Features:

• Masterclass with David Gould, who combines digital and traditional techniques for his large-scale paintings
• Suman Kaur, winner of BBC1's Big Painting Challenge, talks to Sally Bulgin
• Sort out your mind! More motivational tips from Adebanji Alade
• Charles Williams muses on the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Practical painting and drawing:

• Phil Tyler demonstrates how to represent the figure using collage as a reference
• Catch the viewer's attention with compositional advice from Jo Quigley
• Jake Winkle concludes his series on watercolour
• Glyn Macey challenges you to create an acrylic painting inspired by Andy Warhol
• Discover the joy of mark-making and paint a mixed media landsape with Soraya French
• Hazel Soan concludes her series on portraiture
• How to create hard and soft edges in watercolour with Paul Talbot-Greaves
• Paint a lively figure in pastel with Rob Wareing
• Martin Kinnear explains the importance of colour choices
• Paint movement in water using watercolour with Paul Riley
• Adebanji Alade shares his experience of sketching at a friend's wedding
• Ian Sidaway gives a thumbs-up to Winsor & Newton's new Professional Water Colour Paper range
• T is for Transparent in Julie Collins' A - Z of colour series

Plus:

• Your views
• The Art World
• Artbox
• Exhibitions
• Opportunities

All this and more in the July issue of The Artist, out on May 19 - click here to purchase your copy.