Features:

• Masterclass - Jason Bowyer shows you how to make and use your own reed pen, following in the footsteps of Rembrandt and Van Gogh
• In Conversation - Susie Hodge talks to Paul Regan, The Artist Award winner in the 2017 Royal Watercolour Society exhibition
• Mark David Hatwood explains how to set up a website and how to keep it current
• Charles Williams muses on politics

Practical painting and drawing:

• How to paint light on the sea with Jenny Aitken
• Hazel Soan concludes her watercolour series with advice on balancing tones
• Go green with Paul Talbot-Greaves as he shares tips for mixing and using greens in your work
• Sketching children with Adebanji Alade. Plus enter the first of our sketching challenge competitions
• Ian Sidaway captures an iconic landmark in watercolour with an unusual composition
• Get started in acrylics with Jo Quigley
• Try using big brushes for small-scale paintings with Robert Dutton
• David Howell shows how adding figures to your watercolours will bring a scene to life
• Try adding pen or pencil marks to your watercolour paintings with Judi Whitton
• Julie Collins begins a three-part series looking at the benefits of working with ink and watercolour
• Learn the importance of drawing from a cast, in the first of a new series on portraiture, with Ann Witheridge and Archie Wardlaw
• Celebrate spring by painting en-plein-air - advice from Paul Weaver

Plus:

• Your views
• The Art World
• Exhibitions
• Opportunities
• Launch of the 2018 Art Club of the Year competition

All this and more in the April issue of The Artist, out on February 23 - click here to purchase your copy.