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4 EDITOR’S NOTE
What do you and Albert
Einstein have in common?6 HAPPENINGS
An artist explores the
supernatural. PLUS:
Alice Schille gets her due.
BY MCKENZIE GRAHAM12 ANATOMY OF
A PAINTING
Amelia Long honors a
cherished Paris landmark.
BY JERRY N. WEISS14 CREATIVITY
WORKSHOP
Two artists capture their
decades-long friendship
through watercolor.
BY LAURIE GOLDSTEIN-
WARREN AND DORI BETH
JOSIMOVICH58 BURNING QUESTION
What weather conditions
most inspire you to paint?
COMPILED BY ANNE HEVENER60 WATERCOLOR
ESSENTIALS
Approach your next
painting through the
eyes of a stage designer.
BY STEVE GRIGGS
WITH SUE MARTIN GRIGGS64 BRIGHT IDEAS
Let figures help to narrate
the story of a landscape.
BY SAGNIK BISWAS72 OPEN BOOK
Use your sketchbook to
test-drive color options.
BY JEAN MACKAYON THE COVER
Charles Reid’s 5 Design
Essentials 36
Find the Story in the Scene 60
The Weather Report 58
10 Ways to Perk Up Your
Paintings With People 64Evening Shadows of Prague
(detail; watercolor on paper, 21x14)
by Ron Stocke60