Paint Southport 2021 will be a one-day plein air conpetition on August 21, 2021, featuring Chicago-area artists drawing and painting the summer scenery along Southport Avenue in Chicago.
Twenty Chicago-area artists will be selected from the online entry to draw and paint the afternoon scenery on Southport Avenue in Chicago. Plein Air artists 18 and older who live in the greater Chicago metropolitan area are eligible to enter. Only 20 artists will be selected to participate in this event, juried from work submitted for review using the EntryThingy online application.
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The public will watch as the artists set-up and paint or draw the neighborhood scenery in an 8-block area (Southport Avenue from Byron to Roscoe) in real time, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Together, artists and spectators will be immersed in the creative process, enjoying the neighborhood scenery and watching how the artists interpret it. Visitors to the event will see artists lining the streets to paint as they did 100 years ago in Paris; see the paintings come to life before their eyes; enjoy the businesses and restaurants on Southport; and decide to buy a work of art, or be inspired to create!
Painting will start at 1:00 p.m. At 4:00 p.m., artists will put down their brushes, frame their work, and bring it to the parking lot at 5/3 Bank at Addison and Southport, to be judged for four awards: Best of Show; Second Place; Honorable Mention; and a 'People's Choice' award, voted on by event visitors. The judge will review the work both during its creation and in final form. Finished paintings on display at the end of the event's may be sold directly to the public by the artists.
Paint Southport 2021 is presented by Spectra Fine Art with funding from Lakeview’sSpecial Service Area 27.