Features:

• Masterclass with Bryan Evans, award-winner in The Artist Open Competition 2016
• Caroline Saunders talks to Nick Andrew about how he expresses motion in his acrylic landscapes
• More motivational tips from Adebanji Alade

Practical painting and drawing:

• Alison Rankin expains how she depicts texture in her acrylic still-life paintings
• Paint realistic reflections in oil with Adebanji Alade
• Paul Talbot-Greaves advises on the best way to take photographs for reference, using your phone or tablet
• Adele Wagstaff demonstrates a reclining nude in oil
• Strategies for beginning a painting from Charles Williams
• Graham Oliver shares his approach to painting reflections in water using pastels
• Try reduction linocutting to produce a bold print with Kerry Day
• Invigorate your still lifes using gouache with Wendy Jacob
• Second of a three-part guide to choosing watercolour papers with Ian Sidaway
• Finding subject matter close to home with Gerald Green
• Max Hale shows how to produce stronger paintings by reducing your reliance on photographs
• O is for Opaque in Julie Collins' A - Z of colour series

Plus:

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

All this plus your free 24-page guide to art courses and holidays, 2017 and a call for entries to The Artist Open Art Competition in partnership with Patchings Art Centre and Art Club of the Year 2017 in the February issue of The Artist, out on December 30 - click here to purchase your copy.