International Artist – August-September 2019

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Artists from Around the World in this Issue

Demonstrations, Workshops & Master Painters of the World

OIL

54 UK
Into the Wild
Adventuring into the mountains allows DJ the
chance to experience the landscape firsthand

62 Australia
Paying Homage
Australian artist Lance Ross honors the
techniques of the past masters with compositions
featuring their likeness

70 USA
Excitement and Energy
Painting in a loose, impressionistic style allows
Michele Usibelli to push her work to new limits

76 Albania
Pashk Pervathi
The changing seasons

80

Halima Washington-Dixon

Fresh and immediate

WATERCOLOR

84 China

Poetic Beauty

Song Qing translates the beauty of ordinary

scenes through composition, color and brushwork

92 Canada

Painting Snow Scenes

Shari Blaukopf shares her tips and techniques

for painting snow using watercolors

100 Germany

Aura and Atmosphere

through Color

The colors in Viktoria Prischedko’s watercolor

paintings correspond to the emotional state of

the scene

106 USA

Ted Nuttall

Capturing an essence

110 Australia

The Humble Hake

John Lovett discusses techniques for using a

hake paintbrush

ACRYLIC

114 USA

Dan Bacich

Nature’s patterns

COLORED PENCIL

118 USA

Narrative Portraits

Using a “drawing by subtraction” technique,

Tracy Frein creates black-and-white portraits

wrought with emotion