Dear FRIENDS,
Come and join Us to celebrate plein air under the restrictions of COVID-19 and help us to maintain the energy that this event bring to all artist every year in Canada , this is a free invitation and an open link to all to be part of this year paint out.
We’d like to invite you to join artists all around the world on Saturday, August 29th, for our 2020 Grand Prix: International Paint In-Place plein air painting challenge! Although we won’t all be able to gather and paint in Steveston as usual this year, we’re going to take this as an opportunity to share our event with artists in all parts of the globe. Please share this email with your artist friends!
This coming Saturday AUGUST 29th morning set yourself up to paint for three hours wherever you are in the world, and when your time’s up take a photo of your painting on location and your final cropped artwork and share them on Instagram using the hashtag #grandprixofart2020 by midnight for a chance to win prizes and bragging rights. If you’re not on social media, you can email your images to grandprixofart@gmail.com and we will add it to the Grand Prix: Paint In-Place Gallery. When you submit your photos please let us know if you are a Professional Artist (Masters Category), Amateur (Adult Open Category) or Youth (under 18 years of age). We are super excited to see all of the places in the world our submissions come from, so please give us some background on your specific location!
Want to sell your Grand Prix: Paint In-Place artwork?
Register your FREE artist profile to be featured on the Grand Prix Artist Page and list your artwork for sale!
http://grandprixofart.ca/2020/08/20/register-your-profile-and-submission-here/?mc
We have great prizes for this year’s winners provided by our favourite art suppliers, who will be shipping the prizes direct to our champions, wherever they are in the world! For those of you who are close enough to visit our store, you can find all these supplies and more here at Phoenix Art Workshop — we’re always bringing in new and exciting art supplies!
Some of our regular Grand Prix of Art participants will be joining us to paint at our traditional host location at Steveston’s Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site on the morning of August 29th. You can follow us on Instagram at @GrandPrixofArt, @Travellingbrush or @PhoenixArtWorkshop as we live-stream these artists painting on location this year!