Features:

• Robin Spalding talks to Alison Elliott about her use of traditional techniques to paint animal portraits
• Masterclass with Emma Copley, who explains how she explores colour and form for her latest series of portraits
• Ian Sidaway puts Derwent Graphic pencils to the test
• Sky Landscape Artist of the Year - Sally Bulgin goes behind the scenes
• Charles Williams muses on an artists' guilt

Practical painting and drawing:

• Tips and techniques for painting in a looser, more expressive style from Paul Talbot-Greaves
• Aine Divine paints a seated figure in oil over acrylics
• Watercolour techniques for finding your own style with John Owen
• David Parfitt explains how to keep spontaneity in pure watercolour
• Discover clean colours for fresh flower painting with Paul Riley
• Capture winter landscapes in mixed media and acrylics with Robert Dutton
• Improve your figure painting with Ann Witheridge
• Brian Britton shares basic lino-cutting techniques
• How to paint watercolour skies with impact with Winston Oh
• L is light in Julie Collins' A - Z of colour series

Plus:

• Your views
• The Art World
• Exhibitions
• Opportunities

All this and much more in the November issue of The Artist, out on October 7 - click here to purchase your copy.