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CONTENTS
PRACTICALS
23 Paint from memory
Kelly Medford’s exercises will help to improve your
plein-airpaintings
26 60-minute painting challenge
Glyn Maceydemonstrates a busy city street in acrylics
30 Think ink!
In the last of his series on drawing with different media, Robert
Duttonexplains why ink is so versatile
33 Outdoors with pastel and watercolour
Kevin Scullylikes soft pastels for their immediacy in alla prima
painting
36 Improve your oils
Martin Kinnearreveals how to achieve special light effects in
oils in the second of his new four-part series
39 Explore acrylics
Paul Talbot-Greavesexplains how to tackle the values and
colours within the general shapes of your scene, plus this
month’s exercise
42 Mark making in watercolour
Judi Whitton’s advice will help you to improve your
watercolour mark-making techniques
46 Good lookers with great potential
Winsor & Newton’s new Pigment Markers are put to the test by
Ian Sidaway
48 End points
Richard Pikesleyconcludes his plein-airreference gathering
adventures
51 An upward journey
Stephen Kingdescribes his oil painting process and the
subjects that inspire him
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FEATURES
14 Falling for art
MASTERCLASS Michele Del Campotalks about his latest series
of narrative oil paintings
19 Roger St Barbe
IN CONVERSATION Roger St Barbeexplains to Caroline
Saunders how he combines watercolour and aquatint with the
traditional etching process
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