2019 “The Real Wild West” Competition
Lisa McKnett Gallery is proud to announce our first online art competition.
Sign up between February 8th and May 12th.
This is an online show – you do not have to send out actual paintings unless one of gallery patrons wants to buy them.
Subject
“The Real Wild West” – paintings that show how the American Frontier really looked like in the eighteen hundreds. Depict prospectors, saloons, cowboys, Native Americans, showgirls, settlers, the first railroads, Mississippi steamboats, the Indian Wars, etc. Recreations of the scenes and people must be historically correct – no caricatures, no modern objects, clothing as it was in the nineteen century, etc.
Awards
The winner will receive $300 cash prize.
Juried-in artwork will be advertised on the gallery website. Entering the competition will start your one year gallery membership. Gallery member artists’ names will be listed on the gallery website until their membership expires (you may however request that we do not list your name).
Fees
One year gallery membership is $35 (waived if you are already a member). Once you are a member you will be allowed to enter up to ten paintings to any show organized by the gallery for only $30 for the first painting and $5 for each additional painting.
Timeline
· February 8th to May 12th – sign up for the show and submit photos of your artwork.
· May 16th to May 19th – acceptance notifications will be emailed to the contestants.
· May 22nd – the winners and the juried in artwork will be listed on gallery web site
How to submit
To make payments and upload photos of your artwork to Online Juried Shows web site press a button showing the message: “Yes! I want to enter this show”, and follow the instructions.
Entry form must be filled out in its entirety. List sizes up to the nearest inch. Submitted images must not include matting or frame. Crop the photos to include only the artwork. Be sure your images are right-side-up.
Before uploading your images, make sure they are smaller than 4MB (the upload may fail if the image file is too big), but at least 1920 pixels on the longest side at 72 dpi. Images should be in JPEG format.
Help in photographing your work and properly sizing your images can be found at: www.OnlineJuriedShows.com/help.aspx. If you need help entering your images or are unable to, please write to us here: https://onlinejuriedshows.com/Contact.aspx
The last day for submission is May 12th 2019.
Requirements
We only accept original oil, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, mixed media, or color pencils.
You may enter up to ten paintings. Cost: $30 for the first entry, $5 for each additional one.
Your work must be original – no copies of works by other artists (dead or alive).
You must guarantee that your artwork does not violate any copyright laws.
We also require that all entered artwork is available for sale.
The pictures must be historically accurate – please do your homework.
Juried-in notification
You will be notified by email which of the paintings you submitted were juried into the show. Your email will be registered with us when you create your account on the Online Juried Shows web site.
Please add Services@OnlineJuriedShows.com, Info@OnlineJuriedShows.com and lisa@lisamcknettgallery.com to your safe senders list to ensure notifications are received.
Artist’s Personal Info
Accepted artists will be featured on gallery website. For that we need your short biographical information with a photograph or a self-portrait, and link to your professional website (if you have any). You will have to email your bio to us if you do not have a website or if your website does not include it.
Sales
We will notify the artists when one of our patrons is interested in buying their artwork.
We will take 10% commission of sales arranged by the gallery.
Show coordinator
Lisa McKnett
Text: 858 519-4079
Email: lmcknett@gmail.com