Sheng Xinyu Art, founded by Zhang Hongbin, is an art organization with more than 20 years of experience and outstanding achievements in the industry, and has a long-standing reputation in the field of Chinese figurative and realistic art. He is committed to the promotion of contemporary figurative art, especially contemporary realism art; Venice International Watercolor Festival" and other influential international art competitions.
AAPL is dedicated to the advancement of traditional realism in American fine art, through the promotion of high standards of beauty, integrity and craftsmanship in painting, sculpture and the graphic arts.
Allied Artists of America, Inc. is a non-profit National Art Society composed of artists, sculptors, elected active members and sustaining associate members from the across the country.
The Allied Artists of America, Inc., as it is now known, was founded in New York City in the year 1914. The inaugural 1914 exhibition of members and non-members was held at the Washington Irving High School on Irving Place, New York City. Thereafter, the annual open exhibitions were held in the American Fine Arts Society Building, 215 West 57th Street (now the location of The Art Student League), New York City. For many decades, Allied has had long exhibition relationships with The National Academy, The National Arts Club and The Salmagundi Club, all three organizations located in NYC.
OUR AIMS ARE ‘TO ENCOURAGE THE APPRECIATION, STUDY AND PRACTICE OF THE ART OF PORTRAITURE’
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters contains a broad collection of stylistic and intellectual approaches that continue to make a significant contribution to the ongoing tradition of portraiture in Britain today. The Society vigorously looks to uphold the values and practices of its long and distinguished history, but at the same time, it seeks to explore and develop new artistic models and perspectives in this endlessly fascinating and relevant discipline.
We have reached to a collaboration agreement with Masters of Realism and EuropArtFair. Masters of Realism is the honorary title for the most talented and most skilled, experienced and esteemed artists of realistic painting.
American Women Artists is a membership organization made up of women artists, patrons, and gallery owners throughout the United States and Canada. AWA is an independent, tax-exempt nonprofit organization that celebrated its inaugural exhibition in 1990 at the Tucson Museum of Art and incorporated in 1998 as a 501 (c) (3) in the state of New Mexico.
Since its inception, American Women Artists has worked diligently to bring women artists to the attention of the art world through museum shows, juried competitions in leading galleries around the country, symposiums, workshops, and international travel and exhibitions. Our goal is to increase the number of professional opportunities for women in the visual fine arts that lead to greater inclusion.
Desde su fundación, el 31 de mayo de 1854, el Círculo de la Amistad ha sido el paradigma más preclaro de las Letras y las Artes en Córdoba. Su sede se localiza en la calle Alfonso XIII y, actualmente, cuenta con una masa social de ocho mil miembros. Ocupa una superficie de 4.210 m2 y disfruta de un patrimonio constituido por el propio inmueble, una biblioteca decorada por el escultor Mateo Inurria con cerca de 25.000 volúmenes y un valioso fondo pictórico con lienzos de Julio Romero de Torres, Ángel Díaz Huertas, José María Rodríguez de los Ríos Losada, José Fernández Alvarado, Ginés Liébana y una interesante colección de arte contemporáneo.
Pencil Perceptions academy is India´s First Academy to teach the highest level of photorealistic pencil drawing
by Sadashiv Sawant. Offline and online courses are available.
The “Academy of Arts” Foundation has been founded in 1996 in Saint Petersburg, Russia to provide public support and to popularize the graduates and students of Repin’s Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at the Russian Academy of Arts.
The “Academy of Arts” Foundation represents creative works by artists-graduates, lecturers and gifted students of I. E. Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (Saint-Petersburg). The Foundation involves in its projects the outstanding artists, whose works represent the best of Saint Petersburg professional figurative art.
Each of our artists is, certainly, an exclusive creative personality. However, they all rest upon high professional skills obtained due to education at the Repin’s Institute of Russian Academy of Arts.
Inspired Art League is a Non-Profit 501c3 organization, empowering a community of artists to come together and create art with story, emotion and meaning to bring more hope into the world.We are proud and glad to have reach to an agreement with the Inspired Art League to be partners and to support each other.
ÀNI Art Academies is a non-profit organization that provides an intensive, skill-based, multi-year art education to aspiring artists around the world. Utilizing the highly successful training system developed by artist Anthony J. Waichulis, the ÀNI Art Academies’ Program is designed to foster creative freedom with practices that yield significant development in the areas of visual literacy and communication. A collaborative project conceived and founded by Tim Reynolds, ÀNI Art Academies empowers students to create, express, and communicate in new and exciting ways. In the beginning, each creative is limited by a lack of skill– however, in the end, they are bound only by their imagination.
We are a community where people of any age and background can learn fundamentals of art making from classical realism to contemporary painting. We understand an artist's frustration at having a great idea but not being able to execute it with polish and panache. The good news is, "your frustration ends at our front door!" We are here to help you create meaningful artwork through our selection of diverse classes and workshops. Our students come from a diverse background of careers, all ages and skill levels. The only requirement we have is the desire and the passion to make art!
