Crystal Brush 2011

[przemo]

Oh no!
10 000 $ to win in internet voting?! Don't like the idea.

Don't like competitions for photos of miniatures, and don't like internet voting as a way of choosing the best painter...

IMO real competition is when there is a well qualified jury who choose winning miniatures (not photos).

In Crystal Brush they give so much money that there may be many great entries, so I'm really interested in them.

[Nameless]

to clarify voting: it's 50% judging, 50% internet votes

[mahon]

well, I wouldn't reject the prize if I was only able to win it. But I lack the skills and can't afford the trip. I guess you're not going to sponsor it, are you?

But you got it right, and Scott is so right - CMON drawbacks x $10000

[Nameless]

that's an idea... for 10K they could quite a lot of plane tickets...

[Bohun]

Well, you might be right about the controversies that it could arrise, however I am glad that people finally start to recognize painting miniatures as something more than a simple hobby. That it has risen to the status of quasi-art during the last several years. If there are high cash prices in other art contests and the works of modern art sells at auctions for ridiculously high sums, why not put the adequate value to minis? The 10000$ price is still nothing compared to other disciplines.
Besides, painters who are doing this for living, those so often confused by the term pro-painters, really want to earn decent money for the years of hard work which they put into improving their skills, often starving from lack of money during the process. They also have families to look after, mortgages and loans to pay. Life's hard and there's often no place for the romantic and idealistic vision of artists who work only for the sake of art alone...

BTW, I am also considering it seriously to attend the contest with a huge project... I guess that if not for the cash prizes I wouldn't even considered going to the USA, just to damn costly... So, yes, I do believe tht such policy might attract many great painters and thus result in very high level of the contest!

[mahon]

I think nobody doubts that it will attract many great painters and present high quality of entries. And I am glad to see you interested in participating!

[Pandadosmares]

Good luck Bohun looking foward to see what you will enter

[sea.man]

BTW, I am also considering it seriously to attend the contest with a huge project...

That`s exactly what I have been waiting for
If it all turns out as it now looks like, the reputation of this contest might be higher then GD

[paintminion]

Well, it's bringing many of us out of the woodwork and into planning and plotting! We IMMPS are going to go, and we haven't been to Adepticon in many years. Come join us! This is in our backyard practically! We're trying to see if we can get a painting area where we can all meet up and paint and just chat, etc.

[mahon]

Come join us! This is in our backyard practically!

sounds like a cruel joke to me