The Artist - UK (2020-05)

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16 Let it roll (and drip and run)
Michael Sole gets physical with oils and
acrylics as he drips, pours and shakes to let
the paint take its own course in his semi-
figurative seascapes. It’s an intuitive process,
he tells Susie Hodge

20 Competition fever
Charles Williams shares his experiences as a
contestant in this year’s Sky Portrait Artist of
the Year competition

68 Search Press
We talk to Martin de la Bedoyere, managing
director of Search Press, the award-winning
publishing house and our PaintersOnline
bookshop partner, about his company’s 50
years of success

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CONTENTS

42 Express yourself with

drawing media

Robert Dutton takes the bewilderment out

of choosing drawing media, highlighting his

personal favourites and sharing his top tips

for using them creatively

46 Zoom-in on portraits

Follow Andrew Newton as he demonstrates

how to paint a hyperrealistic-style portrait

in oils

50 Planning, sequencing and

using negative spaces

Kim Whitby concludes her three-part

series on using ink to help develop

your watercolour skills by stressing the

importance of planning

54 Spring still life

Julie Collins explores her watercolour

palette and shows how to create bright,

modified colours for fresh spring still-life

paintings

57 Constable and Yarmouth

Glyn Macey continues his journey

documenting the changes to the English

coastline with a painting inspired by a

well-known artist. This month he records

Yarmouth pier using mixed media

61 Oils on the go

Clare Bowen shares details of her essential

oil painting kit, advising on how to prepare

for air travel and how to manage your

paintings while you are away

64 Love line and wash

Discover how Milly England uses the line

and wash technique to add life to drawings

of historic houses and buildings

PRACTICALS

24 2020 vision

Hazel Soan begins a new three-part series

on how to hone your artistic vision. This

month she focuses on identifying patterns in

your subject matter

28 How to find a subject

Graham Webber’s six-part oil-painting

series about the process of landscape

painting continues with advice on subject

matter as he demonstrates a plein-air oil

sketch

33 Figures alla-prima

Brian Smith concludes his series on

capturing figures in watercolour by sharing a

painting he made during a plein-air painting

day at Windsor Castle

36 The thrill of painting

outdoors

Passionate pastellist Richard Suckling offers

his tips for choosing and using pastels en

plein air, both in the UK and abroad

39 Snowdrops in mixed media

Snowdrops make a wonderful subject for a

still-life painting or even a landscape when

shown growing in drifts in a woodland

setting, as Soraya French demonstrates

here

PLUS THIS MONTH

6 Your views

9 The Art World

70 Exhibitions

73 Opportunities

75 Art Books

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