Features:

• Professor Christopher Orr MBE RA talks discusses his working methods with Caroline Saunders
• Susie Hodge talks to pastellist Melodie Cook, winner of The Artist Award in last year's Pastel Society exhibition
• Mark David Hatwood recommends apps to help with your social media posts
• Susie Hodge reviews an exhibition at the Lowry Gallery, Salford, which explores LS Lowry's fascination with the Pre-Raphaelites
• Charles Williams' musings - drawing Arthur

Practical painting and drawing:

• Richard Schmid demonstrates a still life in oils
• Create colourful, mixed media landscapes with Soraya French
• Adele Wagstaff starts the first of a two-part series on drawing the head
• Strategies for for creating beautiful, clean watercolour washes from Herman Pekel
• Vivienne Cawson demonstrates a still life of spring flowers in watercolour
• Add interest to a winter scene using acrylics in three easy steps with Paul Talbot-Greaves
• Ruth Buchanan shows how to paint life-like animal eyes in the second of her ten-part series
• Working with a limited palette with Paul Brown
• How to paint glass objects in oil with Maddine Insalaco
• Kevin Scully suggests trying unusual viewpoints for still lifes in gouache
• How to paint the landscape in oils, working alla-prima with Hester Berry
• Jane Hope encourages you to step out of your comfort zone and paint unfamiliar subjects for a whole year

Plus:

• Your views
• The Art World
• Exhibitions
• Art books

All this and more in the February issue of The Artist, out on December 28 - click here to purchase your copy.