Features:

• David Remfry MBE, RA talks to Caroline Saunders about his large-scale watercolours
• Susie Hodge reviews an exhibition devoted to the life and work of Christina Rossetti
• Mark David Hatwood begins a seven-part series on the business side of being an artist with a look at marketing

Practical painting and drawing:

• Richard Pikesley explains the benefits of working within constraints
• Paint watercolour portraits with Jake Winkle
• Julia Trickey uses wet-in-wet layers to capture a faded rose in watercolour
• Top tips for successfully designing and painting complex compositions from Yael Maimon
• Tim Gustard shows how to paint your first realistic still life in acrylics
• Learn to adapt your painting methods for coloured pencil work with Alyona Nickelsen
• Ruth Buchanan begins a ten-part series on how to draw and paint animals with confidence beginning with advice on proportion
• Using your sketchbook to work out ideas with James Hobbs
• Follow Clare Bowen's colour-mixing ideas for creating aeriel perspective in your landscape paintings
• Make your watercolours more dynamic by using watercolour grounds with Jane Betteridge
• Bob Brandt shows how you can use reference photographs as visual prompts for successful paintings

Plus:

• Your views
• The Art World
• Exhibitions
• The Artist guide to open competitions and exhibitions in 2019 and beyond

All this and more in the January issue of The Artist, out on November 30 - click here to purchase your copy.