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6 Letters
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8 Exhibitions
The five best to see this month
10 Sketchbook
Tips, tricks and bite-size advice
16 Fresh Paint
New works, hot off the easel
29 The Working Artist
With our columnist Laura Boswell
37 Prize Draw
Win a £449 Schmincke paint set
82 10 Minutes With...
Collage artist Maria Rivans
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22 Big Interview
Antonio Segura Donat talks about
his fantastical wildlife portraits
56 Project
A simple guide to varnishing
your latest masterpiece
61 Figure Drawing
Jake Spicer's series looks at how
to draw the body's surface: skin
66 How I Paint
Wildlife artist Gary Stinton reveals
how he captures the majesty of
big cats in his pastel paintings
70 Demo
How to create a sense of
depth in a bright spring scene
74 Technique
Rob Dudley shares his six-point
plan for learning from your
mistakes when paintingContents Paint spring
scenes with real
depth
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One of the jobs of an artist is
to be selective and decisive,
emphasising certain elements
and discarding others- LEARN LESSONS FROM THE
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30 Art History
Seven lessons we can learn from
the art of the Impressionists
38 In The Studio
Award-winning portrait painter
Ania Hobson shares her methodspractical
44 Masterclass
Seasonal blooms provide a lesson
in painting without a sketch
48 Landscapes
Grahame Booth's new series looks
at a single landscape in detail
52 Colour Theory
Why planning imaginative palettes
can add style to your paintingLearn how
to draw skin
and hair
in tones- page 61