Artists & Illustrators - UK (2021-04)

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5 Letters
Share your thoughts and pictures
6 Exhibitions
April's best gallery shows
9 Sketchbook
Quick tips, ideas and reviews
14 Fresh Paint
Three fantastic new artworks
19 Prize Draw
Win four £250 Sakura pen bundles
29 The Working Artist
With our columnist Laura Boswell
82 10 Minutes With...
Lindsey Glen, the new director
of the House of Illustration

inspiration
20 Illustration Now
Three award-winning illustrators
from around the world share their
thoughts on commercial art today

54 Technique

Overcomeyourcolour fears

withthehelpofAlex Hillkurtz

58 HowIPaint

Expressivefigurative artist Alan

McGowantalksshadow colours,

palettechoicesand transcription

64 Drawing

theMasters

Sketchchallengesbased on

JohnConstable'slandscapes

68 HowtoDraw

Explorecharcoaltextures in

thesewintrylandscape demos

74 Composition

AlGury'sseriesconcludes with

a lookatportraitpainting ideas

Contents Shaun Tan's

fantastical

worlds

20

30 Art History

The pioneering talents of

Dame Laura Knight revisited

34 In The Studio

How Alpay Efe is bringing classical

art genres into the 21st century

techniques

40 Masterclass

Create a delicate botanical

painting with gouache

46 Colour Theory

A purple haze descends on our

series about mixing secondaries

50 Demo

Add a little drama to a lockdown

still life composition in seven steps

34

58

Turn your

lockdown

walks into top

sketches

–page 68

John Constable's huge

oil studies are thrillingly

fresh to our modern eye

–LAURA SMITH, PAGE 64